Originally Posted by Ultra Woman
It seems he doesn't believe he really came on a shooting star. It's not his fault, at that time nobody could imagine life out of Earth. shock
Actually, there were science fiction novels about aliens in 1912 (The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, was first published in serialized form in 1897 and as a novel in 1898, and has never been out of print).

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland