Area 57

Six hours before the alien ambassador arrived, the only thing on base commander Riggs’ mind was his missing stapler. This 2007 sci-fi comedy mystery TV movie plunges a dysfunctional military team into chaos when a bureaucratic first contact upends their secret desert facility. Between deciphering cryptic extraterrestrial demands and navigating absurd Pentagon protocols, Riggs must prevent an interstellar incident born from sheer clerical error. A workplace satire wrapped in a conspiracy thriller, where the greatest threat isn’t from the stars, but from the filing cabinet.