I assume that this is Attack from Outer Space, but when it comes to the paranormal docs of Wheeler Dixon, it’s hard to tell if you’re watching UFO Top Secret or UFO Exclusive and Wheeler is all about recycling footage from his other movies, which include Amazing World of Ghosts, World of Mystery and Mysteries of the Bible.

This is…something.

The man clearly believed that if you’ve already got a blurry light in the sky once, why not show it again? And again. And then maybe tint it purple and pretend it’s new footage. And it all makes sense, believe it or not, because Winston Wheeler Dixon didn’t just make UFO movies. 

According to Wikipedia, his scholarship has particular emphasis on François Truffaut, Jean‑Luc Godard, American experimental cinema and horror films. The Museum of Modern Art has exhibited his work. He’s taught at Rutgers University, The New School in New York, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and was the James E. Ryan professor emeritus of film studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

So yes: the same guy who gave lectures on French New Wave cinema also directed movies in which a glowing dot over a mountain is supposed to convince you that alien warships are about to level Cleveland.

What makes my brain hurt even more is that he was a member of the New York City underground experimental film scene, wrote for Interview and co-founded the band Figures of Light. That’s right. The man who made bargain-bin— I say that term fondly—UFO documentaries was also helping lay the groundwork for noisy New York punk before most people even knew where or what CBGB was.

This explains a lot about these movies. They feel less like documentaries and more like someone in the early 70s decided to make a collage of every weird thing they could find in a public domain archive.

With a voiceover by Sidney Paul (who was also the narrator of Guerrilla Girl), this explores the wonder and magic of “what if aliens attacked us?” all while we watch tinted photos, NASA-looking stock footage and blurred-out images that could be UFOs…or could be dust on the lens…or could be literally anything.  

Meanwhile, the soundtrack just chills in the background with that unmistakable 70s library-music energy: wah-wah guitars, cheap synth stabs, and the occasional sci-fi sound effect that feels like it escaped from a middle school planetarium show. It’s less about proving aliens exist and more about setting a vibe where you sit back and think, “Yeah, maybe that glowing thing is from another galaxy.”

Star Force comes from that strange era where documentaries were allowed to be a little loose with the facts, a little dreamy and a lot weird. Nobody expected hard evidence. They just wanted spooky narration, grainy footage and the feeling that something mysterious might be happening just beyond the edge of the frame. And yes, maybe the title sounds like another film, so perhaps that gets you in the theater or pulling into the drive-in.

Put it on, dim the lights, light one up and let it wash over you. Just don’t expect answers. That was never really the point.

You can watch this on YouTube.