Warning from Space story
Starfish-like aliens disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn of the imminent collision of a rogue planet and Earth. As the planet rapidly accelerates toward Earth, a nuclear device is created at the last minute and destroys the approaching world.
17 total · 6 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | A starfish-like alien took on the form of a Human female and lived among Humans. |
| animal and plant patterned being | major | Starfish-like aliens traveled to Japan in the form of human being. |
| close encounter with a passing astronomical object | major | A nuclear device is created to destroy a rogue planet that was on a collision course approaching with Earth. |
| factions joining forces against a common enemy | major | The nations of the world joined forced and approved a Japanese plan to use nuclear weapons to deflect Planet R from its collision course with Earth. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | UFO sitings preceded that arrival of the starfish-like aliens on Earth. Dr. Kamura was initially skeptical that the UFOs were actually flying saucers, but he eventually accepted them as such. |
| science for war or peace | major | Dr. Matsuda was developing an explosive more powerful than the hydrogen bomb for peaceful purposes, but the alien in Human form destroyed his notebooks and told him it would be used for war. It the end it was used to Planet R from its collision course with Earth. |
| attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy | minor | The possibility was raised that the aliens had come as conquerors. |
| Counter-Earth | minor | The aliens revealed they were from a planed, named Paira, hidden on the opposite side of the sun from Earth. |
| father and son | minor | The Elder Dr. Itsobe and Dr. Toru Itsobe. |
| intangibility device | minor | The alien in the form of a Human female was able to pass through doors without opening them. |