1. On October 30, 1938, CBS Radio interrupted a live music program to deliver an important announcement. It said that astronomers had detected blue flames shooting up from the surface of Mars. The broadcast returned to its music, but it was soon interrupted again. This time the news said that a strange meteor had fallen on a farm near Grover’s Mill in New Jersey, and then CBS Radio switched over to continuous live coverage of the eerie scene around the meteor crash.