UFO ROUNDUP Volume 3 Number 43
Volume 3
Number 43
October 26, 1998
Editor: Joseph Trainor
E-mail: Masinaigan@aol.com
JAPAN LOSES ANOTHER ASDF FIGHTER JET
On Friday, October 9, 1998, at 8:02 p.m., a two-seater F4EJ fighter jet took off from Chitose airbase on Hokkaido Island in northern Japan. The crew included two officers of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF)--Lieutenant Suetake, 28, and Lieutenant Ogasawara, 26. The men were returning to the ASDF air base at Misawa, on Honshu Island 450 kilometers (270 miles) north of Tokyo.
At precisely 8:40 p.m., as the jet was flying over the Pacific Ocean approximately 55 kilometers (33 miles) northeast of Misawa, "the F4EJ fighter dropped off the radar screen. The crew abruptly lost radio contact (with the tower at Misawa) and reportedly crashed."
An air-sea rescue operation was launched. On Saturday, October 10, "An MSDF (Maritime Self Defense Force) destroyer-escort had retrieved documents floating on the sea and part of one wing."
Lt. Suetake and Lt. Ogasawara remain missing in action. Their jet disappeared in an area where two Mitsubishi jet fighters vanished six weeks ago. (See the newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun for October 10 and October 11, 1998, "Two pilots on ASDF fighter lost." Many thanks to Miyuki Tamura, UFO Roundup correspondent in Japan, for forwarding the articles.)
FAMILY VIDEOTAPES A UFO IN SOUTHERN CHINA
On Saturday, October 3, 1998, the Han family visited a mountainside cemetery on the outskirts of Kunming, a large city in China's Yunnan province, 1,050 kilometers (630 miles) southwest of Shanghai.
While they were paying their respects to their ancestors, "at about 11:50 a.m., Han took a look back into downtown Kunming and all of a sudden discovered an extremely dazzling object flying over the city. He tracked the flying object with his video camera and shot about three minutes of videotape of the UFO."
The object, which emitted "a dazzling light," first took "the shape of a blazing ball surrounded by two pieces of black rubber, and then five diamond- shaped objects flying in a diamond formation, said Han. This process continued for more than ten minutes." (See the newspaper Guangzhou Morning Post for October 16, 1998, "UFO over Kunming," by Alan Zhang. Many thanks to Stig Agermose for forwarding this newspaper article.)
PACACCINI, WITNESSES HUNT FOR BALDIM CAVE CREATURE
On Wednesday, October 14, 1998, Vittorio Pacaccini, UFO researcher and author of the book INCIDENTE EM VARGINHA, visited Sete Lagoas in Minas Gerais state, Brazil and met with men who claimed to have seen a Chupacabra in a cave in the Serra do Espinhaco mountains.
The sighting took place at 7 a.m. on October 1, 1998 in a mountaintop limestone cave east of Baldim, a small city on the Rio das Velhas 100 kilometers (66 miles) north of Belo Horizonte. An amateur speleologist, Marcelo Uchoa, and two companions encountered the creature in a cavern 150 meters underground. Uchoa shot two photos of the Chupacabra with a Kodak digital camera. His friend and fellow resident of Sete Lagoas, Leandro da Silva, then posted the photos on his webpage on October 10.
In an interview with UFO Roundup, Pacaccini reported that Uchoa "could not be sure (how tall the creature was) but it was bigger than a dog."
The creature escaped through one of the many wall fissures in the cave after Uchoa snapped his pictures.
Pacaccini, Uchoa and da Silva left Sete Lagoas by car and drove east to Baldim. "The cavern entrance is almost on top of a mountain," Pacaccini reported, "Our way up was a little vertical."
"Right at the cave's entrance, it became obvious that we'd have a hard time getting inside that place. We had to use ropes to get in the first gallery, going down about 9 meters (29 feet). The cave's walls were very slippery and dangerous."
"Usually the first gallery of a cave is particularly dangerous because it is the easiest place to find the scorpions, the spiders, the snakes, the jaguars."
"To reach the second gallery, we went down for 60 more meters (198 feet). Our goal was to reach the fifth gallery--150 meters (495 feet) below the surface--where the picture was taken."
