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All Direct Footages of mock news coverage based from the 1996 film.   0:00:00 - Static Report  0:01:34 - Blue Acolytes  0:02:17 - Sky News Russian  0:05:21 - Team 1 Russian  0:09:06 - Vox News Germany  0:09:52 - Katja Scholl, Berlin  0:12:36 - Farsi Report  0:15:27 - Fields/Dunphy  0:18:21 - Press Conference 1  0:20:25 - Press Conference 2  0:22:02 - Chinese Broadcast  0:23:42 - Post Conference  0:24:41 - Engel On Fox  0:27:24 - Hal Live: Modelmaker  0:30:11 - Traffic Report  0:31:40 - Russell Casse Arrest  0:33:38 - U.N. Report  0:36:08 - Alien Lovers  0:37:16 - Rooftop Parties  0:37:50 - Fields/Engel Debate  0:41:29 - Welcome Wagon Report

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00:00Thank you for joining us. I'm Robin Watts.

00:02And I'm Jim O'Banion. Do not attempt to adjust your television. The picture really is that bad.

00:08Scientists are at a loss to explain the worldwide disruption in broadcast communications, which began locally about 1.15 this morning.

00:15When contacted at his retreat in Nome, Alaska, noted telecommunications theorist Dr. Kim Winther refused to speculate on the cause for this disturbance,

00:23other than to say, quote, perhaps we're experiencing a new kind of sunspot.

00:27In the meantime, our station's management wants you to know that we are doing everything in our power to work around this disturbance.

00:34You know, really, if this keeps up, perhaps the cable companies could give a rebate.

00:37Yeah, don't hold your breath on that one.

00:40Well, in a related story, reporters were dumbfounded this morning when a hastily called press conference at the SETI project in New Mexico was just as hastily canceled.

00:50This is not the first such false alarm from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence project.

00:55In the past, it's mistaken encrypted Soviet and U.S. satellite signals for messages from the stars.

01:00This morning's mix-up, though, was no doubt triggered, in part, by the broadcast problems that we're having.

01:05President Whitmore has announced he will attend the memorial services for Israeli fighter pilot Ahmed Elial,

01:11who died last night after suffering a blow to the head from a champagne bottle at his daughter's wedding.

01:16Elial is seen here in file footage.

01:18Whitmore flew with Elial during the Operation Desert Storm and had maintained a strong friendship with the colorful Israeli over the years.

01:26It is not known if the president will use this visit to advance stalled peace negotiations or not.

01:30The underground environmental organization that calls itself Blue Earth Acolytes has been claiming the government is covering up some dark secrets.

01:42This recent plague of global television static, they say, is proof in your own home.

01:47The group's leader, who is known only as Douglas X, agreed to a rare interview with our hard copy cameras.

01:52We've discovered various documents that point to this.

01:56We've had members go undercover in important government locations to witness these covert projects.

02:02This television disturbance comes as no surprise to our Blue Earth members.

02:05If you think the static's bad now, just wait.

02:09Mr. X has said that his group plans to take action.

02:13Stay tuned to see what they have in mind.

02:15Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, we are interrupting our regular broadcast to bring you extraordinary events taking place in the Reckon Republic.

02:25We now join the Soviet Central News Broadcasting, live from Novosibirsk, Russia.

02:29...of unknown origin heading towards the city.

02:31It appears to be an atmospheric phenomenon.

02:35A reporter is near the industrial sector of Beretsk Airport.

02:39Igor, can you hear me?

02:40This unexplained disturbance and the hysteria that it's causing are incredible.

02:46How would you describe what you are seeing?

02:49It is clearing the mountains.

02:51Sightings have been reported here in Novosibirsk, Russia and other parts of Siberia.

02:57Moving too slowly to be a comet or meteor, astronomers are baffled as to its origin.

03:04Are people in danger?

03:05Not from the panic, but from the phenomenon.

03:08Officials assure me that we will be perfectly safe.

03:11Nevertheless, widespread panic has gripped the countryside as thousands have taken to the streets and clogged the highways.

