In the 1990s, tales of recovered, crashed flying saucers began to emerge from a phantom air base in a remote corner of Nevada’s atomic test range, and the terms “Area 51,” “Dreamland” and “Groom Lake” sparked the imaginations of UFO researchers and conspiracy theorists, bringing hordes of UFO buffs to the tiny, desert town of Rachel, on the border of Area 51, where the town’s only bar, the Little A’Le’Inn, hosted gatherings of true believers and the curious to trade stories, whisper secrets and watch the skies.
Ride along with filmm
akers and UFO buffs Roger Mexico and Mike Brown on their surrealistic, wild ride of adventures on the Extraterrestrial Highway, as they encounter abductees, contactees, government whistleblowers, an ambassador from another star system, come face-to-face with the dreaded Cammo Dudes and have a bizarre close encounter of their own.
Filmed over several years and compiled from over 100 hours of video into a 66 minute documentary, “Alien Highway” looks at the UFO field from the unique, experiential perspective of UFO buffs themselves. It is not an investigation into the reality of UFOs or an attempt to uncover the truth about Area 51. It is about the people whose passionate obsession created a unique cultural phenomenon that flourished for a time in
an obscure little community that happens to exist on the border of America’s Twilight Zone.
Among the UFO researchers and personalities featured in the film are Bill Uhouse, Bill Hamilton, Bill Clendenon, Billy Goodman (there seem to be a lot of Bills in the UFO field), George Knapp, Jordan Maxwell, Glenn Campbell, Robert Lazar, Pat & Joe Travis, and Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II.