Okay, the mystery is solved! Google’s current UFO logo links to a Google search of H.G. Wells, author "War of the Worlds," which made tri-pod walking, death-beam emitting robots the stuff of which our childhood nightmares were made. The most recent enactment of the scifi story starred Tom Cruise but its most famous was the 1938 radio play -see below- which made another Welles — Orson of Citizen Kane fame— a household name with a performance that many across the USA took to be an actual alien invasion.
Also, the logo links to the author's search page. First hit is his Wells' Wikipedia entry (note the birth date): “21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946),[1] was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre.”
Don’t miss the re-enactment below of the presentation and public reactions to the original Mercury Theater on the Air broadcast of H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds, performed as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast was set in Grover’s Mill, an unincorporated village in West Windsor Township, New Jersey frightening many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.
The first two thirds of the radio program H. G. Well’s novel is about an alien invasion of Earth was broadcast as a series of simulated news bulletins, led millions of listeners to believe that an actual alien invasion was in progress. The fact that the program was commercial free added to the dramatic effect. In the days following the adaptation, there was widespread outrage in the press and public forums.
The episode launched Orson Welles to fame. Welles used recordings of Herbert Morrison’s radio reports of the Hindenburg disaster to coach actor Frank Readick and the rest of the cast, to create the mood he wanted.
Roughly two thirds of the 55 1/2 minute play was a contemporary retelling of events of H.G. Well’s novel presented as news bulletins in documentary style. This approach was originally used by Fr. Ronald Knox for his satirical “newscast” of a riot overtaking London over the British Broadcasting Company in 1926
Posted by Casey Kazan.
Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/flash-google-flying-saucer-logos-explained/
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