Corrected entry: When the two agents are talking in the emergency autopsy room, Agent Fox tells the officer that all the Cobra attack helicopters are to carry live ammo. However, in the scene at the end when the helicopters are shooting at the heroes in the crater, the helicopters are UH1 Huey gunships, not AH1 Cobras.
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, everyone seems to know that Starman and Jenny are driving a 1977 Mustang - Mustangs in that era were nearly identical from 1974-1977, it is highly doubtful anyone could immediately identify that car as a 1977 Mustang just from a quick glimpse.
Correction: It is likely the cops captured the license plate number and got the exact model off the plate's registration records. That info would take an average policeman about 5 seconds to find out just by calling the plate number in on his radio.
Correction: This particular trim was only offered this one year.
Correction: He may have wanted Cobras, but UHs were what was available at that time, in that area. As long as they were armed, I doubt the agent was upset with the substitution. Not a movie mistake, just a military deployments result.
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