Reviewers continued to both praise and find fault with the motion picture's director and production values, but aside from that we must consider "U.F.O." as profoundly significant for its early warning about strange things in our skies. In 2024, we observe that its direction in 1956 was nothing less than prophetic, as we are now extremely aware of government concern and ongoing investigations.
Also today we feature a newspaper printing of the movie's most familiar poster, and we find it interesting how one review compares the famous 1952 Washington, DC UFO encounter involving several objects surrounding a military pilot to a kitten playing with a mouse.
While many newspapers listed Tom Towers as Powers thanks to a press book error, here we actually see a news clipping where the story title lists him as Powers, but the text itself correctly names him as Towers. As we've noted before, the fact that there was a real movie actor named Tom Powers only added to the confusion -- which Towers and I were finally able to correct to some degree by the 1970s in TV Guide and other publications. (credit: Barry Greenwood)
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