:23:09
Hi there. I'm Major Bell.
:23:11
Hi. Mark Shermin.
:23:13
- Is it clean?
- No radioactivity.
:23:16
No readings on bacteria.
:23:18
Are you attached
to National Security?
:23:20
Not very.
I just work for them.
:23:23
On loan,
sort of like a library book.
:23:26
Actually, I'm with SETI, Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
:23:29
So they're sending you guys out
on meteorites now, huh?
:23:32
- Only when they change course.
- Change course? Can they do that?
:23:35
This one did, so they tell me.
Twice.
:23:39
Either that
or some airhead over at NORAD...
:23:42
misread a glitch on his monitor.
:23:44
It also came down slower
than suborbital speed...
:23:47
so naturally they decided
to fire some missiles at it.
:23:53
What are they doing?
:23:54
- Trying to take a core sample.
- Nobody authorized that.
:23:57
- It sounded hollow to me.
- There's no such thing as a hollow--
:24:05
- Jesus Christ!
- You were about to say?
:24:10
Up and at 'em.
:24:11
This is station WDLU
in Madison, Wisconsin...
:24:14
bringing you the 6:00 a.m. news.
:24:16
No, folks, all of you that saw
that flash in the sky last night...
:24:19
it wasn't the end of the world
and it wasn't a burning airliner.
:24:22
No, sir. According
to the A.P. wire...
:24:24
one of the biggest meteorites to strike
the planet Earth in 80 years...
:24:28
hit last night near Ashland,
not far from Chequamegon Bay.
:24:32
So you folks who called in to say
you saw a flying saucer land--
:24:40
That's about you?
:24:43
You really are some kind
of Martian or something, aren't you?
:24:50
What do you want here?
:24:52
What are you doing?
:24:55
What do you want with me?
:24:57
Where are you taking me?
:24:59
Why do you look
so much like Scott?