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Since biblical times,
man has witnessed and recorded...
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...strange manifestations
in the sky...
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...and speculated on the possibilities
of visitors from another world.
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Today, from the skies of California,
the fields of Kansas...
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...the rice paddies of the Orient,
the air lanes of the world...
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...come persistent reports of UFOs,
Unidentified Flying Objects...
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...which we have come to know
as flying saucers.
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In Dayton, Ohio, the Air Intelligence
gathers data from all over the globe.
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Ninety-seven percent of the objects
prove to be of natural origin...
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...while three percent still are listed
as unknown.
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The Air Force is aware
of the widely held belief...
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...that some could be
flying saucers from another planet.
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While there is nothing conclusive
in the evidence...
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...the probing and digesting
of information about UFOs...
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...continues unceasingly.
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As a result, the Hemispheric Defense
Command in Colorado Springs
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...issued an order:
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All military installations
are to fire on sight...
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...at any flying objects
not identifiable.
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But the military wondered...
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...whether their scientific know-how
and weapons...
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...would be effective in any battle
of the Earth vs. the flying saucers.
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July 16. To Internal Security
Commission. Re: Sky Hook.
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Progress report from project director
Dr. Russell A. Marvin--
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And Mrs. Dr. Marvin, without
whose inspiration and criticism...
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...this report couldn't be written.
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Married two hours and already
she's claiming community property.
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Now that you're married,
you don't have to sneak up on me.
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You always had eyes
in the back of your head.
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-It's not safe when driving.
- But pretty.
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I thought intellectual giants were
supposed to be backwards and shy.
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My third-grade teacher, Miss Hickey,
said I was a quick study.
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You're starting something
you're not going to be able to finish.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, today, I've got a hot date
with a three-stage rocket.
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Now, please, no interruptions.
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Because of recent
scientific advances...
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...it is now possible to realize
an ancient dream:
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The exploration of outer space.
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To prepare for this stride forward,
we are assembling data...
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...on conditions at atmospheric levels
beyond those hitherto explored.
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To collect this data, unmanned
observation posts are being sent up...
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...in multiple-stage rockets, hundreds
of miles above the Earth's surface.
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There, swinging in endless orbits
around our planet...
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...will be 12 tiny man-made
satellites, or moons.
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They will report to us by radio
the primary information needed...
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...to prepare the way
for our ascent into space.
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The effects of gravitational loss,
showers of meteoric dust...
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...the fierce, undiluted heat of the sun,
the cosmic radiation.
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All will be studied and analyzed.
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At the present time, we have
launched 10 artificial satellites...
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...or birds, as we call them. We--
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- Do you hear something?
- Hear what?
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- I don't hear any--
- Listen.
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Pull over.
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Russ, it was a saucer?
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A flying saucer?
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Well, we saw what appeared
to be a flying saucer.
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That's all we can say.
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We saw it. We heard it, both of us.
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What more do we need to know?
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Well, we have to have time to think,
to evaluate this...
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...before we sound off.
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Let-- Let me have a light.
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Of course, it wasn't a saucer at all.
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I just shake like this all the time.
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Carol, I want you to transcribe
these notes for my report.
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- Yes, boss.
- But there's one little thing first.
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Now that you're married, Dr. Marvin,
the first thing you've got to learn...
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...is no more passes at the secretaries
during business hours.
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All right.
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--Or birds, as we call them. We--
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Russ.
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The saucer sound.
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It's on the tape.
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You forgot to turn it off.
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I remember now.
I turned it off afterwards.
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Well, that's one piece
of concrete evidence.
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Rocket Number 11
will be launched in 20 minutes.
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We'll leave it for now.
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Come on, we've just got time
to get to the bunker.
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General Hanley reporting to
Project Sky Hook.
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Make it fast, I'm in a hurry.
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Nobody allowed in.
There's a rocket taking off now.
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That's what I want to stop.
Let me speak to Dr. Russell Marvin.
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West Gate to Bunker Number 2.
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Dr. Marvin.
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Bunker Number 2, Marvin speaking.
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This is the West Gate, sir.
General Henley wants you.
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Put him on. Carol, it's your father.
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- Calling from Panama?
- No, right here at the project.
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- Hello, Russ ?
- Hello.
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Well, welcome home, general.
What's the news from Panama?
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It's bad, I'm afraid.
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Listen to what I found
before you send up another rocket.
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Can you possibly put it off?
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I can't, we're tied to
a definite schedule of launchings.
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Wait a minute,
there's something else I wanted...
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Just a minute.
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It's your privilege.
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Hi, Dad.
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- What is it, honey?
- I just wanted to hear your voice...
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...and tell you we were
married last night.
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- Married?
- Forgive us for not letting you know.
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I've gotta hang up.
Let's have dinner tonight. Can you?
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Don't forget. Bye.
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Foufleen,13,12".
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...11, 10, nine,
eight, seven, six...
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...five, four, three, two, one.
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I know how the designer feels
hearing a thing like this...
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...but Project Sky Hook
hasn't worked...
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...the way the Defense
Department hoped.
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Tell me, how many birds
have you sent up so far?
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Eleven, counting today's.
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How many are you in contact with
right now?
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Just one. Today's.
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I admit we haven't been able to
track them visually so far...
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...but we'll correct that.
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Don't be too sure of that.
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We can certainly tune them in
if they're up there.
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What I'm trying to tell you is
that they're no longer up there.
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That wasn't a meteorite
that fell on Panama.
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It was the burned remains of
Number 7. I made sure of that myself.
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- What?
- And Intelligence has reports now...
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...that 1 and 3 fell over Africa...
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...Number 5 around the North Pole,
and 9 and 10 along the Andes.
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The rest can be presumed
to have been lost someplace at sea.
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What happens to them?
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Apparently they blow up
in outer space.
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Why? There's nothing explosive
in them.
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You can take it from me...
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...when a rocket's blasted off, it should
circle the Earth for a long time.
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- That is, unless--
- Russ? Dad?
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Unless what?
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Unless something shoots them down
as fast as we set them up there.
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Why, no gun in the world
can shoot that high.
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No. No, of course not.
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Bring spoons for your coffee.
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My special barbecue.
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That's to make up for not telling you
about our getting married.
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It was kind of sudden for us too.
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Sudden? I've only been
after him for a year.
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I don't need to tell you, both of you,
how pleased I am.
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Well, I'm glad of that. I wouldn't
like it very much if you weren't.
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Thank you.
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Russ, what were you
driving at back there...
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...about something shooting down
one of the satellites?
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General, we saw a strange thing
this afternoon.
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We saw what appeared to be
a flying saucer.
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- A flying saucer?
- It nearly ran into us.
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You're sure of it?
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Both Carol and I are subject to
the same atmospheric disturbances...
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...that may have affected
other observers...
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...but there is a qualitative difference
when you're a scientist.
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We do have one piece
of supporting evidence:
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An accidental recording
of the sounds it made.
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The tape is in the lab at the project.
I'd like you to hear it tomorrow.
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- You both saw this?
- Yes.
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Excuse me.
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From Captain Holoway, sir.
Will you sign here, please?
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- Who's Holoway?
- He's on monitor duty this evening.
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They've just lost contact
with Number 11.
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Russ, I'm sorry.
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Is it still in range of our receivers?
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If it hasn't been knocked down.
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Look.
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- What are those lights?
- They're what the pilots call foo lights.
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St. Elmo's Fire, in ancient times.
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The superstitious regard them
as omens of things to come.
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The best science has made of them
is that they're electric particles...
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...agitated by moving air.
Same principle as the aurora borealis.
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There have been so many around
the project, we take them for granted.
