AudioBlog: Letters From the Maury Island Principals in the 1967 Merseyside UFO Bulletin

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators
Throughout the history of flying saucers/UFOs, there have been
characters that those being kind would describe as “colorful,” and
those being blunt would describe as liars, hoaxers and con men. One
of these characters was Fred Crisman, who became famous/infamous
due to his involvement in the Maury Island case. Crisman was
accused of hoaxing the case along with his business partner, Harold
Dahl, and the two confessed as much to an FBI agent who
investigated (page 20 of pdf) due to the deaths of two military
intelligence officers associated with the case. Crisman faded from
the public eye after this but showed up again on November 21, 1968
when he was called to testify at the trial of Clay Shaw looking
into the JFK assassination. We have recently come across some
correspondence between a UFO investigator, Crisman, and Dahl in the
pages of a 1967 edition of a British UFO magazine that may be of
interest to our readers. Read more