 Auto light and it's 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. William Holden in tonight's presentation of suspense Tonight auto light dramatizes an astounding experience a man on the machine flung at a barrier of sound It's called the outer limit our star. Mr. William Holden $100,000 that's a lot of cabbage Arlo That's a lot of cash Hap and it's all being given away in the great auto light family charity drawing You see if you're one of 25 persons selected you will name your favorite church hospital or other local or national Recognized charity for a big share of this huge sum. What's the hitch Arlo? No hitch Hap nothing to buy or try nothing to solve or write except your name and address and It's a privilege to hear what judge J. 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William Holden Hoping once again to keep you in Suspense 25 25 all right, let's settle down The YouTube bill that book you're reading put it away anything you say colonel Well, all of you'll probably want to know why we took you out of whatever warm beds you were in Well, we've got a reason the RJX one Yep, that's right the RJX one the top top secret experimental rocket jet aircraft now this morning Bill is gonna take her up and beat her to death. I can't impress upon you men how extraordinary this flight is an eight rocket ship That's what I said eight rockets eight rockets designed to take man into areas of space that have never been explored before and at a Rate of speed to which no pilot has has yet been subjected Chuck Yeager has already flown twice the speed of sound Today we hope Well Joe yes, come you leave the f-86's you and the other three jet boys will be Bill's chase planes We want observation at 35,000 feet. Yes, sir zero hour is 0900 Joe you and your jets will take off at zero minus 15 got that yes, sir Your f-86's will make conventional climbs to 30,000 feet Rendezvous and call in to me at control at 35,000 feet, right Joe. I've got it Okay, you and your boys go and wrap your f-86's and have a nice time Oh Bill, I dig around. I want to talk. How are you feeling, Bill? Real good. How are you feeling? What about Molly the kids? Are you worried Hank? Don't worry I just want to know just how are they that's all well an hour ago Molly wiped her hands on her apron and kissed me and the twins want to be farming zero minus 20 What do you got to worry about? Okay, okay Hank look I've been flying for a long time. I know I know I know But never for this speed never for this altitude. I Believe dropping bill the engineers are whispering that that you could break out of the stratosphere in this plane Look Hank, I've studied the engineering drawings I know I'm like a prayer my brain is crammed with detailed Specifications and estimated performances, and I know all the safety devices to keep me alive now. You happy Come on. Let's go. Let's get out of here. Sure Come on outside Let's get to the hangar you've got 10 minutes of rocket fuel Get rid of those jets before you fire the rockets fire only one rocket at a time Hank look I'm gonna fly that baby higher and faster than anybody ever did before just like you said I'm gonna take it up and bring it back Then you come home to dinner with me, huh? Yes. She is bill Pretty huh real pretty it's okay for dinner tonight Great Hank. I'll be listening in on the public address of control. I won't bother you until you're airborne It'll be between you and the tower until then zero minus 15 zero minus 15 Okay You in the plane now fight. We'll take you both After the run U.S. Falls been assigned a special radio channel frequency of three nine seven Hargrove I've got a thing in my mind way in the plane you genius is designed He's my best boy. It's our best plane colonel. It better be Now it's your turn. What have you got on your mind? Everything's in proper order colonel the recording equipment the television cameras and the cockpit everything every known scientific device We're talking about a man Hargrove. That's all I really want to get back out of this. What about the man? Maybe one difficulty Tell me about it. I'd like to know the takeoff with all that load the jets the rockets all at maximum fuel capacity Never been tested that way before Go on mr. Hargrove It's just that major Westfall has only 6,000 feet to get his ship airborne if he accelerates from zero to 160 miles per hour in six thousand feet It should be airborne in seven seconds seven seconds. That makes it zero plus G. Yes, come beyond zero plus G Well beyond that We don't know we just don't know Thanks Thanks for everything. I'll try to switch now. Okay, one the tower Roger Tower to RJX one wind 15 miles from south takeoff runway to seven Runway to seven RJX the tower got it zero minus one thirty zero minus one thirty RJX to control over control to RJX one go ahead. This is just for you Hank Cabin pressure. Okay, sure. Okay. Thank you. I'll minus one zero minus one Crew chief over I'm ready to fire How fast are you climbing kid? Call me 20,000. How do you feel? I told F-86 leader go ahead Unscheduled Joe controlled RJX one go ahead 40,000 feet Hank still a doll, baby still is ready to pressurize. Can you hear me? Okay coming in fine? Pressurized. Okay. What is it? Are you receiving me controlled RJX one come in come in RJX one Hello, Bill come in Control to F-86 leader control to F-86 leader come in. What about it Joe try calling Yes, Colonel Sit here and run your fingers through your hair and wait and think about it Go ahead F-86 leader stay up there Joe for as long as you can What do we do now Colonel? I just told you mr. Hargrove We wait And all you people anywhere. Hope you can hear me. This is Bill Westfall approaching 210,000 feet That's 40 miles straight up in the air and that's where I am You never saw anything like it. No clouds and a color. No one's ever named before otherwise nothing Nothing except No, nothing at all. Oh Wait a minute. Yeah Yeah, there is something all right at two o'clock high really something brother. Maybe a flying disc This one's huge. It's spinning around like a top and it's coming toward me Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Listen Listen, something just happened something a missile or shot maybe through the canopy my pressure is going down Something's happening to me that this thing. I'm being pulled toward it. I've lost control of my ship. I've got no control Going to decompress it on the verge of unconsciousness Lacking out Can you hear auto light is bringing you mr. William Holden in the outer limit tonight's presentation in radios outstanding theater of thrills suspense Excuse me, sir. Aren't you Harlow Wilcox? Yes, sir, and aren't you honoring Dodge on suspense tonight? We sure are we're privileged to salute Dodge as a distinguished member of the auto light family But who are you? 