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Bird 11 ought to be visible in the sky
on its second lap around the world.
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Look, there it is.
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- Was that it?
- Yes.
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Surely you're not going to send up
Number 12 tomorrow after this?
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- I have to.
- Why?
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With a television pickup,
cameras and microphone.
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This time I'm gonna know
what's happening up there and why.
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Come on, let's finish our dinner.
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Checking TV pickup.
Getting a good image?
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Fine.
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TV's okay. I'll be down
in a couple of minutes.
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Tell them to hurry it up.
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Do you notice anything different
since you were here last?
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- Soundproofing?
- That's right.
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You could fire a cannon off outside
and not hear it down here.
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Number 12 okay for takeoff.
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As an old rocket man from way back,
I'd rather watch from ground level.
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Dr. Marvin. Dr. Marvin.
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Marvin here.
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You getting ready for a siege?
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Russ and I are gonna take turns
monitoring this one.
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For days, if necessary.
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Soundproof privacy and the last word
in scientific solitude.
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- Happy honeymoon, darling.
- Thanks, Dad.
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Prepare rocket for launching.
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Prepare rocket for launching.
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Rocket Number 12 will be launched
in five minutes.
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Four minutes to zero.
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- Take it up at zero, Major Kimberly.
- Okay.
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Stand by.
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Observation Tower A, come in.
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Evans, Radar to Tower A.
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- Observation Tower A, Sergeant Nash.
- UFO due west, approaching fast.
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- What does it look like?
- Can't tell yet.
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I'll call when I get a better reading.
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- Do that.
- As you were, sergeant.
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Unidentified flying object reported
due west, sir. Probably a buzzard.
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Sergeant Nash,
Observation Tower A. What?
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Forget it, Walters,
this is no time for gags.
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It's two minutes to zero.
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Sentry at West Gate has spotted
a flying saucer, sir.
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Evans, Radar to Tower A.
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Tower A, Nash.
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I got a better reading on my scope.
That UFO is over the west sentry post.
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- It look like a flying saucer, Evans?
- Yes, it does.
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Sky Hook Control
to approaching object.
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What is it?
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I wouldn't know.
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Connect me with Dr. Marvin's lab.
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The line is dead.
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Look at that, general.
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It's landing.
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Battery, prepare to fire.
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Fire!
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They set up an electronic screen.
The artillery doesn't penetrate.
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Lines are out.
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Abandon all firing positions.
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Mike's gone dead.
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Try the phone.
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The operator doesn't answer.
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Look.
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- What's happening?
- I don't know. I--
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I'm scared, Russ.
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They'll-- They'll dig us out.
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Where am I? What--?
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We are speaking to you through the
translating device above your head.
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Can you understand us?
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Yes, and I hope
you can understand me.
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Whoever you are,
whatever you are...
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00:23:32,659 --> 00:23:34,994
...you'll regret what you did
at the project.
243
00:23:35,161 --> 00:23:39,499
Perhaps you can explain why,
after contacting Dr. Marvin...
244
00:23:39,666 --> 00:23:41,751
...we were met with violence.
245
00:23:41,918 --> 00:23:46,923
- You've contacted Dr. Marvin?
- We spoke to him.
246
00:23:48,299 --> 00:23:54,514
All he heard was meaningless sounds.
The same kind of sounds I just heard.
247
00:23:54,723 --> 00:23:58,518
We had hoped a sufficient adjustment
for the time differential between us...
248
00:23:58,685 --> 00:24:00,019
...would have been made.
249
00:24:03,106 --> 00:24:04,899
I don't understand.
250
00:24:05,108 --> 00:24:10,029
Evidently, you do not realize you are
in an interstellar conveyance.
251
00:24:10,238 --> 00:24:14,701
You are already outside
the atmosphere of your own planet.
252
00:24:14,909 --> 00:24:18,538
As a prisoner,
all I am required to tell you...
253
00:24:18,705 --> 00:24:22,292
...is that I am General John Hanley
of the U.S. Army.
254
00:24:43,521 --> 00:24:49,110
These are all the facts leading up to
the explosion at Operation Sky Hook.
255
00:24:49,611 --> 00:24:54,908
To the best of our knowledge, my wife
and I are the only ones left alive...
256
00:24:55,074 --> 00:24:58,870
...since we have not seen
or heard anyone for hours.
257
00:24:59,245 --> 00:25:01,998
The air is becoming toxic.
258
00:25:02,373 --> 00:25:04,501
In the event of our death...
259
00:25:04,667 --> 00:25:09,714
...this report, with the recording
of the saucer sounds on this tape...
260
00:25:09,881 --> 00:25:13,676
...constitute all the data we have.
261
00:25:13,843 --> 00:25:15,303
The batteries are failing.
262
00:25:16,054 --> 00:25:18,723
The recorder is not running
up to speed.
263
00:25:18,890 --> 00:25:21,643
This is Dr. Russell A. Marvin.
264
00:25:36,199 --> 00:25:38,827
Russ? Where are you?
265
00:25:39,035 --> 00:25:43,081
It's all right, honey.
The gas generator stopped, that's all.
266
00:25:43,748 --> 00:25:47,460
Please come close.
I'm afraid of the darkness.
267
00:25:48,169 --> 00:25:53,132
- Dr. Russell Marvin.
- The tape.
268
00:25:53,299 --> 00:25:58,596
It is very urgent that we meet.
269
00:25:58,805 --> 00:26:02,141
We will appear tomorrow...
270
00:26:02,350 --> 00:26:06,271
...at Operation Sky Hook...
271
00:26:06,437 --> 00:26:12,151
...when your sun is exactly...
272
00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:17,073
...over your local...
273
00:26:21,619 --> 00:26:24,247
That's the sound of the saucer
we heard on the tape.
274
00:26:24,414 --> 00:26:26,666
The message was sent
at an accelerated speed...
275
00:26:26,833 --> 00:26:29,043
...so it just sounded
like gibberish to us.
276
00:26:29,210 --> 00:26:32,630
When the batteries died,
the tape slowed down...
277
00:26:32,797 --> 00:26:35,633
...and the voice became clear.
278
00:26:39,387 --> 00:26:42,307
If I'd only figured it out before...
279
00:26:42,807 --> 00:26:46,477
...maybe we wouldn't have been
trapped down here.
280
00:26:57,447 --> 00:27:02,535
What had taken hundreds of lives and
leveled an installation worth millions?
281
00:27:02,702 --> 00:27:05,580
An aroused public
demanded an answer...
282
00:27:05,788 --> 00:27:10,043
...and the government dedicated
all of its branches to finding one.
283
00:27:10,585 --> 00:27:13,421
However, when Dr. Marvin
and his wife were rescued...
284
00:27:13,588 --> 00:27:17,800
...the answer was to be found in the
experience of the only two survivors...
285
00:27:18,009 --> 00:27:19,886
...and in a reel of tape recording...
286
00:27:20,053 --> 00:27:24,015
...they carried to Washington, D.C.
and the Pentagon.
287
00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:41,532
--Operation Sky Hook.
288
00:27:41,908 --> 00:27:44,202
There can't be any doubt
about what it means:
289
00:27:44,369 --> 00:27:47,705
A landing at the project was proposed
on the day of the disaster.
290
00:27:47,872 --> 00:27:49,540
There was to have been a meeting.
291
00:27:49,707 --> 00:27:52,794
If I couldn't keep the appointment,
a message was to be sent...
292
00:27:52,961 --> 00:27:56,214
...on a designated wavelength
by ordinary shortwave transmission.
293
00:27:56,381 --> 00:28:01,761
- Does anyone want it played again?
- You've heard it a dozen times.
