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The White Sands Incident Including an Extraterrestrial Statement

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It is surprising in this day and age that the field of UFOlogy is still afforded such scant respect by members of the mainstream scientific community, as well as, the public at large. It is even more surprising when one considers the bizarre theoretical realms and possibilities that are currently being given serious attention in such areas as quantum physics and hyperdimensional theory, to name but a few. A modest investigation of UFOlogy will reveal an enormous volume of high quality, well researched material, stretching back more than half a century. And that is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The "contactee" movement is one of the most provacative, yet, little known periods of American culture and history. It was in the wake of the great waves of UFOs reported around the U.S. in the first years of the 1950's that the contactees came. Ranging from opportunistic charlatans and crackpots to deeply earnest men with much to lose and little to gain, a small handful of individuals unabashedly claimed to have not only seen flying saucers but met their alien occupants. They'd been taken onboard craft and engaged the benevolent extraterrestrials in extensive metaphysical colloquies, while enjoying dizzying tours of our solar system and other planets beyond. Upon their safe return, they were changed men with portents of man's potential doom in the form of nuclear holocaust, and messages of great love and hope from the aptly named "Space Brothers". If this all sounds like so much bad 50's B-movie sci-fi, it is, and that's because Life and Art have always imitated one another. But that "golly gee willickers" kitschy quality is a major part of the contactee movement's appeal. George Adamski, Howard Menger, George Van Tassel, Truman Bethurum, and Daniel Fry are among the chosen elite of the contactee movement. The followers of this semi-spiritual flying saucer cult continued to swell in numbers throughout the 50's until it finally waned into relative non-existence somewhere the mid-60's. Of all the contactees, Daniel Fry is assuredly the most credible and most believable witness. A scientist and researcher working for Aerojet General, his experience (labelled a close encounter of the 4th kind or CE-4 today) occurred at the White Sands Missile Proving Ground near Las Cruces, New Mexico, July 4, 1950. "The White Sands Incident" was released in June of '54. The fact that Fry's tale is in many ways so simple and undramatic seems to only add to the story's credibility. He tells of encountering a small remotely controlled scout craft in the desert in the middle of the night. He's given a 30 minute roundtrip flight to New York and back, during which time he converses via intercom with an alien named A-lan who resides in a larger "mothership" orbiting Earth. The account, summarized in a brief 118 pages, is riveting, and the information A-lan shares with Fry is absolutley fascinating. Fry's intelligent and unpretentious honesty can be felt in every page. Included in the second portion of the book is the 93 page "Extraterrestrial Statement" given to Fry by an acquaintance named Rolf Telano, and it is worth the price of the book alone. In a nutshell, it tells just exactly how the universe was formed, how we came to be, who the aliens are, and where we're all headed. What is interesting to note is that this book has only recently been reprinted after having been unavailable for quite some time. Many of the most recent discoveries of UFology are mentioned in this little-known book first published nearly 50 years ago. Thanks go to Horus House for keeping this wonderful little time capsule around for future generations to read and enjoy. Someday, when open "first contact" finally occurs, we'll look back and see that Daniel Fry, a man who courageously risked everything to tell his story, was far, far ahead of his time. And in that moment he will be vindicated. Enjoy the White Sands Incident.

While working as a test engineer at White Sands Proving Ground in 1950, Daniel Fry witnesses a flying saucer land. He is invited aboard for a brief flight. He learns about alien concerns and a little about alien technology. The book contains a reasonable description of what it might be like to fly on a machine propelled by gravity manipulation. In his recent book ALIEN BASE Timothy Good tells us he spent a week with Fry and his wife and believes the story to be essentially true. Also in this volume is an 85 page document entitled an Extraterrestial Statement, which was previously published as "A Spacewoman Speaks". I would like to know a lot more about the origins of this work. If you find it at all credible, it becomes the most profound part of the book. It discusses human origins, technology in a multidimensional universe, ethics (their version of the "prime directive"), religion and their concerns that nuclear war will destroy life on earth. It is claimed that the asteroid belt is the remains of a planet destroyed by its warlike civilization. Otherwise, the ideas are surprisingly compatible with writers such as Sitchin, Bramley and Buhlman -- though its 1960 copyright date predates these similar works.

This book is plain amazing.It explains in a very logical simple and understandable way science,paranormal or previosly not nown concepts related to UFO`s or Einsteins general relativity.It was written in the 50`s when UFO where called Flying Saucers, that means this guy sets himself away from all this crap of "new era" imaginery,charlatans and swindlers.

I cannot recommend this Book strong enough..it can change the way you conceive the world.

