Answer:
D. A alien cylinder.
Explanation:
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 "the falling star" and had determined to find out what it was. And so, the very next day he did find the fallen "shooting star" with an "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". This discovery is mentioned in Chapter 2: The Falling Star.
