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 was going on, Jackson was taking photos.  Just as they began to separate, there was a dull “thud” and the next second the UFO began to spew out sheets of very light metal from the hole in the center.  As these were fluttering to the water, the UFO began to throw out a harder, rocklike material.  Some of it landed on the beach of Maury Island.  Jackson took his crew and headed toward the beach of Maury Island, but not before the boat was damaged, his son’s arm had been injured, and the dog killed.  As they reached the island they looked up and saw that the UFO’s were leaving the area at high speed.  The harbor patrolman went on to tell how he scooped up several chunks of the metal from the beach and boarded the patrol boat.  He tried to use his radio to summon aid, but for some unusual reason the interference was so bad he couldn’t even call the three miles to his headquarters in Tacoma.  When they docked at Tacoma, Jackson got first aid for his son and then reported to his superior officer, Richards, who, Jackson added to his story, didn’t believe the tale.  He didn’t believe it until he went out to the island himself and saw the metal.

Jackson’s trouble wasn’t over.  The next morning a mysterious visitor told Jackson to forget what he’d seen.

Later that same day the photos were developed.  They showed the six objects, but the film was badly spotted and fogged, as if the film had been exposed to some kind of radiation.

Then Simpson told about his brush with mysterious callers.  He said that Jackson was not alone as far as mysterious callers were concerned, the Tacoma newspapers had been getting calls from an anonymous tipster telling exactly what was going on in Simpson’s hotel room.  This was a very curious situation because no one except Simpson, the airline pilot, and the two harbor patrolmen knew what was taking place.  The room had even been thoroughly searched for hidden microphones.

That is the way the story stood a few hours after Lieutenant Brown and Captain Davidson arrived in Tacoma.