In 1977, a voice claiming to be an alien took over British TV for four minutes

Nineteen seventy-seven: a distorted voice briefly hijacked an ITN news broadcast in southern England, claiming to be Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command. Over roughly four minutes, the mysterious intruder urged humanity to put down its weapons and learn to live in peace. Boing Boing reports on this unusual television hijacking from nearly fifty years ago.

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