While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket to the orbit of Earth for helping the exploration of the outer space in the Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message in their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites had mysteriously felt on Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens that ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days with the intention to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes that last hope of human race against the hostile aliens.
据剧集新星影视网小编统计,《飞碟入侵地球》在美国 本土市场创下1956年恐怖片片票房纪录,Fred F. Sears与Hugh Marlowe、Joan Taylor、Donald Curtis、的二度合作引发观影热潮,豆瓣综合评分为6.0。