This first picture was taken 3 minutes before the explosion, or 6:12.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:14:03 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- That deviation has been constant.
- We ran into it just before we reached here.
- Getting a bit beyond me, but it sounds like a meteor, doesn't it, doctor?
- Yes, very much, except for one thing. Show it to Captain Hendry.
- They were working last evening. This is the result.
- This first picture was taken 3 minutes before the explosion, or 6:12.
- You can see the small dot below there in the corner.
- What shutter speed were you using?
- 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.
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