Project Blue Book (TV Series)
The Washington Merry-Go-Round (2019)
Robert John Burke: William Fairchild
Quotes
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William Fairchild : Where did you get this?
Captain Michael Quinn : It's a little hard to explain right now.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek : What is Operation Ivy, sir?
William Fairchild : I think you need to tell me where you found this.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek : Sir, with all due respect, if you don't know, then we're the ones who should be asking the questions right now, not you. Especially as there is a duplicate which will finds its way to the press should anything happen to us.
Captain Michael Quinn : I-I don't think we're in a position to be making threats to the Secretary of Defense.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek : It's not a threat. The truth will come out one way or another. Isn't that what you really want?
William Fairchild : Ivy is the code name for a top secret thermonuclear weapons test in the South Pacific. We had two successes and one failure. Now we know why.
Captain Michael Quinn : A UFO?
Dr. J. Allen Hynek : Well, whatever they are, I think it's a message. They want us to know that they're in charge of the skies, and they're watching us.
Captain Michael Quinn : Wait, hold on a second. Surely, we should get it tested before crediting aliens with taking down the most powerful weapon known to man.
William Fairchild : I need the President to see this before the Joint Chiefs have him make a horrible mistake. But I'm going to need backup.
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William Fairchild : Now, you saw these things with your own eyes?
Captain Michael Quinn : Yes, sir.
William Fairchild : And?
Captain Michael Quinn : I-I-I don't - I don't really know how to describe it. I never seen anything like it before.
William Fairchild : Are you speaking as a pilot now or as member of Project Blue Book, Captain?
Captain Michael Quinn : Both.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek : What does this room think?
General James Harding : That's a matter of national security, which doesn't concern you.
General Hugh Valentine : What's more important is what the public thinks. We can't have a national panic on our hands.
Captain Michael Quinn : What do you need us to do?
General Hugh Valentine : What you've always done. I want you to find a rational scientific explanation as to what's occurred, then move it off the front page.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek : You mean lie. We saw it with our own eyes. Those things were not planes.
General James Harding : How would you know what types of planes the Russians have or don't have?
Dr. J. Allen Hynek : The Russians have nothing to do with this. Am I right?
William Fairchild : What's right is what works right now. Press has been waiting. Get out there and give them something to chew on.
Captain Michael Quinn : Yes, sir.
William Fairchild : [to Valentine and Harding] As for you two, I'm gonna need real answers. Truman won't go to war on a gut feeling.