General, contact NORAD. You tell them we've upgraded to DEFCON 3.
5 seconds sound clip from the Independence Day (1996) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:13:18 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Why don't we target some ICBMs to blow it out of the sky?
- And risk turning one dangerous falling object into many?
- We don't yet know enough about what we're dealing with to make any kind of intelligent judgments.
- Luckily the press is making up their own story at this point. But that's not gonna keep.
- We may need to upgrade to DEFCON 3.
- General, contact NORAD. You tell them we've upgraded to DEFCON 3.
- That's not what the president said.
- Don't you think that's a little premature?
- We have over 50 percent of the armed forces out on weekend leave.
- Not to mention the commanders and troops that are in town for the 4th of July parade.
[...]