In the beginning of July, a strange spaceship is heading towards Earth. Humans received a strange signal, and this has turned into a global phenomenon. It was aliens. smaller spaceships began to cover entire cities around the world. Suddenly, the wonder turns into horror as the spaceships destroy the cities. Then, when the world counterattacked, the alien ships are invincible to normal weapon systems, then The President of the United States, decides to head to area 51, to formulate a plan to defeat the aliens. Now, the fate of the world rests on a handful of surviving humans.

The abbreviation "ID4" was invented due to undisclosed legal problems (long since resolved) with the title "Independence Day".

[at the secret government lab]


President Thomas Whitmore:
I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?


Julius Levinson:
You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?

Factual errors: In the opening shots, the Earth is shown in the background of the alien mother ship. The rotation of the Earth is plainly visible, at about 2 or 3 degrees per second, giving an Earth day of about 2 or 3 minutes.

Written by William Berry, Peter Buck, Michael Mills
& Michael Stipe
Performed by R.E.M.
Courtesy of IRS Records