All language subtitles for Without Warning (Robert Iscove, 1994)

We interrupt this program for a
special bulletin now with Sandy Hill.

Seismologists at Caltec,
now report at

least three separate
seismic events Tonight.

Each in the Northern Hemisphere with
Earth tremors of magnitude 8.5 and above.

And the first location is believed to be
in the Thunder Basin area of Wyoming.

That's about 200
miles East of Casper.

So far we have no
reports of casualties.

The other two sites in Europe
and Asia have not been identified.

Stay tuned in to 11-o-clock news,
for further details.

We now resume our
regularly scheduled program.

We interrupt this
program for a special

report,
from Evening World News in Washington.

Here now is chief National affairs
correspondent Sander Vanocur.

Good Evening... A Meteor shower
which appears at this time every year.

Erupted into a massive
Cosmic event tonight.

As pieces of an enormous Asteroid,
plunged to Earth.

Reports are just coming in.

But it appears that at 8:24 pm,
Eastern time.

The near... Earth Asteroid
known as 6645 Ventori.

Hurled in from space,
and broke apart.

Striking the Earth,
at three separate points around the globe.

Aftershocks were felt from
Contrepta island In the Aleutian’s.

To Santiago in Chile.

In all three.

The meteorites hit
deserted world areas.

Leaving wide impact zones.

Scientists say if any one of them
had struck near an urban center.

The results would
have been catastrophic.

We begin our coverage with
correspondent Pamela Barnes.

Outside Mount Palomar observatory
in the mountains East of San Diego

Sandy, as this story first broke,
The report suggested that three.

Massive Earthquakes
struck World... wide.

The initial shock waves registered
within minutes of each other at Caltec.

The best image we have right now,
is this, infra-red shot.

From a KH11
Reconnaissance Satellite.

The crater is 2.4
kilometers wide.

More than a mile
and a half across.

The red you see around the
rim is a section of scorched earth.

From a wild-fire, that set the grassland
ablaze, at the moment of impact.

Correspondent Bree Walker was vacationing
in Wyoming, when the Meteor hit.

She came in with the first Fire-Crews,
And we go to her.

Above the crater, I'm told were having
trouble with the feed from Wyoming.

So we'll bring Bree Walkers
report to you as soon as possible.

In the meantime we
go to Barry Steinbrenner

of affiliate KTML
in Casper Wyoming.

The fires from the Meteor
crater raging out of control.

Units from the third Air
National Guard Wing,

were quickly called in,
to extinguish the flames.

More than 10,000 people living west
of Thunder Basin are being evacuated.

By national Guardsmen amid
fears the fires may spread.

And there are numerous reports of power
outages, both North and East of Cheyenne.

This is Barry Steinbrenner,
KTML Action News. Casper Wyoming

I'm told we've now contacted
correspondent Bree Walker.

She now brings us pictures,
of what is being called impact site Alpha

Located 60 miles North of Grover's Mill,
Wyoming

Bree, can you Hear us?

Sandy, as you well know I've
covered my share of disasters.

The L.A. Riots, Hurricane Andrew,
Last years floods in the Mississippi.

Even Mount St Helen's, when she
blew. But nothing I've ever encountered.

Could have prepared me for this.

Lets give you a look from the
choppers camera, mounted below.

What you are looking at now,
is the crater itself, A massive inferno.

The only way you
can describe this.

Is that what the
fire fighters are

Temperatures 1200 degrees
Fahrenheit and above.

Any Human Being
within miles of this impact,

would have been
incinerated in seconds.

As we get into the smoke
on the edge of the craters

rim, the scene of devastation
below is unbelievable.

The Guardsmen and State Troopers,
And National

Guardsmen surrounding
the impact site.

When the Asteroid hit,
it touched off a massive fire-storm,

that destroyed much
of Thunder Basin.

We're told that chopper you see down below,
is flying a team of specialists.

From the department of energy.

We expect that
they'll be checking for

Radiation,
or any potentially deadly chemicals.

That might be spilled.

And Sandy, Sandy we're just getting word
that there may have been some survivors.

Along the thunder Bay National grab land,
we're gonna go over there now, for a look.

The two other pieces of
this gigantic Meteorite came

down, came down first in
the Gobi Desert of China.

Along the southern
edge of Mongolia.

Minutes later in a
mountainous Ares of the

Pyrenees, about 20 miles,
south or Lourdes.

In southern France. Now tentatively
known as impact site Bravo.

Lourdes was the site in 1858, of
the fabled visitation by the Virgin Mary.

It's been a Mecca for
religious pilgrims ever since.

But tonight as correspondent
Paul Whitaker reports.

The mood there is one of fear.

The churches are
full here tonight.

With religious
pilgrims giving thanks.

But not because they came to
this Holy site, because they're alive.

In the hours before the Asteroid fell,
in the mountains to the

south, hundreds of people were
still on the snow capped peaks.

After a long day of
recreational skiing.

Just as the earth
started to shake,

he and his friends
looked up to the sky.

And saw a huge fireball
streaking across the sky.

This woman Sylvie Chounard also survived,
but when she

got down, She discovered her
husband Jean Paul was missing

I came down in a cable car, and err
Jean sat here, he wanted to sit down,

For the last one of the day.

And he never got back.

Ironically today was
their third anniversary

French rescue trams are combing the
mountain side for skier Jean Paul Chounard.

A bitter twist to an already
frightening turn of events.

The French have an expression.

"The more things change"
"The more they stay the same"

But tonight as the lucky ones
celebrate happy to be alive...

...one senses these people
will never be the same again.

Paul Whitaker reporting from
Lourdes, France.

Little is known tonight about
the third impact site, in China.

But as correspondent Denise
Wong reports from Beijing,

the communist government has
put the country on a state of alert

Sandy. It's just after 10:15
in the morning here in Beijing.

The Chinese news agency has reported,
that the

third Asteroid hit at 9:29 am,
Beijing time.

It struck at 105 degrees east, 45 degrees
north. Along China's border with Mongolia.

While little more has come
from the government here.

Reuters has just released
this aerial photo taken.

By the French satellite agency

From 12 miles above the Earth.

The crater is almost a
mile and a half across

Denise!! That's almost identical,
I repeat, Identical!

To the Wyoming impact site.

What do you know
about casualties?

Well Sandy Too Fong
is in a remote area.

Of the Gobi Desert,
with no rail lines, on two highways.

In or out.

As a result, it may be days,
before the full

damage from this crash
site can be assessed.

We'll be back to Denise as
soon as there's more Thank you!!

We switch now to the Johnson Space
Center where Matt Jensen, is standing by

Sandy!! The NASA scientists who
track these enormous Asteroids.

Sometimes refer to them,
as Killer Rocks!!

As such one of the first
questions we asked, was how??

How could an Asteroid of this
magnitude have been so close to Earth.

And not be detected till impact.

In July, the Comet Shoemaker Levy
9 struck the planet Jupiter, in a series.

Of massive impacts,
equal in force to 2 million Hydrogen bombs.

These events were
monitored World wide.

Through the enormous eye of the
Hubble space telescope, orbiting the Earth.

Scientist had known for months That these
events on Jupiter were about To take place.

In fact, they actually able to predict
the precise moments of impact.

Dr Kurt Martin was one of the NASA
Scientists Tracking Shoemaker Levy.

Well, what about it Doctor,
why the surprise this time???

Well first of all, there are at present,
some 25 hundred near earth Asteroids.

OF magnitude of one mile and above,
that could intercept with the Earth.

We've only identified
about 10 per cent of them.

Until tonight.

Yes!! well you see

if an Asteroid is coming
directly towards the earth.

It's very difficult to see it
until it's literally on top of us.

Doctor Martin, this is
Sander Vanocur in Washington.

Do I understand you to
say the Earth is at risk.

From more of these Asteroids.

Well I don't want
to sound alarmist.

But if one of those... Rocks
came down in a big city.

Well!!

Well what Doctor.

Lets just say it would make
the Russians seem like.

Thank you.

That was Doctor Kurt Martin
of the Johnson space center.

In a moment we'll be joined by Doctor
Jaffe, Evening World News science editor.

But first some rather startling
developments from correspondent Bree Walker

Sandy!! We're told now that at least
three men have perished in the fire storm.

Touched off by the impact of the Meteorite
believed to be Sheep ranchers who were.

Leafing grazing land, from the nearby
Thunder Basin National grasslands.

The scene is
live and it's like...

Lush green grazing land.

Now... Ash... Charred.