"After a lot of struggle, we went down 30 more meters (100 feet) We hadn't heard anything so far, but in that gallery, we started to hear a strange sound. We could not identify the sound. Something was moving below us."
Pacaccini described the noise as "something large dragging itself up from down there."
"That sound continued, sometimes nearer, sometimes further away, and, due to the crevices, it seemed to be coming from everywhere."
"Leandro shouted, 'Pacaccini, watch out! There's something coming towards us!'"
"His (da Silva's) flashlight slipped through his fingers and fell down the tunnel. We heard it smash in the fourth gallery. I said, 'Okay, fellows, enough is enough. We're going to leave this place now. Let's get out of here immediately. Okay, move it, move it!'"
Pacaccini said he drew his 9mm pistol, which was loaded with Hydra-Shok ammunition, and acted as a rearguard as Uchoa and da Silva climbed back up the tunnel. Forty minutes later, they reached the surface.
Once back in Sete Lagoas, the trio made plans for a second descent on Saturday, October 17, but heavy rains that day cancelled their plans.
Pacaccini added that he hopes to return to the cave in another week, this time with a party of 10 researchers and a full array of equipment, including a digital camera, a 36mm camera and a videocamera. (Muito obrigado a Vittorio Pacaccini por eso caso.)
(Editor's Comment: In May 1978, I visited Ouro Preto, the old capital of Minas Gerais, with my lady friend, Ana Maria Fagundes. While at one of Aleijadinho's 18th Century churches, we talked to an elderly Brazilian, and he told us some amazing stories about Itacolomi, an unusually-shaped mountain near the city. He said "luminous discs" were often seen over the peak, and there was a large tunnel leading from Itacolomi hundreds of miles into "the Inner World." Strangely enough, two weekends later, when Ana Maria and I were in Diamantina, 250 kilometers (150 miles) north of Ouro Preto, we heard the exact same story about a mountain in that vicinity. UFOs and mysterious caverns are part and parcel of the folklore of the Serra do Espinhaco.)
UFO BLAMED IN FATAL FIRE IN NORTHERN BRAZIL
The family of two children killed in a mysterious fire near Itapecuru-Mirim in Maranhao state in northern Brazil blame a "floating fireball" for causing the blaze.
Killed in the rural district house fire were Antonio Cardoso, age 10, and his sister, Maria Lucia Cardoso, age 10 months.
Trouble began in June 1998 when the children's uncle, Francisco Oliveira dos Santos, 49, reported that he had been chased out of a farm field, "pursued by this fireball and had to run to escape."
Following this episode, Oliveira "was disturbed." His brother, Jose de Sacramento Oliveira, brought him to a psychiatric clinic in Sao Luis, the state capital.
On Saturday, October 10, Oliveira left the house to forage for food. A short time later, Sra. Elaine Oliveira de Cardoso, 29, the children's mother, "left the house to get a bucket of water. A few minutes after 2 p.m., the house began to catch fire. By the time he (Oliveira) and Elaine returned, the house was completely destroyed."
"Francisco's relatives don't have any doubts that the house was burned by the mysterious fireball. They emphasized that there was nothing in the house that could have caused the fire."
The case is being investigated by the Corpo de Bombeiros of Itapecuru-Mirim. At present, the verdict is "cause unknown."
Itapecuru-Mirim is located about 600 kilometers (360 miles) north of the national capital, Brasilia. (See AUFON #21 for 1998. Many thanks to Alexandre Minuru and AUFON editor Stefan Duncan for this news story.)
UFO FLAP HEATS UP IN CENTRAL ITALY
More UFO sightings were reported in central Italy last week.
On Tuesday, October 13, 1998, residents of Collechio, a town near Parma 400 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of Rome, spotted "an ovoid object, silver in color, observed at 6 p.m. by three local people. The object seemed to move horizontally through the sky for over a minute."
On Wednesday, October 14, 1998, at 9 a.m., "two residents on the highway between Rieti and Avezzano observed in the sky for a tenth of a second a silver object in the form of a cigarette that seemed to reflect the light of the sun and remained stationary. Afterwards it moved slowly away."
Avezzano is 70 kilometers (42 miles) east of Rome. Rieti is 100 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of Rome. A UFO was seen in Rieti on October 3, 1998.
