Phantom from Space (1953) uses stock footage of radar rigs. Some of this stock footage would later reappear in Killers from Space (1954).
Working with most of the same crew, this was one of several early 1950s films made by Wilder and son Myles on a financing-for-distribution basis with United Artists and, on occasion, RKO Radio Pictures.
W. Lee Wilder formed a film production company in the early 1950s called Planet Filmplays for the purpose of producing and directing "quickie" low-budget science fiction films, with screenplays co-written with his son Myles.
Fell into the public domain in 1981.
Several of the ad posters for this film show the 'alien' in classic cradling prostrate female victim in its arms; this never occurs in the film; also, one lobby card shows an anonymous red high heels shoed, up to bared thighs, standing over 'dead'* male victim (husband to) of presumably wife character, Betty (Lela Nelson): this shot also never appears in the film; *a line in the film explains that the wife's husband was "taken to the morgue." N.B. Who - so, being then a widowed wife - later, with no grief, swans off from the police station with the other surviving man who she's known since "school", but the dead husband "only a year"! (And had mentioned to him, he "was a little older; maybe 10, 20 years (!) - But what difference does that make?" for they "never discussed anything personal."