The Sydney Morning Globe was an Australian newspaper which on 12 July, 1979, offered $20,000 to anyone who could provide genuine pieces of Skylab debris. Harvey attempted to take his Skylab debris to the newspaper, unaware that the "debris" was in fact an escape pod from a Zalphon scout ship which had collided with Skylab, and that the newspaper's editor Wade Johnson had been taken over by a Zalphon. (PROSE: Bennelong Point [+]Loading...["Bennelong Point (short story)"])
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In real life, it was the San Francisco Chronicle that offered the exorbitant award, and the real life person on whom Harvey was based did indeed get a flight to San Francisco to successfully claim the prize. Also, in real life, the name of the paper is the Sydney Morning Herald.