You can see there the bodies of
dead animals scattered everywhere

Bree!!! You should know you
should know your signals breaking up.

Wait a bit something new.

What!! WHAT!!

Down there to the
left I'll get a closer look.

All I know is the helicopter is over
Thunder Basin National Grasslands.

You have the picture.

My god, it's a human being.

I've no idea how anyone
could have survived this.

If that is a human being it
appears to be... A Child. It's a Child!!!!

We're moving in... Lets just see

Bree Walker and
Cameraman Billy Dunne

I hope you will
They're moving in.

There they are. That's Bree moving
in on what appears to be a survivor.

Moving!!! Moving
towards the child.

She's moving towards
the child. There, she is ok!!

Cameraman William
Dunne behind her.

It was definitely a child.

Ok.

It looks like it was a
little girl. It was a little Girl

I cannot tell you
what she is saying.

As you can see, she appears badly
burned how she survived I'll never know.

Apparently we've
lost our signal.

It's just extraordinary
to think that anyone

could have survived
so close to that fire zone.

It appears the child was trying to say
something, something incomprehensible.

She obviously was in shock.

We try to get back with correspondent
Walker, to learn more about that little.

Girls condition... I the meantime,
we give our affiliates.

A chance to break.

This is Sander
Vanocur in Washington.

Here once again
is Sander Vanocur.

If you're just tuning in, all of us
witnessed a remarkable rescue tonight.

After three fragments from
a giant Asteroid, fell to Earth

causing untold
damage World ...wide.

An evening World News Crew,
was flying over one of the impact sites.

When they saw something moving,
correspondent

Bree Walker and cameraman,
William Dunne.

And Found a survivor.

A little girl, we still don't know
who she is, or what she was saying.

At this moment our Helicopter is flying
her to the mercy medical center in Casper

Wyoming, and we'll get word to you on
her condition, just as soon as we have it.

Joining me now is
our Science editor.

Doctor Carolyn Jaffe

Sandy!! In the grip of a story like this,
It's a reporters job, to hold back.

Remain dispassionate, and yet.

When you look in
the eyes of that child.

You can't help but be moved

I understand you, prepared a report,
on just how powerful.

These Meteors can be.

That's right Sandy, the philosopher
George Santayana, once said that.

"He who forgets history"...
"Is destined to repeat it"

Now the three asteroid fragments
that rained down on the earth tonight.

Ahh, Weren't the first,
And most likely won't be the last.

The crater at Winslow Arizona,
more than Half a mile across.

An enormous hole caused by
an Iron Asteroid just 60 mt rs wide.

More than 50,000 years ago.

In 1908 an object the same size
exploded a few miles above the ground

at Tunguska river in Siberia.

The shock wave with the
force of 15 Hydrogen Bombs.

Incinerated more than in
acres in an impact area.

That would have spread from Maine to The
Carolina's, if it had hit the North East.

The gulf of these were just BB
shots compared to the big one.

Known now as the KT event,
Scientists now believe and object.

In the order of 7-10 kilometers wide,
impacted 65 million years ago.

Along the Mexican
Yucatan Peninsula.

A month after impact the debris
from the giant crater covered the Earth.

In a dust like cloud that
blocked out virtually all sunlight.

Billions of life forms were killed within
weeks, and ultimately the dinosaurs.

That had ruled the World
for 140 million Years perished.

And Sandy!! If an Asteroid
even one half that size

were to hit the Earth today,
the death rate could easily match.

That of of the Black Plague,
that wiped out half the population.

Of Europe during
the Middle Ages.

Well the question I've got to put to you,
is how real is the.

To the Earth today

I'm afraid it's quite real.

Two years ago NASA Scientists
calculated that the odds of a person dying.

Through a near Earth
Asteroid were about 1 in 20,000.

About the same as being
killed in an airline crash.

And that's what they assumed??

Until tonight.

You see the
danger is increasing.

Why ls that.

Astronomers announced at JPR,
say there is a

20% likely-hood,
that because of the meteor.

Shower tonight we can expect
more of these Earthbound Asteroids...

Forgive me!!...I apologize, but they're
ready now for that report from NASA.

And then we go to the Johnson Space
Center where correspondent Matthew Jensen.

Is standing by... Matt!!! Sandy the men
and women who track these giant near Earth.

Objects,
have been working non stop to

analyze the data ever
since the first impact.

At 7:24 Central time... We were inside
the operation center, where we regularly.

Follow the Shuttle flights, then just
moments ago, some data came in from NASA.

Big radio Telescope at Gold
stone in the Mojave Desert.

And all reporters were asked
to move behind this wall of glass.

They say a statement is imminent but
right now, we're watching and waiting.

We'll be back to you Matt, but first for
an insight on what may be happening.

We go to correspondent Ron
Olney at Goldstone... Ron??

Sandy... this enormous 70 meter
steerable antenna, is part of NASA's.

Deep Space Network, here to track
spacecraft, when a Comet or Asteroid.

Is identified by one of field telescopes
like the one at Mount Palomar.

The data is fed here and the space
debris as they call these killer rocks.

Is then tracked with precision.

Now the scientists who work here are
normal rather cool understated people.

But about an hour ago when the
data on 7645 Ventori was fully analyzed.

This marine Helicopter made an unscheduled
landing, a pair of MP's, raced inside.

Minutes later with one of the scientists
here, they rushed him aboard, the chopper.

Now word yet on the scientists
name or his position with NASA.

But sources say he was flown
to nearby Edwards Air force base.

For a trip by Jet to the
Space Center in Houston

Roy!,
what could have so important that they

couldn't have linked up
with Houston by phone.

Or a tele-conference.

Well they're big questions with no
answer form here, Sandy, once here.

It says that the scientists involved may
have something to do with the Asteroids.

Trajectory,
both before and after it broke up.

Thank you!!, very much.

We just received an update
from Denise Wong in Beijing.

There are no known casualties near
the third impact site designated "Charlie"

However the impact is said to have
damaged the Tingshin Hydro-Electric dam

40 kilometers to the south, power
outages have been reported throughout most

of LANGSHAN province. The Chinese
government is requesting emergency.

Generating equipment, and Red Cross
assistance, for the estimated 7.5 million.

People,
now without electricity or running water.

Doctor we've just got
word on the condition of

that little girl found
wandering near the Wyoming.

Impact site.

We go now to Evening
World News correspondent

Bree Walker,
standing by at mercy.

Medical Center in Casper.

The little girl we found at
the scene was badly burned.

She's in intensive care now being treated
for exposure and second degree burns.

Doctors have sedated her,
and they say she's resting comfortably.

Meanwhile Makoma County
Sheriff department has set up a

special hotline to try to
find out who the little girl is.

If you can help
here's the number

Bree Walker, Evening World News,
Casper Wyoming.

There's more now on the fate of another
victim, French Skier Jean Paul Chounard

after combing the area near
the second Asteroid impact site

French rescue workers,
came upon Jean Paul

Chounard,
holed in a snow cave near the base.

Of Mount Dimen.

We'll have an update soon,
from correspondent Paul Whitaker in France

Sandy in this era of home video
where people seem to shoot everything

I guess this was inevitable.
We just received tape from KWBF.

Our affiliate in Newcastle Wyoming,
some 80 miles from the impact site.

It purports to show Asteroid fragment
Alpha, streaking across the sky.

As it roars towards Thunder Basin,
I'm told it was shot by Chris O'Neil.

The father of three from Newcastle,
the voice you're hearing is Mr O'Neil.

Come on out, it's freezing... Ohh Kylie,
that looks great.

Joshua.

Trick or treat.

Look at that!!!!

The tape was analyzed by the FAA,
and apparently that was the Alpha fragment.

From 6645 Ventori, we're gonna watch it
once more as it come into the-cameras lens

Sandy we're happy to report that no
one was hurt and the children went on to.

Trick or treat with one
incredible story to tell.

Well thank goodness for that.

There's new information on that scientist,
rushed to Houston to confer with NASA.

Officials,
he is Doctor Avram Mandel.

An Astro Physicist,
at Nasa's Jet propulsion Lab

Sandy!!! Sources say Doctor Mandel,
visits the Space Center here at Houston.

At least once a month.

But this is far
from a routine trip.

In fact we've just learned that he's
flown here, not on a conventional carrier.

But in the jump seat
of a Air Force F16.

With a maximum airspeed of
more than 1400 miles per hour.

The flight time from Edwards to Houston,
should put Doctor Mandel on the ground.

Some 22 minutes from now

Sandy!! correspondent Robert Roveno,
has just flown in from Denver.

