1897 is when H. G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” was published in serialized form on both sides of the Atlantic. UFOs and Martians were very much in the Zeit

1897 is when H. G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds” was published in serialized form on both sides of the Atlantic. UFOs and Martians were very much in the Zeitgeist when this alleged Texas incident occurred.