Wasn’t there a movie titled the arrival back in the 1990’s? I believe it had Charlie Sheen (before he was a whack-a-doodle) and about aliens that could bend their knees backwards. Must have been decent enough to remember after all these years.
The trip from A-town to Denali is truly magical, and highly recommend making time for this trip, even if you’re an Alaskan resident. One interesting fact: the Alaska Rail Road is the last flag stop train in America and operates between the months of mid-May through mid- September. They call this the Hurricane Turn Train and operates between Talkeetna and Hurricane Gulch, but at the time of my trip the regular train that goes between Fairbanks and Anchorage makes these stops for regular year