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Seattle Star, Feb 25th, 1908
Entered house shaped like arctic snow hut ~~ Saw earth beings fussing around oddly constructed machine ~~ Contrivance too large for house necessitating projection of one end through roof ~~ Heard such words as “Mars”, “Canals”, “Opposition”, “Polar Caps”, “Atmosphere”, “Inhabitants”, “Cosmic Void”, etc
WHO’S-WHO IN THE COMICS
By Fred Schaefer
Some years ago a gentle inoffensive stranger landed on this terrestial sphere with no luggage but a notebook. Since then “he has tarried with us, pussyfooted and unobtrusive as a Japanese spy, picking up information and knitting his intellectual brow over the incomprehensible things so different from those on his own planet. This was Mr. Skygack from Mars. It is, however, not clearly known how long he will continue his earth study of earth beings at their earth work’s, nor how he will get back to Mars when he concludes to return. It will probably be by the same means by which he arrived, unless by chance he came as a meteorite. Continue reading “Who’s Who in the Comics, 1912”
Using a tripod to shoot Christmas lights at city hall, Leonard & Wilfred Lamoureux got an unexpected surprise
The two were suddenly astounded to see a “bright bright blue light” drop straight down from the sky. It became larger as it did and so they were able to observe the source of the light as an object that Leonard described as “two saucers” open ends facing each other, glowing bright blue. The object then moved “dead straight” horizontally across the sky. When it just appeared to clear the flagpole on the roof of the City Hall it came to an almost dead stop and Leonard clicked the shutter on the camera. The object then shot straight back up into the sky. “They never seen anything fly so fast!” This scared them to death and they ran from the scene. The object made no sound.
Source: ufobc.ca
“The War of the Worlds” is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the scale of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.(Wikipedia)
Continue reading “War of the Worlds, 80th Anniversary”
Blueprints of the 1953 Martian War Machine which were made as an Advertisement for the 1988 War of the Worlds TV Series.
The War of the Worlds, Belgium edition, 1906. Artwork by Brazilian Henrique Alvim Correa (Brazilian, 1876–1910)
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. – H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds
April, 17th, 1897, one year before HG Wells publishes War of the Worlds, a story of a “Martian” craft crashing in Aurora, Texas was published in the Dallas Morning News.
“A Windmill Demolishes It,” by S. E. Haydon, The Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5 Continue reading “Cowboys vs. Martians”