And he is at the edge
of impact site Alpha.

Apparently the police there
have just changed the ground rules

Robert!!

All the news crews here have been
asked to pull back from the immediate edge.

Of the crater. The official reason
is safety, state police saying there.

Have been after shocks,
as with the impact.

But none of the press here
on the ground has felt anything.

And there's been,
activity at the crater by NASA Scientists.

We shot this video
only moments ago

Sandy!! as you can see dozens of
investigators from NASA and the pentagon.

Have been flown in to the site which is
now beginning to resemble a civil air base.

Ahh you can see a chopper from
Olney landing, carrying additional troops.

Armed with assault weapons, Why? The
government would need fire-power like that.

At the site of a Meteor impact,
is anyone's guess???

Ahh... We're told among
the personnel being

moved to this site is
a team of mapmakers.

From the US Geological survey.

In addition the FAA now established a
no fly zone immediately over the crater.

They have made it quite
clear anyone violating

this restriction,
would be fired upon.

So these are the last picture
you'll likely to see for a while.

Ahh Sandy!!!, At impact site...
We're going to have to cut away.

A statement is imminent from, from the
press room, at the Johnson Space Center.

We go now to
correspondent Matt Jensen.

After a virtual blackout
since the first impact

Dale Powers... NASA director
of Community relations.

Is about to speak now.

Mr Director... Can you... Here
we have a short statement.

There'll be no
questions at this time.

Let me just say... Ahh for now,
except that what we're about to show you.

Is based of findings that are preliminary,
at best...

The findings, are not,
I repeat NOT definitive.

Data just analyzed by the Space Centers
computer suggest that the Asteroid...

6645 Ventori, was approaching the
Earth on a precise trajectory, for impact

at 90 degrees North Latitude when
it broke up over the Polar Ice Cap.

The three debris segments that split apart
Landed at the following impact points.

Ah... 0 degrees longitude, France. The
other two sites, were at 105 degrees west.

In Wyoming,
and the same at longitude East in Mongolia.

At Here and here.

All three sites were located
at 45 degrees North latitude.

That is all we have,
at this point.

You're saying it broke up over the North
pole and came down in a perfect pattern.

That is correct.

We've made no
conclusions at this point.

But what are the chances, that a random
Asteroid would hit and break up and fall.

With such precision

what about the fact that
Doctor Avram Mandel is being flow here.

In an Air Force Fighter Jet...

What about it???

Well you couldn't have got him down here
any faster if you shot him from a cannon.

Well What's your point???

Well according to his Bio,
he is a founding member of S.E.T.I.

Does that mean that Extra
Terrestrials are involved.

Like I said at the beginning,
There are NO questions.

There you have it,
Sandy!! in fact during Watergate

they would have called
that A non denial tonight.

This isn't like NASA ever
since the Challenger disaster.

They've been one of the most
open agencies in the government.

That's right Sandy... But as
soon as I mentioned S.E.T.I.

Well Paul just shut right down.

S.E.T.I. was originally
a NASA program.

Yes but!!,
just last year their funding was cut.

Most of the scientists
here are members of

And As you know Sandy
S.E.T.I is an acronym it

stands for Search for
Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.

And these are scientists,
who are dedicate to the belief that.

There is life on other Planets.

Our continuing coverage "asteroid fire
from the sky" will resume after this.

World News continues it's coverage, with
Doctor Carolyn Jaffee and Sander Vanocur.

For those of you just joining us,
we're tracking

the story of a large,
near Earth Asteroid.

That broke up over
the North Pole tonight,

and collided with the
Earth at three sites in.

The United States,
Europe, and Asia.

We'll have more on the
damage in a moment.

But first news on
two of the survivors.

Correspondent Paul Whitaker begins
with this live report, from Lourdes.

In southern France

Sandy!! rescuers are bringing skier
Jean Paul Chounard down to the mountain.

Where he's been stranded since
the Asteroid hit, earlier this evening.

We've been getting reports,
that his condition is critical

He's semi comatose, and suffering
from Frost Bite, and third degree burns.

Getting him down of this mountain,
has been an incredible task.

As you can well imagine.

And his wife Sylvia, is thoroughly
relieved, that he's been found alive.

She's going to accompany him,
to the burn center in Nice.

We'll follow this story, and will get
back to you as soon as we know more.

This is Paul Whitaker AP World News,
reporting from Lourdes.

We switch now to Mercy Medical
Center in Casper... Wyoming where.

Correspondent Bree
Walker is standing by

Bree

Sandy... A woman called here
to the hot..line, just moments ago

and said,
the little girl is her DAUGHTER.

She gave few other details,
but did issue a

statement,
confirming the identity of the little girl.

As 8 years old Kimberly
Hastings of Cordales in Mexico.

Apparently she had been
missing since last Friday.

No one knows yet how
she got this far North.

Corales is almost 400 miles,
from where the Asteroid hit.

Doctors say she is still in
a critical condition tonight.

Yet she is one lucky,
little girl.

With the mystery over little
Kimberly's identity cleared up.

We shift now to
a larger question.

How is it that an Asteroid
can break up and fall to Earth.

With an almost
Geometric precision.

My colleague, Science Editor,
Doctor Carolyn Jaffee.

Has found one Astronomer
who believes he has the answer.

We were looking at the Sea of Tranquillity,
and that's a stretch of craters.

Created over the Centuries, when
Asteroids pock... marked the Lunar surface.

This shot of the Moon, was taken
through a 158 inch, reflector telescope.

And operating it is
Doctor Robert Pearlman.

A Caltec PH.D. and Astronomer,
who has

personally identified,
a half dozen, major Comets.

Doctor Pearlman!!

What's the significance
of tonight's events???

Well you see, in the Astronomical term,
coming so close to Shoemaker Levy Nine.

Is really unique
in recorded history.

We understand, that you actually
have photograph, of 6645 Ventori.

Taken just before it broke up.

Um.

This was taken, at an elevation,
12,500 miles, above the pole.

Now four minutes later,
when we attempted to take another plate.

The Asteroid exploded.

Doctor Pearlman...
Sander Vanocur.

Hi Mr Vanocur

I understand you're the co-chair
with Doctor Avram Mandel of S.E.T.I.

The search for extra
terrestrial intelligence

I am!!!

Well Doctor... What do you make
of the announcement by NASA.

That the Asteroid fragments struck,
in precise order.

Well it just confirms what
we've been saying for years

I mean with 200 billion star systems,
in the Milky way Galaxy alone.

The existence of intelligent
life beyond Earth is undeniable.

Right!! But why jump to
that conclusion in this case,

just because the Asteroid
fragments hit at the same latitude.

Ha ha ha, but that's a very
very good question, let me see this.

Yes, yes!! Can you see this.

Yes!! We can.

Alright... Er-mm... 6645 Ventori,
Approached the Earth.

On a dead center trajectory,
for the North Pole.

The angles of the three impact sites
A, B and C are exactly 45 degrees.

So... The odds against that happening
in nature are something like ohh...

10 to the 58th power.

Soooo... What are you saying??

I'm saying that what we've
seen tonight is unnatural.

Could it happen at random??

Not a chance.

Ohh, thank you Doctor.

That was Astronomer Robert Pearlman,
executive director

of the American observatory
In Chips peak Arizona.

We need to point out for our viewers,
the danger of speculation.

At this point.

Because, of the breaking events tonight,
we're bringing new information that's live.

And unedited.

That's right Sandy... And
viewers should keep

that in mind,
as they watch this next report

Barry Steinbrenner at
KTML in Casper Wyoming.

A 39 year old Crop-Duster
Pilot identified as Thomas

Aspell,
was questioned by local Law enforcement.

And Air Force officials,
and later released, after reporting a UFO.

The alleged incident occurred as he
was landing his plane some 40 miles.

West of crash site Alpha,
near Benson Wyoming.

Why were you in
there so long????

Since Casper refuses to talk, We've
taped this interview with Sheriff's deputy.

Anson Peters.

The first official to
speak with Aspell.

He told me, that he was just coming down
at around ahh 6:45 after dusting, that day.

Anyway Askell was shaken... I
mean the man was terrified.

He said he was just coming in when,
this uh THING.

Appeared on his right inside,
and it followed

him a few hundred feet,
as he landed.

And then it,
streaked across his windshield,

then took off
straight up like a shot.

At this point the,
the pilot Askell is in seclusion.

We checked with the FAA to see if
there was anything unusual on Radar.

And they have no comment.

This is Barry Steinbrenner
KTML action news Wyoming.

