# Martians Invade England!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 22, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martians-invade-england/190116 "2003-07-22T11:43:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martians-invade-england/190116/1 "2003-07-22T11:43:47Z")

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Giant silver tripods ineffective, other than stopping traffic.

[LINK](http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=64387&command=displayContent&sourceNode=63914&contentPK=6457358)

Any _War Of The Worlds_ fans here?

Anybody read _War Of The Worlds: Global Dispatches_ ?

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**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martians-invade-england/190116/2 "2003-07-22T13:07:16Z")

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So _that’s_ why the M1 was fucked the other day. Huh.

Still – at least it was in an amusing cause 😃

pan

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martians-invade-england/190116/3 "2003-07-22T13:23:48Z")

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Infidels!

\*\*Grover’s Mill, N.J. \*\* is the site of Martian landings!  
Here’s the marker:

> **[Martian Landing Site Monument, Grovers Mill, New Jersey](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2749)**
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> Ground Zero for Orson Welles' radio drama "War of the Worlds" alien invasion of Oct. 30, 1938.

The water tower supposedly mistaken for a Martian Tripod is still there, behind the Grover’s Mill Company. There are pictures of it, but I can’t find any on tthe 'Net.