![]() Besides his ceaseless watch of the heavens, Professor Pierson mayīe interrupted by telephone or other communications. I ask you to be patient, ladies and gentlemen, during any delay that may arise during our interview. Professor Pierson stands directly above me on a small platform, peering through the giant lens. The ticking sound you hear is the vibration of the clockwork. Through this opening I can see a sprinkling of stars that cast a kind of frosty glow over the intricate mechanism of the huge telescope. I am standing in a large semi-circular room, pitch black except for an oblong split in the ceiling. This is Carl Phillips, speaking to you from the observatory of Princeton. We take you now to Princeton, New Jersey. We are ready now to take you to the Princeton Observatory at Princeton where Carl Phillips, our commentator, will interview Professor Richard Pierson, famous astronomer. (MUSIC: 'STARDUST' PLAYS FOR A WHILE, THEN QUICKLY FADES OUT ) We return you until then to the music of Ramón Raquello and his orchestra. ![]() In a few moments we will take you to the Princeton Observatory at Princeton, New Jersey. Ladies and gentlemen, following on the news given in our bulletin a moment ago, the Government Meteorological Bureau has requested the large observatories of the country to keep an astronomical watch on any further disturbances occurring on the planet Mars.ĭue to the unusual nature of this occurrence, we have arranged an interview with a noted astronomer, Professor Pierson, who will SOUND OF APPLAUSE)Īnd now a tune that never loses favor, the ever-popular ' Stardust.' Ramón Raquello and his orchestra. (MUSIC PLAYS FOR A FEW MOMENTS UNTIL PIECE ENDS. We now return you to the music of Ramón Raquello, playing for you in the Meridian Room of the Park Plaza Hotel, situated in downtown New York. Professor Pierson of the Observatory at Princeton confirms Farrell's observation, and describes the phenomenon as, quote, 'like a jet of blue The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity. Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News.Īt twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. (LA CUMPARSITA'sTARTS PLAYING, THEN QUICKLY FADES OUT) With a touch of the Spanish, Ramón Raquello leads off with ' La Cumparsita.' From the Meridian Room in the Park Plaza Hotel in New York City, we bring you the music of Ramón Raquello and his orchestra. Here is a verbatim script of what listeners heard when they tuned in about 10 minutes after the program started. Secondly, there was no chance of switching on CNN news for corroboration, just the mesmeric effect of the radio. ![]() Two things combined to create mass panic, firstly many listeners did not hear the start of the program, which introduced Orson Wells as reading from the H.G.Wells book, 'The War of the Worlds'. What made this event interesting is that it was not intended as a hoax. This true account of the radio program and its effects may seem incredulous, but remember in 1938 there was no mass What actually happened was that people mistook a science fiction program to be a real Martian attack. The event happened on October 30th 1938, so people weren't expecting an April Fool's style hoax. In this instance, my memory is saying, remember the 'War of the Worlds' radio panic. Triggers my memory to retrieve a similar story. 2) A Famous Previous Radio Hoaxĭoes it happen to you? Or is it just a lingering effect of my misspent youth telling jokes in boozers? What still amazes me how one joke KGM-FM broadcast a fulsome apology and the police decided to leave it there, after all, it was April Fool's day. The police took a dim view of the extra work caused by the April Fool hoax and threatened to sending a bill to the radio station, they wanted compensation for the cost of officers required to deal with the traffic. As it happened, there wasn't a shuttle in orbit at the time. Montgomery Field airport would have been far too small for the shuttle to even consider landing there. Journalists described how the crowd swelled to over 1,000 people. People arrived at the airport carrying cameras, camcorders, and folding chairs. Police were notified and went to clear the traffic.
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