After recently re-watching the obscure, nigh forgotten sci-fi flick "The Alien Encounters" (1979, dir. James T.
After his wife and son are killed by a stray meteor (or was it a mis-guided alien probe?) an unemployed astronomer begins to research UFO sightings, starting to imagine that aliens are among us and that he is being watched.
An apparent alien being from Barnard's Star arrives on Earth, and plans to build the "Betatron", a machine designed to prolong life, enabling its longer-lived beneficiaries to attain higher wisdom than they otherwise would or could. However, in the course of his work, he runs afoul of the powers-that-be on Earth (Men In Black).
