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• Factual errors: Rolling Stones "I Can't Get no Satisfaction" was not on the Voyager 1 & 2 disks. Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was.
  
  
• Continuity: When Starman and Jenny are sitting in her car, looking at the map projection, it projects in the wrong direction on their faces. When the camera is behind them, Starman is sitting on the East coast side of the map. When the camera faces him, the West coast is projected on his face.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The two aircraft scrambled to intercept the UFO were Convair F-102A Delta Daggers. The F-102 was removed from service in 1976, eight years before the film was set.
  
  

• Factual errors: The jet that shoots at the UFO was a Northrop F-20 Tigershark, a fighter prototype that never entered military service. Upon close inspection, one can see the civilian aircraft registry number on the rear of the fuselage.
  
  
• Continuity: The kidnapped note "Jenny" leaves on the bathroom mirror changes from the first time we see it, to when "Starman" comes back in to get it.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Throughout the film, Chequamegon (Shih-WAH-muh-gone) National Forest is pronounced "She-mogg-wahn." Non-locals sometimes refer to it as "that unpronounceable national forest."
  
  
• Continuity: When Starman and Jenny are struggling for a gun in the car, Starman is wearing a wedding ring visible in one shot, which disappears for the rest of the movie.
  
  
• Factual errors: Sgt. Lemon, the crew chief on board the C&C helicopter wears the insignia of the 82nd Airborne Division on his right shoulder (indicating combat service). This has been worn with the "Airborne" tab since the end of World War I. Additionally all of the soldiers wear the "First US Army" patch on their left shoulder - the 1st US Army at the time was a headquarters unit at Fort Meade Maryland. And while it makes sense that the C&C chopper would be fitted out this way (Fort Meade is the home of the NSC) it doesn't make sense that the combat forces detailed to them in the southwest US would not be wearing their local insignia.
  
  
• Factual errors: After Jenny fires the shots into the air at the truck stop, the gun still has the hammer forward. On the type of pistol she had, the hammer would have been cocked after firing.
  
  
• Factual errors: Starman clones himself a body from the dead husband's hair keepsake in the photo album. But hair doesn't contain DNA at all. Only the hair roots have DNA.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Starman runs the yellow light, the loaded tractor trailer that he almost hits is approaching the intersection at highway speed, never slowing down for what would have been a red light. And considering the flat, open countryside in which the intersection is located, the truck driver, approaching a red light, would have clearly seen the orange Mustang speeding toward the intersection on the crossing road.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the hanger when Shermin is playing the alleged Voyager golden record, the turntable is turning counter-clockwise (instead of clockwise) and is rotating at a much higher speed than the 16-2/3 RPM at which the Voyager record was intended to be played.
  
  

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