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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
THE #1 BOOK FROM THE "CONTACTEE" ERA, February 22, 2000
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.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cute. Real cute!, November 10, 1999
By A Customer
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
New talk about the face on Mars makes this 1957 bk. timely., April 13, 1998
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.
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