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As much as this episode tried to proceed in a serious vein, it was almost entirely comical for its entire run. Jack Carter as the ex-Air Corps pilot masquerading as a newspaper reporter is so overwrought in the delivery of his lines that I had all to do from bursting out laughing. And then, for whatever reason, boarding house proprietor Ginny Walker (Olive Deering) managed to fall in love with Vic Russo (Carter) practically the moment he walked through the door! This was a very silly consequence of the story's premise that had Russo attempting to confirm the existence of flying saucers in the remote New Mexico town of Las Palmas. No mention of Area 51 in this one, but close enough to suggest the presence of alien aircraft. And of course, there's Crazy John (Vaughn Taylor), a grizzled old coot who says he's seen flying saucers and knows an Indian or two that experienced them as well. That's his quote in my summary line, which suggests that he actually was 'one of us', that is, an arrival on one of those space ships. But the kicker actually confirms what Russo was never able to prove for himself, as Ginny breaks down sobbing after her Earthly contact ('Saucer Man' in the credits) states that they have to leave immediately lest they be exposed - "They didn't send me here to fall in love!"

Bad, bad, bad nothing good about this episode at all. Bad acting, bad directing terrible godawful music bad story. The only slight glimmer was the old crazy man. Why was there a romantic element at all. You can definitely tell that television was in its infancy. This story was all crammed up together. How do these two people fall in love as soon as the man enters the house? I don't know what the people who made this were thinking. I had never heard of these actors before and after seeing this I know why. Hopefully they all retired after they saw this. Weren't there any other people living in the house? I have seen some bad acting in my day but this takes the cake. Need I go on?

Bruce Dern and Olive Deering are on the run, down & out, bad news. They run over a soldier guarding an entrance to where the "Zanti Misfits" are going to land and then both fall prey to these big ant like bad guys. During a re-run of Outer Limits, I wondered how or why Olive Deering had gotten her role in this episode. She looked old, and her skin was marked. It could be that the director wanted her to appear unlikable, fodder for the misfit ants. I've seen her in a couple of other TV shows, from prior to Outer Limits, younger, and she played likable characters. Could be like Louis Fletcher. If the first time you see her is in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," then she is an mean, old, woman. But Fletcher in an episode of Perry Mason is actually an attractive young woman.