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106 Fry, Daniel William<br />

A UFO supposedly photographed by Daniel Fry at Merlin,<br />

Oregon, May 1964 (Fortean Picture Library)<br />

the First Annual Flying Saucer Convention in<br />

Los Angeles. At a press conference, a reporter<br />

asked him if he would take a lie-detector test<br />

to verify his claims. When Fry agreed, a local<br />

television station arranged a polygraph examination.<br />

The examiner concluded that Fry was<br />

being deceptive in his answers. Forever after,<br />

Fry’s critics cited the allegedly failed test, as<br />

well as a dubious Ph.D. from a London-based<br />

diploma mill, to argue that he was no more<br />

than a hoaxer. Still, Fry seemed to many to be<br />

sincere about his metaphysical beliefs, perhaps<br />

using fanciful saucer yarns as a way of attracting<br />

an audience.<br />

See Also: Contactees<br />

Further Reading<br />

Fry, Daniel W., 1954. Al a n’s Message: To Men of Ea rt h .<br />

Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company.<br />

———. 1954. The White Sands Incident. Los Angeles:<br />

New Age Publishing Company.<br />

———. 1954. “My Experience with the Lie Detector.”<br />

Saucers 2, 3 (September): 6–8.<br />

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena,<br />

1967. Information Sheet on Daniel Fry.<br />

Washington, DC, August.<br />

Reeve, Bryant, and Helen Reeve, 1957. Flying Saucer<br />

Pilgrimage. Amherst, WI: Amherst Press.

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