by Timothy Good

Further Communication

It was not until April 1954 that Alan once again reestablished communications with Daniel Fry. At the time, Fry was relaxing in his retreat, deep in the woods of southern Oregon. As before, Alan was not present in person, but his voice was unmistakable. No device was used on this occasion; instead, communication was supposedly achieved directly via ‘electronically boosted telepathy’.

Alan began by admonishing Fry for not having spoken publicly about his experience. Fry replied that, in the first place, he was afraid that any report by him might endanger Alan’s proposed visit to Earth; secondly, he was unknown, apart from within the rocket industry. How therefore could he reach the people?

‘Those who are not blind to the truth can recognize the value of a message regardless of the status of the messenger,’ Alan responded. ‘Our estimate of four years for adaptation to your environment was over-optimistic.The actual time will be closer to five. In the meantime, one of your major problems is becoming critical. Unless some small balancing force is applied in the right quarters, your entire civilization may wipe itself out . . . before we are in a position to be of assistance.’

Fry was asked to write down his experiences in a book, and to repeat through newspapers, radio and television what he had learned. ‘You don’t realize what you are asking,’ said Fry. ‘If I attempt to make public the information you have given me, it will only mean that I will be scorned and ridiculed . . . If I give a statement to our newspapers, they will either ignore it or print a comic distorted version.’

‘Of course you will be ridiculed,’ was the reply. ‘Ridicule is the protective barrier which the timid or the ignorant erect between themselves and any possibility which frightens or disturbs them . . . It is the price exacted from every individual who is as much as one step in advance of his fellows.’

‘Why don’t you just set a small landing craft down on the White House lawn some morning, ask for worldwide communications facilities, and give your information and advice to the whole world at once?’ asked Fry. ‘Such a simple solution is only wishful thinking on your part,’ replied Alan. ‘If you think a little, you will see that there are many reasons . . . why such a course would not be successful.

‘. . . If we were to appear as members of a superior race, coming from “above” to lead the people of your world, our arrival would seriously disrupt the ego balance of your society. Tens of millions of your people, in their desperate need to avoid being demoted to second place in the universe, would go to any lengths to disprove, or simply deny, our existence. If we took steps to force the acceptance of our reality upon their consciousness, about 30 percent of the people would insist upon considering us as Gods, and would attempt to place upon us all responsibility for their own welfare. This is a responsibility we would not be permitted to assume, even if we were able to discharge it . . . Most of the remaining 70 percent would adopt the belief that we were planning to enslave their world, and many would begin to seek means to destroy us. If any great and lasting good is to come from our efforts, they must be led by your own people, or at least by those who are accepted as such . . .’

Infiltration

To travel about the Earth, Alan explained, he would of course require a passport (!) – unobtainable without a birth certificate. ‘Since my origin was actually extraterrestrial, there is no legal way in which I can obtain either a birth certificate or a passport, yet I must have both,’ he said. ‘It was therefore necessary to find a County Registrar who could understand the need for my being here, and be willing to assist, even at some risk to himself. . . We will arrange for you to meet him, and you must become well acquainted since it will be up to you to conduct the negotiations.’ He continued:

We have made a careful analysis of the steps to be taken so that I may move easily, and unnoticed, among your people . . . I must have a profession, or at least a gainful occupation, preferably one which is generally known to and accepted by the public, but which is normally conducted in private . . . The ideal occupation would be that of a purchasing agent in an international trading concern. Such a position would furnish a means of livelihood, a good background cover, and an excellent excuse to visit other countries whenever it might become necessary. It would also provide a non-political contact with most of the governments of your world, since every country, whether friendly or not, has things which it wishes either to buy or to sell.

Another problem would involve opening a bank account. ‘It seems that most of your money systems are related to the value of gold,’ Alan went on. ‘I will therefore arrange to have a few pounds of the metal delivered to you here, so that you can exchange it for your currency and open an account in my name.’

‘Not gold,’ Fry objected. ‘Gold has too many legal strings attached, and anyone who offers it for sale must be able to prove its source. If you happen to have some small ingots of platinum handy, they will do nicely. The demand for platinum somewhat exceeds the supply, so that it is not difficult to sell, and its present value is several times that of gold.’