294
00:28:01,928 --> 00:28:05,098
My wife and I, for three days,
have been telling what we knew.
295
00:28:05,264 --> 00:28:08,685
We've been before every committee
and commission in Washington.
296
00:28:08,851 --> 00:28:10,478
It's time we did something.
297
00:28:10,687 --> 00:28:12,480
The tape is by no means conclusive.
298
00:28:12,647 --> 00:28:16,943
Certainly doesn't prove your so-called
flying saucer destroyed Sky Hook.
299
00:28:17,151 --> 00:28:18,361
I grant you that.
300
00:28:18,528 --> 00:28:22,407
A strange voice, a set of instructions
that might have come from anywhere.
301
00:28:22,615 --> 00:28:24,659
Has anyone a better idea
of what happened?
302
00:28:24,826 --> 00:28:27,620
I'm inclined to accept
Dr. Marvin's conclusion...
303
00:28:27,787 --> 00:28:30,707
...about the connection between
the message and the disaster.
304
00:28:30,873 --> 00:28:32,417
All right, so am I.
305
00:28:32,959 --> 00:28:37,630
Then let me contact them, meet them,
find out what this is all about.
306
00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:43,136
If confronted with a hostile power, only
the cabinet can decide to meet them.
307
00:28:43,302 --> 00:28:46,764
I hope that while we're waiting,
another disaster doesn't occur.
308
00:28:47,265 --> 00:28:49,559
We're pressing for
the earliest possible action.
309
00:28:50,101 --> 00:28:54,772
The secretary of state and secretary
of defense are returning to the U.S.
310
00:28:54,939 --> 00:28:57,400
If a meeting could be arranged
in the meantime...
311
00:28:57,567 --> 00:28:59,652
...the only risk would be to me.
312
00:28:59,819 --> 00:29:02,488
I feel personally responsible
for what happened.
313
00:29:02,655 --> 00:29:04,157
I was in charge.
314
00:29:04,323 --> 00:29:07,452
Hundreds of lives were lost.
My own wife's father--
315
00:29:07,618 --> 00:29:10,955
If I had the authority, I'd grant it to you.
But we'll have to wait.
316
00:29:11,122 --> 00:29:14,834
I promise we'll recommend that you
be authorized to make radio contact...
317
00:29:15,043 --> 00:29:16,961
...and meet with...
318
00:29:17,795 --> 00:29:20,173
With whoever they are.
319
00:29:22,383 --> 00:29:25,053
- Are we through for the night?
- Yes...
320
00:29:25,219 --> 00:29:28,723
...but we're going to ask you
to remain at your hotel.
321
00:29:29,390 --> 00:29:33,728
- You mean I'm under detention?
- You may be needed at any time.
322
00:29:33,895 --> 00:29:36,481
Major Huglin is assigned
as your liaison.
323
00:29:39,108 --> 00:29:41,903
- Good night.
- Good night.
324
00:29:43,112 --> 00:29:44,655
Dr. Marvin.
325
00:29:44,822 --> 00:29:47,742
I don't like this watchdog routine
any better than you do.
326
00:29:47,909 --> 00:29:52,705
I'm under orders, I have a job to do.
We're both on the same side.
327
00:29:52,872 --> 00:29:56,834
-L'm sorry. I'm just tired and worried.
- I know.
328
00:29:57,043 --> 00:30:00,630
You were there. You heard both sides.
Who do you agree with?
329
00:30:00,797 --> 00:30:04,342
I agree with you about the urgency,
but they're right too.
330
00:30:04,509 --> 00:30:07,428
They have a chain of command,
they have to be careful...
331
00:30:07,595 --> 00:30:11,265
...and this thing may be too big
to allow for mistakes.
332
00:31:23,713 --> 00:31:30,386
Russell Marvin calling
on 225.6 megacycles. Over.
333
00:31:34,974 --> 00:31:41,105
Dr. Russell Marvin calling on
225.6 megacycles as per instructions.
334
00:31:41,314 --> 00:31:44,483
Are you listening?
If you hear me, please reply.
335
00:31:44,650 --> 00:31:47,987
I am tuned in
on the same wavelength. Over.
336
00:31:48,154 --> 00:31:51,741
We hear you, Dr. Marvin,
and we understand you.
337
00:31:51,908 --> 00:31:53,659
Do you understand us?
338
00:31:54,452 --> 00:31:55,953
Yes.
339
00:31:57,038 --> 00:31:58,414
Who are you?
340
00:31:58,623 --> 00:32:05,004
Listen. It is now 9:30 a.m.
Earth time, Greenwich Meridian Time.
341
00:32:05,171 --> 00:32:07,715
We will be waiting
at exactly 11:00 a.m...
342
00:32:07,882 --> 00:32:10,301
...at the shore of
the Chesapeake Bay...
343
00:32:10,468 --> 00:32:12,803
...where the North Beach Road
reaches the sea.
344
00:32:13,638 --> 00:32:17,350
Do not raise an alarm,
and keep this appointment.
345
00:32:17,850 --> 00:32:20,228
Listen to me.
I can't keep the appointment.
346
00:32:20,394 --> 00:32:23,231
I'm under orders.
I'll be able to meet you in a few days.
347
00:32:23,439 --> 00:32:25,608
Do you hear me? Over.
348
00:32:25,816 --> 00:32:27,818
- Russ?
- Hello, hello.
349
00:32:28,027 --> 00:32:31,405
Dr. Russell Marvin calling
on 225.6 megacycles.
350
00:32:31,572 --> 00:32:35,368
Do you hear me?
Please come in. Over.
351
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,292
Eleven o'clock Greenwich time.
It'll be 6:00 here.
352
00:32:43,459 --> 00:32:45,336
I can just make it.
353
00:32:45,544 --> 00:32:48,381
You're not going.
I heard you say you're under orders.
354
00:32:48,547 --> 00:32:51,550
I didn't arrange this meeting.
I just asked them to wait.
355
00:32:51,717 --> 00:32:53,344
Who ordered that radio?
356
00:32:53,511 --> 00:32:56,639
I did, today. I was hoping
they'd let me use it.
357
00:32:56,806 --> 00:32:59,850
You can't go. I've already lost Dad.
358
00:33:00,017 --> 00:33:03,271
- You shouldn't have called them.
- Maybe I shouldn't have...
359
00:33:03,437 --> 00:33:05,064
...and maybe I should.
360
00:33:05,231 --> 00:33:08,609
But it's started now
and I've got to go through with it.
361
00:33:08,776 --> 00:33:13,823
But it's not your job alone.
Call someone! Call Major Huglin!
362
00:33:18,828 --> 00:33:21,914
Room 312, Major Huglin.
Hurry, please.
363
00:33:28,504 --> 00:33:30,298
Hello?
364
00:33:30,631 --> 00:33:33,175
Yes. Yes.
365
00:33:33,384 --> 00:33:34,885
Thanks.
366
00:33:35,553 --> 00:33:39,890
Well, call the garage.
Tell them not to give him a car.
367
00:33:40,099 --> 00:33:42,977
Tell them he's sick, anything,
out of his mind.
368
00:33:43,144 --> 00:33:45,938
I'll be right down to take care of it.
369
00:33:48,524 --> 00:33:54,697
- Sure thing, Mrs. Marvin.
- Frank, may I have my car, please?
370
00:33:55,614 --> 00:33:57,325
Gee, Dr. Marvin, I can't.
371
00:33:57,491 --> 00:34:01,579
I was talking to your wife on the phone
and she said that I--
372
00:34:08,794 --> 00:34:11,922
But, Dr. Marvin,
I can't let you have the car.
