It's just that it follows the pattern of so many of these Outer Limits offerings. As time passes, he realizes that there are indeed great dangers out there which sets a series of events in motion. 30) 80 years ago, actor Orson Welles announced to audiences in a chilling radio performance that Martians were invading New Jersey. A young woman who is part of a group that is aware of these aliens inside our bodies enlists him, hoping to get him to assist their efforts. By Mindy Weisberger published OctoOn this day (Oct. The executives start to see him as dangerous to their ratings and ask him to apologize to the family of the man, but he refuses. It is true, but the shock-jock can't reconcile this, imagining there has to be some sort of explanation. As he is burning up, a glowing presence leaves his body. After telling one man to help everyone out and do away with himself, the man waits for the radio guy and immolates himself with gasoline. He is a really offensive, nihilistic man who has no scruples at all. He rails at them and belittles their very being. People who have been abducted by aliens call him and plead their case. The institute scans for radio signals that could be directed towards the Earth, and they are confident that as their equipment becomes more sophisticated, they are likely to find something.A shock-jock spends his time talking to the lunatic fringe. Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) based in California scans the skies to detect any signals emanating from any form of intelligent life. However, another school of thought believes that an encounter with intelligent extraterrestrial communications cannot be ruled out. In the current day and age, an announcement on finding extraterrestrial microbes is likely to attract the interest of many rather than cause panic. It is believed that the first encounter would be through discovering microbes from other worlds that are likely to be common in all the cosmos as opposed to intelligent organisms. Also, an unbelievable number of variables would have to happen for the invasion to occur. According to experts, an alien attack of military proportion would require intelligent and technically advanced extraterrestrials. The next day the Daily News was full of accounts of how many listeners ran from their homes in New York and New Jersey with their faces covered with towels to shield themselves from the gas that the invader was said to be emitting.Īt the time, space scientists were already aware of the fact that Mars was not capable of harboring a thriving civilization. Later, newspapers reported how the fake alien invasion had caused a lot of panic among the people. The performance also included eyewitnesses who stated that they had seen Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and strange creatures shooting an ultramodern heat ray that has killed several people.Īlthough the program was interrupted by reminders that it was not real, many people tuned in believed the alien invasion was real. He then brought in a reporter from the scene in Gover’s Mill, a town next to Princeton, New Jersey. With a threatening tone, he described to the audience telescope observations of three explosions on Mars. In 1938, an actor posed as a news anchor and interrupted a scheduled music performance. The millennials’ typical response would be to capture “the invasion” on their smartphones and share with friends on social media. Even though the public is still fascinated with extraterrestrials, if Welles was to make his announcement today that strange creatures were invading the Earth, the reaction would be different. The general understanding is that Mars does not harbor an advanced alien civilization with lethal weapons and spacecraft. The current population is more informed with extensive research conducted on extraterrestrial life that such news would not have them petrified. However, the videos did not elicit the same reaction as the “fake” alien invasion story 82 years ago. Recently the Pentagon released UFO videos depicting objects in the sky. His announcement horrified listeners who believed the world was under attack by hostile aliens. On October 30, 1938, actor Orson Welles terrified radio listeners when he announced that Martians were invading New Jersey. The ‘Alien Invasion’ Radio Broadcast: Would it Terrify Listeners today as it did 82 years ago?
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