Ad un osservatore attendo del XXI°secolo, non può sfuggire il fatto che l'incipit della fabula, quanto la suggestione disegnata dall'illustratore Julian S.Krupa, prende ampiamente spunto dal caso UFO del Tenente Gorman 1/10/1948
http://www.nicap.org/481001fargo_dir.htm
Oct. 1, 1948; Fargo, North Dakota (BBU) 9:00-9:27 p.m. (MST). Air National Guard fighter pilot Lt. George F. Gorman plus 4 others including 2 CAA tower controllers saw a small 6-8-inch round white ball of light with a flat, no-depth disc-like appearance, blinking off and on at slow speed.
First spotted by pilot Dr. A. D. Cannon and passenger Einar Neilson aboard Piper Cub aircraft at 1600 ft AGL, N of Hector Field moving fast to the W above them at about 250-270 mph, spotted by Gorman shortly after. Gorman radioed tower and began pursuit at 9:07 p.m. Cannon and Neilson landed, went up into airport tower and with binoculars watched Lt. Gorman attempt to chase the light in his F-51 fighter, closest approach less than 500 ft distance on his first pass at about 5,000 ft.
Gorman climbed to 14,000 ft but stalled out unable to intercept light at about 16,000 ft. Light made evasive and aggressive maneuvers, such as seeming to try to ram the F-51, that outperformed the F-51 at a top speed 600+ mph. Light dropped to 11,000 ft, Gorman attempted to dive on it, light pulled up, rose vertically until it disappeared. 27 mins. (Sparks)
In questo caso specifico, fu l'Ufologia ad influenzare la Fantascienza, dato che un caso UFO del 1948, germinò l'incipit quanto una fabula di SciFi permutata dalla Guerra dei Mondi di H.G.Wells
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