Well we've just learned that Mr Askel, has
sold his story to the National Enquirer.

Though he denies it,
the full purchase price

is believed to be upwards
of 100,000 Dollars.

Well!! Was there really
something up there tonight???

We took our camera's outside,
just moments ago, to get reaction.

Do I believe in UFOs

I don't know

I like the aliens...
I like the theory

I have no doubt, there is a UFO

I definitely,
definitely don't think it's UFO;s.

But That to me is just arrogance to
think that everything can be explained.

With scientific data and information,
I mean, for years we've always assumed.

That there's no life on other Planets,
but why wouldn't it be there

I'm not surprised

I don't know... I don't think so

I really don't

I don't believe in aliens.

Alright.

Do you know the White House
has been noticeably silent, in all this.

Because in the time of the
country at the G7 economic summit.

For him that may be a blessing.

But!! there's a least one
segment of the administration

willing to comment on
the alleged UFO incident.

We go now to National security
correspondent Mark Manetti at the Pentagon.

Here with me tonight
is the deputy under

secretary of defense for
advanced technologies.

Doctor Norbert Hazelton.

So Doctor, with NASA's announcement,
of how the Asteroid fragments came in,

I suppose that talk of
UFOs was inevitable.

Absolutely!...They all come out
of the woodwork, at times like this.

Granted the reporting
s have to be confirmed.

But what about the
findings of Doctor Robert

Pearlman. Would you
respect the scientist.

No!

There's an irresponsible segment
of the scientific community.

That seems bent, on proving
the existence of little green men.

And that's fine... The
problem is that the US has

been trying to establish
contact for decades.

To no avail

7 separate unmanned probes have been
launched towards the edge of the Galaxy.

Beaming messages from Earth.

There have been more than a
thousand US space shots alone.

Since the 1960's... Another
24 hundred by the Russians

12 men landed on the Moon.

And returned, without sightings.

We wanted to find them,
there was nothing.

What about the Geometric
patterns of the crashes.

How can something so precise,
simply be attributed as a natural phenomena

well I've got just
one answer for you.

Snowflakes.

Hundreds of trillions of
them fall to earth every year.

Each with an intricate geometric pattern,
and no two alike.

Nature is precise in its randomness,
and that is the fascination of it.

Thank you Doctor.

Back to you

Sandy with these allegations
of UFO involvement,

we shouldn't forget
the real story here.

That the more than 2,000 near Earth
Asteroids, still uncharted by NASA.

Represent a significant
threat to the Earth.

Two years ago during a
Football game in New York.

Fans observed this Meteorite
streak through the sky.

Where it almost destroyed
a residential neighbourhood.

In 1972 an alert photographer in
the National Park, caught this object

as it streaked across the
sky at 33,000 miles an hour.

With an estimated weight
of one million pounds.

It narrowly missed the camp
grounds of thousands of people.

And in 1989, an Asteroid half a mile wide,
narrowly missed the planet.

The Earth had been directly in line with
that giant rock only six hours earlier.

You're saying that we were only
six hours away from catastrophe.

That's right, ahh in fact after that near
miss, a congressional report concluded.

Quote... Had the Asteroid struck the Earth,
it would have caused a disaster.

Unprecedented, in human history.

Doctor as you know,
Government officials

continue to insist that
tonight's Asteroid hits

were Natural origin, there's a growing
segment of the population who sense.

Something more.

And joining us now is Terence Freeman,
author of the recent best seller.

Messengers from beyond.

Mr Freeman, You're welcome.

Glad to be here Sir.

Ah Mr Freeman, you've warned
that a proponent of the theory.

That intelligent life,
has visited Earth before... Correct?

Ah there's no question,
there are ancient cave

drawings showing
figures in space helmets...

Ah .The Pyramid's,
the enormous figures on Easter Island.

Even the circle at Stonehenge,
were all built at a

time before we had the
technical skills to create them

I'm sorry Mr Freeman, But! You, You seem
to be denying all of human achievement.

No! On the contrary, men and
women accomplished these things.

But they were guided
by forces on high.

It's humanic, you can trace the
bench marks throughout history.

They come once every few hundred years,
and we are long overdue.

Well there are plenty of responsible
scientists, who would argue that.

These Asteroids
are long overdue.

You Know! There is a dictum
that scientists are taught to follow.

It says that when you
are faced with an enigma.

Ahh the best ...Explanation is usually
the simplest and most logical one.

In this case
Asteroids. Not Aliens

I gotta interrupt you both.

We've just received, a disturbing
report from correspondent Robert Marino

He's now on the ground near
impact site Alpha in Wyoming

Robert

Sandy... Two events in
the last ten minutes have

put the Asteroid impact
in a chilling New light.

First our News chopper and about a
half a dozen aircraft, were forced to land.

When an intense radio signal began to
interfere with our navigational systems.

Then after we hit the grass, we began
to hear that noise in the background.

A pulsating hum coming from
the direction of the meteor crater.

The decibels have
increased minute by minute, to

the point where you
have to scream to be heard

Bob can you get any
closer to the rim of the crater.

Can you get any closer to
the rim of the crater... Right.

RIGHT... Ahh

you hear sound as we
move towards the crater.

It's eerie, it doesn't sound like
anything I've ever heard before.

And it... it ...pow.

In fact... it's painful.

In fact... it's happening.

It's like...

The AP is reporting that State police
units as far away as Casper Wyoming.

Have been picking up that same loud hum,
on their Radio's.

And there's this statement just in
from NASA's Jet propulsion Laboratory.

Quote... A persistent
audio signal of unknown

origin, on the edge of the
FM band is being emitted.

From the crater... un quote.

In other words,
that apparently benign piece

of space rock is
charged electronically.

And sending out
some sort of signal

Matt Jensen has
more from Houston.

Officials here at the Jensen Space Center,
have confirmed

that similar radio signals
have now been detected.

Emanating from the Bravo
and Charlie impact sites.

In southern France and in
the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

There's no official word
from NASA. But sources

here say that the signals
could be natural in origin.

From the result of ...What
is being described as

...quote... The
pulsating charged ion field.

Which developed during the parent
Asteroid's flight through the atmosphere.

We repeat at this juncture, the word
is that the signal's are of Natural origin.

Back to you.

There's some activity at the FAA air
traffic system command in Washington DC.

We go there now with
correspondent Mike Curtis

Caroline... I'm standing
in the aviation command

center. Where authorities
have now confirmed.

That signals emanating from the
Asteroid site have begun to disrupt.

Commercial air traffic.

With me now is Facility manager David Case,
David!

Are you able to shed
any light on this situation.

For us... Air traffic is
being disrupted across the

country, but as you can see,
on the screen behind me.

Ahh, the problem is most acute
at O'Hare in Chicago, Wayne.

County Airport in Detroit,
and the three New York City.

New York, JFK and La Guardia.

Mr Case... This
is Caroline Jaffee

45 degrees north is the very same parallel,
where the Asteroid fragments struck.

Yes Mam.

Do You want any comment on that.

No!...I'm afraid I have nothing
to say about that, at this time.

If you'll excuse me,
I have to get back to work.

This is Mike Curtis reporting live,
back to you Caroline.

Thanks Mike.

In a moment we hope to have more
on those mysterious radio signals.

We stress again, we don't yet
know the full significance, of all this...

But one thing is clear.

An event that began some 95 minutes ago,
with huge human casualties.

Has now grown into an International
air crisis, affecting thousands.

Our continuing coverage...
Asteroid Fire from the Sky.

Will return in a moment.

Now once again with
Doctor Caroline Jaffee and Sander Vanocur.

For those of you
just joining us now.

We are following,
an ever widening crisis, touched

off by the impact tonight
of a massive Meteor.

That broke up,
and fell to Earth.

Radio signals from
the three impact sites.

Are affecting Air traffic World-Wide,
and FAA

officials are recommending
people fly tonight.

Only if it's absolutely
necessary.

We go now to one of
the cities hardest hit.

Correspondent Ernie
Anastos is in New York.

They come here to Times Square, as they
always do, when the World is in trouble.

The Cuban Missile crisis, The Kennedy
assassination, the war in the gulf...

All recorded up on that sign. When you
want to take a pulse feel of the Planet.

Few places can give you
a reading like New York.

Ever since the Meteor shower started,
several hours ago.

Things we take for
granted have been affected.

Officials at New York Airport are
reporting, delays of up to 3 hours.

The situation is worse at La Guardia,
and the two

runways at JFK,
have been completely shut down.

All New York Valley Air traffic
was diverted to Boston, and Hartford.

