There were two white orbs over (New) Jersey when the second tower went down on 9/11. "(It's) because we are a violent species. What about single crazy acts we have done such as dropping nuclear bombs on innocent people in Japan or watching our great flying machines slam into some of our greatest achievements of buildings as in the 911 attacks? It's obvious that we are in fact, a dangerous race that should be proceeded with caution.Įven the actor Dan Aykroyd has come out and talked about how aliens are visiting Earth and why they are not making contact with us: That right there is a good reason not to make contact and to study us a little bit more. Imagine again being an alien, looking down and seeing us send a group of people for no reason at all to the Holocaust camps where we murdered between 4,194,200 to 5,930,000 people according to estimates. There's also really unbelievable things that us humans have done to each other like examples of genocide. ![]() Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty - 25,000,000Īnd, these are only a handful of some of the deadliest wars. Here's a list of some of our most terrible moments in our history. You start to see why we are so scary looking to them. Look at the world wars where we all invaded each other over, when you think about it from an outside perspective, really dumb reasons. While many of my acquaintances in life are really good people (never been in trouble with the law or even been in a fist fight), when you look down on us like aliens do you can really see how sad and dangerous the human race is here on Earth.įirst, we've been in a perpetual war for most of our existence if not all of it. One is that the human race simply isn't ready yet because we are so violent. And it points out that "several important CBS affiliates (including Boston's WEEI) pre-empted Welles' broadcast in favor of local commercial programming, further shrinking its audience.With all of the evidence of UFOs and the many abduction stories that are all over the news and the internet, people often have asked me: "why aliens haven't revealed themselves to the human race yet?" Well there are a few different hypotheses on the subject, Many of which I subscribe to personally. Slate also argues that there's no data to support the idea that many radio listeners heard about the broadcast and tuned in during it. Welles' program was scheduled against one of the most popular national programs at the time - ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's Chase and Sanborn Hour, a comedy-variety show." In other words, 98 percent of those surveyed were listening to something else, or nothing at all, on Oct. ![]() None said a 'news broadcast,' according to a summary published in Broadcasting. Only 2 percent answered a radio 'play' or 'the Orson Welles program,' or something similar indicating CBS. ![]() 'To what program are you listening?' the service asked respondents. Hooper ratings service telephoned 5,000 households for its national ratings survey. How do we know? The night the program aired, the C.E. "Far fewer people heard the broadcast - and fewer still panicked - than most people believe today. some percentage of that 1 million people ran out of their homes." Just this past weekend, our colleagues at Radiolab devoted their very first live hour to a "deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history: Orson Welles' 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey."Īccording to Radiolab, about 12 million people were listening when Welles' broadcast came on the air and "about 1 in every 12. Morning Edition, for instance, reported in 2005 that "listeners panicked, thinking the story was real." Many supposedly jumped in their cars to flee the area of the "invasion." OK, as far as we know that hasn't happened.īut we wanted to issue that faux alert because 75 years ago tonight, as our friend Korva Coleman pointed out on the NPR Newscast, Orson Welles and his troupe of radio actors interrupted the Columbia Broadcasting System's programming to "report" that our planet had been invaded.Įver since then, it's been accepted as fact that the broadcast scared the dickens out of many Americans.
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