FIVE F SIXTEENS APPROACH and pull up at the last second. 

Air Force One TOUCHES DOWN and DECELERATES along the vacant runway.

It comes to a stop.

INT. AIR FORCE BASE FOR STRATEGIC OPERATIONS - DAY

Two SECRET SERVICE AGENTS escort the President. The PILOT,  CO-PILOT, and SIX CREW

follow a short distance behind.

A black limousine waits at the Presidential hangar.  COLONEL MILBORN stands at attention

and salutes the President.

                                   PRESIDENT

                         Where is the General, Colonel?

                                   COLONEL MILBORN

                         In his office, Mr. President. I am

                         to escort you there now, Sir.

                                   PRESIDENT
                              (angry)
                         Carry on!

The men enter the limousine.

INT. GENERAL’S OFFICE - DAY

General Billings sits behind his desk and reads strategic military papers

as his office door opens.

The Colonel, The President, and the two Secret Service Agents enter.

General Billings continues to look at the papers.

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         Close the door Colonel. Have a seat,

                         Mr. President. I'll be with you in a

                         minute.

The President calmly approaches General Billings and turns over the General's

coffee mug and pours the liquid in the middle of the papers.

General Billings pushes the chair away from the desk in astonishment.

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         What the hell was that for, Sir?

                                   PRESIDENT
                         General, you must realize from this moment

                         on - there is nothing on your desk as

                         important as your commanding officer standing

                         in front of you! You will NOT keep me waiting

                         on a tarmac with some low ranked taxi service

                         to chauffeur me to your personal underground

                         castle! You WILL be present to greet my arrival,

                         UPON my arrival. Are we clear General?

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         Yes Sir, Mr. President.

                                   PRESIDENT
                         Good! Now do you have some palatable reasons why

                         I shouldn't shut this rat hole down and build

                         something here that I can account for?

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS

                         Yes Sir. Please, sit down.

                                   PRESIDENT

                         Billings, where has the Special Funding gone?

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         Mr. President! You force me to divulge more than

                         I really want to, so here it is. I hope you will

                         be able to cope with it. In July of 1971, an alien

                         spacecraft landed in the Nevada desert 15 miles

                         from this Base. We tracked it for an hour on radar

                         and scrambled a squadron. It landed with no resistance,

                         but the landing was not an easy one and the vehicle

                         sustained major damage.

                                   PRESIDENT
                         Sounds to me like a re-run from the old Roswell

                         incident back in the forties.

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS

                         You may scoff at the premise of flying saucers,

                         Sir. The Roswell incident was real. It was

                         covered up as well as it could be and no one was

                         hurt. At least no one from Earth!

                                   PRESIDENT
                         You act as if flying saucers DID land in New Mexico!

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS

                         Mr. President, something landed there alright. But

                         something more substantial landed here - in Nevada.

                                   PRESIDENT

                         Explain.

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         Extraterrestrials. They came from some other planet

                         not of our solar system. We don't know the exact location,

                         only a general idea. It would take us five and half

                         billion years to reach their planet.

                                   PRESIDENT
                         General you must be joking. Aliens?

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         I assure you this is no joking matter!

                                   PRESIDENT
                         How can that be?

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         They got here in the equivalent of 10 days

                         from the time they left their planet.

                                   PRESIDENT
                         Nothing can go that fast! It is impossible.
    

                                   GENERAL BILLINGS
                         Tell that to the Angelics!

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