A company of soldiers is deployed at the common, and that evening an injured and exhausted Artilleryman wanders into the Journalist's house and tells him his comrades have been killed by fighting machines-tripod vehicles built and controlled by Martians, each armed with its own Heat-Ray. Later, hammering sounds are heard from the pit.

By now a crowd has gathered on the common, and when a group of inquisitive men approach the cylinder they are incinerated by the Heat-Ray-an advanced Martian weapon. When this lid falls off, a Martian creature emerges. Eventually something crashes onto Horsell Common, and in the resulting crater Ogilvy discovers a glowing cylinder, the top of which begins to unscrew. Ogilvy, an astronomer convinced that no life could exist on Mars, assures the Journalist there is no danger. The Journalist's account begins with the sighting of several bursts of green gas which, for ten consecutive nights, erupt from the surface of Mars and appear to approach Earth. In a prologue, the Journalist notes that in the late 19th century few people had even considered the possible existence of extraterrestrial life, yet planet Earth had in fact long been enviously observed by advanced beings. The album consists of two discs, which correspond roughly to the two 'books' of Wells' novel.

3.2.6 Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds: The Musical Drama.1.3 Character differences from Wells' novel.1.2 Part 2: The Earth Under the Martians.

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