Buy used: $47.25
$3.99 delivery May 6 - 10. Details
Or fastest delivery May 1 - 6. Details
Used: Good | Details
Sold by madluckbooks
Condition: Used: Good
Comment: Some wear to cover and corner dings
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Kenn Thomas
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy Paperback – October 1, 1999

by Kenn Thomas (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
See all formats and editions
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?
Previous page
  1. Print length
    287 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Last Gasp of San Francisco
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 1999
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1881532194
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1881532194
  8. See all details
Next page
The Amazon Book Review
The Amazon Book Review
Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Last Gasp of San Francisco; First Edition (October 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 287 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1881532194
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1881532194
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Kenn Thomas

Kenn Thomas

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Kenn Thomas works as a conspiracy writer, a parapolitical researcher, university library archivist, and showrunner for Steamshovel Press, a parapolitical conspiracy cyber presence and magazine. He has written books on the Inslaw affair, co-authoring The Octopus with the late Jim Keith, and on Fred Crisman and the Maury Island Incident.

Thomas has authored over a dozen books on various conspiracy topics. The latest is JFK & UFO, about the possibility that 1947 UFO witness Fred Crisman was connected to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; and The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, about theInslaw affair. In 2004, Feral House published a new edition of The Octopus, extending the suggestion of connections to the post-9/11 world and al-Qaeda. Feral House also recently published the new book, fully titled JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas.[1]

Thomas calls his research interest “parapolitics,” the study of conspiracies of all colors -- from alien abductions and the Illuminati, to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the September 11, 2001 attacks. The New Yorker called his work “on the cutting edge” of conspiracy. His name has become a proverb for a conspiracy theorist; enough so that a baseball almanac described the sport as involving "enough fishy behavior to keep Kenn Thomas swarming for years."[2]

Thomas lectures extensively. He has appeared at Conspiracy Con in San Francisco many years; the Disinfo Con and Media Monotone conferences in New York,; the Crash Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas; the International UFO Conference in Laughlin; the FortFest and Beyond Knowledge conferences in London; even on a Caribbean cruise ship. Most recently he appeared at the Alternative Research Community conference in Bath, England and the All I Want Is The Truth conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

In addition to JFK & UFO, Thomas' writing currently also appears The Casebook on the Men In Black (published by AUP) and Round Trip To Hell In A Flying Saucer (published by Global Communications). His web site, steamshovelpress.com, also makes available a new PDF book entitled Popular Parapolitics and a DVD of his appearance with psychedelic philosopher Timothy Leary, called Cafe Chaos.

1. http://feralhouse.com/jfk-ufo/

2. Baseball Prospectus by Joseph S. Sheehan and Chris Kahrl.

3. Conspiracy Con: Video & Audio:

http://www.conspiracycon.com/audiotapes.html

4. Steamshovel Press: Appearances:

http://www.steamshovelpress.com/appearances1.html

^ Conspiracy Con: Speakers:

http://www.conspiracycon.com/speakers.html

External links

Steamshovel Press (official site): steamshovelpress.com

Kenn Thomas Profile in St. Louis Magazine:

http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/August-2008/Stalking-the-Octopus/

Nov.22 appearance on Coast To Coast:

