UFO: Target Earth (1974)

Director
Michael A. DeGaetano

Main cast
Nick Plakias; Cynthia Cline; LaVerne Light; Tom Arcuragi; Phil Erickson

Genres
Sci-Fi

Description
An electronics expert searching for evidence of aliens picks up signals that he believes are from an alien spacecraft--and they are coming from a lake near town.


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