The Aurora Encounter (1986)

Directed by

Jim McCullough Sr.

Genre

science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small Texas town in the 1890s, a UFO crashes and its friendly alien visitor meets the local residents. The townspeople react to the unusual event and try to help the alien.

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What happens

The Aurora Encounter is a 1986 American Weird Western film directed by Jim McCullough Sr., written by Melody Brooke and Jim McCullough, Jr., and starring Jack Elam, Mickey Hays, Peter Brown, Carol Bagdasarian, and Dottie West. Its plot follows the residents of a small Texas town at the turn of the 19th century who are visited by an alien being after a UFO crashes in their town. The screenplay was very loosely based on the Aurora, Texas, UFO incident of 1897. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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