373
00:34:12,089 --> 00:34:15,634
- Get out of my way, Frank.
- Please, I don't want to lose my job.
374
00:34:42,119 --> 00:34:46,123
There he is. See if you can
get him on the radio.
375
00:34:46,707 --> 00:34:51,837
Hello, Russ. This is Carol.
Russ, come in.
376
00:34:53,589 --> 00:34:55,591
He won't answer me.
377
00:34:59,011 --> 00:35:00,763
Wait for us, Russ.
378
00:35:00,971 --> 00:35:04,350
Major Huglin and I wanna talk to you.
379
00:36:30,060 --> 00:36:32,771
Russ, please come back with us.
380
00:36:34,315 --> 00:36:36,859
I'm sorry, but I have to do my job.
Let's go back.
381
00:36:38,068 --> 00:36:39,403
Please come in.
382
00:36:39,612 --> 00:36:42,031
- Come on, let's get out of here.
- No, wait.
383
00:36:42,198 --> 00:36:45,701
With your friends, Dr. Marvin.
384
00:37:01,842 --> 00:37:06,055
-l'm coming with you.
- Please come in. All of you.
385
00:37:06,222 --> 00:37:10,726
-I'm gonna phone headquarters.
- You'd better do as they say.
386
00:38:02,236 --> 00:38:05,155
We must be thousands of miles
away from the Earth.
387
00:38:05,322 --> 00:38:07,157
And in a matter of seconds.
388
00:38:07,366 --> 00:38:09,618
You are many miles away
from your planets...
389
00:38:10,494 --> 00:38:12,997
...but not in a matter of seconds.
390
00:38:22,339 --> 00:38:25,593
Listen to your watch, Dr. Marvin.
391
00:38:27,511 --> 00:38:30,848
It's stopped.
It's supposed to be antimagnetic.
392
00:38:31,015 --> 00:38:36,061
We generate a magnetic field stronger
than the gravitational field on Earth.
393
00:38:36,228 --> 00:38:39,565
This is the principle by which
we move through space.
394
00:38:39,732 --> 00:38:42,526
We have adjusted the magnetic field
to compensate...
395
00:38:42,693 --> 00:38:46,655
...for the normal loss of gravitational
effect and atmospheric pressure.
396
00:38:47,698 --> 00:38:53,120
But your watch hasn't stopped.
Feel your pulse.
397
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:57,916
I haven't any.
398
00:39:00,210 --> 00:39:01,545
Neither have I.
399
00:39:02,379 --> 00:39:05,674
We operate in a very different
time reference.
400
00:39:05,883 --> 00:39:07,926
You might say
all this is happening...
401
00:39:08,093 --> 00:39:11,847
...between the ticks of your watch
or the beats of your heart.
402
00:39:12,014 --> 00:39:16,644
That's why we couldn't decipher
your message till it was too late.
403
00:39:16,810 --> 00:39:21,315
It made it necessary for us
to defend ourselves at Sky Hook.
404
00:39:21,482 --> 00:39:25,527
Then you shot down
our 11 rockets. Why?
405
00:39:25,736 --> 00:39:30,658
At that time, we did not know they
were only primitive observation posts.
406
00:39:31,367 --> 00:39:34,787
We thought they might be weapons
directed against us.
407
00:39:35,329 --> 00:39:38,666
Who are you? Where are you from?
408
00:39:39,041 --> 00:39:43,420
Because of your leadership in
exploring the field of outer space...
409
00:39:43,629 --> 00:39:46,006
...we felt you could
best understand...
410
00:39:46,215 --> 00:39:49,927
...that we are the survivors
of a disintegrated solar system.
411
00:39:50,678 --> 00:39:55,724
At this moment, the remainder
of our fleet is circling your globe.
412
00:40:12,074 --> 00:40:15,452
They're awaiting a signal
to tell them where to land.
413
00:40:15,661 --> 00:40:17,037
What do you want with me?
414
00:40:17,204 --> 00:40:20,082
Arrange for your world leaders
to confer with us...
415
00:40:20,249 --> 00:40:22,042
...in the city of Washington.
416
00:40:22,251 --> 00:40:24,837
They may not listen.
I'm only a scientist.
417
00:40:25,045 --> 00:40:29,466
We will show you how important it is
to convince your leaders.
418
00:40:29,925 --> 00:40:32,594
In an instant of your time,
we travel...
419
00:40:32,803 --> 00:40:36,974
...from beyond your moon
to the surface of your Earth.
420
00:40:55,534 --> 00:40:57,911
There were 300 men on that ship.
421
00:41:00,539 --> 00:41:04,918
Speed, maneuverability and force.
422
00:41:05,085 --> 00:41:08,130
With a weapon like that,
why don't you just land and take over?
423
00:41:08,338 --> 00:41:11,175
To do that would cause
worldwide panic.
424
00:41:11,341 --> 00:41:12,760
Despite our power...
425
00:41:12,968 --> 00:41:15,220
...the few of us would be
busy indefinitely...
426
00:41:15,387 --> 00:41:18,807
...trying to suppress
a large, hostile population.
427
00:41:18,974 --> 00:41:22,728
In the end, we would be masters
of a wrecked and hungry planet.
428
00:41:22,936 --> 00:41:25,355
What makes you think
you'll win without a fight?
429
00:41:25,564 --> 00:41:29,568
We felt it best to meet with you
so fighting could be avoided.
430
00:41:29,777 --> 00:41:32,863
Such agreements have been
made on Earth before.
431
00:41:33,030 --> 00:41:34,823
How do you know so much about us?
432
00:41:35,032 --> 00:41:37,826
We have the means
of accumulating information.
433
00:41:38,494 --> 00:41:43,540
If you wish to convince yourself
about our detailed knowledge, test us.
434
00:41:43,707 --> 00:41:45,793
Any question.
435
00:41:46,752 --> 00:41:49,505
What's the size of the
Armed Forces of the United States?
436
00:41:50,047 --> 00:41:54,384
It is approximately
3 and one half million men.
437
00:41:56,220 --> 00:41:59,640
What team has won
the most World Series?
438
00:42:00,224 --> 00:42:03,310
The New York Yankees.
439
00:42:03,602 --> 00:42:06,271
Who was the first president
of the United States?
440
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:07,940
Washington.
441
00:42:08,106 --> 00:42:09,900
I know that voice.
442
00:42:12,194 --> 00:42:15,572
- Who are you?
- John Hanley.
443
00:42:17,157 --> 00:42:21,245
My father.
What have you done to him?
444
00:42:21,745 --> 00:42:26,708
You have been addressing General
Hanley's mind, not General Hanley.
445
00:42:26,875 --> 00:42:28,836
Look behind you.
446
00:42:33,382 --> 00:42:34,675
Dad.
447
00:42:34,842 --> 00:42:37,970
He will not recognize you.
He has been subjected...
448
00:42:38,178 --> 00:42:42,474
...to a machine we call
an Infinitely Indexed Memory Bank.
449
00:42:42,641 --> 00:42:46,979
We have transferred all knowledge
from his brain to our machine.
450
00:42:47,145 --> 00:42:53,819
Thus, we have available and readily
accessible his total experience.
451
00:42:53,986 --> 00:42:59,116
We can do this to as many as we like
and learn whatever we must know.
452
00:42:59,575 --> 00:43:03,287
- Stop it, please, stop it.
- Put that gun away.
453
00:43:07,791 --> 00:43:09,626
Don't look at that.
454
00:43:20,095 --> 00:43:23,765
This is the beginning of the process
by which we read the brain...
455
00:43:23,932 --> 00:43:27,311
...for the Infinitely Indexed
Memory Bank.
