Newly fallen cylinders are elongated.
4 seconds sound clip from the The War of the Worlds (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:55:15 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Here's that Los Angeles picture, sir.
- This is a sonic radar picture taken from extreme altitude.
- It shows full details of the Martian nest outside Los Angeles.
- Their machines appear as round blobs.
- Newly fallen cylinders are elongated.
- Mm-hm.
- We know there are three cylinders to each group and three machines to each cylinder.
- All right. I've seen enough.
- There's only one thing that'll stop the Martians.
- We've held back because of the danger of radiation to civilians.
[...]