AMAZING EXPERIENCE OF GOVERNMENT WIRELESS OPERATOR Receives Message from Unknown Source by a Wave New to Science. Official Washington in the Greatest Excitement". In this new story the secret of the Flying Ring and the wonders wrought by the Violet Ray brought under control for the first time in history are illuminated, based on scientific fact. The Man Who Rocked the Earth is a science fiction notable for describing what an atomic detonation would look like thirty years before the United States detonated the first atomic bomb.