I think these strange UFO sightings a natural pandemic inspired remedy to scare uneducated people out of deviant behavior. Displaying advanced secret scientific technology that is not appreciable by common layman understanding may be an effective
deterrent to plolice rioting and other antisocial behavior. “The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an
adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode became famous for allegedly
causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners. The one-hour program began with the theme music for the Mercury Theatre on the Air and an announcement that the evening's
show was an adaptation of The War of the Worlds. Orson Welles then read a prologue which was closely based on the opening of H. G. Wells' novel modified slightly to move the story's setting to 1939. For about the next twenty minutes, the broadcast was
presented as a typical evening of radio programming being interrupted by a series of news bulletins.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/nyregion/ufo-sightings-recent.html

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