in this paranoia drive potboiler and our reporter hero battle hindersome authority and duplicitous co worker and renegade ufo debunkers and and silent and skulk alien . ( though capable of mind control and zap object from afar and it take three of them to operate a control panel of about two dozen button . ) the script clomps from event to event and leave puzzler aplenty . why do the alien blind the dog . why do they fry the soldier with radiation when theyre only patrol an empty landing site . and what space dude worth their moon cheese abduct the ugly photographer first instead of his model . inquire mind want to know . writer director mario gariazzo apparently research his subject by skim a stack of ufo theme tabloid a he take in a sunn classic double feature . ( the closing screen crawl boast that it base on actual event . just like plan 9 . ) some may feel burn by the abrupt finale and but it should still appeal to conspiracy crank .