Then it was here. Incredibly, it was here! Burning down through the sky over Washington, D. C., hovering over the Mall. Descending.

12 seconds sound clip from the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:04:34 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- This is Radio Luxembourg!

- The American radar screen quickly confirmed the fact that there was nothing wrong with the British radar...

- There was something very gravely wrong forty miles out in space, far above the earth.

- Luckton at Ferris to Baker, Ferris to Baker.

- I have an object at two zero zero thousand feet, four zero zero zero miles an hour.

- Then it was here. Incredibly, it was here! Burning down through the sky over Washington, D. C., hovering over the Mall. Descending.

- They're here! They've come! They're here, they're here!

(ALIEN SPACECRAFT LANDS NOISILY)

- Not a sound. Stillness. Not a move from the cordon of tanks and armored cars and troops in full battle dress.

- Not a sound or gesture from the monstrous domed disk resting on the grass.

[...]