Part 41 (1/2)
The voice softened and added, ”Take it easy, pal, you're a off the space hiht chat Fry learned that the voice was indeed that of a spaceman and they were down to pick up a new supply of air After about four years of earth air transfusions, according to the spaceravity, and become ”immunized to your bi-otics” The craft, Fry was told, was a ”cargo carrier,” unmanned and built to zoom down and scoop up earth air
The conversation went on, waxing technical at times, and ended with an invitation to look into the shi+p Then the space, offered a ride
Fry accepted and they antidenetized off for New York City Thirty minutes later they were back at White Sands
Over New York City they came down from 35 to 20 miles and Fry could read the marquee of the Fulton Theater ”The Seven Year Itch” was playing
He hadn't told the Air Force about his ride before because he was afraid he'd lose his job But, at the press conference, he did plug his new book, _The_ _White_ _Sands_ _Incident_
By this ti_ _Saucers_ _Have_ _Landed_ and it looked as if Fry was going to cut him out But Fry took a lie detector test on a widely viewed West Coast television show and flunked it flat
His stock dropped as fast as it had risen but the decline was somewhat checked when a well known Southern California ar Hoover about the situation Hoover, the story goes, shot back an answer--lie detectors are no good
But the daed” lie detector test had unfortunately relegated Daniel Fry, ”engineer,” ” plant,” and interplanetary hitchhiker to the bush league
With Adas all hell broke loose
One could say that everyone tried to get into the act, but I'd rather think that each colony of space people tried to proham met a Martian on the al, Brazil, Spain-- everywhere--people ”too uneducated to pull a hoax”heads and y pants, diver suits, and were naked
One lady proudly announced that a Venusian had tried to seduce her and within days another snorted in disgust A Martian _had_ seduced her
Then Adah outer space and back
Saucers poured forth words of wisdoht beaes were duly recorded on tape and sales were hot at 450 per 10-minute tape
Not to be outdone by any other lousy planet, the Venusians picked up a young eles and actually took him to Venus Not once, but three ti how he had been contacted one night and asked by a ”strange o on an important mission Afraid, but not one to shi+rk his patriotic duties, he ed spot and hisked off to Venus
During a high level conference up there he was given the word: Tell the earthlings to lay off their ato all our doves and wesaucers out of the feathers our live doves shed
The Venusians, this space traveler warned his audiences, were already infiltrating the earth and he intimated that they were ready to
His next two trips to Venus were purely social
The highlight of his lecture, when he awes his audience, is when he whips out his proof: (1) a blood senuine Venusian blood, (2) an affidavit fro he wasn't ho in Los Angeles' McArthur Park Thedown the street is a picayunish point
Venusians look just like us
And it hasn't stopped During the big UFO flap of 1957 a man stumbled onto a landed saucer and chatted awhile with its occupants
A few months later, soon after the atomic powered _USS_ _Nautilus_ made its historic trip under the polar ice cap, this saust He packed his suitcase and started on a lecture tour
Months before _he'd_ been there in a flying saucer