456
00:43:32,482 --> 00:43:34,735
What have you done with my father?
457
00:43:34,902 --> 00:43:40,449
We will return him to you eventually,
and the police officer too.
458
00:43:40,657 --> 00:43:43,827
Will you arrange
a conference for us?
459
00:43:44,036 --> 00:43:47,664
We'll tell the authorities you want one.
That's all we can do.
460
00:43:47,831 --> 00:43:50,000
You're not going to work
with these monsters?
461
00:43:50,167 --> 00:43:52,210
It may take weeks or months
to set it up.
462
00:43:52,419 --> 00:43:56,506
You will have two of your lunar days,
or 56 days Earth time.
463
00:43:57,090 --> 00:44:00,218
- Let them kill us and be done with it.
- Please, Carol.
464
00:44:00,385 --> 00:44:03,639
If our officials don't believe me,
I can't be held responsible.
465
00:44:03,847 --> 00:44:06,475
When you tell of
the destroyer being sunk...
466
00:44:06,683 --> 00:44:09,978
...refer to latitude
30 degrees, 20 minutes...
467
00:44:10,145 --> 00:44:13,774
...longitude 45 degrees, 15 minutes.
468
00:44:13,941 --> 00:44:16,151
They will believe you.
469
00:44:26,453 --> 00:44:31,625
Suppose Major Huglin, my wife, myself
were all hysterical or hypnotized...
470
00:44:31,833 --> 00:44:36,004
...that we never saw what the fiends did
to General Henley or the police officer.
471
00:44:36,171 --> 00:44:37,798
How do you explain the destroyer?
472
00:44:38,006 --> 00:44:41,343
There's word the Atlantic fleet has
lost contact with a vessel...
473
00:44:41,510 --> 00:44:44,972
...but there's no confirmation of
a sinking. We're continuing to check.
474
00:44:45,138 --> 00:44:49,434
You realize your contacting the saucer
violated our instructions.
475
00:44:49,643 --> 00:44:53,730
This itself may have placed
the entire country's safety in jeopardy.
476
00:44:53,897 --> 00:44:57,359
Now that the damage is done,
and assuming your story is verified...
477
00:44:57,526 --> 00:45:00,862
...are you proposing that we meet
with these creatures...
478
00:45:01,029 --> 00:45:02,698
...and yield to their demands?
479
00:45:02,864 --> 00:45:04,199
Why Washington?
480
00:45:04,366 --> 00:45:07,619
If they want to parley with
the whole world, why meet there?
481
00:45:08,662 --> 00:45:10,122
They appear to be realists.
482
00:45:10,288 --> 00:45:12,499
Washington
is a center of political power.
483
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,252
What about our atomic
and hydrogen weapons?
484
00:45:15,419 --> 00:45:17,212
Would they work
against the saucers?
485
00:45:17,421 --> 00:45:20,007
I'd like to answer that question, sir,
if I may.
486
00:45:20,173 --> 00:45:23,635
Our atomic weapons might work,
if we could deliver them.
487
00:45:23,844 --> 00:45:27,723
But using nuclear power when they
land would destroy our own cities.
488
00:45:27,889 --> 00:45:31,435
And then we don't know
whether they're vulnerable or not.
489
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:38,650
To answer your question, Mr. Cassidy,
I learned a little about their operation...
490
00:45:38,817 --> 00:45:42,070
...and I've got an idea
for a new kind of weapon.
491
00:45:42,237 --> 00:45:44,281
It's only a guess, of course.
492
00:45:44,489 --> 00:45:47,075
A new weapon in less than 56 days?
493
00:45:47,701 --> 00:45:52,330
I have an idea for an ultrasonic gun.
With enough engineering help...
494
00:45:52,497 --> 00:45:55,417
...we could construct a working model
in a very short time.
495
00:45:55,584 --> 00:45:57,669
Maybe it will work.
If not, we'll know soon.
496
00:45:57,836 --> 00:46:00,547
Meanwhile, you'll work on
every other means of defense.
497
00:46:00,714 --> 00:46:04,092
We have no choice but to use
every conceivable weapon if they land.
498
00:46:04,259 --> 00:46:05,677
Gentlemen, please.
499
00:46:06,636 --> 00:46:10,265
"Destroyer Franklin Edison was sunk
at latitude 30 degrees, 20 minutes...
500
00:46:10,432 --> 00:46:15,228
...longitude 45 degrees, 15 minutes
at approximately 0600."
501
00:46:19,191 --> 00:46:22,944
We are expected at the White House
in an hour for a policy decision...
502
00:46:23,111 --> 00:46:26,698
...that will involve not only our
own country but the entire world.
503
00:46:26,907 --> 00:46:28,033
Whatever the decision...
504
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,119
...you'll be given every assistance
in testing your theory.
505
00:46:31,286 --> 00:46:33,622
I suggest you start
to work right away.
506
00:46:33,789 --> 00:46:36,875
Major Huglin will arrange for
whatever facilities you may require.
507
00:46:37,042 --> 00:46:38,794
Thank you.
508
00:46:55,977 --> 00:46:58,063
- Hello.
- Hi.
509
00:46:58,230 --> 00:46:59,731
How's it going?
510
00:46:59,898 --> 00:47:03,819
Instead of turning electric impulses
into ultrahigh-frequency sound...
511
00:47:03,985 --> 00:47:07,614
-...we nearly burned the place up.
- What?
512
00:47:09,157 --> 00:47:12,035
All right, let's try it out
on the cement block.
513
00:47:26,299 --> 00:47:28,218
All the way.
514
00:47:34,516 --> 00:47:36,184
Well, there goes your generator.
515
00:47:37,144 --> 00:47:40,522
- But it worked, Russ, didn't it?
- We know what hit Sky Hook.
516
00:47:40,689 --> 00:47:41,857
- What?
- Sound.
517
00:47:42,023 --> 00:47:43,108
Sound?
518
00:47:43,275 --> 00:47:46,778
Having two small boys, I know noise
doesn't do a man much good...
519
00:47:46,945 --> 00:47:49,114
...but burn him up,
knock his house down?
520
00:47:49,281 --> 00:47:53,535
The sound I want is of a higher wave
frequency than we've ever produced.
521
00:47:53,702 --> 00:47:55,787
Then you mean we've got
the weapon?
522
00:47:55,954 --> 00:47:58,373
No, I'm afraid not.
523
00:47:58,540 --> 00:48:00,959
With the best materials
and circuits available...
524
00:48:01,126 --> 00:48:04,629
...all we've succeeded in doing
is pulverizing a cement block.
525
00:48:04,796 --> 00:48:06,548
The theory is beautiful.
526
00:48:06,715 --> 00:48:09,593
We don't have the tools and materials
to make it work.
527
00:48:09,801 --> 00:48:13,221
Maybe in 10 years, five, even two.
528
00:48:13,430 --> 00:48:15,974
- How many days left?
- Twenty-seven.
529
00:48:16,183 --> 00:48:20,478
Russ, remember that report
from Dr. Patek in New Delhi?
530
00:48:20,645 --> 00:48:22,981
He suggested a different approach.
531
00:48:23,148 --> 00:48:27,611
Instead of attempting to duplicate
the ultrasonic devices of our visitors...
532
00:48:27,777 --> 00:48:30,655
...we try to interrupt
their magnetic field...
533
00:48:30,864 --> 00:48:34,451
...by projecting a highly intermittent
induced electrical field.
534
00:48:34,659 --> 00:48:36,870
- Now, suppose we take--
- Of course!
535
00:48:37,037 --> 00:48:41,875
We out the ultrasonic wavelength
into the circuit and knock them down.