The evening of October 14, 1998, at 7:45 p.m., dozens of witnesses in the Adriatic seaports of Civitanova Marche and Porto Potonza "saw a strange apparition of strong luminosity, flying in a zigzag pattern out to sea." Some said it was a UFO; others insisted it was a NATO spy plane heading for embattled Kosovo province across the Adriatic Sea in the Balkans.
Civitanova Marche is in Macerata province, approximately 125 miles (75 kilometers) northeast of Rome. (See the newspaper Il Resto del Carlino for October 16, 1998. Grazie a Renzo Cabassi, Francesco Castagna, Goffredo Pierpaoli, Simone Grandicelli e Edoardo Russo di Centro Italiano di Studi Ufologici, CISU, per questo rapporto.)
EIGHT WITNESS SPHERICAL UFO NEAR BRISBANE
On Sunday, October 4, 1998, at 6:33 p.m., eight people witnessed a UFO flyover in the Albany area of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia "at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,000 feet."
According to eyewitnesses Mr. and Mrs. Eddy, "Object was half the size of the moon, and at arm's length the size of a tennis ball. Shape was spherical with a squarish bottom. Color was orange to red. Moving from north to south on a straight path. The object had flames coming from it. But they were different, not like the flames of an object coming in from space, but more like a small plane on fire. The flames were jagged in shape."
"Mr Eddy said that's what he thought it was at first," a burning plane, "but there was no sound to be heard. Speed moving a little faster than a hot-air balloon but slower than a Tiger Moth (light airplane)." (Many thanks to Diane Harrison of UFO Network Australasia for this report.)
UFO STARTLES MOTORISTS IN STAFFORDSHIRE, UK
On Friday, October 16, 1998, at 9 p.m., a glowing UFO appeared over motorway A34 in Congleton, Staffordshire, UK, 38 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of Liverpool, frightening several drivers.
"Theresa Hewitt, from Bromley Road, Congleton, was driving on the A34 when she spotted a bright object hovering above Moreton Level. She said, 'I saw what looked like a grey cloud moving around in the sky. It looked like a school of fish and was quite bright.'"
"'At first I thought it was a cloud lit up by one of the laser lights. But we have no nightclub in Congleton, and I checked the paper and nothing else was going on that night.'"
"The lights were also spotted by Bill Edey from Scholar Green who was travelling along the same stretch of road at 9 p.m. He said, 'i was near Little Moreton Hall when I saw about 25 lights in a perfect spherical shape above the car. The lights seemed to follow me until I reached Congleton. I am quite a rational man and thought it might have been an aircraft, but it was travelling too slow and the lights seemed to be spinning. I nearly crashed the car because of what I saw, and I was covered in goose bumps." (See the newspaper The Sentinel of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs. for October 19, 1998, "Drivers alarmed by UFO sightings on the A34." Many thanks to Gerry Lovell of Far Shores for this newspaper article.)
UFOs REMAIN ACTIVE IN WESTERN OHIO
On Friday, October 16, 1998, at 7:15 p.m., ufologist Steven Neeley was returning home from archery practice in rural Hardin County, near Kenton, Ohio when he saw "what appeared to be a star with red and blue lights...ahead of me in the southern sky."
"Using my game binoculars, it was clearly visible and stationary," Steve reported, "I watched it for two to five minutes."
"I stood there watching, and it began to move away and up from its original position. I walked on and came around a bend in the trail," only to see the UFO glowing "on the opposite side of the sky. It was then 180 degrees northerly. It was closer and lower and left no doubt that this was what I had seen minutes before. It was a medium-sized star of white bright light with red and blue lights seemingly moving in a circle around its equator. Then it disappeared. In the blink of an eye, it vanished from sight."
Hardin County is 72 miles (115 kilometers) south of Toledo, Ohio. (Many thanks to Errol Bruce-Knapp for forwarding this report.)
On Thursday, October 22, 1998, Samuel X. and his wife were driving "on Camden/West Elkton Road, just north of Wayne Trace" in Gratis, Ohio (population 998), a town at the intersection of Routes 122 and 725 about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Cincinnati. Then Sam noticed "a bright light in the sky, flying low, headed eastward. We supposed the light to be the headlight of a light aircraft. Yet it pulsated instead of flashing on and off."
