When a bright object flies across the sky, neighbors on Maple Street are astonished. The neighbors then notice that power goes out and the phone lines are dead. Even the portable radios will not function, nothing on Maple Street will work. Pete Van Horn leaves to check if the powers working on Maple Street, While Steve Bran, Charlie, and Don Martin try and figure out what’s going on. The boy Tommy walks forward to warn Charlie and Steve not to leave. Tommy announces that they don’t want them to leave, and when they ask who Tommy tells them about the aliens in the books he has read. Tommy then states that nobody can leave except for the aliens that had been sent down, while everyone tells Tommy’s mother that he should stop reading so many comics