As interference form the three impact
sites continues to scramble Radar.

The only planes moving at La Guardia,
were outgoing flights.

The resulting gridlock at airports,
has produced massive traffic jams.

This is the Holland tunnel tonight,
and as you can see, traffic backed up.

With thousands
leaving the city by car.

Others abandoned their
vehicles and rushed into the tunnel.

Trying to get out
of the city on foot.

New York city 911
emergency center is overloaded

now, and running on backup
generators at this hour.

The Police and fire
departments have called

in all off duty personnel,
during the crisis.

And finally, hundreds of people of all
denominations, jammed St Patricks Tonight.

For a prayer vigil conducted
by Terence O'Connel.

So Sandy... Here we
are at the foot of the

tower,
where the ball drops every new Years eve.

And if we had still been
here last December 31st.

Looking ahead to 1994

I assure that no one
would have predicted this

Ernie Anastos... Evening
World News New York.

As money markets open now in Asia,
there

are reports that trading
has been suspended.

On the Hong Kong
and Tokyo markets.

Scattered power outages have been
reported, throughout Europe and Asia.

But for the most part,
people are staying calm.

Just watching and waiting to
see if the unthinkable is possible.

Could intelligent life exist elsewhere,
out side our solar system.

And if so, do they have the
capability of visiting Earth.

Doctor

Sandy, you know America is a
country that thrives on conspiracy...

The very word cover-up,
is part of our national lexicon

and For close to
five decades now.

Ten's of thousands of Americans,
have been convinced of two things.

That there is something out there and
the Government doesn't want us to know.

The UFO era began in 1947 when a
sheep rancher in Roswell, New Mexico...

found fragments of what
he said was a flying disc.

Later... The Air Force called
it a weather balloon, but

a secret government report
made public years later.

Describe the recovery of four tiny bodies,
from the Roswell crash site...

And ever since then, there have
been hundreds of reported sightings...

However the Air Force shut down
project Blue Book concluding...

Quote... No evidence has been found,
that any of the

UFO reports reflected a
threat to our national security.

Well... There's science
fact... And there's science fiction.

To help separate the two we go,
we go now to

a man who has spent
years studying the threat.

From these massive Meteors

Arthur C Clarke... The noted author
of 2001 and dozens of other books.

Was recently nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize.

He joins us now live from his
home in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

- Doctor Clarke... Thanks for being with us
- My pleasure.

Doctor Clarke ...as far
back as 1973..In your book

Rendezvous with Rama,
you wrote about the threat..

From near Earth
Asteroids... isn't that right??

That's correct.

There are those who believe,
tonight's impacts

have some connection
to extra terrestrials.

What's you view...
Well I believe there's

plenty of intelligent
life out there in space.

That troubles the
Earth... Very unlikely

despite the claim by
the UFO enthusiasts.

Why is that?

We've been sending out
Radio.Radar. Signals for 50 years

a volume of space
100 light years across.

And we haven't had any reply.

UFO advocates would say
that you have had a reply

but the government just isn't telling.

Nonsense... I'd give any social
date. About 24 hours from???

And apart from being
broadcast transmissions,

NASA has made
attempts to send messages

to any possible
civilizations in space.

Using the Voyager Space Probe

I understand you have a copy there of
the disk, they sent out on Voyager two.

Yes a record like this carrying
pictures and messages.

From the peoples of Earth,
and from the United Nations...

Well if they're out there and we
sent them a beacon... So to speak.

Why wouldn't they answer???

I'm afraid it's a function
of time and space.

The distance between advanced civilizations
may be thousands of light years.

So even if they were
traveling at the speed of light

it might take them several
millennia to get there.

But just for the sake of argument,
say it was possible.

All right... but then the question is,
why bother to come here...

For the Earth to be chosen,
we must assume, we are special...

But looking at the primitive
state of our civilization

I think that's very conceited.

So what are you saying???

Well... There is a much
bigger issue at stake. We

need to protect ourselves
against rogue Asteroids.

Which are very real.

And pose a much bigger threat,
to Earth.

Thank you... Doctor Clarke.

That was Scientist and author,
Arthur C Clarke.

Speaking to us from Sri Lanka.

We go to Lourdes France where
correspondent Paul Whitaker.

Has an update on the condition.

Of Jean Paul Chounard... The French
skier who survived the second impact.

I'm here at Toulon Airport near Lourdes
France, where just moments ago...

Doctors airlifted Jean Paul Chounard
to the burn center in Nice.

We spoke to Chounards wife Sylvie,
just moments before they departed.

What is your husbands
condition Please.

Err, um he ah, he was trying to tell
me I don't know maybe, how he survived

I just don't know.

But ...Jean Paul is strong
and he will not give up.

In the meantime, Air France has
suspended all flights in and out of Rome.

Where these bizarre
radio signals threaten to

paralyze one of Europe's
busiest Airports.

This is Paul Whitaker Evening World
News. Julian Airport Near Lourdes, France

Wyoming Police,
have widened the area of

evacuation,
to 200 miles around impact site Alpha.

We're about to go live,
to correspondent Robert Moreno... Near...

Well I'm sorry we're not going there
...we're not, we've just received word.

Of an unscheduled
briefing at the White House,

correspondent Mike
Curtis is standing by

Mike!!!

Sandy... A formal briefing
had been scheduled for 11

pm tonight,
to coincide with local news broadcast.

But moments ago the White
House press corp... was summoned

here, for what has been
described as a high priority briefing.

Press secretary Barbara Schiller,
er. that must be her now.

Uhhm... Earlier tonight following
the impact of three Meteor fragments.

President Clinton directed
NASA to begin a round

the clock monitoring,
of all near Earth Asteroids...

with a potential of
penetrating the atmosphere.

At approximately 9:17 pm,

the Air Forces,
Geo Tracking Station,

at Sacola New Mexico, Maui Hawaii,
and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...

...Ah, detected the presence of what,
appears to be a second Asteroid.

At 65 meters, or 200 feet in length,
it is on a trajectory,

almost identical to the
path of 6645 Ventori.

The Radio telescope at Arecebo Puerto Rico,
locked on, and they confirm.

That the object is
heading towards the Earth,

at an airspeed of
33.000 miles per hour.

The expected impact, in the area of
the polar ice cap is 5 minutes from now.

At 9:52 pm Eastern time, the President and
joint Chiefs of Staff ordered units of the

388 Fighter Wing.

From Hill Air Force base
Utah to full alert, A pair of

F16 Fighters from the 18th
space surveillance squadron.

Were ordered into the air,
under defense condition, two standards.

The planes are armed with
Hawk optically Guided Missiles,

capable of destroying
the Asteroid before impact.

Ahh... These missiles are tipped with
2 kiloton, low yield Nuclear warheads.

The f16's are expected
to be in target range, at

approximately 10:16... Which
is 4 minutes from now.

Yeah

Barbara..How can the President possibly
justify the use of Nuclear Weapons.

Ahhh... Well a panel from the National
Academy of Sciences, met Tonight.

And... Their conclusion was, that if
the Asteroid penetrated the Ice Cap.

Then the consequences
for the Earth's ecological

balance,
could be absolute catastrophic.

What about the radio signals,
jamming air

traffic,
how will that affect the F16's launch.

Ahh it is our understanding,
the traffic is

only affected,
along the 45th Parallel yet.

Does the President
consult congress.

Ahh... the President did speak
with leaders of both houses, earlier.

And what about
other World leaders

Russian President Boris Yeltsin,
and Chinese

Premier Deng Xiaoping,
have been informed.

Both leaders have expressed their concern,
as

has,
the chairman of the UN Security Council

let me just tell you,
one other thing, and that

is, the military hardware,
that is to be used.

Is identical to that
which was deployed so

successfully,
in the Gulf War... That's all.

There's word just in,
that the E vac will be

monitored live at the
Johnson Space Center.

They're deciding whether or not,
to give the media, access to the feed...

But NASA, which has been quite
quiet throughout much of this crisis.

Now... Seems to be opening up..

Matt Jensen's live in Houston.

Why the sudden turn around?

Sandy... no one here
wants to openly break

ranks with the White
House or the Pentagon.

But there are a number of Scientists,
who are

unsure,
about the use of Nuclear Weapons...

Among them... Doctor Kurt
Walden. Who I spoke with earlier.

Doctor ...What is your concern??

It's this... With an incoming projectile
moving at 50 times, the speed of sound.

A close quarters air engagement,
will be quite ineffective.

No Sir. The prospect of a
Nuclear burst over the Ice Cap,

may produce consequences,
even more dire for the Earth...

