In 1947 six flying saucers circled above a harbor boat in Puget Sound near Tacoma, Washington, one wobbling and spewing slag. The falling junk killed a dog and burned a boy's arm. His father, Harold Dahl, witnessed it all. The Maury Island incident became the first UFO event of the modern era. Then came Fred Crisman. Crisman was one of the most curious characters in the UFO lore and the history of covert intelligence. He fought bizarre underground beings in the caves of Burma, was wounded by a laser before it was invented, and had a background with the OSS. Harold Dahl told him about the Maury Island UFO. The next day Crisman witnessed another, single saucer... or did he?