Now, what it may be isn't clear yet, simply because once they begin to move, no more news comes out of that area.
8 seconds sound clip from the The War of the Worlds (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:27:53 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- We've got them between here and Fresno, outside Sacramento, two on Long Island.
- They're just coming down at random.
- No.
- According to information from foreign sources, they're working to some kind of a plan.
- We've been getting reports of destruction, massacre.
- Town of Saint-Julien, south of Bordeaux, wiped out by ray of undetermined nature.
- Local reports say nothing remains. Nothing remains. What do you make of that?
- All we've seen is the heat ray they use.
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