 Even Ellen Fields is unsure about what to believe but still agrees to assist Putnam in his investigation.Over the next several days, local people disappear; a few return, but they act distant or appear somewhat dazed and not their usual selves.Convinced by these and other odd events, Sheriff Warren comes to believe Putnam's story that the meteorite is actually a crashed spaceship with alien inhabitants; he then organizes a posse to hunt down the invaders at their crash site.