[referring to a UFO sighting in the area of Tacoma, Washington], or
any other area."

The "experts," in their stories of saucer lore, have said that these
brush-offs of the UFO sightings were intentional smoke screens to
cover the facts by adding confusion. This is not true; it was merely
a lack of coordination. But had the Air Force tried to throw up a
screen of confusion, they couldn't have done a better job.

When the lieutenant colonel from the Fourth Air Force made his
widely publicized denunciation of saucer believers he specifically
mentioned a UFO report from the Tacoma, Washington, area.

The report of the investigation of this incident, the Maury Island
Mystery, was one of the most detailed reports of the early UFO era.
The report that we had in our files had been pieced together by Air
Force Intelligence and other agencies because the two intelligence
officers who started the investigation couldn't finish it. They were
dead.

For the Air Force the story started on July 31, 1947, when
Lieutenant Frank Brown, an intelligence agent at Hamilton AFB,
California, received a long-distance phone call. The caller was a man
whom 111 call Simpson, who had met Brown when Brown investigated an
earlier UFO sighting, and he had a hot lead on another UFO incident.
He had just talked to two Tacoma Harbor patrolmen. One of them had
seen six UFO's hover over his patrol boat and spew out chunks of odd
metal. Simpson had some of the pieces of the metal.

The story sounded good to Lieutenant Brown, so he reported it to his