536
00:48:42,042 --> 00:48:44,920
- Not so fast, Russ--
- It can work. It can work.
537
00:48:45,086 --> 00:48:47,005
- Here, major, get on the phone.
- Yes?
538
00:48:47,172 --> 00:48:51,426
We'll need the largest portable
generator that Schenectady makes.
539
00:48:52,928 --> 00:48:55,430
From all parts of the globe,
under top priority...
540
00:48:55,597 --> 00:48:57,807
...came every facility
and scientific help...
541
00:48:57,974 --> 00:48:59,935
...the world governments
could furnish.
542
00:49:00,101 --> 00:49:04,898
Dr. Marvin and staff assembled
these materials in a concealed lab...
543
00:49:05,106 --> 00:49:10,195
...where they were to translate a short
experience in a craft from space...
544
00:49:10,362 --> 00:49:13,323
...into a formula, then plans...
545
00:49:13,490 --> 00:49:17,118
...and, finally,
a functioning reality.
546
00:49:17,285 --> 00:49:19,204
It's only a hollow steel ball...
547
00:49:19,371 --> 00:49:22,707
...but for our purposes
it's a flying saucer.
548
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,878
You can start up the generator now.
549
00:49:36,888 --> 00:49:38,723
The magnet does that, doesn't it?
550
00:49:38,890 --> 00:49:43,979
The magnetic attraction above
counteracts the pull of gravity below.
551
00:49:49,234 --> 00:49:51,861
Go ahead, it was your idea.
You be the first to try it.
552
00:49:52,028 --> 00:49:53,363
My idea? Nonsense.
553
00:49:53,530 --> 00:49:57,659
It was just as much yours, Dr. Patek's
and a dozen scientists worldwide.
554
00:49:57,826 --> 00:49:59,619
Come on.
555
00:50:13,508 --> 00:50:15,802
- It works.
- It works fine.
556
00:50:17,345 --> 00:50:18,847
Russ, look.
557
00:51:00,764 --> 00:51:02,223
What was it?
558
00:51:02,390 --> 00:51:05,560
The same thing that's watched us
since the start of the project.
559
00:51:05,727 --> 00:51:09,356
- Watched who?
- Russ and the rocket program.
560
00:51:09,522 --> 00:51:11,566
I always thought it was
St. Elmo's Fire.
561
00:51:11,733 --> 00:51:13,777
I'll have to change my mind
about that.
562
00:51:13,943 --> 00:51:17,655
Whatever it was, the saucers sent it
to find out what we're doing.
563
00:51:17,822 --> 00:51:19,115
We have TV.
564
00:51:19,282 --> 00:51:22,494
They may have a different device
that serves the same purpose.
565
00:51:22,660 --> 00:51:25,622
We'd better get to Washington
before they decide to drop in.
566
00:51:25,789 --> 00:51:28,875
Major, help him load that gun
on the generator truck.
567
00:51:29,042 --> 00:51:33,004
Never mind the files, professor.
I'll take the diagrams.
568
00:51:35,799 --> 00:51:38,301
We ought to be in Washington
in about an hour.
569
00:51:42,597 --> 00:51:45,058
I hope they haven't spotted us.
570
00:51:45,225 --> 00:51:48,019
Let's pull away from the lab.
Come on.
571
00:52:16,714 --> 00:52:19,134
If that saucer stays in firing range...
572
00:52:19,300 --> 00:52:22,720
...we may be able to give the gun
its first real test.
573
00:52:34,983 --> 00:52:37,235
Saucer landing near Belmont Lab.
574
00:52:37,402 --> 00:52:40,238
Major Huglin calling
for aerial protection. Over.
575
00:52:44,534 --> 00:52:46,578
They're sending a bomber.
576
00:52:46,744 --> 00:52:49,247
We should go with the diagrams
as quickly as we can.
577
00:52:49,414 --> 00:52:52,292
-L'll get them from Russ.
-l'll go with you.
578
00:52:54,169 --> 00:52:58,131
Fire up the generator.
We're gonna see if this gun works.
579
00:53:05,472 --> 00:53:08,725
- What's the matter?
- I can't get this blasted thing started.
580
00:53:12,228 --> 00:53:14,272
They're looking for us, all right.
581
00:53:29,787 --> 00:53:33,374
Russ, getting you to Washington is
more important than anything else.
582
00:53:33,541 --> 00:53:34,834
Right.
583
00:53:35,001 --> 00:53:39,005
She's right, if this machine works.
If not, it doesn't make any difference.
584
00:54:03,988 --> 00:54:07,659
It works. If we just had
a little more power.
585
00:54:17,043 --> 00:54:19,754
Russ, let's go, please.
Before it's too late.
586
00:55:19,105 --> 00:55:23,401
Keep the gun circling overhead
and the saucer will stay away.
587
00:56:15,036 --> 00:56:17,080
Russ, be careful.
588
00:56:17,622 --> 00:56:19,791
I think it's dead.
589
00:56:24,879 --> 00:56:27,298
It's light as a feather.
590
00:56:41,020 --> 00:56:43,314
Humanoid, and ancient.
591
00:56:43,523 --> 00:56:47,568
These suits serve as an electronic
and mechanical outer skin...
592
00:56:47,735 --> 00:56:51,280
...to take the place of their
atrophied flesh and muscles.
593
00:57:02,458 --> 00:57:05,044
I must get this to a lab.
594
00:58:54,153 --> 00:58:57,031
Don't go out there.
Don't go out there.
595
00:59:31,732 --> 00:59:34,777
Here are Dr. and Mrs. Marvin now.
596
00:59:36,988 --> 00:59:39,907
- We've been waiting for you.
- Thanks.
597
00:59:40,074 --> 00:59:41,951
- This is Dr. Alberts.
- How do you do?
598
00:59:42,118 --> 00:59:44,495
You know General Edmunds,
Admiral Enright.
599
00:59:44,662 --> 00:59:45,955
Certainly.
600
00:59:46,122 --> 00:59:48,916
And Mrs. Marvin
is General Hanley's daughter.
601
00:59:49,083 --> 00:59:52,628
- His death was a great loss to all of us.
- Thank you.
602
00:59:52,795 --> 00:59:56,465
- Well, I see you've been busy.
- We've been doing a little work.
603
00:59:56,632 --> 01:00:00,970
Let me show you. It didn't take
too long to break this thing down.
604
01:00:01,137 --> 01:00:04,974
These helmets have
a language-translating device in them.
605
01:00:06,142 --> 01:00:10,438
Mrs. Marvin, would you say something
into the microphone?
606
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:16,444
The quality of mercy is not strained
607
01:00:22,742 --> 01:00:25,202
It droppeth as the gentle rain
From heaven
608
01:00:27,872 --> 01:00:30,082
Shakespeare wouldn't like it.
609
01:00:31,584 --> 01:00:35,504
Professor Alberts said if we read
the dictionary into the device...
610
01:00:35,671 --> 01:00:38,299
...we'd have a translation
into their language.
611
01:00:38,466 --> 01:00:42,386
By translating their communications
into our words, we decoded them.
612
01:00:42,553 --> 01:00:47,058
Professor Alberts got the translator
which his university had developed...
613
01:00:47,224 --> 01:00:49,393
...and the results
have been startling.
614
01:00:50,061 --> 01:00:52,939
We've recorded a number
of their messages on tape.
615
01:00:53,105 --> 01:00:55,900
One of the messages appears to be
a plan of attack.
616
01:00:56,108 --> 01:00:58,653
The rest were operational routine.
617
01:00:58,861 --> 01:01:01,781
-L'll show you how it worked.
- Over here.
