The Night They Healed Him

January 2007, a river in eastern North Carolina. A builder of forty-six, broke and dying of Crohn's disease, walked up a hill alone while his seventeen-year-old son and three of his crew fished below. Three balls of fire, forty feet across, settled on the treetops. The third dropped straight down over him, and four hours vanished.

His son was found flat in the brush, where two small dark beings with glowing red eyes had walked to within fifteen feet of him. Then all five men watched eight or nine lights switch on and form a circle, and three of them landed across the water. A glowing white egg pivoted in the road and passed over their open sunroof without a sound. At home, a thing the color of the moon, the size of a four-year-old, stood at an oak tree and spoke inside his head. By morning, the disease he had taken medicine for every day for seventeen years was gone.

A NASA scientist came to debunk him and found eight more witnesses. Five years later, at three in the morning, a woman floating in a circle of light told him what she wanted from him, and then her name. Where all of it led him, all the way to October 2026, is the part the film saves for last.