For the Earth's ecology

I'll be monitoring US Strategic Command,
off an Air Force base... Omaha, Nebraska.

We will be listening
to the voice of Air force

Ones, control officer,
Major Scotty Powell...

You will.-be allowed to stay..

That was Dale Powell. The director of
community relations here for NASA...

He's has just told the press,
that we will be

allowed to stay here.
In the operation center.

Where they will be
monitoring the F16's...

So... We'll be back, when the
missiles are ready to be launched...

Doctor there's late
word from New York.

Where the United Nations Security
Council has gone in a special session.

Correspondent Ernie Anastos,
is outside UN Headquarters.

Excuse me!!

Could you tell me why?
You're here tonight.

So that the World Leaders
know that if we are being

visited, the Asteroids
represent some kind of contact...

And the World should
respond in peace.

Ambassador... what
action will the council take?

In the event of the unthinkable,
and these are indeed extra terrestrials.

We'll try formulate an agenda,
for the sake of it.

Personally... I don't care
if it's Asteroids or Aliens.

The most important thing is the keep
our family's safe, keep our homes safe...

If they come to Brooklyn,
we'll know what to do...

I come down here with my boys,
from St Kotch,

figure maybe we could find us,
some Aliens.

Smash some heads...
Why so hostile... You

Kiddin... I got a brother
flies for the airlines.

These things are messing with
aircraft... we got to stop them.

The two fighters that took of
from Hill Air force base, in Utah.

Will be designated interceptor one,
and interceptor two.

We go back now to mission control,
at the Johnson Space center

Sandy... We're at T-minus 52 seconds,
and counting here.

You'll be seeing three, pictures
up on that active Matrix display...

On the furthest screen, is a feed from the
tracking station at Sacora, New Mexico...

Showing the incoming
Asteroid... The middle

screen will be a graphic
showing the two F16's.

And the Asteroid,
in relation to the North Pole...

And the image on the
far left is from a camera

mounted in the cockpit
of interceptor one.

T minus 30 seconds.

That's Major Scotty Powers,
the... Air Force launch control officer.

Confirm...
Lock on guidance.

Prepare to fire 3-2-1.

Engage.

Come on home boys.

What the hell is that???

6-5... We're losing
video on India one...

It seems like we have a
direct hit on the Asteroid.

There's some concern here,
that we've lost the image of the cockpit.

People are watching here

India one... India two.

Shut down.

At 10:16 pm,
some 4 seconds before the Asteroid was

destroyed, the transponder
signals from the the two F16'S.

Went off the Radar screens,
at the same time as sounds we've

been hearing from the craters,
were heard at extra speed

transmissions...
the two fliers...

Both of Hill Air Force Base,
are missing and presumed dead.

The Nuclear Submarine USS Houston,
which surfaced at the Polar Ice Cap.

Has reported seeing debris,
consistent with the afterburner of an F16.

Search teams are racing to the
scene from Gander in Newfoundland.

Now to the Pentagon
where the Air Force is about

to conduct a briefing
on what they're calling.

Defensive engagement
with the Meteor

deputy under secretary of defense Norbert
Hazelton and General Lucian Alexander.

US Air Force GM staff.

Let me say at the outset
that we are deeply grieved...

Over the loss of two
outstanding Air Force pilots.

But they gave their lives so that
we can stand here tonight and report.

On their perfect
mission profile...

I want to stress, that the Warheads
loads were extremely low yield...

Any trace radiation should be spread in
the atmosphere within a matter of days.

The Radio signals from Wyoming,
France, and Mongolia, have ceased.

There's every reason to
believe that what the people

of the Earth experienced
was a natural phenomenon...

General Alexander...
GENERAL ALEXANDER.

How ...How can you attribute
this to natural phenomenon,

when we all saw the
glow inside the cockpit...

Just a lens flare...
With air speeds like

that and the light conditions,
over the Pole.

The cockpit awry.

What about the trajectory.

Hey come on 6645 Ventori and
the same Asteroid, the latest one.

They were all on
an identical path.

Not surprising,
it's not surprising.

It's quite possible they were both
part of the same source Asteroid.

Look the pieces simply split in deep space,
and came in on line.

Tell you one thing
Ladies and Gentlemen.

IF there was ever an
argument for jump starting

the anti missile defense shield,
this is it.

We were lucky tonight.

Good shooting, great hardware.

The Next time it might
be a different story.

Next time.

That Anti Missile Shield, the general was
talking about of course is the Star Wars...

System ...The favourite
of President Reagan's. Put

on the shelf when President
Clinton came into power

Sandy... The Air Force F16 jet carrying
Avram Mandel, has touched down in Houston

He's about to arrive in the
Johnson Space Center, in Houston.

And Matt Jensen's there live

Caroline, Any minute now that
door behind me will open and

the man, who has become
something of an enigma, in all this.

Will arrive, and speak, with us.

The action of the Pentagon
is frankly unforgivable...

There is a force behind these
Asteroids that is clearly intelligent

fact that they chose to
land first in unpopulated

areas. demonstrates clearly
that they meant us no harm.

The Radio signal was
acting merely as a sort of

transponder,
they have steered the second vehicle in.

The entire notion, of a flying
saucer is a fiction... it's a fiction...

It took the form that
they wanted to take,

they came in the way
that they chose to come...

In peace of course!!!!

What I'm saying is that we have
made a pre-emptive strike... people.

We have just declared war.

It's clear that Doctor Mandel,
is quite emotional.

And as soon as we have
details of his meeting here.

We'll be back.

This is Matt Jensen Evening World
News at the Johnson Space Center.

An Evening World News Telephone Poll,
suggests

that more than two
third of the public.

Now believes that the Asteroids
are connected, to alien life form.

It has been a night filled with
charges and counter charges.

But we would be remiss as journalists
if we didn't separate fact from allegation.

To the best of anyone's knowledge,
at this point.

The giant Meteors that came to
Earth tonight were of natural origin.

All right hmm...

With the radio signals now silent
Robert Moreno is live from Faith.

A Wyoming town less than 50
miles from the impact site Alpha

Robert...

I'm here in Faith an
old religious community

dating back to the
mid 19th century.

The town is well outside
the evacuation zone,

there are no reported
casualties or incidents.

After the nearby impact

Then... after the meteor
explosion at the North Pole

Wyoming Edison detected
an unusual power surge, here

They sent a repair
crew out to inspect,

when they got here,
this, is what they found

Sandy... the streets are deserted,
everybody has vanished

Men Women Children, cats and Dogs.
Cars are left in the middle of the streets.

And except for the National Guardsmen,
there isn't a soul here...

The town is completely empty...

Frozen in time...

The side walks are streaming
with Trick or treat bags,

as if the Children simply
dropped them as they left...

I don't know what
else to say... It's eerie

International guards
Sergeant... Leroy Diggs,

told us he was a forward
re-con in Desert Storm

That he never saw
anything like this...

It's like they got
swallowed up...

We did a full house to house,
checked for

radiation, Toxic emissions,
we got Nothing...

I'm telling ya there's
no way to explain this,

The rescuer workers
are even using motion

detectors,
set to pick up the smallest movement

But there's nothing

In a town where 3,000 people lived, work,
and go to School... Everyone is simply gone

As soon as we have any word on
what happened here... We'll be back

But for now... This
is a ghost town...

This is Robert Moreno... Faith,
Wyoming

A rather sad note from France,
Paul Whitaker reports from outside the

Colombiere Burn Center in Nice,
where it's now morning...

It's 6:43 am Greenwich time here...
Sandy... And doctors have just sent word

That Jean Paul Chounard the French
skier they took off the mountain has died

He regained consciousness
briefly before succumbing

to injuries sustained,
when the Asteroid hit

And doctors were able to get a
recording of his last words here

Hearing that it would be
exploited by the Tabloid press his

widow Sylvie has requested
that it be released on the networks

Jean Paul

Evening World news continuing
coverage will resume in a moment...

Continuing our coverage
on the aftermath of three

enormous Meteors fragments
that struck the Earth tonight

We go first to correspondent
Mike Curtis at the

FAA's air traffic system
command in Washington DC

Radio signals from the three
impact sites may have stopped...

But Aviation authorities, report ticket
counters jammed, at Airports Nationwide

This is Baltimore
Washington International

Most Airlines report
delays of up up three hours

As dozens of flights
are being diverted here

Sandy... This is a
Continental lite market - and

fortunately,
the people at this end of the terminal

Are able to get out, because
these flights are still taking off...

