In 1927 Jeremiah Oakley was sittin' on his porch sippin' shine when a meteor crashed into his front yard – only it wasn't a meteor. It was a capsule from another star system encasing a single alien in deep sleep. But assuming it was a meteor he built a barn over it and started digging to recover it. He was unsuccessful.
In 2020 the property was bought by Brett Cochran, a widower seeking solitude. But he wondered what was under the barn. He eventually uncovered the space capsule and freed the alien from captivity. He and the alien, who turned into a human woman named Norma, join a group of believers preparing for the invasion of earth by a race of evil aliens, the Seeligs. In collusion with the Vice President and other officials they set up a command post on earth to pave the way for the attack. Brett, Norma, and the believers go on the run from the U.S. Government and the Seeligs while they plan how to stop the invasion. Along the way Brett and Norma begin the first interstellar love affair.