Given the question: Build a movie plot around this: Was it four or five years earlier that Prof. Helsingman vanished? five years
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This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (April 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)A narrator informs us, "A few weeks ago, Riverdale, Illinois was just another quiet, small town. Then on that Saturday, shortly after midnight, a living nightmare began". A man (Hampton Fancher, uncredited) carrying a lighted, basketball-sized glass container, bumps into a pedestrian, and the container is broken. A fight ensues and a hissing sound is heard.A car approaches and the narrator continues, "On Sunday, about an hour before nightfall, my fiancee and I were returning from a trip to her family's home in the country. Our wedding date was set. Everything was right with the world. We were on the way back to town to tell the good news to my father". The driver, Glenn Cameron (Factor) and passenger, Elaine Cameron (Jody Fair) are distracted by a bright light from the nearby woods. They stop to investigate and find three dead animals, and to their surprise, they come upon a large, cone-shaped, spiral metal structure resembling the tip of a screw.Two days later in Washington, D.C., a flying saucer investigation committee reviews classified army footage of the object. Sen. Walter K. Powers (Cornelius Keefe) and his assistant Dan Walker (Robert Ball) arrive late for the briefing, which notes that the metal object stands 50 feet high with a base diameter of 50 feet. The nature and origin of this spiral metal cone is unknown. Dr. Paul Kettering (Ed Nelson) is the chief investigator. Also noted is the murder of several people in the nearby town. The senator and his assistant fly to Riverdale to investigate firsthand. They are met by Glenn Cameron, who explains that his father, the mayor, is missing. The three drive to the metal object's location. Alice Summers (Lee), the mayor's secretary, assists Kettering by recording test results. The senator climbs scaffolding erected around the spiral cone to...