It seemed like an ordinary evening news program, nothing amiss. According to Creepypasta Wiki, in that same year, Southern Television was broadcasting the news when an interruption from an “outside” source took over their programming. While this is the more well-known example of potential contact, another one exists. This event might be the best candidate to prove that aliens may be out there and listening to us. To this day it is still mentioned whenever the possibility of life existing on another planet rears its head.
The transmission was nicknamed the “Wow” signal. For a full seventy-two seconds, Ohio University’s Big Ear telescope captured and recorded a signal from the constellation Sagittarius. “Be still now and listen, for your chance may not come again.” – Vrillon The WOW Signalġ977 was a banner year for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence otherwise known as SETI. Is this real or just a hoax perpetrated by a clever techie?
In November of 1977, Southern Television’s broadcast of the news in the UK was interrupted by what appeared to be a transmission from an alien named Vrillon. 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.By Susan Leighton 4 years ago Follow Tweet 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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