And the Google doodles have led up to this, a celebration of what would have been author H.G. Wells’ 146th birthday.  From the “unexplained phenomena” and the mysterious phrase “all your “O” belong to us,” to the “crop circles,” and now to a scene from H.G. Wells’ famous story War of the Worlds, Google has played us all.  Was the Google-plex infiltrated by aliens from another planet?  Was Google planning to unveil a new logo or a new product or service?  Were they attempting to show the general public and corporations alike the power of the Google doodle and how its changes can support advertisements for movies and so on?  NOPE.

Google has officially stated today in a blog post that all the mysterious doodles have led to up to this one event, the birthday of H.G. Wells, and all of the doodles relate to his War of the Worlds.  “Inspiration for innovation in technology and design can come from lots of places; we wanted to celebrate H.G. Wells as an author who encouraged fantastical thinking about what is possible, on this planet and beyond. And maybe have some fun while we were doing it.”  Yeah, by fun you mean having bloggers like me and crazy alien theorists like the rest of us postulate for days on end thinking about a possible explanation.  (Although things started to become clear with the second doodle; the coordinates Google posted on their Twitter page pointed to Horsell Commons, the initial place where the aliens landed in Wells’ novel.)  Google puts a cap on this solved mystery and leaves us with this: “The invasion of the logo by alien crafts and pods makes our series complete, but you’ll have to read the book to find out how Wells’ story really ends.”

Well played Google, well played.

Update:  It still doesn’t explain Google’s Street View image of these UFOs flying over London!  Muhahah….

[Via Telegraph.uk; GoogleBlog]