While most serious ufo investigators consider Mr. Fry's story to be a hoax simply because it lacks hard evidence to substantiate it and back it up, I found it a wonderful, interesting and thoughtful story. Whether its true or not I guess is up to the individual to decide. Personally, I like to think that it is.

There is this stereotype that is sometimes promoted about the 1950s which is simply not true. Soldiers and refugees from the Second World War were buying homes and in the midst of having the Baby Boom Generation. Any talk of atomic threats is simply wishful or sloppy thinking. Not until 1957 did the Russians launch Sputnik. Then it was time to be concerned about warheads. George Adamski's first book was released in 1953. The Korean 'police action' was over.

It should be obvious to anyone who has studied the period 1947 to 1957. There was intense interest in flying saucers but official denials and even ridicule of eyewitnesses. No antiaircraft artillery appeared around major cities. The so-called contactees and the messages they received were scrutinized by the FBI. The 'aliens' involved went through a bizarre transformation as the years passed, going from blonde Nordic types to end up as four foot tall humanoids with oversized, egg-shaped heads. The later contactee books showed alien behavior that was bizarre and inexplicable as opposed to the more easy to relate to "Space Brothers."

Whatever Mr. Fry was involved in may never be known. This book is part of a larger puzzle that does not fit in with the known observations of unidentified aircraft that remain so till this day. It is a window on a period of time where, in my view, it was necessary to cloud the physical reality of these objects in an otherworldly frame of reference.

The face on Mars is in the news now and few people know about this obscure but very interest- ing book. Dr. Fry was taken up in a remote control saucer from White Sands in 1957 and was told about survivors of Atlantis who made it to Mars in three spaceships and have been living in space ever since the atmosphere on Mars got too thin. I'll bet they made the face on Mars. Read it and see what you think.

THIS EVENT HAPPENED JULY 4, 195O NOT IN 1957.THE NEW ISSUE OF THE BOOK LEAVES OUT THE DIAGRAM OF THE SPACECRAFT THAT THE ORIGINAL BOOK, BY BEST BOOKS OF LOUISVILLE,KY, CONTAINS.THE EXPLANATION OF HETRODYNING IS PLAUSABLE TO LOOK THRU A SEEMINGLY SOLID HATCH AS A VIEWING SCREEN.DON'T RECALL ANYTHING ABOUT MARS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK.WHERE IS OLE DAN AND A-LAN THESE DAYS? BILL FEW 11

One symptom of the tense, nervous days of the 1950s, when citizens felt nuclear armageddon was just around the corner, were the "contactees," curious characters like George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, George King, Orfeo Angelucci, Buck Nelson... and Daniel Fry. Here is a reprint of three items, two of which were originally published in those days. The first, "To Men of Earth," is a short story written in the 1970s, which sets the stage for Fry's 1954 contactee account, "The White Sands Incident." The roughly 30 pages of "To Men of Earth" introduce extraterrestrial A-Lan (called "Alan" in this reprint), and his first adventure with an earthman is then recounted in the 80 pages of "White Sands Incident." It seems impossible that Dan Fry could have intended his account to be interpreted as non-fiction, when it is presented in an entirely fictional, omniscient-observer framework. Both stories are fairly well written, but "White Sands Incident" suffers from having been edited by a complete illiterate, who has not the vaguest concept of what "open quote" and "close quote" symbols are for, and inserts them completely randomly everywhere... while mis-spelling or mis-typing many common english words.

The final portion of this volume is another long short story, "An Extraterrestrial Statement" by Rolf Telano. Written in the late 1950s, it mingles the "Space Gods" scenario made famous ten years later in the late 1960s by Erich Von Daenikin, but actually first popularized by Madame Helena P. Blavatsky's pseudoreligion of Theosophy, with some more conventional contactee mythology from the early 1950s. The heavy hand of Theosophy is apparent in both Fry's and Telano's narratives.

The message in all three narratives, just as in all the 1950s contactee materials, is inherently religious... the writers are trying to combine the foaming ferment and excitement of early 1950s space travel fiction with the primitive mythology of fundamentalist Christianity, and with the "cosmic" framework of Lost Continents and Lost Races that added so much to Theosophy's completely imaginary accounts of the early history of mankind.

This edition was supposedly put together in 1992, the year Fry died.

This book contains the history of Earth and extraterrestrials in Dr. Fry's words. Some of the things in the book are too incredible to believe but..., this is the only book I red that explains all supernatural phenomenon about UFOs. I don't think that the content of this book could have been invented. If it was, it would not state somany facts hard to believe in such orderly way.