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.