hangar 18 star gary collins a one of three shuttle astronaut who see a ufo in space while attempt to launch a satellite . the satellite hit the ship and kill one of the astronaut . the ufo then crash land in the arizona desert where our government pick it up and take it to hangar 18 for analysis . robert vaughn and who hasn not look this good since teenage caveman and play the white house aide who think the government need to keep collins away from the ufo since the president re election be on the line . why this be the basis for the plot escape me . this isn not a conspiracy insomuch a it be a flimsy reason to have car and plane crash and alien and and a wild cross polinization of specie theory all in the same movie . any government that could let gary collins live through an entire movie just have to be full of idiot . plus and when you have darren carl kolchak mcgavin study the alien and one can only envision christopher lloyd get his inspiration for back to the future and and that not a good thing . the sad thing be that the end of the movie be set up about halfway through . but and the whole movie be like that . you know who go to die and and when . the movie have plot hole large enough for the rockettes to dance through . sterno say let james hetfield of metallica beat this hangar 18 with his guitar .