"As the craft got closer, we noticed two flashing lights on both sides of the center light. We parked our vehicle in the middle to the road and just observed the craft as it came closer. I was out of the car, listening for the recognizable sound of a helicopter. I knew it couldn't be a plane, as it didn't travel like a plane does."
"As it came fairly close into view, I noticed that it didn't make any noise like a plane, jet or helicopter. This craft hummed. I also noticed a bright rear light as it moved. I asked my wife how she would describe the light in the rear of the craft, and we were in agreement that it was yellowish-amber in color and illuminated the rear section of the craft."
This is the third UFO sighting in Gratis during the past year. A UFO was seen in town on November 17, 1997. A second one was spotted in Gratis on February 5, 1998.
(Many thanks to Kenneth Young, public relations director for Tri-States Advocates for Scientific Knowledge, T.A.S.K., for this news story.)
CROP CIRCLE FOUND NEAR LOWVILLE, ONTARIO
On Saturday, October 17, 1998, a large crop circle formation was found in a field of cattle corn near Lowville, Ontario, Canada.
The formation was found by Mike Bird, a local researcher, and Drew Cauley, Ontario coordinator for Circles Phenomenon Research-Canada. They estimated the structures to be "a few weeks old."
It was "a large crop formation, roughly in the shape of a crescent or C...Found in cattle corn 8 to 12 feet high," measuring "approximately 210 feet north to south by 177 feet east to west." There was "a teardrop-shaped area of standing corn inside the crescent approximately 10 feet" with "two 'companion' shapes attached to the same formation, one on the edge of the field, the other to the south, each about 5 feet by 15 feet. Stalks were broken and 'burned' at the break points."
Investigators also found a "white cobweb-like material' under one area of flattened corn. Samples of the plants, soil and "white cobweb" were taken by the men for analysis. (Many thanks to Paul Anderson of Circles Phenomenon Research-Canada for this news story.)
1952 UFO FLAP ALARMED WINSTON CHURCHILL
In 1952, during his second term as the UK's prime minister, Winston S. Churchill ordered a Top Secret clandestine probe of UFOs, a British newspaper reported last weekend.
According to Sunday People for October 18, 1998, "Worried Winston Churchill ordered a top-level probe into UFOs, when he was prime minister" for the second time.
"Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine revealed the enquiry as he admitted the Goernment is holding at least 33 top-secret files on UFOs. The documents are held under lock and key at the Public Records Office in Kew, West London, and Lord Irvine says there may be more."
"But the information is so restricted that it cannot be released with the other with the other 23 files reporting sightings between 1943 and 1967, which have already been made public."
"Churchill asked his air minister Lord Cherwell to investigate in 1952, writing, 'What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What is the truth?'"
"Official documents show the War Office received reports that flying saucers were spotted by the RAF's 115 Squadron on bombing raids over Germany in 1943." (See Sunday People for October 18, 1998, "Churchill's fear of a UFO war." Many thanks to John Hayes for forwarding the newspaper article.)
(Editor's Comment: In 1943, the same month the Lancaster bombers of the RAF's 115 Squadron were encountering UFOs, a daylight disc was seen hovering above the town of Pushkino in northern Russia by Spanish soldiers of Division Azul, a volunteer Axis unit fighting alongside the German Wehrmacht. We know for a fact that in January 1945 Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) asked all military units in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO) to send in their reports of "foo fighters" or UFOs. This would have included the 115 Squadron reports from Sir Arthur Harris's Bomber Command and all of the sightings by American GIs in Europe. But nobody seems to know what happened to this massive SHAEF archive after May 8, 1945. Was there a UFO flap in 1943? The answer is probably in the SHAEF files, and in the files of the Ground Observer Corps in the USA, which Uncle Sam has been sitting on for the past 55 years.)
DEEP SPACE ONE LAUNCHES ON SHAKEDOWN CRUISE
On Saturday, October 24, 1998, Deep Space One, NASA's "futuristic" spacecraft, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on its maiden flight.
The $152 million "solar electric" or "ion-powered" spacecraft is headed for a rendezvous with an asteroid 120 million miles (192 kilometers) from Earth.
