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- A meteor might move almost horizontal to the earth, but never upward.
- And it isn't a meteor.
- That's obvious.

8 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:14:32 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- This first picture was taken 3 minutes before the explosion, or 6:12.

- You can see the small dot below there in the corner.

- On the next picture, one minute later, that dot is moving from west to east, moving fast enough to form a streak.

- What shutter speed were you using?

- 1,000th of a second.

- Moving pretty fast, wasn't it?

- Here, at 6:14, it's moving upward. At 6:15, it drops to the earth and vanishes.

- A meteor might move almost horizontal to the earth, but never upward.

- And it isn't a meteor.

- That's obvious.

- How do you determine the distance to the point of impact from here?

- By computation.

- It's quite simple, captain.

- We have the time of arrival of the sound waves and the detectors, and also the arrival time of the impact waves on the seismograph.

- By computing the difference, it becomes quite obvious that they were caused with a traveling object. And the distance from here's approximately 48 miles.

- You lost me, but I'll take your word for it.

[...]

The Thing from Another World Sound Clip

The Thing from Another World movie poster

Revisit the sci-fi classic "The Thing from Another World" with our collection of sound clips featuring iconic quotes from the 1951 movie.

Actors: Margaret Sheridan (Nikki Nicholson), Kenneth Tobey (Captain Patrick Hendry), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Arthur Carrington), Douglas Spencer (Scotty)

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