Editing Fred Crisman (section)

==Relationship with Ray Palmer and ''Amazing Stories''==
[[File:Amazing Stories June 1946.png|right|thumb|Crisman's claims of firsthand knowledge of the Shaver Mystery were published in June 1946.]] 
In 1946–47, pulp magazine ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' was an outlet for fantasy, science-fiction, and fringe claims.  The May 1946 issue, for example, included purportedly-true fringe adventures by [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]], the fiction of Dorothy & John de Courcy written in the style of Shaver, a defense of the religions of Tibet by [[Millen Cooke]], the fiction of [[Robert Moore Williams]], an allegedly-true eyewitness account of unidentified objects in the skies by [[Dirk Wylie]], and other genre-blurring texts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v20n02_1946-05.Ziff-Daviscape1736|title=Amazing Stories v20n02 (1946 05.Ziff Davis)(cape1736)|date=May 21, 1946|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Saler |first=Michael |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-man-from-mars-ray-palmers-amazing-pulp-journey-by-fred-nadis/2013/08/12/3dd9611a-fdea-11e2-bd97-676ec24f1f3f_story.html |title='The Man From Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey,' by Fred Nadis |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 12, 2013 |access-date=June 5, 2022}}</ref>

===Promotion of the Shaver mystery===
In June 1946, ''Amazing Stories'' published a pseudonymous letter by Crisman in which he claimed to have battled "mysterious and evil" underground creatures to free himself from a cave in [[Myanmar|Burma]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="Gulyas">{{cite book |last1=Gulyas |first1=Aaron John |year=2015 |chapter=Paranoid and Paranormal Precursors from the 1960s to the 1990s |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81LpCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 |title=The Paranormal and the Paranoid: Conspiratorial Science Fiction Television |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81LpCQAAQBAJ |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |pages=30–31 |isbn=9781442251144 |access-date=August 7, 2015 |archive-date=July 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727011253/https://books.google.com/books?id=81LpCQAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref>
Wrote Crisman:
<blockquote>I flew my last combat mission on May 26 [1945] when I was shot up over Bassein and ditched my ship in Ramaree Roads off Chedubs Island. I was missing five days. I requested leave at Kashmere. I and Capt. (deleted by request) left Srinagar and went to Rudok then through the Khesa pass to the northern foothills of the Kabakoram. We found what we were looking for. We knew what we were searching for.
For heaven's sake, drop the whole thing! You are playing with dynamite. My companion and I fought our way out of a cave with submachine guns. I have two 9" scars on my left arm that came from wounds given me in the cave when I was 50 feet from a moving object of any kind and in perfect silence. The muscles were nearly ripped out. How? I don't know. My friend has a hole the size of a dime in his right bicep. It was seared inside. How we don't know. But we both believe we know more about the Shaver Mystery than any other pair.
You can imagine my fright when I picked up my first copy of Amazing Stories and see you splashing words about the subject.
Do not print our names, we are not cowards, but we are not crazy.<ref name="LeF">LeFevre & Lipson</ref></blockquote>
The letter was quoted in the September 1946 issue of Harper's Magazine as an example of a crackpot letter. In May 1947, ''Amazing Stories'' published a second Crisman letter, this time identifying him by name.  In this letter, Crisman claimed to have traveled to Alaska with his friend Dick, who was killed there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v21n05_1947-05_cape1736|title=Amazing Stories v21n05 (1947 05) (cape1736)|date=May 21, 1947|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name="LeF"/>

===Role in Maury Island incident===
In 1947, Crisman was involved with Harold Dahl in the [[Maury Island incident]], an early [[Unidentified flying object|UFO]] incident widely considered to be a hoax, even within Ufology.<ref name="csi_creators">{{cite web |last=Nickell |first=Joe|author-link=Joe Nickell |title=Creators of the Paranormal |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2016/10/creators-of-the-paranormal/ |website=The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |date=October 26, 2016 |publisher=Center for Inquiry|access-date=March 15, 2018|archive-date=May 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516221606/https://skepticalinquirer.org/2016/10/creators-of-the-paranormal/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Harrison2007">{{cite book |last=Harrison |first=Albert A. |author-link=Albert Harrison (psychologist) |year=2007 |title=Starstruck: Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion, and Folklore |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-84545-286-5 |pages=123– |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORNcQUBAEjUC&pg=PA123 |access-date=October 2, 2013 |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012231551/http://books.google.com/books?id=ORNcQUBAEjUC&pg=PA123 |url-status=live}}</ref> Dahl believed the 1960s TV series, ''[[The Invaders]]'' was based on Crisman's life.<ref name="Gulyas" />

In the January 1950 issue of Fate Magazine,   Crisman insisted the incident was not a hoax. Wrote Crisman: "Why, if we were such blackguards and deliberately caused the deaths of two Air Force Pilots and the loss of a $150,000 airplane did not the government or some agency there attempt to seek justice through the courts of the state and federal government".<ref name="LeF"/>

On July 22, 1967, Crisman spoke at a UFO convention in Seattle about the Maury Island incident.<ref name="LeF"/>