Close Encounters of the Third Kind Page #4

Can't you tell him about this?

Hello?

I can't believe it.

Roy...

...you got fired.

They didn't even want to talk to you.

Where were the sounds coming from?

Where did these sounds come from?

Tell us, please.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I beg your pardon,

but my English is not good too.

I want to share with you now...

...the breakthrough

that happened in India.

We think it means something.

We think it is important.

To help you learn, I am using the hand

sign created by Zoltn Kodly.

Kodly developed these signs

to teach music to deaf children.

Hello?

Hi.

Hi, how are you? You came here too?

Yes. Jillian Guiler.

Roy Neary.

Sorry about what happened.

-Good night!

-What?

Look at you.

You got the same burn.

Yeah, but it's better on you.

You got it all over at least.

I gotta tan the other side tonight.

How's the kid? I'm really sorry.

I'll be right back.

Raise your head a bit

and give me a smile.

He's a little young for a record,

don't you think?

Weird.

I know this sounds crazy, but

ever since yesterday on the road...

...I've been seeing this shape.

In shaving cream and pillows....

Damn it, I know this!

I know what this is.

This means something.

This is important.

Here they come!

Get the camera!

Out of the northwest!

It's like Halloween for grownups.

Trick or treat.

Wait a minute!

The patterns are:

-We received two 1 5-minute broadcasts.

-Non-random signals?

interval, 40 pulses.

Another five-second break,

and 30 pulses.

then a new set of numbers.

-1 04 rapid pulses.

-Lord!

Wait 60 seconds and the

whole doggone thing repeats.

-Where are the signals from?

-The neighborhood.

Light-travel time, roughly 7 seconds.

Well within the plane

of the ecliptic.

Are these non-random signals here, 40,

They should be. We've sent

this combination out for weeks.

All we're getting back

are numbers.

This could mean the India sounds

reached a dead end.

They don't mean a thing.

There's so much we don't know.

How about where the signals originate?

Excuse me.

What letter is 1 04?

Excuse me.

Before I got paid to speak French...

...I used to read maps.

This first number is a longitude.

Two sets of three numbers.

Degrees, minutes and seconds.

The first number has three digits,

and the last two are below 60.

It's not in the right ascension

and declination on the sky.

These have to be Earth coordinates.

There's a globe in the office.

This is what we need.

Maybe there's a release pin

underneath here.

That's a $2500 globe!

What are you doing?

All right, everybody, quiet down!

Hold it down!

The antenna. How dumb!

-Which way's it pointing?

-Northeast.

That's Wyoming.

We'll need a geodetic survey map

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