03:23Hundreds have been injured.

03:24The military is overwhelmed.

03:26We understand it was mistaken for a nuclear accident.

03:30That is correct.

03:32There was an unexplained, booming sound when it appeared, waking residents less than 15 minutes ago.

03:42Fire is so intense, it is creating a vacuum in the direction of the phenomenon.

03:47We are beginning to hear reports from Barabinsk and Tartarsk.

03:51The phenomenon continues its spread west.

03:56News comes in from around the country as panic spreads.

04:02A failed nuclear experiment?

04:05A volcanic eruption?

04:07We do not know.

04:08Novosibirsk is on the same parallel as Moscow, but sits roughly 2,000 miles to the east, north of China.

04:31It is also home to a major part of Russia's nuclear testing program, a fact that is certainly contributing to the panic that we're witnessing now.

04:40Roads are clogged.

04:41Phone lines are down.

04:43The government implores everyone to return to their homes and remain calm.

04:48You're watching live coverage from the Russian Republic and unexplained phenomena lighting up the skies over Siberia and causing mass hysteria.

04:56A series of ground tremors alerted citizens to the arrival of something truly massive.

05:00We do not know if this strange occurrence is natural or man-made, but in either case, it is at least as large as a major storm system, possibly much bigger.

05:10We can get information about this in all areas of the country and the panic of the population is growing.

05:16Is this a successful experiment of nuclear explosion?

05:25We interrupted our programming.

05:26Is this on?

05:29Are we on?

05:30We've interrupted our programming to bring you live images from a city in Russia called Novosibirsk.

05:36Sky News first broke this story nationally less than a few minutes ago, and we're picking up both their satellite feed and Glassnose Agency feed relayed to us via Sweden.

05:44I'm Jim O'Bannon.

05:45And I'm Robin Wass.

05:46There it is, the strange atmospheric phenomenon.

05:49It is apparently what has been causing all the distortions in our broadcast since early this morning.

05:53Scientists still do not know what it is, but it is apparently several thousand feet above ground and poses no, no threat to the citizens of Russia.

06:02You're watching live images of widespread panic throughout the former Soviet Union.

06:06Phones are out.

06:07Airports are closed.

06:08We have one report from a woman in Little Odessa who was talking to her fiancé when a horrendous rumbling started.

06:14Seconds later, the phone went dead.

06:17We have reporter Tim Popovich on the phone right now.

06:19Tim, the question, what is the mood there in Little Odessa?

06:22I was having lunch with my grandmother when the story first came on television.

06:26My family remembers watching the Chirinova meltdown and how the government kept saying everything was fine.

06:33That's what it feels like now.

06:36That's why you're seeing so much panic.

06:39It's horrible.

06:40Tim, let me share with you some of the information that's coming over the wire.

06:44None of this is confirmed, but it is the only information we have to go on.

06:47An anti-nuclear civil rights organization called the Blue Earth Acolytes is making claims that this phenomenon is the result of a failed fusion experiment.

06:57I think there is radiation danger.

06:59It's just not telling anybody.

07:01Now, another scientist thinks this might be part of the sun's surface, which, well, flaked off, if you will, and hit the Earth's atmosphere as a record solar flare.

07:09Now, if he is correct, he says we had better stock up on sunblock because the ozone will not survive this onslaught for much longer.

07:16Robin, excuse me, excuse me.

07:18There have been additional unconfirmed sightings now over France, Korea, and here in the United States.

07:24Now, let me remind you, these are unconfirmed sightings, but they do include Washington, D.C. and New York City.

07:30We must ask you, our viewing audience, to remain calm.

07:34Please, remain calm.

07:36Well, as we have witnessed in Nouveau-Sibirsk, injuries and deaths, they occur when people panic.

07:40If you are at work, just stay at work.

07:42If you are at home, stay at home.

07:44You are safer where you are than on the streets.

07:46Please do not panic.

07:49What happened?

07:50We apologize.

