:23:02
I can prove it
if I can get you to help me
dig it out of there.
:23:06
I can't in good faith ask
the university to do it.
:23:09
We'd dig for months
and spend thousands,
:23:12
and maybe all we'd find
would be these.
:23:15
Look, note the black
coloring, characteristic
of the meteor,
:23:18
the fusion from heat,
the nickel and iron.
:23:22
Facts,John, facts.
Even the angle of contact
with the earth.
:23:26
Everything points toward
it being a meteor.
All right, all right.
:23:29
I'll admit I don't have
all the answers.
One more point,John.
:23:33
Come on.
:23:36
Find anything, Bob ?.
No, Doctor,
not a thing.
:23:39
There you are. There's
no sign of any excessive
radioactivity anywhere.
:23:42
Odd, wouldn't you say,
for something coming in
from outer space ?.
:23:46
I don't know what's odd
and what isn't anymore.
:23:48
But I do know I expected you
to be more open to the idea
than the others.
:23:51
You're a man of science !
Therefore, less inclined
to witchcraft,John.
:23:55
Not witchcraft, Dr. Snell.
Imagination !
:23:57
Willingness to believe
there are lots of things that
we don't know anything about.
:24:00
Look, there was a time when
people thought the earth
was a level plane...
:24:04
between two mountains
that were set there
to hold up the sky...
:24:07
and that the stars
were lamps hung from that sky.
:24:09
Then a better idea
came along and people
were willing to listen.
:24:12
Be realistic,John. We've
worked together before.
:24:15
In the meantime, you can
do an article for us.
:24:18
Yeah. Here.
:24:23
I already have.
:24:28
An intense young man.
Yeah, and an odd one too.
:24:32
More than odd, Bob.
Individual and lonely, a
man who thinks for himself.
:24:37
"Report on the
Arrival of Strangers
from Outer Space."
:24:53
Been hopin' I'd run
into you, Putnam.
:24:56
What's the matter, Matt ?.
Did I break a law ?.
You might call it that.
:24:59
Ellen's supposed to be
teachin' school today.
I told her to stay out of this.