- Three men working on a motorway are forced to share a small hut together.
- Having extensively researched British UFO sightings, Bernard has discovered a pattern to their times, dates and map reference data, that enables him to accurately predict when and where a string of future sightings will occur. When the locations of these are marked on a map, they form a huge spiral; the center point of which, he is convinced, will be the precise position for an event of monumental significance: no less than open contact with an alien intelligence! The time of that event will be tonight, and Bernard is in readiness at the remote spot in his caravan. He is also anticipating the company of personnel from UFO groups throughout Europe, television and radio companies, and numerous newspapers; to which he has made invitations. His wife: Joy, is quietly uneasy with the whole affair as she leaves him alone there until the morning. The first of the invited: a journalist that Bernard does not recognize, named Duffy, arrives just after Joy has left. He is a patient listener that avoids both skepticism and any sign of acceptance that Bernard's convictions are factual. Glancing frequently through the caravan's windows into the blackness outside, they discuss the occurrences that lead up to this evening and the possible consequences of what could happen next. As the night progresses, Bernard has to accept that no-one else he invited is going to turn up, and anything that occurs will only be witnessed by the two of them. The appointed hour finally arrives. And by the time it has uneventfully passed, Bernard's excitement has been transformed by degrees into dejected disappointment. Everything he believed now seems to have been wrong. With all apparently lost, the stranger Duffy suddenly undergoes a transformation: revealing himself to actually be the benevolent alien emissary that Bernard had been there for that night. Naked now and eerily glowing, Duffy declares their meeting to have been successful in enabling him to learn about the nature of mankind. Shocked beyond his imaginings, Bernard watches him leave.
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