University of Michigan student reporter Zoe Kaplan gets her big break when she is on the scene for the first sighting of mysterious lights in the night sky. Her story in the Michigan Daily is picked up by the Associated Press, and Zoe is given the opportunity to continue on the story as an AP stringer.
Sightings continue and the police department is deluged with phone calls and questions.
His fianc e Anneke Haagen does not even try to hide the fact that she finds the situation amusing. And Zoe is close to the center of it all. It does all seem pretty funny until a dead body is found in a burned circle that believers take to be a landing site. History professor Thomas Edison Stempel had a passion for researching UFOs equaled only by his facility for making enemies. The Silly Season was a lot of fun, though I don't suppose that believers in alien abduction and government conspiracies to cover up the truth will be as amused as I was.