618
01:01:44,782 --> 01:01:50,121
"We can expect trouble when Mercury
is in perihelion." When will that be?
619
01:01:50,329 --> 01:01:52,707
It happens twice
every three months.
620
01:01:52,873 --> 01:01:55,459
The information is too vague
to be of any use to us.
621
01:01:56,585 --> 01:02:00,214
- And "the sun in con Polaris"?
- That implies an orbital relation...
622
01:02:00,381 --> 01:02:04,260
...between the star Polaris and the sun.
We've never been able to figure it out.
623
01:02:05,428 --> 01:02:08,764
The blanks probably refer
to their time computation.
624
01:02:08,931 --> 01:02:11,100
But these messages do
involve the sun?
625
01:02:11,267 --> 01:02:14,103
Our observatories are
watching it around the clock.
626
01:02:14,311 --> 01:02:16,605
In the meantime,
we have a stronger version...
627
01:02:16,772 --> 01:02:19,275
...of our interference machine
on the drawing boards.
628
01:02:19,483 --> 01:02:22,820
Has there been any determination
of the weapon's useful range?
629
01:02:23,029 --> 01:02:27,575
There's a weakness. Our instruments
indicate the potential effect...
630
01:02:27,742 --> 01:02:29,994
...drops off sharply after 1500 yards.
631
01:02:30,870 --> 01:02:33,664
We'll have to hope
that that's enough.
632
01:02:33,831 --> 01:02:36,667
Well, maybe we'll be ready for them
when they come.
633
01:02:36,834 --> 01:02:38,961
Has anyone tried that helmet on?
634
01:02:39,128 --> 01:02:43,716
Yes, we have.
I think you'd be interested. Try it.
635
01:02:46,302 --> 01:02:48,971
It weighs only a few grams.
636
01:02:49,221 --> 01:02:52,016
- What's it made of?
- We don't know exactly.
637
01:02:52,183 --> 01:02:56,896
Solidified electricity is the fancy name
given to it by the Bureau of Standards.
638
01:02:57,063 --> 01:03:01,859
It resists everything we used on it,
including extreme temperatures.
639
01:03:07,156 --> 01:03:10,785
- It makes me Superman, for one thing.
- Yes, we know.
640
01:03:11,660 --> 01:03:13,704
I have a peculiar range of vision.
641
01:03:20,503 --> 01:03:23,255
I can also hear a young man
just outside that window...
642
01:03:23,422 --> 01:03:25,549
...discussing a problem
in advanced biology.
643
01:03:26,759 --> 01:03:29,386
Carol, would you see if I'm right?
644
01:03:31,097 --> 01:03:34,600
--When I kissed her good night,
she slapped my face. I said:
645
01:03:34,850 --> 01:03:38,771
"I didn't slap yours when
you ordered a $4 steak for dinner."
646
01:03:40,064 --> 01:03:42,483
Just as we need glasses
and hearing aids...
647
01:03:42,650 --> 01:03:45,778
...these people need electronic
amplification of their senses...
648
01:03:45,945 --> 01:03:48,030
...especially sight and hearing.
649
01:03:48,197 --> 01:03:52,827
- Does that suggest anything to you?
- They have their weaknesses.
650
01:03:53,035 --> 01:03:55,955
- When will we be ready?
- We'll need a couple of weeks.
651
01:03:56,122 --> 01:04:02,711
People of Earth, attention.
People of Earth, attention.
652
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:05,089
This is a voice speaking to you...
653
01:04:05,256 --> 01:04:08,300
...from thousands of miles
beyond your planet.
654
01:04:08,634 --> 01:04:11,762
- This is a voice speaking to you...
Stop that.
655
01:04:11,929 --> 01:04:15,182
...from thousands of miles
beyond your planet.
656
01:04:15,349 --> 01:04:17,810
Look to your sun for a warning.
657
01:04:18,561 --> 01:04:22,314
Look to your sun for a warning.
658
01:04:22,481 --> 01:04:26,652
Following eruptions on your sun,
there will be eight days and nights...
659
01:04:26,861 --> 01:04:28,904
...of meteorological convulsions...
660
01:04:29,071 --> 01:04:30,573
Turn it down.
661
01:04:30,739 --> 01:04:33,742
They're arrogant enough,
announcing their schedule.
662
01:04:33,909 --> 01:04:36,871
They're coming to take over,
they said that in the saucer.
663
01:04:37,079 --> 01:04:40,457
They can move so fast and strike
so hard, they'll flatten us.
664
01:04:41,375 --> 01:04:44,587
They expect to terrify us
with a display of power.
665
01:04:44,753 --> 01:04:48,007
They're contemptuous
of our defenses.
666
01:04:52,303 --> 01:04:55,681
If I'm right, they'll sail
into Washington in broad daylight...
667
01:04:55,848 --> 01:04:59,059
...and expect us to capitulate
when they land.
668
01:05:01,437 --> 01:05:07,651
People of Earth, attention.
People of Earth, attention.
669
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:10,487
This is a voice speaking to you...
670
01:05:10,654 --> 01:05:13,574
...from thousands of miles
beyond your planet.
671
01:05:14,575 --> 01:05:16,660
This is a voice speaking to you...
672
01:05:16,827 --> 01:05:20,789
...from thousands of miles
beyond your planet.
673
01:05:20,956 --> 01:05:25,794
Look to your sun for a warning.
Look to your sun for a warning.
674
01:05:25,961 --> 01:05:28,047
It's coming over everywhere.
675
01:05:28,255 --> 01:05:30,716
Following eruptions on your sun...
676
01:05:30,925 --> 01:05:35,054
...there will be eight days and nights
of meteorological convulsions.
677
01:05:35,221 --> 01:05:36,555
Soon thereafter...
678
01:05:36,722 --> 01:05:40,226
They'll panic and immobilize
the whole country.
679
01:05:40,392 --> 01:05:41,769
The whole world.
680
01:05:41,936 --> 01:05:46,357
Let all nations be represented
in Washington to confer with us...
681
01:06:07,962 --> 01:06:10,756
People of Earth, attention.
682
01:06:10,923 --> 01:06:12,967
In every country,
in every language...
683
01:06:13,133 --> 01:06:16,595
...all electronic communication devices
were jammed with the message.
684
01:06:16,929 --> 01:06:19,932
The warning was dinned into
the ears of Earth's population...
685
01:06:20,140 --> 01:06:22,226
...unceasingly for 12 hours.
686
01:06:22,393 --> 01:06:26,021
And after the 12th hour, silence.
687
01:06:26,730 --> 01:06:32,486
Then, a tremendous explosion
on the surface of the sun.
688
01:06:36,949 --> 01:06:38,867
"Nine days."
689
01:06:39,034 --> 01:06:41,704
That must be what
the missing words meant.
690
01:06:41,870 --> 01:06:43,539
I get the picture. Thanks.
691
01:06:43,706 --> 01:06:47,751
If I need any more information,
I'll call you back. Goodbye.
692
01:06:48,752 --> 01:06:50,879
That was the Bureau of Meteorology.
693
01:06:51,046 --> 01:06:54,508
As we know, sunspots have
a direct effect upon our weather.
694
01:06:54,675 --> 01:06:57,928
We can expect heavy storms,
tidal waves, hurricanes.
695
01:06:58,095 --> 01:07:00,848
- When?
- Beginning now, for eight days.
696
01:07:01,015 --> 01:07:04,018
Just when we most need
our communications and transport.
697
01:07:04,184 --> 01:07:07,313
We'll have to work under
the worst conditions to prepare.
698
01:07:07,479 --> 01:07:08,981
What's the schedule, general?
