Largely based around a flurry of UFO sightings that occurred in and around the Florida town of Gulf Breeze during the 1980s.
Despite its unpopularity, the episode presages the postmodernist trend that would become more acceptable during the next decades as The X-Files (1993), Supernatural (2005), Fringe (2008) and similar "unreality" shows. These shows are also indebted to the supernatural/paranormal series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974), aired between 1974-1975.
When asked in an interview years later which were his favorite episodes that he produced during his involvement in the show, Dick Wolf named this episode, saying that he generally liked the episodes that were a bit "out there".
The episode uses the video effect of luminance keying to show the bizarre occurrences at the houseboat. Notably, DeLong's face is keyed out and Trudy's keyed in to illustrate her "out of body" experience.