The tale begins in 1957 in the star-filled skies above California's Mojave Desert. It is a especial darkness for well-known astronomer Ted Lewis, who is preparing a particular dinner for his beautiful, adoring bride Lana to perform their marriage ceremony anniversary. In another part of township, Tammy, a waitress at little local diner with big plans for the future, looks out her window and is excited to see a shooting star, which she takes as a satisfactory token for her dreams. But, what Dr. Lewis and Tammy adopt is a shooting star, is really an alien spaceship. The fiery ball hurtles toward earth and crash-lands on a butte in the desert. The only witnesses are teens Dick and Penny who are necking in a nearby lover's lane. A high, metallic alien named Urp emerges from the skill unharmed, alarmed to find out that the horrible Ghota, who was also on scantling, has escaped. The menacing one-eyed creature's unquenchable desire could mean the end of culture as we know it. Urp is the only one who knows how to break off the revolting additional-terrestrial, but to do so he has to take over the body of Dr. Lewis and enlist the aid of Tammy, the only human in town willing to believe and trust in his mission. The local constabulary - including Chief Dawson and Officer Vern - are confirmed skeptics and offer little help. Together, Urp and Tammy must pursue down the Ghota and neutralize it before it consumes all the restricted inhabitants and uses the human nuclear fuel to multiply and defeat the earth!