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flyin' saucers we've been hearin' about.

She said there's some newspaper

offerin' a $3,000 reward for a piece of it.

And to be honest with you,

i could use the money.

Hey, look at this.

whoa.

Yeah, l really like

that one.

- mind if we keep some of this stuff?

- l reckon not.

l can always get more.

You ought to see the damn place.

l'll meet you back at the base.

Yes, sir.

l gotta warn you,

it's quite a ways out there.

Turning out to be

a rather interesting day.

Now, where this thing landed

or crashed or whatever...

ls about ten miles south.

l reckon we'll stay here tonight.

Come on.

we're staying in here?

what? well, hell no!

That's the barn, man.

we're gonna stay

at the main house.

Come on.

This here's the biggest piece of it

i've found so far.

Hauled it out

with my truck.

it's as light as a feather.

Oh, my god.

This thing was big.

Anything?

uh-uh.

You know those japanese

balloon bombs?

Yeah.

Made of rice paper.

About 30 feet

in diameter.

They don't come apart when they land

unless the bomb goes off.

Then you'd see

char marks everywhere.

Right.

was this gouge

here before?

Nope.

All right.

Let's just suppose

los alamos or white sands...

Launched some ultra-experimental

plane, rocket or whatever.

They'd be out looking for it.

Maybe they are.

Maybe they can't find it.

That's happened.

Sherman, look around you.

what do you see?

l mean, what do you see

geographically?

This place may be remote

by car, but not by plane.

You'd have to be blind

not to spot this from the air.

Nobody's found anything

because nobody's out looking.

And that means

this ain't ours.

Mr. Brazel!

Yeah?

You may have just

earned yourself 3,000 bucks.

Huh!

hey. wake up.

Huh? hi.

what's up?

There's something downstairs

i wanna show you. Okay.

Okay.

All right? not even

to your closest friend.

ls it top secret?

well, not yet.

You mean you think it's gonna be?

yeah, l do.

Dad, you have my word.

Okay.

All right.

l want you to tell me

what you think this is.

Oh, jess.

lt's a mess.

Take a closer look.

where'd you get this?

Someone's ranch.

Hey, is it

from a crash?

How do you know about that?

we heard about it on the radio.

Everybody's talking about it.

Can l keep this piece?

- please, dad?

- sure. why not?

we got lots more of those.

Thanks.

Hey, take a look

at this one.

Looks like an ordinary piece

of tin foil, doesn't it? yeah.

well, if l scratch it--

watch this.

l fold...

And l fold...

And, just for good measure,

i fold again.

Abracadabra.

How'd it do that?

Beats me.

Hey. Hey, look. There's something

written in here. Look.

l think it's egyptian.

l don't think so.

Maybe it's chinese.

No.

No, it's not.

Son,

You may be the first person

in human history...

Ever to see writing

from another world.

Think it could be

russian?

Sure hope not.

Did you try a cutting torch?

didn't do a thing, sir.

Sir? l want this written up

as a press release.

Yes, sir.

Uh, excuse me, sir?

- is this ajoke?

- no, it's not.

''this flying object landed on a

ranch in roswell sometime last week.

''not having phone facilities, the

rancher stored the disk until such time...

''when he was able to contact

the sheriff's office,

''who in turn notified

majorjesse a. Marcel...

Of the 509th palm group

intelligence office.''

How come they never

even mentioned my name?

Maybe one of

the other papers will.

You know we're gettin'

calls from hong kong?

How the hell did they

find out about it so fast?

l think it went out

over radio as well.

The london times.

l'm not in.

Sheriff isn't in.

Cheerio.

Boys, what do you say we shut down

this phone answering business,

Get on out to that ranch, and have a look

at this damn thing for ourselves.

Ah, sh*t!

Hey, bob, here comes sheriff wilcox.

See if he can get us in.

- open the gate.

- no, sir.

what do you mean, no? i'm the sheriff

of this here county.

- i'll go where l damn well please!

- we have our orders.

- whose orders?

- colonel blanchard's, sir.

well, this is turning into

a regular circus.

Hey, sergeant.

Halt. Halt!

ldentification.

Are you kidding me?

Sorry, sir.

Everyone has to do it.

Colonel blanchard's orders.

where's that thing

goin'?

Hey, sheriff,

what do you think?

You know, l don't think

i ever told you this, jess,

But l almost got to drop

fat man on hiroshima.

You did?

yeah.

lf old paul tibbets hadn't been

able to go i'd have been in.

l always thought that was my only shot

at the history books,

But, uh,

now l see it wasn't.

lnteresting how things come around,

sort of like fate.

Yeah.

Yeah. l'll get it. General ramey

on the line, sir.

- should i-- - no, that's all right.

General.

- what the hell is wrong with you?

- pardon?

You know what i'm talking about.

what do you think this is, april fools' day?

what kind of a goddamn idiot

released this nonsense?

Sir, if l did something wrong,

i'm sorry.

But--

you're sorry?

Sir, as far as we can ascertain, not even

los alamos was testing anything like this.

Major marcel and i

have been checking all morning.

Now, no disrespect

intended, sir,

But if you guys know something that

we don't, you should've told us!

All right, listen.

Do you think it's soviet?

No, we do not think

it's russian.

Have you-- sir--

excuse me, sir.

with all due respect,

i did inform washington.

l informed general mcmullen--

personally. Personally?

That is correct, sir.

when?

Yesterday, as soon as l saw the stuff.

ln fact,

At his specific request, sir,

i sent him some samples,

And they would've reached

washington by, uh, last night.

l wanna see the material

myself. Keep an eye on it.

Yes, sir. l'll send someone

right to you.

No, no, no.

There's no problem.

we've been bringing it

from the site all day.

And l wanna see

whoever saw this thing.

is that clear?

yes, sir, l understand.

They wanna see you

in ft. worth.

- me?

- yeah.

Major marcel. Colonel dubose.

Colonel.

welcome to ft. worth.

General ramey's waiting.

Thank you.

l want these men

off this truck right now!

we gotta get these boxes unloaded,

and l mean right now. Let's move it!

l'd say it was

right about...

Here, sir.

There's an access road

that comes in from the east that, uh--

well, it's not on this map. lt's pretty bad.

l can't imagine it would be.

There's a windmill about a hundred

yards south of the large gouge...

where the object

must've hit.

There's debris scattered everywhere.

l've never seen anything like it.

Sir.

Major.

we have some reporters coming. we'll

show them the debris that the rancher found.

You will keep your mouth shut,

and l will field all questions.

ls that understood?

yes, sir.

Get the reporters.

l don't understand. what's this?

this is what you found.

No. Uh, sir,

this is, uh--

well, this is a weather balloon.

l mean-- yeah.

This is the, uh-- this is the part

that hangs down...

That reflects the radar.

l mean, this is ordinary foil.

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