What looked like a big black box - perhaps 50 feet high, 200 long - had setteled squarely on Jerry Conklin's car.

The townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota, were the first to see it - and one of them was the first and only human to shoot at it. He paid for his rashness with instant death.
Within hours the public knew something strange had happened and was beginning to face the incredible possibility that the Earth harbored something from outer space. A machine? An intelligent being? There was no way to know.
Jerry Conklin knew the Visitor had scooped him up, held him prisoner for several hours, then let him go. Jerry knew the Visitro was a living, intelligent creature!