07:50We seem to have lost our feeds from Nouveau-Sibirsk.

07:53These additional unexplained phenomenon have been confirmed by ships at sea.

07:57New York is about to be visited by some kind of unusual firestorm, the kind we have just been watching.

08:03The mayor's office is advising that everyone stay indoors.

08:06Do not, I repeat, do not go onto your roofs.

08:09While the storm is several thousand feet in the air, no one is quite sure what the storm will do once it arrives.

08:15We have some new information here.

08:17We have just learned that the mayor has activated the air raid sirens.

08:20They have not been used since 1968.

08:23Our weather view camera at the World Trade Center is now showing us this view.

08:28As you can see, it is still a considerable distance out to sea and approaching rapidly.

08:33It's very hard to make out exactly what it is through all that haze.

08:36That is huge, absolutely huge.

08:38The question, do we know, are there any ships out there that might be in danger?

08:42Oh, my goodness.

08:43What?

08:44Did you feel that?

08:45Let's calm down.

08:46Please, remain calm.

08:48Folks, we have just felt a foreshock from the phenomenon.

08:51A little earthquake like the ones apparently experienced in Omsk and Moscow as the sky phenomenon made its way west from Nouveau-Sibirsk.

08:58Again, officials are saying, you are perfectly safe.

09:01They say, do not run outdoors, do not panic.

09:03Stay tuned as this story develops.

09:13We break our plan-based program for an actual special report.

09:17From Nouveau-Sibirsk, there is been reported on the rise of an unknown phenomenon in Central Russia.

09:23Scientists are not willing to say about its origin.

09:26It is not a meteor.

09:27Nach Ansicht eines Wissenschaftlers handelt es sich möglicherweise um das Fragment einer Sonneneruption,

09:33das in unsere Atmosphäre eingedrungen ist.

09:35Panik verbreitet sich in ganz Russland, das unter Kriegsrecht gestellt wurde.

09:40Chaos greift um sich.

09:41Es ist offensichtlich, dass die Bürger eine Wiederholung der Tschernobyl-Katastrophe befürchten

09:45und nicht an das glauben, was ihnen offiziell gesagt wird.

09:49Mehr darüber in den Sky News-Weltnachrichten.

09:51Guten Tag, mein Name ist Katja Scheul.

09:59Ich bitte um Ihre Aufmerksamkeit zu unserem außergewöhnlichen Bericht.

10:02Uns wurde es eben aus Nouveau-Sibirsk, Russland, mitgeteilt,

10:06dass dort ein nicht erklärbares Phänomen am Himmel gesichtet wurde.

10:09Wissenschaftler sind völlig im Unklaren darüber, über die Herkunft des Phänomen.

10:14Es ist kein Komet und von der russischen Seite wurde uns versichert,

10:18dass es sich definitiv nicht um eine nukleare Katastrophe handelt.

10:23Ich wiederhole, es handelt sich nicht um eine nukleare Katastrophe.

10:27Beim Phänomen handelt es sich um eine Art Feuersturm, ungefähr 30 Kilometer breit.

10:32Panik hat sich unter der Bevölkerung breitgemacht und die Regierung hat die nationale Krisensituation ausgerufen.

10:39Offensichtlich glaubt die russische Bevölkerung ihre Regierung nicht

10:42und hält nach wie vor daran fest, dass es sich um ein zweites Chernobyl handelt.

10:48Für mehr Informationen schalten wir jetzt zu Vision Broadcasting Desk um.

10:52Ich bitte um Ihre Aufmerksamkeit zu unserem außergewöhnlichen Bericht.

10:55Uns wurde es eben aus Novi Sibiris, Russland, mitgeteilt, dass dort ein nicht erklärbares Phänomen am Himmel gesichtet wurde.

11:03Wissenschaftler sind völlig im Unklaren darüber, über die Herkunft des Phänomen.

11:08Es ist kein Komet und von der russischen Seite wurde uns versichert, dass es sich...

11:12Außerirdische aus dem Universum sind gelandet.