‘Very well,’ agreed Alan, ‘platinum it will be, although it seems strange to think of it as having so much value among your people . . . While platinum is an excellent substance for the plating of surfaces that will be exposed to corrosion, and most of our space ships are plated with it, it has few other uses in our technology.’

The Survivors

During this same lengthy communication in April 1954, Alan described what had happened to the survivors of the devastating conflict that had destroyed an entire civilization tens of thousands of years ago. On a high plateau in what is now Tibet, six of the surviving aerial craft were landed by their crews, to determine the fate of the survivors:

It was suggested that an attempt be made to reach another planet. The aerial craft then in use were capable of traveling in space, and had frequently been used to reach elevations of hundreds of miles, but no attempt had yet been made to leap the vast gulf between the planets, and the crew members were far from certain that such an attempt could succeed.

The planet which you now know as Mars was then in conjunction with the Earth, and preliminary estimates seemed to indicate that the crossing could be made. At that time, the surface conditions of temperature, atmosphere, water, etc. were somewhat better suited for human survival than the conditions your astronomers report to exist today. A vote was taken, and the members of the crews of four of the craft elected to take the huge gamble in the hope of preserving, thereby, at least a portion of the culture of the race. The remaining crews decided to remain on Earth. They believed that, because of the elevation of the plateau on which they were gathered, and the relatively low level of radiation at that point, they could continue to live in this area without suffering complete physical or mental degeneration in themselves or their descendants.

I can see the question forming in your mind, so I will explain that this race had achieved perfect equality of the sexes, and both were equally represented in this council, and in the crews of the ships. Of the four craft which essayed the great leap, three arrived safely at their destination. There is no record in our history as to the fate of the fourth. For many generations the grim struggle for survival demanded the entire time and energy of the people . . . As the battle for survival against the harsh environment was gradually won, the development of the material science resumed its normal pattern, and technology spurted ahead. With the lessons of the past constantly before the people, however, the material values were carefully maintained in their proper relationship to the social and spiritual values.

‘The greatest need of your race, your civilization and your society today,’ concluded Alan, ‘is simple, basic understanding between man and his fellow man, between nation and nation, and between all men and that greater power and intelligence that pervades and controls all nature. Understanding is the key to survival for your race . . .’

What is perhaps most striking about Dan Fry’s account is that part which concerns the technology of flying saucer energy and propulsion. Regardless of his credentials, not only is Fry’s description sophisticated because of his own technical career, but it is inherently more scientifically advanced and theoretically pristine than was anywhere available or studied in 1949-50. The kind of even now hypothetical physics and engineering that Fry says he was told about by Alan only began to be seriously examined in the late 1980s and in this decade by a few prescient academics and far-reaching experimental engineers (for example, Dr Hal Puthoff), writing in peer-reviewed and critically edited scientific journals that are widely read and highly respected repositories of leading scientific thought, literally on the edge of the twenty-first century.

Fry claimed to have had in-person meetings with Alan at about five-year intervals, but was reluctant to provide me with a description of the man. Concerning the success of his masquerade, Alan told Fry at their initial meeting, ‘My first real test will come when I walk down the street of any of your larger cities, and if anyone – anyone – turns their head to look at me, then it would mean that I had failed somewhere.’ Dan also remarked that the life expectancy of Alan’s race was about two and a half times that of ours, and that two other individuals would be taking Alan’s place eventually, in an attempt to keep a lid on the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.

Finally, Fry discussed the confusing variety of alien species with which we are confronted. ‘Probably most of the confusion in the field,’ he commented, ‘has been caused by the need of many people to force all of the UFO phenomenon into one hole. Each individual case is an individual event that should be judged on its own merits. To think that all beings visiting this planet come from the same place, with the same purpose, and in the same type of craft, is like standing on the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway, watching all the people go by and assuming they all come from the same place, with the same purpose, and the same habits. We live in a galaxy that teems with life and intelligence in every direction – once we get our egos under control enough to admit the fact. We’re just one of a series of evolutionary products and by no means the leading one . . .’

Excerpt from Alien Base

See Part I here.

See The White Sands Incident full pdf here.

See Steps To The Stars full pdf here.

See Atoms, Galaxies, and Understanding full pdf here.

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