Story here. This is great! Three guys, presumably rednecks, in Georgia made world headlines with their “Martian monkey” 55 years ago.
Excerpt: “At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass. Then they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn hours of July 8, 1953, burning a circle into the pavement with a blowtorch before a police officer came around the curve in his patrol car.”
I’d like to think we’re more sophisticated today, at last so much so that no one’s going to believe a dyed monkey is from Mars. I’ll bet the average person’s knowledge today of space in general and Mars in paricular is more than the average person’s back then.
Presumably rednecks? Upon what do you base this? I see nothing in the article to support this. Perhaps you are under the impression, as some are, that only rednecks inhabit Georgia.