"Marc Rayman, chief engineer and deputy mission manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the term ion propulsion may be familiar to TV viewers."
"In Star Trek, the refer to ion propulsion as being even faster than the capability that the Enterprise had--and NASA isn't quite ready to fly a faster-than-light spacecraft het,' he said."
"But he added, 'It's been known for a long time that it has the potential to provide very, very high velocity and that aspect of it was accurately reflected in Star Trek and is what we'll be doing with Deep Space One.'"
The key to Deep Space One's higher speed capacity is its solar-electric or ion propulsion system. Here's how it works:
(1) "Energies from solar arrays heats barium- calcium-aluminate embedded in a matrix of tungsten. The material then emits electrons."
(2) "Electrons knock other electrons off the xenon atoms, making the atoms positively charged, called ions. The electrons follow the helical--kind of like a stretched Slinky--path of magnetic field lines, increasing their likelihood of meeting up with xenon atoms."
(3) "The charged xenon atoms head for the open end of the chamber--and toward deep space, where there is no charge, at a rather speedy 68,000 miles per hour. Two charged grids at the exhaust end focus the xenon into 3,000 beamlets."
(4) A neutralizer inserts electrons into the path of the exiting positively-charged xenon atoms-- to that the spacecraft (itself) will maintain a neutral charge."
Deep Space One is carrying 180 pounds of xenon gas in its storage tanks. Emerging from the spacecraft's grid-covered exhaust, the xenon "bombarded by electrons" is "creating a glowing blue stream of ions that can provide acceleration for months or even years."
Other new features on Deep Space One include the KA-band solid power amplifier, an ultra-lightweight unit of 0.7 kilograms that will generate 2.6 watts of KA-band signal for communication with Earth, and the Solar Concentrator Arrays. These consist of 720 cylindrical silicone Fresnel lenses that concentrate sunlight onto 3,600 solar cells. The arrays will boost solar power efficiency by 50 percent, but, like an Earthbound sailboat, Deep Space One will have to "tack," i.e. position itself so that sunlight will always be falling on the Fresnel lenses. (See the New York Post for October 25, 1998, "NASA tries 'Trek' tech." See also Popular Science for July 1998, "Deep Space Traveler," pages 42 to 47.)
A HIDDEN OCEAN ON CALLISTO?
Scientists have detected evidence of underground oceans on two of Jupiter's moons-- Europa and Callisto.
While a subsurface ocean was expected in Europa's case, the revelations about Callisto have come as a shock to the scientific community.
During the flybys of Voyagers 1 and 2 back in 1979, scientists calculated that Callisto had "a water ice and silicate rock composition like that of Ganymede...Callisto's icy crust is more than 150 miles thick and this is not prone to break into (tectonic) plates."
But now it appears that Callisto's cratered icy crust is not as thick as they originally thought.
"Scientists hypothesized the existence of underground seas from data gathered by the Galileo spacecraft. As the spacecraft zipped past Callisto, Galileo measured strong disturbances to Jupiter's magnetic field that could be caused by huge underground bodies of salt water about 60 miles below the frozen surface."
"'One could expect life in such oceans,' said said Krishan Kurana, a geophysicist at the University of California Los Angeles and lead author of the research."
"If we find out four-and-a-half billion years after the formation of the solar system that there's still enough heat that ice will melt on the interior of these bodies, we have to do a little bit of rethinking,' said one of the researchers, UCLA physicist Margaret G. Kivelson."
Callisto is 390 million miles (624 million kilometers) from Earth, orbiting the gas giant Jupiter at a distance of 1,170,041 miles (1,883,000 kilometers). Callisto is 2,995 miles (4,820 kilometers) in diameter and takes about 17 Earth days to complete a rotation. The moon is named for a woman in Greek mythology who had a son by Zeus. (See the Boston, Mass. Herald for October 22, 1998, "By Jove! Planet's moons may be home to oceans," page 34.)
from the UFO Files...
1938: MARS ATTACKS!
