outcome for Alcaraz and Paez is more complicated.]]> emerged from the alien craft, and then Paez was fried by a bolt of light.]]> tragedy, Paez would receive much of the blame.]]> generated a firestorm in the United States.]]> bittersweet memory for him.]]> authorities seem to have fallen for the story.]]> composed some of Ecuador's most emblematic music.]]> fatal heart attack, according to a Newsweek article from the time.]]> duped by the realistic radio drama that described an alien invasion of Grover's Mill, N.J..]]> Throngs of Quitenos panicked and tried to get out of the city as the radio reported a toxic cloud would be released if the aliens clashed with Ecuador's armed forces.]]> "Once more a radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' imaginative novel, ' The War of the Worlds,' had convinced a gullible citizenry that the earth's gig was up," the magazine reported. gullible citizenry that the earth's gig was up," the magazine reported.]]> inquiry into the event.]]> interrupted to announce that an enormous cylindrical object had crashed just north of Quito, the capital.]]> confront the invaders.]]>