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2009/11/22

Customer reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5 out of 5
8 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Reginald Z.
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2003
Sifting through the dust and slag of a peculiar historical event--and turning up new gems of information--is just what author/researcher Kenn Thomas has always possessed a certain instinctive knack for.
With Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, Thomas has once again added new perspective to a tale that has been retold many times by UFO investigators, though the dangling threads have never quite been pieced together, and conclusively sewn shut. (But what UFO case ever is?) This is not to suggest that Thomas has tied everything together at last, and arrived at a final answer to the mystery of what went down at Maury Island; first with the slippery sightings of Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman, then later during Kenneth Arnold's investigation of the case, when the Men In Black apparently reared their finely attired heads, along with Air Force Intelligence and other assorted spooks and hobgoblins.
What Thomas has done, though, is a very thorough research job outlining Crisman's involvement in the Maury Island affair, and how this all connects--oddly enough--to the JFK assassination dance party, and ultimately Danny Casolaros' Octopus. At first glance, one might consider such connections as these the ravings of some half-cocked "conspiracy nut", but Thomas' research is so extensive and exhaustive that one is left with enough evidence to draw their own conclusions as to just what type of mischief the enigmatic Mr. Crisman was up to. Now, how many people do you know who have seen a UFO, collected remnants of same, and were also involved (allegedly) in the Kennedy assassination? (Not to mention battling Deros in subterranean caverns?) Well, Fred Crisman very well might have achieved all of the above, along with a lot of other strange undertakings during the course of his colorful career.
Although the evidence contained in Maury Island UFO is not conclusive by any means, after reading this book one can not deny that Crisman was as equally mercurial as other figures linked to the Kennedy assassination--from David Ferrie to Kerry Thornley--among a whole host of other spooks and bit players who lurked in and out of the shadows of Dealey Plaza and similar strangely infested environs, such as Maury Island, the home of the first modern UFO case, that may very well have been a disinformation hoax at the hands of Mr. Fred Lee Crisman.
5 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Johns
3.0 out of 5 stars The Beginning of the Modern Flying Saucer Age
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015
The main text of this book I found disappointing. The author doesn't appear to have read many UFO books. He says that the Maury Island incident preceded Roswell by over a month. It didn't. He states, "Interestingly, the Japanese Fugo balloon bomb is one of three balloon theories that have been used to explain the Roswell event, one championed by writer John Keel, but challenged by many others". Thomas seems to think Keel was right and the others were wrong. "Compare the 1947 news descriptions of the 30 inch discks to Sofian's description of the Fugos," he says, directing the reader to an article in his Steamshovel Press publication. Thomas evidently considers John Keel to have been correct that the Roswell incident was a case of an exploded Fugo balloon.

Regarding the Men in Black element at Maury Island, he speculates that "MIB threats could have been an attempt to cover up illegal dumping of radioactive waste". However, he has nothing to say about what the objects doing the dumping were. Regarding Fred Crisman, he ponders, "Could Crisman's involvement trace back to an OSS project to recover Nazi aerospace and occult technologies?" Rather than provide answers, Thomas just leaves silly questions like this dangling. Later on, he asks another: "Did MacArthur and Crisman simply read too much science fiction?"

The book would have been better if it was just the appendices that were published. These include Paul Lantz's Tacoma Times article, "Sabotage Hinted in Crash of Army Bomber at Kelso", an Aug 1947 FBI report (in which the damage to the B-25 carrying Brown and Davidson and the disappearance of Dahl's son is discussed), Ray Palmer's letter to Kenneth Arnold in which he asks him to investigate the incident, Crisman's 1950 letter to Fate magazine, Crisman's 1968 letter to Lucius Farish and Kenn Thomas's interview with Ron Halbritter. The book concludes with an interview with Michael Riconsciuto, who makes some wildly improbable claims, such as that Brown and Davidson's investigation was of security failings at Boeing and that the UFOs were experimental craft manufactured by Boeing.

Two stars for the first 157 pages, four stars for the following 130 pages of appendices. Unfortunately, when an author can get wrong even easily obtainable information such as the year that John Fuller's The Interrupted Journey was published, then it's difficult to take him seriously.
3 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
D. MILLER
5.0 out of 5 stars Let us not speak of ignorance or bias by a certain reviewer!
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2005
I found this book to be very fascinating and readily kept my attention. He has researched well and although reaches no specific conclusions, does indeed raise several premises that are not as hypothetical as they may seem. Having dealt with intelligence factors since VietNam, to take on the arrogance of a certain reviewer concerning Ken's work and hide behind anonymity reveals a great deal about the reviewer.Ken's work is an asset to his name, and I applaud him for daring to be forthright concerning his possible speculations. As to the reviewer, you had better come out of your hiding place if you think "they" are not watching. I worked with an agency that could literally monitor any call being placed in the world at any time.Ken has kicked the toe of a giant! Unfortunately, it is the people who are sleeping, not the giant!
2 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Kenn Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Availability of this book is about to drop/Puh-leeze lie*
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2004
I have received word that the remaining print run of Maury Island UFO was destroyed by the widow of the publisher, who wanted to deplete the stock and close the business. I am sending out this heads up to tell potential readers that this might mean an escalation in the price of the book before too long. One of my previous books, The Octopus, typically sells for $100 these days. So get 'em while they're cheap!

* I would apologize too readers of the "Puh-leeze" review on this page, but who can apologize for all the children out there with a computer to play on? I would like to correct an impression left by one of the reviewer's lies, though: none of my books has been pubilshed by a vanity or on-demand press.
8 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report