On Monday, October 31, 1938, Americans listening to CBS network radio, expecting to hear the anthology drama Mercury Theatre of the Air, were puzzled by the sound of orchestra music. Suddenly, a newscaster broke in and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, I have just been handed a message that came in from Grover's Mill by telephone....Just a moment... At least forty people, including six state troopers, lie dead in a field east of the village of Grover's Mill (New Jersey--J.T.), their bodies burned and distorted beyond all recognition."
Stunned listeners sat by their Atwater Kent radios, hearing newscasters describe "strange meteors" falling out of the sky, ovoid objects with tripod legs looming above the maple trees, and clouds of "sinister luminous gas" moving forward relentlessly.
Actually, it was just a radio play. H.G. Wells's classic War of the Worlds rewritten in "radio news" format by Mercury Theatre producer Orson Welles. But audiences all around the USA thought it was real.
"Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadows like a gray snake. Now it's another one and another. They look like tentacles to me. There, I can see the thing's body. It's as large as a bear and it glistens like black leather. But that face... it's indescribable...The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips..."
By now, telephones were ringing in police stations all over the USA. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, a Presbyterian congregation fell to its knees and began singing What A Friend We Have in Jesus.
In Indianapolis, Indiana, a woman who had been listening to the broadcast burst into a church and shouted, "New York has been destroyed! It's the end of the world! Go home and prepare to die!"
In Providence, Rhode Island, police received over 4,000 calls from anxious listeners.
(Editor's Comment: That's not surprising. One month earlier, on September 21, 1938, Rhode Island had been devastated by the Hurricane of 1938. After you've seen the impossible--a 20-foot storm surge gushing down Weybosset and Westminster Streets, and 1937 Packards bobbing around like clumps of seaweed, a Martian invasion doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility.)
In Newark, New Jersey, people climbed onto apartment house rooftops and, looking across the Hudson River, saw clouds of smoke over Brooklyn and the Bronx. Rumors spread like wildfire. The Martians were dropping poison gas on New York City! Hundreds fled Newark, causing massive traffic jams.
In Grover's Mill, N.J., seven duck hunters, listening to the CBS broadcast on a car radio, decided to fight back. They formed a patrol and headed into the woods.
Suddenly, one of them cried out and pointed to a sinister ovoid shape looming above some trees. "It's one of them Martian war machines."
"Give 'em hell, boys!"
The group opened fire with rifle and shotguns, but it was no good. The object remained in place. Then one of the men, who owned a Browning Automatic Rifle (B.A.R.) remembered that he had two or three clips of armor-piercing ammunition in his ruck. He slid in a clip and opened fire.
A hundred yards away, a New Jersey state trooper heard all the shooting and stopped his car. As he made his way through the woods, he heard the distinctive chum-chum-chum sound of the B.A.R., followed by an anguished scream, "Martian blood! I'm covered with Martian blood!"
Arriving at the scene, the trooper found the group huddled around their soaked and hysterical companion and said, "What are you assholes doing!?"
"We just knocked out a Martian war machine," one replied. "Poor Frank's got Martian blood all over him."
Taking out his flashlight, the trooper aimed it in the direction indicated. He switched it on, and the beam showed the Grover's Mill municipal water tower, with gallons streaming from the bullet holes in the round steel tank.
Back in New York, police detectives invaded the CBS control room, advised executives of the panicky situation, and Orson Welles himself took the microphone.
"This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character to assure you that The War of the Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and saying Boo!...we couldn't soap all your windows and and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow...so we did the next best thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears and utterly destroyed the Columbia Broadcasting System. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So, goodbye, everybody, and remember, please, for the next day or so, the terrible lesson you have learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian...it's Halloween."
For weeks afterward, commentators and columnists talked and wrote about the "Martian broadcast." The Times of London tracked down the elderly Herbert George Wells and asked what he thought about the panic in America. Wells's reply: "How odd."
The day after the broadcast, CBS president William S. Paley's office was invaded by a species even more fearsome than Martians... namely lawyers. But that's another story. (See the New York Daily News for November 1, 1938, "Fake Radio 'War' Stirs Terror Throughout U.S." Also ROSEBUD: THE STORY OF ORSON WELLES by David Thompson, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, NY 1996, page 104, and ORSON WELLES: THE ROAD TO XANADU by Simon Callow, Viking, New York, NY, 1995, pages 402-404.")
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