Another Sighting - Much Closer Than You Think

On a clear day, looking back to the southeast from the Fishing Pier, you can see Mount Rainier rising "above it all." Long known simply as "the mountain" to locals, Mount Rainier's original name is Tahoma. It is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range. Due to its high probability of eruption in the near future, Mount Rainier has been named to the infamous Decade Volcano list, signifying the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.  

The mountain also holds a key element to the Maury Island story. On June 24th, just three days after Harold Dahl's sighting off Maury Island, pilot Kenneth Arnold famously observed nine objects flying near Mount Rainier. Arnold even coined the term "flying saucer" in describing the movement of the objects he saw.

Many observers that have experienced the two spectacular views on Puget Sound, from Maury Island to Mt. Rainier, have reached the same conclusion - these are not two different locations, but one single location - at least from the perspective of any visitor coming from "way out there." And there appears to be no doubt that these two Washington State sightings were the first sightings of what the media in 1947 named the "Summer of the Saucers," and critically, occurred a full two weeks before what has become the most famous UFO incident in history - the alleged UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico.