:07:01
Oh, boy.
:07:02
About 3 weeks ago. . .
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. . .a ship laying fiber-optic cable
between Honolulu and Sydney. . .
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. . .hit an obstruction
1 ,000 feet underwater.
:07:10
Cut this cable here
clean as a shears.
:07:13
The Navy got interested,
sent out a search ship.
:07:16
It turned out that what did it. . .
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. . .was this.
:07:20
We took this with side-looking sonar.
:07:22
This is an aerodynamic fin
longer than a football field. . .
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. . .bigger than any known wingspan.
:07:27
This is the fuselage.
:07:29
This is ultrahigh-res SLS bottom scan.
Came in a week ago.
:07:33
There it is, buried
under about 8 yards of coral.
:07:37
Something's wrong
with that measurement.
:07:39
Pacific coral grows an inch a year.
You can set your watch by it.
:07:42
That's right.
:07:44
So you're saying this spacecraft
crashed in the year. . . .
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1 709.
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So you're saying this spacecraft crashed
300 years ago?
:07:52
288.
:07:53
That's impossible.
:07:55
It's not impossible if this spacecraft
came from an alien civilization.
:07:59
Wait a minute.
:08:01
You think this is an alien spacecraft?
:08:02
It's not impossible.
It's ridiculous.
:08:04
We think there's an Unknown Life Form on
the spacecraft. That's why you're here.
:08:08
You are the contact team that
was recommended in the Goodman Report.
:08:13
We have a biochemist. . .
:08:14
. . .to assess the physiology
of the Unknown Life Form.
:08:17
A mathematician, because that'll
probably be our common language.
:08:20
And we have an astrophysicist
to locate its place in the cosmos.
:08:23
-Led by a psychologist.
-Right.
:08:25
Nowadays, the little green men say,
"Take me to your therapist"?
:08:29
Listen up.
:08:31
"Contact teams meeting
an Unknown Life Form or ULF. . .
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. . .must be prepared
for severe psychological impact.
:08:37
Stress reaction of confronting such life
has not been sufficiently studied. . .
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. . .and cannot be
entirely predicted in advance.
:08:43
But the most likely consequence
of contact is. . .
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. . .absolute terror. "
:08:48
That's from Norman's report.
:08:50
I'm sorry, are these parameters correct?
:08:52
You're saying that you have a spacecraft
over a half a mile long. . .
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. . .that crashed into the ocean 300 years
ago and it's completely intact?