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Image of the monument to the "invasion" at Grover's Mill, New Jersey

Here:

http://www.setileague.org/photos/miscpix/warworld.jpg


The caption that went with the photo:

On October 30, 1938, Martians landed at Grover's Mill NJ in Orson Welles' Mercury Theater production of the H. G. Wells story "War of the Worlds."

SETI League executive director H. Paul Shuch marked the 60th anniversary of this famous radio broadcast by visiting the actual site of the Martian invasion, where now stands this monument to human fear and gullibility.

The SETI League, seeking radio evidence of our cosmic companions, is little concerned with the possibility of Martian invasion.

Victor J. Belanger photo

The town of Wokking, England, where the Martians first landed in the
H. G. Wells novel of 1897, has a much cooler tribute to the work here:

http://homepage.mac.com/sjbradshaw/martian/index.html

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