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We interrupt this evening music program to bring you an urgent news wire.

That's what it started like.

On February 12, 1949, a few minutes after 9 p.m.

the music programming on one of the most popular radio stations in Quito, Ecuador, was interrupted. People in Quito, Ecuador was interrupted.

People in Quito suddenly heard that a huge ball of smoke and fire

had descended on the city of Lata Kunga,

which is located almost two hours south of Quito.

This is Lizette Aravalo.

She's a journalist and producer at the Spanish Language Podcast, Radio Ambulante, and she lives in Quito.

She grew up hearing the story of this announcement from her grandfather, how the announcer

went on to report that strange objects in the sky that look like large discs with bright lights were using a powerful ray to destroy the city and that they were heading right for Quito.

What was actually happening is that a radio drama or as we call it a radio novela

was being played from an adaptation of H.G. Wells Book War of the Worlds.

11 years before, Orson Wells had adapted H.G. Wells' book, The War of the Worlds,

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