947, 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
chief. His chief OK'd a trip and within an hour Lieutenant Brown and
Captain Davidson were flying to Tacoma in an Air Force B-25. When
they arrived they met Simpson and an airline pilot friend of his in
Simpson's hotel room. After the usual round of introductions Simpson
told Brown and Davidson that he had received a letter from a Chicago
publisher asking him, Simpson, to investigate this case. The
publisher had paid him $200 and wanted an exclusive on the story, but
things were getting too hot, Simpson wanted the military to take over.

Simpson went on to say that he had heard about the experience off
Maury Island but that he wanted Brown and Davidson to hear it
firsthand. He had called the two harbor patrolmen and they were on
their way to the hotel. They arrived and they told their story.

I'll call these two men Jackson and Richards although these aren't
their real names. In June 1947, Jackson said, his crew, his son, and
the son's dog were on his patrol boat patrolling near Maury Island,
an island in Puget Sound, about 3 miles from Tacoma. It was a gray
day, with a solid cloud deck down at about 2,500 feet. Suddenly
everyone on the boat noticed six "doughnut-shaped" objects, just
under the clouds, headed toward the boat. They came closer and
closer, and when they were about 500 feet over the boat they stopped.
One of the doughnut-shaped objects seemed to be in trouble as the
other five were hovering around it. They were close, and everybody
got a good look. The UFO's were about 100 feet in diameter, with the
"hole in the doughnut" being about 25 feet in diameter. They were a
silver color and made absolutely no noise. Each object had large
portholes around the edge.

As the five UFO's circled the sixth, Jackson recalled, one of them
came in and appeared to make contact with the disabled craft. The two
objects maintained contact for a few minutes, then began to separate.
While this wa