ALIEN INTERVIEW - THE NEW EARTH - Earth Changes and The ...

1 "..."War of the Worlds, and The Invasion from Mars"..."
"... the day before Halloween, on Oct. 30, 1938, when millions of Americans tuned in to a
popular radio program that featured plays directed by, and often starring, Orson Welles. The
performance that evening was an adaptation of the science fiction novel The War of the
Worlds, about a Martian invasion of the Earth. But in adapting the book for a radio play,
Welles made an important change: under his direction the play was written and performed
so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that,
presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect.
As the play unfolded, dance music was interrupted a number of times by fake news bulletins
reporting that a "huge flaming object" had dropped on a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey.
As members of the audience sat on the edge of their collective seat, actors playing news
announcers, officials and other roles one would expect to hear in a news report, described
the landing of an invasion force from Mars and the destruction of the United States. The
broadcast also contained a number of explanations that it was all a radio play, but if
members of the audience missed a brief explanation at the beginning, the next one didn't
arrive until 40 minutes into the program.
At one point in the broadcast, an actor in a studio, playing a newscaster in the field,
described the emergence of one of the aliens from its spacecraft. "Good heavens,
something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake," he said, in an appropriately
dramatic tone of voice. "Now it's another one, and another. They look like tentacles to me.
There, I can see the thing's body. It's large as a bear and it glistens like wet leather. But that
face. It...it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it. The eyes are black
and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips
that seem to quiver and pulsate....The thing is raising up. The crowd falls back. They've seen
enough. This is the most extraordinary experience. I can't find words. I'm pulling this
microphone with me as I talk. I'll have to stop the description until I've taken a new position.
Hold on, will you please, I'll be back in a minute."
As it listened to this simulation of a news broadcast the audience concluded that it was
hearing an actual news account of an invasion from Mars. People packed the roads,
hid in cellars, loaded guns, even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from
Martian poison gas, in an attempt to defend themselves against aliens, oblivious to
the fact that they were acting out the role of the panic-stricken public that actually
belonged in a radio play.
News of the panic (which was conveyed via genuine news reports) quickly generated
a national scandal. There were calls, which never went anywhere, for government
regulations of broadcasting to ensure that a similar incident wouldn't happen again.
In a prescient column, in the New York Tribune, Dorothy Thompson foresaw that the
broadcast revealed the way politicians could use the power of mass communications
to create theatrical illusions, to manipulate the public."
-- Reference: http://www.transparencynow.com/welles.htm
2 "...Majestic-12 documents."
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