Daniel William Fry was an American contactee of the 1950s who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft.
21 Facts About Daniel Fry
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On July 4,1949, at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico where he was employed, Fry had planned to join the Independence day festivities that evening in nearby Las Cruces, but he missed the last bus.
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Daniel Fry claimed he was invited aboard and flown over New York City and back in 30 minutes.
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Shortly after Daniel Fry went public with his story in 1954, he failed a polygraph examination about his claims.
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Later, Daniel Fry claimed to have received a doctorate; the "degree" was from a UK mail-order company in London, called Saint Andrew College and was a "Doctorate of Cosmism".
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Many years later, Daniel Fry changed the date the event took place from July 4,1950, to July 4,1949.
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In 1954, Daniel Fry published his first book called The White Sands Incident and a year later started an organization called Understanding which published a monthly newsletter by the same name.
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From 1954 onward, with little reimbursement, Daniel Fry gave thousands of lectures to organizations such as service clubs, radio and television stations.
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Daniel Fry became the 1972 vice-presidential nominee of the Universal Party along with the presidential nominee and fellow contactee Gabriel Green.
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In December, 1978, Daniel Fry would note with frustration the dwindling membership and the library and kitchen at the Tonopah site were burned to the ground by an arsonist.
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Shortly before the fire, Daniel Fry would turn over the Understanding organization to Mr and Mrs Sellman and move to Alamogordo, New Mexico with his second wife Florence.
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From 1949 until 1954, Daniel Fry worked at Aerojet designing, building and installing transducers for control, feedback and measurement of rockets during flight and static tests.
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Daniel William Fry was born on July 19,1908, near a small steamboat landing on the Mississippi River called Verdon Township in the northern part of Aitkin County, Minnesota, to Fred Nelson Fry and Clara Jane Baehr.
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Daniel Fry attended the now defunct El Centro Elementary school and went to high school in Antelope Valley.
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Daniel Fry's parents left practically no estate and at the age of eighteen he found himself entirely dependent upon his own resources.
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Daniel Fry completed high school but because of increasing unemployment that preceded the 1930s depression he abandoned plans for university.
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Daniel Fry worked through the subjects he would have taken at university by using material from the Pasadena Public Library.
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Daniel Fry became interested in chemistry and eventually specialized in the use of explosives finally settling on the new field of rocketry.
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Daniel Fry married his first wife, Elma, in 1934 and had three children.
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Daniel Fry divorced Elma in 1964 while living in Merlin, Oregon, and took up common-law residence with Bertha until moving to Tonopah, Arizona, in the mid 1970s.
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Daniel Fry then married Cleona, a local Alamogordo resident in 1982 and they remained married until his death there on December 20,1992.