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thought a gross
waste of time for anyone to read.”
Arnold received a second letter from Palmer inviting him to write an
article. Arnold declined but sent Palmer a copy of the detailed report
and biography he had mailed earlier to the Air Force at Wright Field in
Dayton, Ohio.
On July 22th, Palmer sent Arnold $200 to investigate the Maury Island
Case.
Palmer later made a statement about the fragments
“How important was the original cigar-box of fragments sent to the
Chicago publisher by Dahl? Bear in mind that McChord intelligence
knew the exact pile of slag they had come from.
Yet when an
intelligence agent visited the Chicago publisher (asking questions about
the Shaver mystery primarily, and only casually mentioning saucers, and
being remarkably uninterested in the box of fragments which were
shown him, and certainly not recognizing the fragment being used as
an ashtray on the Chicago publisher’s desk), the box and its contents
were promptly stolen from the file cabinet in which the intelligence
agent watched the Chicago place it, the theft occurring that very night.
At least, the box was gone in the morning as the Chicago publisher had
expected, because he deliberately planted the whole thing to find out if
the fragments were worth taking.
Why a midnight visit to steal
fragments intelligence knew was only slag.” - Palmer, Ray “The Truth about
Ruppelt’s Book” Flying Saucers, December 1958
Ray Palmer would be interviewed in
1977 by Guy Baskin and is staunch in his
belief in UFOs.
Palmer would comment in the interview:
“Kenneth Arnold fits into it and it’s his
30 th anniversary and strangely enough it’s
my 33 rd because I
knew about
flying
saucers
three
years
before
Kenneth
Arnold made his first sighting.
In describing Deros – “Briefly it was
about a radioactive flare from the sun
about 12,000 years ago which virtually
wiped out life on earth. While others left for other planets, the persons
left behind were called “abanderos” or “Deros” for short. The Deros
still had access to some technology, among them a “rolat” disk used to
go through caves controlled automatically. They traveled about 1,200
miles per hour.- Guy Baskin, 1977.
Richard S. Shaver and the Shaver Mysteries
Richard Shaver
In an odd connection to the Maury Island
Incident, Ray Palmer is believed to have sought
out Arnold to also help further the stories of
Richard Shaver.
Shaver was a writer who had
written a successful series of what he claimed to
be true stories of
underground tunnels
and
humanoid figures called “deros” who would fly
underground crafts much like UFOs.
Ray Palmer first became familiar with Shaver in 1943 when he fished
out of the garbage a crumpled letter his Assistant Editor Howard
Browne had read for laughs and tossed. He would print Shaver’s
stories under the title “I Remember Lemuria.”
Shaver was a Pennsylvania steelworker who believed he could hear
voices and lived a life where he was in and out of mental institutions
but would end up becoming lifelong friends with Palmer.
When the Maury Island UFO Incident occurred and Arnold had his
sighting, Palmer would say that Shaver would exclaim, “See they [UFO
rolats] do come out of the caves!”
Ted Morello
Ted Morello’s role in the Maury Island
Incident would prove significant. Not only
because Morello was an upstanding reporter for
Associated Press but because he would be able
to verify as a third party the calls by the
mysterious informant, the details related and
express an urgency to Arnold of his safety.
Ted Morello was born December 15 1918 and
died on July 15th, 2007 in New York City at the age of 88 following a
stroke.
Morello had resigned from the United Press sometime before 1948 and
had moved to Milwaukee. According to Flying Saucers Over Los Angeles Arnold called Morello and suggested that Morello “had been ‘eased
out’ of the Tacoma Bureau because he knew too much about the
disks” Flying
waste of time for anyone to read.”
Arnold received a second letter from Palmer inviting him to write an
article. Arnold declined but sent Palmer a copy of the detailed report
and biography he had mailed earlier to the Air Force at Wright Field in
Dayton, Ohio.
On July 22th, Palmer sent Arnold $200 to investigate the Maury Island
Case.
Palmer later made a statement about the fragments
“How important was the original cigar-box of fragments sent to the
Chicago publisher by Dahl? Bear in mind that McChord intelligence
knew the exact pile of slag they had come from.
Yet when an
intelligence agent visited the Chicago publisher (asking questions about
the Shaver mystery primarily, and only casually mentioning saucers, and
being remarkably uninterested in the box of fragments which were
shown him, and certainly not recognizing the fragment being used as
an ashtray on the Chicago publisher’s desk), the box and its contents
were promptly stolen from the file cabinet in which the intelligence
agent watched the Chicago place it, the theft occurring that very night.
At least, the box was gone in the morning as the Chicago publisher had
expected, because he deliberately planted the whole thing to find out if
the fragments were worth taking.
Why a midnight visit to steal
fragments intelligence knew was only slag.” - Palmer, Ray “The Truth about
Ruppelt’s Book” Flying Saucers, December 1958
Ray Palmer would be interviewed in
1977 by Guy Baskin and is staunch in his
belief in UFOs.
Palmer would comment in the interview:
“Kenneth Arnold fits into it and it’s his
30 th anniversary and strangely enough it’s
my 33 rd because I
knew about
flying
saucers
three
years
before
Kenneth
Arnold made his first sighting.
In describing Deros – “Briefly it was
about a radioactive flare from the sun
about 12,000 years ago which virtually
wiped out life on earth. While others left for other planets, the persons
left behind were called “abanderos” or “Deros” for short. The Deros
still had access to some technology, among them a “rolat” disk used to
go through caves controlled automatically. They traveled about 1,200
miles per hour.- Guy Baskin, 1977.
Richard S. Shaver and the Shaver Mysteries
Richard Shaver
In an odd connection to the Maury Island
Incident, Ray Palmer is believed to have sought
out Arnold to also help further the stories of
Richard Shaver.
Shaver was a writer who had
written a successful series of what he claimed to
be true stories of
underground tunnels
and
humanoid figures called “deros” who would fly
underground crafts much like UFOs.
Ray Palmer first became familiar with Shaver in 1943 when he fished
out of the garbage a crumpled letter his Assistant Editor Howard
Browne had read for laughs and tossed. He would print Shaver’s
stories under the title “I Remember Lemuria.”
Shaver was a Pennsylvania steelworker who believed he could hear
voices and lived a life where he was in and out of mental institutions
but would end up becoming lifelong friends with Palmer.
When the Maury Island UFO Incident occurred and Arnold had his
sighting, Palmer would say that Shaver would exclaim, “See they [UFO
rolats] do come out of the caves!”
Ted Morello
Ted Morello’s role in the Maury Island
Incident would prove significant. Not only
because Morello was an upstanding reporter for
Associated Press but because he would be able
to verify as a third party the calls by the
mysterious informant, the details related and
express an urgency to Arnold of his safety.
Ted Morello was born December 15 1918 and
died on July 15th, 2007 in New York City at the age of 88 following a
stroke.
Morello had resigned from the United Press sometime before 1948 and
had moved to Milwaukee. According to Flying Saucers Over Los Angeles Arnold called Morello and suggested that Morello “had been ‘eased
out’ of the Tacoma Bureau because he knew too much about the
disks” Flying