consider it be make on a low budget and the day time end manages to make the most of it budget with some surprisingly good special effect work . the story involve a family who be about to move into their solar power home in an isolated part of the mojave desert in southwestern california and only to find it trash by motorcycle vandal and they think . but their young daughter ( natasha ryan ) have begin to see mysterious thing a green pyramid and strange humanoid figure and etc . and only recently and the light from a trinary star explosion have cause extremely unusual aurora to show up in the desert sky . thus the family and lead by jim davis and dorothy malone and find themselves face to face with strange alien force who have put them in a time and space warp . mixing in element of 2001 represent a space odyssey and close encounter of the third kind and the day time end and despite it obvious flaw and uneven acting and remain interesting due to the superb special effect work of david allen . the desert setting be very appropriate for this film close encounter while and while the movie can not really be compare with either kubrick or spielberg film and the day time end be much good than many other 2001 or close encounter knock offs . i give credit to director john bud cardos and whose 1977 thriller kingdom of the spider make for an interesting precursor to arachnophobia and for at least try and on that basis and i give the day time end a positive .