Xtro 3: Watch the Skies story
A group of Marines encounter a hostile space alien on a remote Pacific island. It is the third installment in the Xtro film series.
11 total · 3 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | A group of Marines encountered a hostile humanoid alien while dispatched to a remote Pacific island, ostensibly to diffuse bombs. |
| government secrecy | major | The story is about a team of Marines that discovered the military covered up a 1955 UFO crash in Arizona. |
| military related work | major | A group of Marines find incontrovertible evidence of a government cover up of a UFO crash while dispatched to a remote Pacific island. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | minor | The film opens with a 1950s era newsreel report about a nine-year-old boy who perpetrated a flying saucer hoax that "got the whole country in an uproar". |
| historical event | minor | One of the Marines related in some detail the story of the lost colony of Roanoke. [Roanoke Colony] |
| journalism | minor | Erica Stern met Lieutenant Kirn in a cheap motel room to discuss printing his story about a government cover up of a UFO crash. |
| love vs. career | minor | Kirn narrated how he's chosen the Marines over his wife. |
| malicious hoaxes in society | minor | The film opens with a 1950s era newsreel report about a nine-year-old boy who perpetrated a flying saucer hoax that "got the whole country in an uproar". |
| personal invisibility cloak | minor | The space alien could conceal itself by blending in with its surroundings. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | The film concluded with the alien taking off in its peanut-shaped spacecraft. |