Herbert George Wells' science fictional story "War of the Worlds" detailing a conflict between humanity and the extraterrestrial beings. The story is told from a first person narrative point of view by an unnamed protagonist and his brother about an alien emergence in London.
The character of Ogilvy was an astronomer who had also seen "<em>the falling star</em>" and had determined to find out what it was. And so, the very next day he did find the fallen "<em>shooting star</em>" with an "<em>enormous hole been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away</em>". This discovery is mentioned in Chapter 2: The Falling Star.
