Just as news comes that a cult sci-fi motion picture is being remade in Silver Peak, fifty years after the original was filmed there, Sadie and Edwin see a UFO! While they're skeptical that it has unearthly origins, they can't deny what they saw. Is it just a publicity stunt related to the movie or something more mysterious? Meanwhile, Sadie's best friend Roz Putnam is in the doldrums when she hears about the project. It stirs up terrible memories:...

"With Sadie's assistance, the town library is gearing up for an annual Thanksgiving exhibit on the area's rich Native American history. After years of being asked, an old Silver Peak family has finally agreed to display a family heirloom: an unusual stringed instrument of native origin. Spike Harris has been practicing on it so he can play it at the exhibit's closing, but the irreplaceable instrument goes missing, then is found -- apparently vandalized...