If you think Time Magazine is a science fiction book, you need to reasess your knowledge base.
In or around 1981 to 83, Time magazine did a huge feature on Rocket ships and their effects on the ozone layer, the figures were absolutly staggering.

If you think World News is a science fiction book, well...what can I say thats not insulting...Reuters and all even...

Follow up articles in most major news outlets at the time centered upon the story as too many ships were crashing when they did not do so previously to that time period, with comments from some agencies discribing this as a normal occurrence for he life of the planet and that more was yet to come.

You may be able to test this by tracking the orbit of the moon.

Where once it sailed majestically on an even looking orbit, it now rises in the east, heads north for a bit then races back southwards to set in the west. (Southern Hemispherical observations)