The ace pilot amazingly pulls out of a dive at Mach 3.12 (2,320.00 MPH, 3,402 Ft. per Second from 30,000 Feet), and Fred and the "experimental" X-109 plane fortunately survive the wild flight.

Blanchard, the USAF pilot of the chase plane, exits the room in an obviously frightened and nervous state; he parrots words about not seeing another aircraft on the flight and that the reported event was merely an aerial inversion.

Now angered and determined, Fred Norwood decides to prove what he saw by patrolling the area in a USAF surplus North American P-51 Mustang equipped with futuristic laser radar until he reaches the point of exhaustion.

Fred Norwood finds himself summoned to Washington D.C. to meet with Hank Peters, a member of an influential, unnamed agency of the United States Government.

At the Chinese drop zone, they are met by American agent Sam Archibald who leads them to the saucer now hidden inside the ruins of a Catholic church.

On traveling to their destination while evading units of the People's Liberation Army, they run across a party of Russian scientists led by their own version of Agent Hank Peters, Comrade Zagorsky.

The film was shot in 1966[7][8] by cinematographer Hal Mohr at Lone Pine, California, where a standing Western Street set was turned into a Chinese village for the production.

[9] composed by Reinhold Glière The Bamboo Saucer was released on DVD and Blu-ray in April 2014 by Olive Films, formatted in the anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1 aspect ratio.