- Capt. McCartney: [looking at pictures of the alleged UFO] This could be anything. Weather balloon, reflection, swamp gas.
- Bobby Brady: We don't have a swamp in our backyard.
- Mario Machado: [Machado and McDivitt are discussing UFOs] Yet you still believe that, that it was a UFO that you saw in that flight orbit?
- Brigadier General Jim McDivitt: Well, it was a UFO, that means unidentified flying object. Whether or not it was life from another planet, I don't really know.
- Mario Machado: General, let me lay it on the line. Are you saying... *do* you believe that life exists elsewhere in the universe?
- Brigadier General Jim McDivitt: Yes, Mario, I really do. Uh, I think it would be very naive, and really super-egotistical on our part to believe that we're the only form of life in all this vast, vast universe in which we live.