Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Page #5

...we'd have a translation

into their language.

By translating their communications

into our words, we decoded them.

Professor Alberts got the translator

which his university had developed...

...and the results

have been startling.

We've recorded a number

of their messages on tape.

One of the messages appears to be

a plan of attack.

The rest were operational routine.

-I'll show you how it worked.

-Over here.

"We can expect trouble when Mercury

is in perihelion." When will that be?

It happens twice

every three months.

The information is too vague

to be of any use to us.

-And "the sun in con Polaris"?

-That implies an orbital relation...

...between the star Polaris and the sun.

We've never been able to figure it out.

The blanks probably refer

to their time computation.

But these messages do

involve the sun?

Our observatories are

watching it around the clock.

In the meantime,

we have a stronger version...

...of our interference machine

on the drawing boards.

Has there been any determination

of the weapon's useful range?

There's a weakness. Our instruments

indicate the potential effect...

...drops off sharply after 1500 yards.

We'll have to hope

that that's enough.

Well, maybe we'll be ready for them

when they come.

Has anyone tried that helmet on?

Yes, we have.

I think you'd be interested. Try it.

It weighs only a few grams.

-What's it made of?

-We don't know exactly.

Solidified electricity is the fancy name

given to it by the Bureau of Standards.

It resists everything we used on it,

including extreme temperatures.

-It makes me Superman, for one thing.

-Yes, we know.

I have a peculiar range of vision.

I can also hear a young man

just outside that window...

...discussing a problem

in advanced biology.

Carol, would you see if I'm right?

--when I kissed her good night,

she slapped my face. I said:

"I didn't slap yours when

you ordered a $4 steak for dinner."

Just as we need glasses

and hearing aids...

...these people need electronic

amplification of their senses...

...especially sight and hearing.

-Does that suggest anything to you?

-They have their weaknesses.

-When will we be ready?

-We'll need a couple of weeks.

People of Earth, attention.

People of Earth, attention.

This is a voice speaking to you...

...from thousands of miles

beyond your planet.

-This is a voice speaking to you...

-Stop that.

...from thousands of miles

beyond your planet.

Look to your sun for a warning.

Look to your sun for a warning.

Following eruptions on your sun,

there will be eight days and nights...

...of meteorological convulsions....

Turn it down.

They're arrogant enough,

announcing their schedule.

They're coming to take over,

they said that in the saucer.

They can move so fast and strike

so hard, they'll flatten us.

They expect to terrify us

with a display of power.

They're contemptuous

of our defenses.

If I'm right, they'll sail

into Washington in broad daylight...

...and expect us to capitulate

when they land.

People of Earth, attention.

People of Earth, attention.

This is a voice speaking to you...

...from thousands of miles

beyond your planet.

This is a voice speaking to you...

...from thousands of miles

beyond your planet.

Look to your sun for a warning.

Look to your sun for a warning.

It's coming over everywhere.

Following eruptions on your sun...

...there will be eight days and nights

of meteorological convulsions.

Soon thereafter....

They'll panic and immobilize

the whole country.

The whole world.

Let all nations be represented

in Washington to confer with us....

People of Earth, attention.

In every country,

in every language...

...all electronic communication devices

were jammed with the message.

The warning was dinned into

the ears of Earth's population...

...unceasingly for 12 hours.

And after the 12th hour, silence.

Then, a tremendous explosion

on the surface of the sun.

"Nine days."

That must be what

the missing words meant.

I get the picture. Thanks.

If I need any more information,

I'll call you back. Goodbye.

That was the Bureau of Meteorology.

As we know, sunspots have

a direct effect upon our weather.

We can expect heavy storms,

tidal waves, hurricanes.

-When?

-Beginning now, for eight days.

Just when we most need

our communications and transport.

We'll have to work under

the worst conditions to prepare.

What's the schedule, general?

You're installing

the interference units.

Our plans for evacuating the city

are already underway.

Then it's been decided

that we'll fight?

When a threatening power

lands in our capital...

...we don't meet them

with tea and cookies.

The job of production expediting

awaits me.

Further discussion won't

solve our problem.

Before we break up, I remind you

that we have nine days left.

One of those days

is already half gone.

What a nice going-away present.

You might call it that.

Is my bag packed?

Mine too. What time do we leave?

I have to leave right now.

I'm going to Aberdeen

to supervise the interference project.

So that wasn't a hello kiss at all.

It was goodbye.

For a little while.

You're gonna have to leave town.

They're evacuating Washington.

-Where am I going?

-Palm Springs.

Remember the place

I told you about?

-We were going there together.

-I know.

Your plane leaves tonight.

Russ, let me stay. Maybe I can help.

There's nothing more you can do.

Here's your ticket.

You'll arrive before

the bad weather sets in.

And I'll be there soon.

The first of man's

vital communications to suffer...

...were the shipping lanes

and airways.

Then transport by rail and highway

ground to a halt.

When the telephone and telegraph

systems failed...

...and the radio networks had to bear

the burden alone, they succumbed...

...to interference originating from

an increasing disturbance in the sun.

The world,

crippled by these events...

...waited for the first sign

of an invasion from outer space.

Because of the atmospheric violence,

it was not until the ninth day...

...that an evacuation of Washington

could be attempted.

Although the authorities

and the military worked miracles...

...when the 10th day dawned...

...more than 60 percent

of Washington's citizens...

...were still

in the metropolitan area.

-Take these to CIC.

-Yes, sir.

Mrs. Marvin.

Your husband told me

you were in Palm Springs.

The flights were canceled

before I could get away.

Have you heard from Russ?

There's been nothing from Aberdeen.

Wires are down, radio jammed.

But I'm expecting a courier

any minute.

A red alert.

Saucer heading in low

over the Atlantic, coming in fast.

They're breaking through our

defenses. Ground all aircraft.

They'll be overhead any minute.

You better get down to the shelter.

Wait a moment, Mrs. Marvin.

Truck convoys from Aberdeen

are in the city.

-Your husband's is near the Pentagon.

-Thanks.

Mobile unit calling GHQ.

Saucer hit and down in the Potomac.

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