Paranormal investigator Kevin Starkly disappears mysteriously in the haunted Pine Barrens of New Jersey right at the start of a much-publicized road trip promoting his podcast—and soon after hinting he’s uncovered key evidence proving a UFO crashed in Aurora, Texas in 1897 and the alien pilot is buried in the local cemetery. What secrets did he uncover about the Aurora crash, and has he paid a terrible price for his curiosity? A quartet of his twenty-something friends, a self-styled “Nerd Legion,”—Tony (a psychic who talks to ghosts in his dreams), Angel (an alien abductee and Tony’s high-school crush), Rich (a skeptical science teacher), and Johnny (an art curator)—chase clues across 1,600 miles searching for their old acquaintance. The group soon find themselves entangled in a terrifying conspiracy to resurrect the alien pilot—a scheme that brings them face-to-face with a ghastly enemy and has them fighting for their lives and for the future of humanity.