The short lived War of the World series:
According to the series, rather than being killed outright by
germs at the end of the 1953 film, the aliens had all slipped into a state of
suspended animation. Their bodies were stored away in toxic waste drums and shipped to various disposal sites within the United States (ten such sites are known to exist in the country), and a widespread government
cover-up combined with a condition dubbed “selective amnesia” has convinced most people that the invasion had never happened.
The main characters go around trying to stop the aliens and everyone acts like it didn't happen. The original movie took place in the 50's and the series took place in the 80's. The world was almost taken over and land marks destroyed (all over the globe). You mean to tell men everyone is going to forget that? What about the rebuilding, you would have to know what for.