11:15Die Welt wartet in geschockter Stille.

11:17Alle Augen sind gebannt in den Himmel gerichtet.

11:20Auf die außerirdischen Raumschiffe, die so groß sind wie Städter.

11:23Oder Paris, Washington DC, Moskau und jetzt Berlin.

11:28Uns wurde mitgeteilt, dass sich immer mehr Raumschiffe in unserer Atmosphäre bewegen.

11:32Direkt auf Deutschland zu.

11:34Unsere Regierung hat uns benachrichtigt, Folgendes an die deutsche Bevölkerung weiterzugeben.

11:38Erstens. Wir bitten Sie, nicht zu paniken.

11:41Die Besucher, wie sie von den amerikanischen Presse getauft wurden, sind friedlich und haben keine Absichten, uns zu verletzen.

11:49Erstens. Der Feuersturm, der die Raumschiffe begleitet, hat unseren Planeten noch in keiner Weise verletzt.

11:55Bitte verhalten Sie sich ruhig und warten auf weitere Entwicklungen.

11:59Zweitens. Bitte reisen Sie nicht.

12:01Bitte bleiben Sie bei Ihrer Arbeitsstelle oder in Ihrem Zuhause.

12:05Bitte halten Sie die Straßen frei im Falle einer Militärmobilisierung.

12:09Wir bitten Sie nicht, in Panik auszubrechen und unter allen Umständen die Ruhe zu behalten.

12:14Drittens. Bitte suchen Sie keinen Kontakt mit den Außerirdischen.

12:19Wir wissen nicht, wie Sie, unsere Besucher, auf Mobiltelefon oder andere elektrische Geräte reagieren.

12:25Und zuletzt bitte bleiben Sie im ständigen Kontakt mit den Nachrichten.

12:29Wir schalten jetzt ins Weiße Haus zu einer Pressekonferenz mit dem amerikanischen Präsidenten Whitmore.

12:34Vielen Dank.

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37:50Good evening and welcome.

37:55Gentlemen, tonight the world is faced with a potentially grave scenario.

37:59Dr. Engel, this alien force, friend or foe?

38:04Friends.

38:05Definitely friends, Al.

38:06Foe.

38:07Definitely foe, Al.

38:09I think that's pretty clear.

38:10And what have they done that has been friendly?

38:12The fact that they've showed up at all.

38:16I believe very strongly, and I have a number of colleagues who also share this belief,

38:21that they have visited us before.

38:23In fact, they have never left.

38:25It's the test which is being given to us by our forebearers who, in fact, were these folks

38:31from out there.

38:32Excuse me.

38:34Now are these forebearers that you're referring to, are these aliens from the planet Whoopi

38:41or, I mean, where did these people come from?

38:43All I know is that you ask any culture in the world, you say, where is God?

38:48Everyone points up.

38:49You look up in the sky, you point up there, you've got a spaceship 15 miles wide hovering

38:55over every strategic point in the world.

38:59You know, you couldn't place them more strategically to wipe us out.

39:03Dr. Fields, I understand your agitation tonight, but the world community wants to know, what

39:09should our response be?

39:10What everyone must do is focus their energies up to the sky.

39:17Send all your good thoughts and all your energy.

39:20Meditate.

39:22Prayer is not too strong a word.

39:23And that's nice.

39:24You remind me of Richard Gere at the Oscar telecast there.

39:27You know, we're all gonna pray to China for peace, but somehow I don't think that worked

39:32either.

39:33Thank you, Doctor.

39:34I mean, no one's ever compared me to Richard Gere before.

39:36I take that as a real compliment.

39:37You would.

39:38Perhaps this lack of sunlight has affected your visual acuity.

39:40All right, gentlemen.

39:41Please.

39:42Please.

39:43There's a fundamental question here tonight.

39:45Why Earth?

39:47Because we are.

39:48Because we are the most intelligent lower life form in the universe.

39:54Dr. Fields, what should we do?

39:56What is your position?

