This is how I remember it: a tv station picks up a transmission from the moon and finds an alien spaceship. The aliens cloak themselves and nobody believes the story. Meanwhile the aliens are on earth preparing a standard overthrow/invasion, naturally they are hunting the people who reported the story. The aliens are desguised as humans but they need to breathe from an inhalator from time to time.
There is a benign faction inside the aliens who want to stop the invasion/manhunt and I think the alien leader’s wife is the one to rats out the alien leader to the humans. He is stressed and must use his inhalator thereby revealing him as an alien. Suddenly the cloak falls and everybody can see the spaceship on the moon.
I think it was a tv flick somewhere in the 90’s.
The Arrival?
Nope. There was no spaceship on the moon – it was underground in Mexico(?). My movie was a tv production, I think and had no celebs in it. Sorry, Will.
“Starship Invasions” (1977)?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076760/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
No, it was in color and was propably a tv production. It starred someone akin to William Katt (though I don’t think it was him). LAte 80’s early 90’s. Maybe Canadian.
Color, TV movie, english, no series, soso special effects.
“Arrival II” (1998)?
It was a direct to video sequel, and it had the look and feel of a made for TV movie. It also had so-so special effects. Here is the IMDb.com page:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122961/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Hi guys, I found it. It’s “Alien Fury – Countdown to Invasion” from 2000 starring Dale Midkiff, Stephen Tobolowsky and Chyna. It wasn’t a bunch of reporters but some governmental agency (STRAW), a whole armada of spaceships and William Katt not in it. But the inhalators were there!
Funny how memory fails over time…
Thanks for the input, guys 🙂
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Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_fury
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