Co-witness to the 1947 Maury Island incident; later a peripheral figure in the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination. The Maury Island case is contested as one of the earliest 'flying saucer' hoaxes.
Fred Crisman was a harbor patrolman and associate of Harold Dahl deeply involved in the complex and controversial 1947 Maury Island UAP incident. He claimed to have recovered the anomalous metallic debris that Dahl reported falling from a doughnut-shaped craft over the water. Crisman's key contribution to UAP history involves his handover of this alleged material to military intelligence officers, whose aircraft tragically crashed shortly after taking off with the evidence. Crisman was a highly enigmatic figure with alleged ties to the intelligence community and was heavily involved in Cold War conspiracy theories. His involvement cemented the Maury Island case as one of the most convoluted mysteries in early UAP lore.