39:57We're obviously dealing with a much more powerful force than ours, and I think we have to recognize

40:02the overwhelming probability that this force is here for mal-intent rather than good intent.

40:09And we have to close our doors and lock them as tight as we can and have contingency plans

40:14for just the worst possible scenario.

40:17Gentlemen, why now?

40:21Why now?

40:22Because they want it to be now.

40:24And what are they gonna do?

40:25Everything they want to do.

40:26800-pound gorilla sleep any place he wants.

40:29And that's what they're gonna do.

40:30And that's what those aliens are.

40:31They're nothing more than an 800-pound gorilla.

40:34Maybe they're here as teachers.

40:35Excuse me?

40:36I say maybe they're here as teachers.

40:38I mean, I agree with you, Doctor.

40:40It is a force far beyond our wildest dreams.

40:43Maybe they have come as teachers.

40:45Perhaps.

40:46Perhaps.

40:47I mean, I don't look at, you know, crops with circles in them and, you know, the pyramids

40:53and Stonehenge and, you know, human beings have done pretty well.

40:58I don't think we needed any help from outer space.

41:01And we certainly don't need it now.

41:02And I hope you're right, Doctor Engel.

41:04But I fear you're wrong.

41:05The reason why the human race hasn't advanced as much as it could in the past years since

41:11it's been on this planet is simply because of attitudes like yours, Doctor Fields.

41:15Well, I don't want to get into character assassination personalities, clearly.

41:19Gentlemen.

41:20Time will tell.

41:21I hope you're right.

41:22Please.

41:23Let's try to get some harmony here tonight.

41:24And let's hope for the best for the world tomorrow.

41:30I'm George Putnam.

41:31Thank you for joining Sky News for continuing coverage of these historic events.

41:36And I'm Bob Friend in London.

41:37George, this has certainly been a day when the world stood still.

41:41All of us overall in the presence of visitors from another star system.

41:45Visitors who have yet to break the silence and tell us their intentions.

41:49Showing a good neighbourly spirit, world leaders have just given the green light to Operation

41:54Welcome Wagon.

41:56Science correspondent Monica Soloway is standing by at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington

42:01with the details.

42:02Monica, we can see thousands of spectators have already gathered for this historic event.

42:07They seem very optimistic, full of anticipation.

42:09But what's the mood out there on the top?

42:12General Van Horn and his men have been working under crisis conditions, scrambling to get

42:16the equipment they need to make this mission possible.

42:18Now, in light of our apparent inability to communicate with the visitors, Pentagon officials

42:23have retrofit the Skylift helicopter with a type of visual communications device, which

42:29they hope will be the first step in communicating with the alien craft.

42:32Now, this is not a military aircraft.

42:34It comes from the U.S. Forest Service and it normally carries tons of water to fire situations.

42:41But as you can see from this tape made earlier today, it has been loaded up with a powerful

42:45generator and refitted with these enormous light panels that are attached to the hull and onto

43:00the sides.

43:01Monica, what are those other helicopters?

43:03Well, those escorts are called Hueys, Bob, and Andrews maintains a couple of them for

43:09training missions, but they don't normally see active duty anymore.

43:13Their use here on Welcome Wagon is almost ceremonial.

43:15They're really treating this as an ambassador's mission and the escorts lend importance to

43:21the proceedings without any military threat.

43:26You are watching live coverage of Operation Welcome Wagon, the first physical attempt at

43:31communicating with the alien visitors.

43:34That faint buzzing you hear is from Andrews Flight Operations Channel.

43:38George, that's right.

43:39Now, normally these channels are encrypted and scrambled, but President Whitmore has granted

43:43unrestricted access to media outlets all over the world.

43:47After all, this is hardly a domestic issue.

43:49Any moment now, we should hear the voice of Pilot Commander Al Reeves announcing that he

43:53is in position to begin his approach.

43:56Now we don't know the names of the other crew members, all regular staff here at Andrews.

44:01The only person on board Skylift whose name we do know is that of Bill Fay, and he is from

44:06the SETI Institute.

