The CIA, Men in Black and the Plot to Take Out JFK | The Maury Island Incident

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

June 1947. Harbor patrolman Harold Dahl witnesses six metallic objects over Maury Island, Washington. One drops molten slag onto his boat. A stranger in a black suit arrives the next morning, knowing details Dahl shared with no one.Two military investigators examine the debris. Their plane crashes. The evidence vanishes.Sixteen years later, witness Fred Crisman surfaces in the JFK assassination investigation. Declassified files reveal he was a CIA disruption agent. On November 12, 1963, Kennedy issues a classified memo demanding UFO disclosure and cooperation with the Soviets. Ten days later, he's gone.The same operatives who investigated UFOs in 1947 appear connected to Dallas. Guy Banister. Allen Dulles. Fred Crisman.The UFO case might have been a hoax. But what it exposed was real.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KXsiBZjOM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	June 1947, Boat Captain Harold Dahl watched a formation of UFOs drop molten metal over
0:22.8	Puget Sound.
0:25.1	The debris wrecked his boat, burned his son, and killed his dog.
0:29.9	Then, terrible things started to happen to Dahl's family, beginning with a visit from a mysterious
0:34.5	stranger in a black suit.
0:37.4	Over the next 15 years, about a dozen people connected to this UFO sighting died mysteriously.
0:43.2	Investigators, military officers, journalists, but the most dramatic death of all, John F. Kennedy.
1:06.8	On On June 21st, 1947, Harold Dahl was patrolling around Morrie Island with his 15-year-old son Charles, a crewman, and his dog Sparky.
1:09.9	They were looking for straight timber that had fallen off of boats.
1:12.6	Timber companies paid for any logs returned to them.
1:16.3	Around two that afternoon, Charles pointed at the sky.
1:20.7	Six donut-shaped objects hovered about 2,000 feet above the water.
1:23.8	Harold cut the engine, the objects made no sound.
1:26.9	Each was about 100 feet wide with a hole in the center.
1:28.4	They looked like massive metallic tires with portholes around the outer rim. Five of the objects floated in a circle
1:33.6	around the sixth, which was losing altitude and moving radically. Yeah, was my ex-wife driving?
1:40.2	No. Because swerving out of control, leaking fluids, and ruining vacations, that's just speciality.
1:46.2	She wasn't driving.
1:47.8	The craft was directly over the boat, maybe 500 feet above them.
1:51.8	Harold could see into it through the windows.
1:54.1	Did he see my ex-wife in there?
1:56.1	No!
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