The Boston Globe, October 29th, 1988
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed. Wait a minute, someone's crawling. Someone, or something. I can see peering out of that black hole two luminous discs. Are they eyes? The mouth is kind of V-shaped, with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate." Those frantic sentences from newsman "Carl Phillips" from a "farm" near Grovers Mill, N.J., sent many thousands across America into panic as a Martian invasion got under way 50 years ago this weekend. The worst of times had arrived -- a "huge flaming object" from outer space th...
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