44:08He will be the person operating the light display, and that light display is...

44:12Copy that base.

44:13This is Echo One.

44:14We are approaching start position.

44:15Over.

44:16Roger that.

44:17Echo One.

44:18You are go to commence sequence when ready.

44:20Over.

44:21Copy that base.

44:23The professor will be breaking the ice in no time.

44:25Over.

44:26Copy that.

44:27Echo One.

44:28Godspeed.

44:29This moment of levity from Commander Reeves.

44:31A welcome attempt at defusing some of the tension everyone must be feeling right now.

44:35Now they have been given the go ahead for their initial approach, and as previously agreed,

44:40there will be no more radio communications until this message has cycled at least eight

44:45times.

44:46Now it's a little hard to see here from the ground, but this night vision view is showing

44:50us the mission in progress.

44:52Any second now you should see the Skylift helicopter turn on.

44:55There they are.

44:56Sixty-four powerful lights on either side of the Skylift helicopter have just begun to

45:01flash humanity's first visual message to our visitors.

45:05You can almost see the questions on every face in the crowd.

45:13Are you friendly?

45:14Have you come in peace?

45:16Friend or foe?

45:17We watch and wait, hoping for a sign.

45:19Any sign at all.

45:20Bob, the message is beginning its third cycle now.

45:24It is a simple message comprised of mathematical concepts converted into binary form.

45:30Things such as the value of pi, the first ten prime numbers, and Einstein's E equals MC squared.

45:38Building blocks that any spacefaring civilization should recognize.

45:42The fate of our world could hang on this universal language of mathematics.

45:47Why binary, Monica?

45:49Well, quite simply, it is the simplest and quickest language to teach and to learn,

45:54independent of sound and cultural and human characteristics.

45:58Think of it as sort of an Esperanto for the galaxy, if you will.

46:03The three choppers are steadily approaching what has been unanimously agreed to be the front

46:08of these spaceships.

46:09A parabolic indentation, nine city blocks in diameter, which is believed to lead to an opening

46:15in the middle of the aircraft.

46:17A doorway, an airlock, we just don't know.

46:21Fifth cycle now, still no response.

46:26The lights are visible on the surface of the alien craft now, still two miles away.

46:32By the way, special thanks to Sky News cameraman Peter Krause for volunteering to stay in the

46:37evacuated area of Georgetown and bring us these live pictures of Welcome Wagon in progress.

46:43The helicopters are making their final approach.

46:48That's right, George.

46:49And that completes the eighth cycle of the message.

46:52We cannot...

46:53No response to our greeting.

46:54Professor's requesting to go closer.

46:56We will proceed.

46:57As expected, there is less gravity close to the lampshade.

47:00Over.

47:01Copy.

47:02Echo one.

47:03You have permission to find doorbell.

47:06Now, finding the doorbell is Al Reeve's signal to actually guide his Sky Lift helicopter

47:11into that opening.

47:12This is a step that General Van Horn was against, but he was overruled by Atlantic Command as

47:18a whole.

47:19Now, the lower gravity is probably a side effect of the process that keeps these massive spaceships

47:25hanging in the air.

47:26Scientists don't know how it's done, but these visitors seem to have a greater understanding

47:31of physics than we can even imagine.

47:33We have contact.

47:34Something's opening.

47:35Something is happening.

47:37A bright light is now coming from the craft.

47:40We can see it from here.

47:41We're feeling it pretty bad up here.

47:43Something's pushing on us.

47:48Aboard.

47:49Aboard!

47:50Aboard!

47:51Come on!

47:52Damn you son of a...

47:59Mission time marker 0-12-10.

48:02Operation Welcome Wagon is over.

48:06In essence, our questions are answered.

48:10The visitors responded with terrifying, unmistakable eloquence.

48:14George, without being presumptuous, I'm sure we speak for the whole world when we say

48:19our hearts and our prayers go out to the wives and children of those brave pilots.

48:23Indeed, God help us all.

48:25Heath that will help us all.

48:26Eigent

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