In it, Allan Maxwell, an engineer for a small radio station, somehow makes contact with a peaceful alien creature – the "Galaxy Being" – who is then transported to Earth by accident.

The Outer Limits.Allan Maxwell is an engineer who has dedicated himself to researching microwave background noise using a device powered from his radio station.

The two have further enlightening philosophical conversation, in which no epistemological basis is given for the Andromedan's affirmation that Maxwell's "brain waves" will "go on" subsequent to the death of his carbon-based body.

The "Galaxy Being," as it is dubbed, wreaks inadvertent havoc, killing Eddie and injuring several other people by burning them with radiation.

The Galaxy Being encounters Allan in person, who convinces it to turn down the heat and then guides it back to the transmitter shed.

When the Galaxy Being emerges, the authorities attempt to kill it; but it protects itself by destroying the bullets in flight, again with radiation.

The Galaxy Being chooses not to return home inasmuch as it has violated a law forbidding contact with Earth.

So, after first reassuring Allan that, "There is no death for me," the Being reduces its microwave intensity which causes it to fade out from the Terran realm.

The Outer Limits.The show’s now-famous introduction and epilogue narration heard from "The Control Voice" was performed by veteran radio, screen and TV actor, Vic Perrin.

Booker[1] observes that the engineer and the Galaxy Being are variations of the television and science fiction tropes of the mad scientist and the invading alien, albeit with a reversal typical of The Outer Limits that both the scientist and the alien are benevolent, and it is the ordinary human beings of Earth who are the villains in the story.

Like another Outer Limits story, "The Borderland", it addressed the idea of an electronic limbo that exists when television signals cease transmission or are broadcast out into space, raising questions such as where the Galaxy Being goes when he turns off the transmitter.

[2][6] Filming took nine days to complete, at radio station KCBH (now KYSR) in Coldwater Canyon, MGM Backlot #4 Andy Hardy Street, and Soundstage #3 at KTTV Channel 11.