Authorities say it may be morning
before traffic returns no normal

This is Mike Curtis at the Aviation
command center, Washington DC

Meanwhile correspondent Ron Olney, has news
on the final words of Jean Paul Chounard

He's outside Nasa's Goldstone
facility in the Mojave Desert

Warren

Caroline in this breaking story, that
seem to take a different turn every minute

We've just learned that the last
words of Jean Paul Chounard

Are being analyzed here,
by Nasa's computers

They're checking for
any similarities between

Chounards incomprehensible
speech pattern

And that of 8 year old
Kimberly Hastings who

of course was found
more than 6.000 miles away

We'll have more on this when
we get it... Now back to you

We have an update now on
little Kimberly Hastings, the

8 year old girl found
wandering near impact site alpha

Bree Walker is at Mercy Medical center,
in Casper Wyoming... Bree

Finally some good news to report,
as little Kimberly's

condition is upgraded
from critical to stable

Doctors are still not able to
get through to her verbally,

but there's no way to know,
what if anything she remembers

When the Asteroid crashed

As to how she got to the impact
site. When Donna Hastings,

her mother arrived at the hospital,
just moments ago

She was mobbed by the Media,
wanting to know news

How did Kimberly get to Wyoming

They took her from me

We're going to Canada

Sandy... Doctor Robert Pearlman,
the Astronomer we

interviewed earlier,
has done a computer analysis of the first

Three impact sites,
he's joining us now live from his

Lab from the American
observatory Kitt Peak, Arizona...

Doctor Pearlman can
you hear me. Yes Mam??

This is a 3D Model of 6645 Veturi,
as it came to Earth

The break up occurred some 65 hundred
miles above 90 degrees north latitude,

Which is the true North Pole

You can see the three fragments
falling to their impact sites

Designated Alpha, Bravo, Charlie

As I connect the trajectories, you will see
what looks like a Diamond shaped Pyramid

With its apex above the Pole

The angles on impact
are exactly 45 degrees

Forgive me Doctor Pearlman,
but that looks remarkably

like the line drawing
you showed us earlier

What’s on you, about this model

Well it will become relevant,
when I show you this!!!

Now this is an exact reproduction,
of a pixellated

message, that was sent out in 1973,
on Pioneer 11

Here you will see symbols for MAN,
The Solar System, the DNA Double Helix

Which is the basic
molecule of life

And a figure representing
the Pioneer Spacecraft itself

You will note the
upside down pyramid

Now watch

It's unmistakable

The Asteroid fragments
represented a symbol

They were using the descent
vector to send us a message

That’s an intriguing
theory Doctor Pearlman,

but I'm sure you'll agree,
it's subject to debate

Of course

We've invited Doctor Norbert
Hazelton to join us, He's

Deputy under secretary for defense,
and if you don't mind

- he has some questions.
- Not at all.

- Fire away Doctor Hazelton.
- Doctor Pearlman.

If I understand you correctly

You're saying Aliens
visited Earth tonight

No, no, I said it was possible

Come come... You brought in Pioneer,
you've matched

a couple of triangles,
what are you saying??

Well if you put it like that,
quite frank it sounds improbable

But consider what
happened tonight

The pattern of the impact sites,
the radio signals,

survivors speaking-in in tongues,
an entire town missing...

Forgive me Doctor,
this isn't some trekkie convention..There

are millions of people
in the World right now...

Panicking needlessly

Yes and I would like to
know how much that has to

do with the hair trigger
response of the Pentagon

If you can show me
aliens in those triangles, I'll

give you the second
gunman on the grassy Knoll

Listen you know as well as I do,
the scientific

community is divided on this,
But you people

You people see this as
an opportunity to hot-wire

Star Wars,
and it shouldn't come down to that...

There's is much
more at stake here

You're damn right there is

Gentlemen I'm sorry
but we've run out of time

You've just heard from
Astronomer Robert Pearlman, and

deputy under secretary of defense,
Norbert Hazelton

And Now to recap. The
Earth was rocked tonight by

three separate fragments
from an enormous meteor

That landed in the United States,
Europe, and Asia

A second Meteor on a direct path with
the first one was shot down by US planes

Using Nuclear Weapons,
over the North Pole

The two Pilots,
in that mission perished-

After radio signals
from the three meteor

fragments began jamming,
Air traffic World wide

There's some speculating
that the Asteroids

may have a connection
to Extra Terrestrials

That issue has fractured
the scientific community

While the sole survivor
of the Asteroid impact in

Wyoming,
and 8 year old girl remains Hospitalized

Unable to speak

President Clinton in new jetting back
to Washington aboard Air Force One

He's scheduled an address to the nation,
when he lands at Andrews air base

At 11;16 pm Eastern time

Excuse me Sandy, but Doctor Avram Mandel,
the second scientist

rushed to the Johnson Space Center,
has just emerged from

The meeting with NASA officials

He's talking with reporters right now,
and we pick up his comments, in progress

No, no, no, I'm way past that,
well why do this here

Because, I'm no longer speaking
as a stat scientist at NASA

Effective at 9:32 pm central time,
I resigned my position

as a concerned Astronomer,
and most importantly, as a human being

I can no longer associate myself with the
governments handling of this ongoing crisis

We were given a
gift tonight People!!

We had a visitation... They
came in peace and we answered

them with 2,000 tons of TNT
at he end of a Nuclear Warhead

What if this had been Jesus,
or Buddha, or Mohammed

Or a prophet of old

I mean,
haven't we learned anything from history

We all know that we have the
most violent planet in the Galaxy

In gods name why did
we have to take it to that??

Doctor you're upset

Couldn't we do
this in the right way

No I want to do this in the right way,
that's why I flew out here

I tried to plead with these people,
and it didn't do any good

Doctor Mandel. You
mentioned before that this

is an ongoing crisis,
what did you mean by that

You don't know No!!!

You mean they
haven't told you anything

Look the Doctors
clearly disturbed

Avvy, don't you do this.
This is not responsible.

I'm being responsible
to myself now

I'm so sorry I'm so so sorry

At approximately
10:32 pm Eastern time

The Radio Telescope at umm

At Goldstone Mojave,
received a signal

The Air Force tracking stations,
locked on as well...

There are three Asteroids
of a magnitude of two

miles each and above
that are on a trajectory

With Earth

They are headed directly
towards three of the Earth's most

populace cities,
Beijing in The Peoples Republic of China

Moscow, as well as Washington DC

Are those Cities???

I don't know, I can only guess and
that is they are the Capitols of the

only three nations on this Planet,
who have a first strike Nuclear threat

The Asteroids are expected to hit sometime,
around 10:52 pm Eastern time

And That's nine minutes from now

We declared War against them

People We did it

And now they've just
decided to respond

So may god have mercy on us all

Our coverage of this continuing
crisis will resume after this

From now on we'll stay on the air
continuously, until this crisis is over

As we count down now
to the moment of impact...

The Mayors of the nations ten
largest Cities, have all imposed curfews

Looting is widespread, amid fears of
food shortages, as the crisis deepens

Meanwhile the Radio signals,
at all three impact sites, have resumed

This time they're affecting
not only commercial air traffic

But Radio and TV
signals across the globe

In many countries
telephone service is out

The reaction in this
country has been panic

Mostly everything’s gonna be ok.

But I just don't know what
I'm gonna do when it happens

Well! as of right now
I'm not worried. I haven't

seen them,
they haven't really come after me but

If they star coming after
me I'm gonna be scared

I gotta get outta here

My family’s waiting for...

I'm not a religious person... I
haven't been to Mass in years

But I came tonight

Sandy there are reports
of panic World wide,

as fears begin tonight,
as you can see here the

The French police are having no success in
trying to calm the people who are rioting

Crowds in Washington,
and other Cities around the World

The fear has been disrupting candle
light vigils, and other peaceful gatherings

No one seems to know what to do,
or where to go

No place is safe,
as we hear out the magnitude of this crisis

People take to the streets in
different ways, but one thing is clear

Racial,
and National boundary's are disappearing

As the World reacts
to a greater danger

The Best advice anyone can give,
at this point, is to get inside a building

Move to the basement
and stay there ..

In the event broadcast stations lose power,
tune to the emergency broadcast network

At AM 640... At FM 102.4

We begin with a series of reports from
Evening World News Correspondents

This is Paul
Collingwood in Moscow

It's 6:40 in the morning here and
Red Square is completely deserted

Even during the darkest
days of the Cold War when

the US Nuclear Arsenal
was aimed at this city

You never felt
such palpable fear

This is not a religious country,
but this

morning the Churches,
and synagogues are filled

This is Michael Curtis
reporting from Washington

A city normally
associated with great power

But tonight all anybody
really feels is powerless

Some people have gone
home to be with their family's

Some are in transit trying
to get out of this city, but...

