The article below was published in the daily newspaper Doncaster Star, Doncaster, U-K., on November 1, 1988.
Many residents of the Portugal city of Braga, convinced of a Martian invasion, fled in panic during a weekend broadcast of Orson Welles's science-fiction radio play War of the Worlds. The broadcast marked the 50th anniversary of the drama's premiere in the United States, which caused similar widespread panic.
