a few weeks ago riverdale illinois was just another quiet small town going on that saturday shortly after midnight a living nightmare began every been six miles south of the town of riverdale illinois forty eight hours ago discovery was made of a great coal shaped object the cone stands fifty feet high as a base diameter of fifty feet the nature of the call undetermined origin unknown everts made to determine the composition of the calling by dr paul covering principal scientists for project damper have proven futile the surface of the coal has a total resistance to pressure heat acid coincidental with the discovery of the coal is the brutal slaying of several of the town's leading citizens townspeople question provided stories of strange origin and the nature of the call remain unknown like washington that wire that good that water keep ours was to arrive in riverdale to take charge of the spaceship investigation requested that there be no publicity whatsoever entering the restricted ravine area i had the feeling that we were being watched although there wasn't a soul around the sheriff that instructed his men to keep the woods clear of curiosity seeing as every precaution was being taken to s hello powers i'm paul kettering you know i am here i want action good we can use some so far a better analogy is iraq not quite sure i understand the ship had some kind of m it would destroy it's impossible first let me say we haven't determined whether it is a ship that's ready markings for single hand touch that cold it was photograph from every conceivable angle black and white col still motion picture spectrographs everything's open your inspection took the photographs my staff and i love this thing is indestructible the remove any markings would have to alter the in your test tubes and the obvious things escape your attention i've got to have something to report i want to action not series i want to know what's on the inside of that ship and i suppose now just good a time as any come on what's really on the inside of that i don't know know the mayor's back what is that on the back of your neck me is has nothing on my neck i say there is do you mind if i take a look at it piercing instruments they text themselves to the central nervous system at the base of the neck and we don't quite know how it worked but when the thing was crushed and the instruments withdrawn they created something in the form of an ass and this acid destroyed the mayor's nervous system so without the shooting death would have ensued in well what would you say dr twenty four to forty eight hours just in time for the  keg i want you to listen closely to everything i have to say and not repeat a word to anyone notify all the member on a twenty four hour dirty anybody wants me i'll be out of the com pick up the others go right it didn't take kettering long to round up the others once again we were on the way to the restricted area where it came up with a new angle of course we all hope that it was a solution to the mystery of the  enter the woods we discovered that the roadblock signs have been removed from the highway and there was an attack aren't on duty at least we didn't see one are you thinking the same thing i am potentially well we know this is not an american project this cone is a useless piece of junk for wasting our time so all come down of the parasites what about it captain well we can handle it singlehanded i did not punches all right parasites that means they need something or someone to live on on their own most parasites would die really tried animals why didn't they settle on animals that's the rub they wanted more than just life they tried animals through ignorance they didn't understand earthly forms they didn't know which animal including man was best suited for this environment so they experimented trial and error you mean they can think so they can think these things take over a man's mind he becomes a robot a machine taking orders except for one thing it may not show on the outside a victim may act normally to the city hall we'll meet back there nobody should act on his own we need weapons we have in our supplies all right we've wasted our time let's go sorry when it's like th unless i missed my bet these charges connected with the person running the mayor is the only person with one of these on him yet on their own the parasites can't move around but one plate to the other rapidly they just start made that way they were going to have the mayor pla they've got it at least you're still alive will find a way no it can't be if i kill a thing that means that we have to kill him and if we let it l greeted us dr weiler in the others had discovered a dying man who presumably came from inside the spaceship killing recognize the man as professor hosing them banished with an entire scientific expedition five years ago quite a thing go away why didn't we hear a car with a bad engine would you buy he's got a bad heart it's the same thing but her sight off his back would die in a matter of hours during that time and make trouble getting to a hospital we might get something out of him yet every minute counts while i want you to set up some detection equipment on top of the scaffold next to the hatch i want to know so much as a mosquito goes in or out of  disappeared nearly five years ago where have you been all this time you were given up today where is dr cool banished with  i go up and check the recording device i set up by the hedge to see if anything's been up to you to stay down here and map out a plan for searching a time i don't know if i'd be of much help and ever met a man who thought a little of his own abilities there's nothing in them i said you speak directly to me we are in complete harmony we are inseparable there is no conflict of purpose here is there is amo we the time when i've got an idea you think you can salvage a power trip we saw stopped on the highway and why why you think you can manage alone you've got to stay here and keep an eye on the co area i'm going down the other end of the ravine when i give you the signal you fire the gun and keep everybody clear this gate when i get over the other side you secure the end of this cable on to the end of that heavy electrical cable you saw on the back of the truck ok reached a point directly on the opposite side of the ravine and signaled for me to fire the harpoon gun coverings plan but followed his instructions nevertheless i made doubly sure that my end of the wire was firmly tied to the of the electrical cable in the power truck then i signaled back to kettering and he started to pull the wire on his side the going up there i can tell you that and we're not going to let you do it either nobody has to go up there what do you mean this will do it for us we'll shoot the other end of that cable up there i wrong must listen to me when i had to say means everything to me alice whatever you have to say it's not of your own making no hon you're wrong i know what you're thinking but you're wrong alice must come down