A group of people
have gathered here

To be together at the feet of a great man,
who once saved this union...

Perhaps in the hope that he might somehow,
do it again...

What would you do, if you were told
you only had seven minutes to live...

Or maybe it's a strange attraction we
have for witnessing natural disasters

Tidal waves,
great fires, or this...

Asteroids falling to Earth

Whatever the reason is, all we can
really do is wait, and watch, and pray

This is Denise Wong reporting in Beijing,
where an

eerie calm has set in
after hours fierce fighting

Between riot Police and
angry student demonstrators

Now people simply want to be with their
family’s, and we can understand why...

All services are
reported shut down

Hospitals are overflowing

And there’s word of a massive
fire raging through Shanghai

With no apparatus of
fire-fighters to stop it...

If this is your last day on Earth you
want to spend it with the people you love

Denise Wong... Evening
World News in Beijing

You know. At a time like this,
you cant help

but feel for our
correspondents elsewhere

You know Denise
Wong has got a husband

And two children,
up in San Francisco

is imminent to the city’s
we've just mentioned

But if the Asteroids hit Earth, as feared,
the entire Planet will be impacted

Matt Jensen is standing by as he has
been all night, at the Johnson Space Center

Matthew

Caroline, as you can see behind me,
many of the

scientists here at the operation
center have gone home

To be with their family’s, of the few
that remain. Doctor Kurt Lowden...

Doctor we've been told that if even one
of these Asteroids impacts as expected

The effect World Wide could be apocalyptic,
could you elaborate...

Yeah just like the KT event,
65 million years ago

If an Asteroid one mile
or larger strikes on land...

It'll throw up enough debris to create
what amounts to a Nuclear Winter

If we can see the screens
behind us you can see

the three Asteroids as
they proceed on target

They are now some 11,000 miles from Earth,
but closing fast

With 5 minutes, and counting, until the
Asteroids break the Earth’s atmosphere

Late word from the Pentagon

That there's a plan in place,
to meet them, head on

General Lucian Alexander,
is briefing the Reporters...

Air Force Space Command, and the US Navy,
are preparing to counter the threat

With Nuclear Weapons

Directed by the most
advanced guidance system...

Each carrying 10 independently
target-able re-entry vehicles

They'll be launched from the Trident
Submarine USS Ohio in the North Sea

And from Matthew Warren air
Force base in Cheyenne Wyoming

The Soviets and the Chinese,
have agreed not to

respond,
for fear of an all out Nuclear exchange

The Peacekeepers and Trident B5 devices,
will hit their target and take them out

With surgical precision,
and minimum collateral damage

Can nuclear missiles
be used against UFOs

We still have no definitive
proof of Alien Life-forms

There’s every likelihood
that these Asteroids are

the result of a Meteor shower,
of massive proportions

The point is,
either we cut and run or we stand and fight

We're now at defcon 1,
T minus 5 minutes, and counting

You know Caroline,
in the midst of a story like this...

And you talk about millions
of lives being affected

I cant help but think of one

Kimberly Hastings, in Wyoming

We go now to Bree Walker in
Mercy Medical Center, in Wyoming...

With all the hope in this room,
just moments ago

I don't quite know
how to say this...

Shortly after we spoke to you...

Little Kimberly
Hastings collapsed

And went into Cardiac arrest

The crash team rushed in,
but they...

At 8:51 pm

Little Kimberly Hastings,
passed away

And whatever it is she knew
about that Asteroid, went with her...

We are now less than 3 minutes from
the first impact in the Peoples Republic

Uhhm ...I'd just want
to say something

To all of Linzy
...My little girl

She's six. She had ..She
had a tooth out last week

The Tooth Fairy
brought her a Silver Dollar

Honey!!! I want you to know
that Mommy loves you very much

I want you and Daddy...
You hold each real real tight

You know how
much I love you both

I'm just gonna finish up here

and we're all gonna
be together real soon

Caroline you don't have
to stay here ...You Don't

Lets go..Lets just
hear it through

Sure???

We're now less than two minutes,
before the

Air Force launches its
peacekeeper Missiles

We'll be live via Satellites with
correspondent Denise Wong in Beijing

Paul Collingwood in Moscow

And Mike Curtis here
in the Nations capitol

And now for the launch phase, we go to
Matt Jensen at the Johnson Space Center

Sandy... the Radio signals, that you hear,
and that is coming through our headsets

Are coming off the feed
from impact site Alpha

The sound is ear piercing

It's ok Matt,
we can hear you now.

The Asteroids have now
been designated and Zulu

X.Y.Z... In a few seconds you'll be able
to see them, moving down towards Earth

At 4-5 thousand miles an hour

The missile exchange will
be monitored by tracking

stations in Maui, Sacora,
and in Diego Garcia

all stations Status green alert

That voice you're hearing is the leader
Scotty Powell, the launch controller

Execute launch
command on my mark

Mark... in ten seconds

His voice is from the US Strategic Command
Offutt Air force base in Omaha, Nebraska.

5. 4. 3. 2. 1 launcher
closure over... Missile away

Denise Wong
Beijing is Target one

Impact destruction in
40 seconds from now

Uhhmm... the radio
interference is too strong

Do you see anything at all

Ahhm... You're breaking up Sandy

I'm going to have to
take this headset off

But I Think you were
asking if I saw anything

the answer is nothing yet.
I can tell you I'm scared

Impact over China at T minus 50

We've lost the audio,
but I assume, that’s a

picture of her husband
Greg and her two children

They all live in San Francisco

Denise!!! hold on as
long as you can Launch

We've lost contact with
Denise Wong in Beijing

Matt Jensen can you tell us,
the status, from where you are

Well by the cheering behind me,
I'm sure you

can tell we've had total
assimilation on x-ray

But it's far from over yet

We believe the first Asteroid,
has been destroyed

We go now to Paul
Collingwood in Moscow

Paul what’s it look like,
where you are

Nothing so far,
This ear piercing signal in my headset

Sandy for the record... I'm
a 4 year correspondent...

We're all proud of you Paul,
and your column

And tomorrow would
have been my 28th birthday

12. 11. 10. 9. 8... I love
you Mom and Dad

6.5.4.3.2.1

Sandy!! What happened??

It should have impacted by now

Paul... It looks like we've
destroyed two out of three now

Mike Curtis has the
lead been destroyed

Well Sandy, it's really ...It's impossible
to see anything tonight, it's so overcast.

All night long... Impact over Washington in
15 seconds... ohh my god, now I see it...

It's so bright,
and it's coming in fast.

It's getting to too close. Why aren't
they shooting at this thing now.

3. 2. 1.

How does it feel
out there...? It feels

fine... It's like the day
the World went down

Birthday Paul...
Happy birthday Paul

Aww... Thank you
Sandy. Thank you Denise

We're gonna go home

I'd say you've earned it, thanks for a
job well done... Thank you very much

Have a very good
day... Have a good day

Reaction from around
the World is typical of

this live footage...
We're seeing right now

Well before we sign off

Correspondent Ron Olney has some
information for us, from Goldstone

Sandy the scientists here
have deciphered the speech

pattern,
of Kimberly Hastings and Jean Paul Chounard

Here’s the feed now

A hundred and forty
seven member states

Wait a minute

That’s the recorded message
we sent up in Voyager two

Sandy there’s a report
from Johnson Space Center

And Matt Jensen's there
...With a... Coming to us live

Matt

Caroline as you can see, the elation
in the room behind me, as stopped

People were cheering and celebrating,
Now it's as if their balloons burst.

Quiet from the end of the room and nobody
seems to be giving any indication why?

Matt what is it??? MATT what do you
see?? Tell us what you're seeing Matt

What’s the cameraman seeing

I'm told his name is Parfitt

Move the camera to the screen

Show us what,
you're seeing on the screen

Parfitt

Track trajectories

Well there's too many,
there's too many we can't do it

Obviously... We'll stay
on as long as we can

And we'll keep feeding you the
signal from the Johnson Space center

As long as possible

With all the Missiles,
and all the Power

I can only leave you with
this thought from Shakespeare

The fault give with us,

Not in our stalls...

But in ourselves

Washington, Washington, Washington.

Washington do you read me

Washington this is Houston control,
Please come in

Come in Washington, this is Houston
Control. Washington, come in Wash...