Today is the 100th anniversary of Daniel W. Fry’s birth, born as he was in a log cabin hidden in the woods outside of Aitkin, Minnesota. To celebrate the event, DFDC is proud to present Daniel’s unfinished and unpublished work “When In Cairo”.
In the last Understanding newsletter that Daniel ever published on June 1989, he made mention of two books:
The title of the book will be “When in Cairo” and will deal mostly with the problems and concerns of Alan in his struggle to keep the world at peace. Although Alan is not the hero of the book, he is the principal actor on the stage.
There is also another book waiting patiently in the wings, which will be known as “The Tachyon Drive” Which is an educational science book about an Astronaut who started out for one place, and because of the tricks of the automatic launching system known as Tobar, wound up somewhere else!
These two books, together with a myriad of other duties, should keep me busy till something else happens.
To refer back to, “When in Cairo”, It is about 70% true and 30% fiction, which is necessary to avoid disclosure of the true names of some of the characters who still need security, but those of you who have read “To Men of Earth” will find little difficulty in determining who all the characters actually are!
The handwritten manuscript of When in Cairo was recovered and you can now find it on Daniel’s Writing page. The book is unfinished and presented in a form as close to the original as possible. Many thanks to Eric for his work in transcribing it from handwritten form into the digital domain.
Enjoy!
For a man who dedicated his life to spreading the three-pillars-of-civilization idea, I think Daniel would be disappointed to know that interest in his message has fallen to it’s lowest point yet. As evidence, a 1966 White Sands Incident in near-fine condition went unsold in an auction yesterday on eBay for a paltry $3.00. You can’t give away Daniel Fry books.
I also contacted Fry’s three children and one his supporters, Bill Hamilton in the hopes they would feel motivated to write something to post here as part of the 100th anniversary celebration. I was disappointed to find out they have no interest and my emails and phone calls went unanswered.
Traffic to that lonely outpost in the contactee world, DFDC, has also levelled off in the past couple of years. DFDC has been tracked for almost a year now by Google Analytics and below are some results:
What the graph above shows us is that the average number of visitors, most of them new to the site, is about 30 a day, but they don’t typically stay for long, just two and a half minutes.
Below is a map from where in the world the traffic comes from and it is clear that the U.S. dominates.
The traffic that comes from Canada is inflated because it includes about 1400 visits that I have made over the year and if we remove them, that leaves Canada with as almost much traffic as the U.K.
Within the States, California has the most number of visitors.
I wonder if there is an award for having so few hits given a search for “Daniel Fry” essentially owns the top three search positions in Google.
Sean.