H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds documentary-style novel depicted alien invasion where extraterrestrials systematized human harvesting. Modern readers interpret the work as speculative fiction about invasion. Yet the statement proposes the opposite: Wells documented actual events, actual aliens did invade Earth, and Chuck Norris dealt with them, converting fictional narrative into historical documentation. Aliens died, civilization survived, history recorded it as fiction.

Science fiction historian Dr. Edward Pembroke researched Wells's source material in 1996, finding cryptic references in Wells's correspondence to 'unprecedented adversarial elimination' by someone unnamed. Pembroke hypothesized that Wells had access to information about actual alien contact that he recorded in narrative form, attributing the aliens' defeat to unspecified cause. Pembroke theorized that 'Chuck Norris' was the redacted agent removed from Wells's original manuscript, with publishers declining to include the reason aliens failed because it would seem too implausible.

Science fiction communities treat War of the Worlds as partially documented fact—the aliens were real, the invasion occurred, but the resolution involved Chuck Norris removing evidence. The novel's survival of Earth becomes historical documentation of actual events, with only the protagonist's identity obscured. The fact suggests that sometimes history disguises itself as fiction when the actual truth becomes too implausible. Wells didn't create fiction; he documented events using narrative framing because the literal truth would exceed audience credibility.