About War of the Worlds Landing Site Monument
West Windsor has a monument to an event that never happened. In Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, the first Martian craft lands near Grovers Mill. The fictional emergency bulletin became so famous that the town eventually put up a bronze memorial beside the mill pond.
The relief shows a flying saucer, a radio audience, and the broadcaster himself. It stands in Van Nest Park, a quiet public space that makes the imagined invasion feel even stranger. This is a stop for science-fiction fans and anyone who enjoys a town commemorating a story as if it were local history.