With a similar plot of this episode, both Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan starred together in an episode of Golden Girls where Bea's character (Dorothy) misses seeing a flying saucer that Rose (Betty White) witnesses and nobody else believes.
The first appearance of Tuggy McKenna.
This episode first aired only a couple months before the release of the blockbuster film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", which was also about average people seeing UFOs.