699
01:07:09,148 --> 01:07:11,525
You're installing
the interference units.
700
01:07:11,692 --> 01:07:14,611
Our plans for evacuating the city
are already underway.
701
01:07:14,778 --> 01:07:16,822
Then it's been decided
that we'll fight?
702
01:07:16,989 --> 01:07:19,366
When a threatening power
lands in our capital...
703
01:07:19,533 --> 01:07:21,702
...we don't meet them
with tea and cookies.
704
01:07:21,869 --> 01:07:24,204
The job of production expediting
awaits me.
705
01:07:24,371 --> 01:07:26,832
Further discussion won't
solve our problem.
706
01:07:26,999 --> 01:07:31,837
Before we break up, I remind you
that we have nine days left.
707
01:07:32,004 --> 01:07:34,882
One of those days
is already half gone.
708
01:07:53,442 --> 01:07:55,819
What a nice going-away present.
709
01:07:55,986 --> 01:07:59,865
You might call it that.
ls my bag packed?
710
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,826
Mine too. What time do we leave?
711
01:08:02,993 --> 01:08:04,495
I have to leave right now.
712
01:08:04,703 --> 01:08:07,706
I'm going to Aberdeen
to supervise the interference project.
713
01:08:07,915 --> 01:08:12,211
So that wasn't a hello kiss at all.
It was goodbye.
714
01:08:12,378 --> 01:08:13,879
For a little while.
715
01:08:14,046 --> 01:08:18,050
You're gonna have to leave town.
They're evacuating Washington.
716
01:08:19,468 --> 01:08:21,595
- Where am I going?
- Palm Springs.
717
01:08:21,762 --> 01:08:23,931
Remember the place
I told you about?
718
01:08:26,266 --> 01:08:28,977
- We were going there together.
- I know.
719
01:08:29,978 --> 01:08:32,439
Your plane leaves tonight.
720
01:08:32,940 --> 01:08:35,609
Russ, let me stay. Maybe I can help.
721
01:08:35,776 --> 01:08:40,781
There's nothing more you can do.
Here's your ticket.
722
01:08:41,323 --> 01:08:44,743
You'll arrive before
the bad weather sets in.
723
01:08:45,077 --> 01:08:47,204
And I'll be there soon.
724
01:09:08,434 --> 01:09:11,520
The first of man's
vital communications to suffer...
725
01:09:11,687 --> 01:09:15,941
...were the shipping lanes
and airways.
726
01:09:16,150 --> 01:09:21,155
Then transport by rail and highway
ground to a halt.
727
01:09:21,947 --> 01:09:24,491
When the telephone and telegraph
systems failed...
728
01:09:24,658 --> 01:09:28,996
...and the radio networks had to bear
the burden alone, they succumbed...
729
01:09:29,163 --> 01:09:34,042
...to interference originating from
an increasing disturbance in the sun.
730
01:09:34,209 --> 01:09:37,629
The world,
crippled by these events...
731
01:09:37,796 --> 01:09:43,010
...waited for the first sign
of an invasion from outer space.
732
01:09:43,802 --> 01:09:47,431
Because of the atmospheric violence,
it was not until the ninth day...
733
01:09:47,639 --> 01:09:51,351
...that an evacuation of Washington
could be attempted.
734
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:54,897
Although the authorities
and the military worked miracles...
735
01:09:55,105 --> 01:09:56,982
...when the 10th day dawned...
736
01:09:57,149 --> 01:09:59,943
...more than 60 percent
of Washington's citizens...
737
01:10:00,110 --> 01:10:02,738
...were still
in the metropolitan area.
738
01:10:03,447 --> 01:10:06,283
- Take these to CIC.
- Yes, sir.
739
01:10:07,534 --> 01:10:09,119
Mrs. Marvin.
740
01:10:10,704 --> 01:10:13,248
Your husband told me
you were in Palm Springs.
741
01:10:13,415 --> 01:10:16,084
The flights were canceled
before I could get away.
742
01:10:16,251 --> 01:10:17,753
Have you heard from Russ?
743
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,882
There's been nothing from Aberdeen.
Wires are down, radio jammed.
744
01:10:22,049 --> 01:10:24,426
But I'm expecting a courier
any minute.
745
01:10:29,473 --> 01:10:30,724
A red alert.
746
01:11:14,601 --> 01:11:18,021
Saucer heading in low
over the Atlantic, coming in fast.
747
01:12:02,524 --> 01:12:06,945
They're breaking through our
defenses. Ground all aircraft.
748
01:12:07,571 --> 01:12:11,199
They'll be overhead any minute.
You better get down to the shelter.
749
01:12:14,953 --> 01:12:17,247
Wait a moment, Mrs. Marvin.
750
01:12:18,874 --> 01:12:21,418
Truck convoys from Aberdeen
are in the city.
751
01:12:21,627 --> 01:12:25,589
- Your husband's is near the Pentagon.
- Thanks.
752
01:13:23,397 --> 01:13:27,317
Mobile unit calling GHQ.
Saucer hit and down in the Potomac.
753
01:13:46,420 --> 01:13:48,797
Keep it in your field
so it can't fire at us.
754
01:14:37,471 --> 01:14:43,018
- Fire at the saucer until it crashes.
- Russ. Russ.
755
01:14:45,687 --> 01:14:49,316
- Carol, I thought you'd gone to--
- GHQ calling all HF units.
756
01:14:49,524 --> 01:14:54,321
GHQ calling all HF units.
Saucer near White House and Capitol.
757
01:15:31,149 --> 01:15:34,986
Attention all units. Saucer
now landing near White House.
758
01:15:35,153 --> 01:15:37,697
- Attention. . ..
- Sounds like they're jamming us.
759
01:20:01,461 --> 01:20:04,589
Dr. Marvin. Dr. Marvin,
we've made contact with GHQ.
760
01:20:04,798 --> 01:20:09,719
GHQ to all HF units. Saucer has
landed in front of Capitol building.
761
01:20:09,886 --> 01:20:14,849
All HF units, attention.
GHQ to all HF units.
762
01:21:00,979 --> 01:21:02,605
Keep firing at saucers.
763
01:21:53,114 --> 01:21:58,119
The present danger is ended.
The present danger is ended.
764
01:21:58,912 --> 01:22:01,414
The present danger is ended.
765
01:22:05,627 --> 01:22:08,171
The present danger is ended.
766
01:22:08,338 --> 01:22:11,591
All units report to your commanders
for further orders.
767
01:22:15,220 --> 01:22:17,847
The present danger is ended.
768
01:22:24,187 --> 01:22:27,732
- Don't wiggle.
- Here's what it says:
769
01:22:27,941 --> 01:22:30,735
"The president has ordered
Project Sky Hook rebuilt...
770
01:22:30,902 --> 01:22:33,404
...and the space exploration
program continued...
771
01:22:33,571 --> 01:22:36,282
...under the direction
of Dr. Russell A. Marvin.
772
01:22:36,449 --> 01:22:41,746
The United Nations assembly voted
to award a gold medal to Dr. Marvin."
773
01:22:41,913 --> 01:22:45,083
And to Mrs. Marvin goes a gold medal
from Dr. Marvin...
774
01:22:45,250 --> 01:22:50,380
...for her love, courage, devotion,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
775
01:22:54,217 --> 01:22:58,012
Russ, do you think
there are any more?
776
01:22:58,179 --> 01:23:00,431
Will they come back again?
777
01:23:00,598 --> 01:23:03,518
Not on such a nice day.
778
01:23:12,235 --> 01:23:14,612
And not to such a nice world.
779
01:23:14,779 --> 01:23:18,741
-L'm glad it's still here.
- And still ours.
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