Another Adamski
Adamski’s claims encouraged others to share their own tales of interaction with friendly aliens. One of these, Daniel Fry, enjoyed particular notoriety after coming forward in 1954 to reveal his 1949 meeting with ETs, and subsequent ride on a spaceship. Fry worked as an explosives expert and rocket instruments technician, and eventually co-founded a pair of tech companies that manufactured transducers and other parts. In the summer of 1949, Fry worked for Aerojet at the White Sands (NM) Proving Grounds. Night had fallen on the Fourth of July, when Fry observed a saucer-shaped craft move against the starry sky and settle to a landing. Although the craft was (according to Fry) remotely controlled, Fry didn’t hesitate when a disembodied voice invited him aboard.
Aloft for thirty minutes (during which time the saucer traveled from White Sands to New York and back again), Fry accepted an offer to chat with a fellow named “Alan,” a former Earthling who departed the planet centuries ago. Fry chronicled his adventure in a 1954 book, The White Sands Incident. Others by Fry, including Atoms, Galaxies and Understanding (the physics of space travel) and Steps to the Stars, followed.
Fry lectured, ran his companies, and became a land developer. In 1955, he established an international, nonprofit goodwill organization he called Understanding, urging members to become engaged in civic life and pursue positive contact with people in other nations.
The Understanding group faded not long before Fry’s death in 1992. But neither Fry nor his ideals were forgotten; in 2005, the entire run of the Understanding newsletter—more than 240 issues—was transcribed and downloaded to the Web.