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No use waiting anymore make your report to Washington What about you hug roof to be frank with you colonel in another 16 months will be another plane the RJX to The army will give us another man to fly it not until we're certain about this man and we're not certain What are you proposed to do things that are in the manual? We'll organize search parties But spotter planes up in the air Maybe bill came down on the ocean We'll call in the Navy colonel if the RJX one came down in the ocean it had sink in five seconds It had no life preserver equipment on it. The add is we'll call in the Navy, mr. Hogrow alright, whatever you say colonel, but my guess what's your guess, mr. Hogrow My guess is at some time somewhere on some beach or in some field someone will pick up a piece of torn metal That someone will be holding what's left of the RJX one This exists see you I I can feel that you're you're here, but I can't see you talking to you is like It's not like talking it. It's as if it was all happening inside my brain So there were there was a sharp sound like Like a bullet hitting the canopy first first tell me about my ship. Is it lost? Is that the earth? No, we even existed tower come in RJX one to tower come in tower Listen, this is RJX one RJX one coming in for landing. Give me landing instructions over bill Westphal and RJX one Come on kid. Give me landing instructions. I have no fuel. I'm gliding RJX one approximate six miles north of field clear area for 10 miles Roger coming down Be with a guy your counter per radio activity then seal it and mount a 24-hour guard of it and then report to me sure All right, Bill what happened Hank Hank now listen you won't believe it you've got to I know you won't believe it And it's gonna knock you over now. Just take it easy bill. We we better have major Donaldson look you over. No, no No, listen, I'm all right. Listen to me Hank Hank. They said the earth would explode They said it was the end for us. They said Bill come on. Let's get over to major Donaldson's you don't believe it. Do you read it like an order bill major Donaldson's These men from Mars. I didn't say they were from Mars. Do you hear me say anything about men from Mars? No, no, you didn't all I'm trying to tell you is this Whoever those people were they know all about us everything about our wars about our atomic bombs. They've got us quarantined Quarantine. Yeah quarantine. They've they've sealed us off from the rest of space I told you our atomic bombs are a danger to the universe. So they they've seen to it that will be destroyed blown up How do you like it? All right, Bill roll up your sleeves forget it major. I I'm going over to the club in Taiwan on I'm sorry bill Not tonight. Let the major give you a hypo. Look Hank. I've got a drink coming lots of drinks later right now sleep Go ahead major. Come on bill this way Yeah, you'll be okay in the morning. I'm okay now. Yeah, sure We'll leave you here bill. It's all right if Bill sleeps here tonight, isn't it? Oh sure. I see you in the morning though Uh-huh, maybe you'll believe me then you'd better come on major. You'd be okay by himself major Ellie's been under strain, but he'll sleep. I'll talk to him tomorrow Tough but don't worry currently the strong boy best nerves. I've seen I'd say things would be all right delusions like bills latched on to lose certainly major When you make your charts for bill and diagnose them and treat them into all the things you have to When you do that major consider this yeah How did he keep that plane in the air for 10 hours for 10 hours major? When he had fuel to last him only 10 minutes Suspense Presented by auto light tonight star mr. William Holden Friends, this is Harlow Wilcox again to remind you of the $100,000 auto light family charity drawing if you're one of 25 persons selected You will name any charity you wish for a big share of $100,000 so if you'd like to help your church school or other recognized charity such as the national Society for crippled children sign up tomorrow at any of the auto light family car dealers There's no obligation if you're 18 years or over fill out a registration form and have the dealer sign it You may help the recognized charity of your choice to share in the $100,000 total you can enter the auto light family charity drawing at any of these car dealers De Soto Hudson Plymouth stu de Baker Dodge Willis Nash Packard Kaiser or Chrysler next week the story of a man who had a dream and in the dream He killed a snake when he awoke he found he had murdered his wife It's called murder by jury our star mr. Herbert Marshall. That's next week on Suspense suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin The outer limit was written by Graham Dore and adapted for suspense by Morton Fine and David pre-kin featured in the cast where Edgar barrier William Johnstone Jack Krushen Hi, ever back Joseph Kearns Jerry Hausner and Charles Calvert William Holden can currently be seen costarring with Ginger Rogers in Paramount forever female And remember next week mr. Herbert Marshall in murder by jury This is the CBS radio network