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They'll probably make you a general for destroying evidence that they're wrong.

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

You can hear this line at 00:25:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Eddie, get the ship warmed up. And be ready to get out of here in a hurry.

- Pat, I think we made a mistake.

- What do you mean?

- You ever read this? Department of Defense, Office of Public Information, Washington, D.C., December 27, 1949.

- Bulletin 629-49 regarding item 6,700, extract 75,131.

- The Air Force has discontinued investigating and evaluating reported flying saucers on the basis that there is no evidence.

- They'll probably make you a general for destroying evidence that they're wrong.

- The Air Force said that all evidence indicates that the reports of unidentified flying objects are the result of... One... misinterpretation of various conventional objects.

- Didn't look very conventional to me.

- Second... a mild form of mass hysteria...

- That'd be when General Fogarty got to shaking hands with that thing in the ice.

- What are the other reasons?

- Third... that they're jokes.

- What'd you say the number of that bulletin was?

- 629-49, item 6,700, extract 75,131.

- Oh... oh, that one.

[...]

The Thing from Another World Sound Clip

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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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