The film is shot from the perspective of a young teenage boy who uses a camcorder and a smaller video camera on his bike handlebars, creating shaky and tilted scenes.
Three boys receive snapping static and odd maps on their cell phone screens; one boy says that the phones are barfing and the boys bike 17 miles into the desert late at night where they hear electronic gurgling and snapping and find a charred foot-long cylinder embedded in the ground next to a transformer that beeps and snaps at them; a boy pounds the ground with the cylinder, saying that it is a bomb and that's what you do with bombs while his friends yell at him to stop (through some narrow openings in the cylinder we see a blue metal owlet-like creature with large, scratched neon-blue eyes).
Three boys take an alien to a barn where metal parts from a tractor are pulled toward the container it is in and stick to it magnetically; lights spark and light bulb glass shatters loudly before they are able to learn that the alien does not eat humans, but someone shot down its spaceship and the alien needs more parts to fix it.
We see on a monitor that someone is poking a thin metal probe into the head of a metal owlet-alien as it flaps its wings.
In a junk yard, an alien seems to lose power and die, but its eyes flicker and metal parts from around the junkyard are pulled to the cylinder that is holding it; the cylinder becomes larger and four children grab it and run away while piles of scrap metal in the junk yard collapse and seem to melt.
A man kidnaps three boys, a girl and a small alien from a diner at night and shoves them into the back of a van, but one boy escapes, jumping into the bed of a moving pickup truck where the boy uses his cell phone to leave a goodbye message for his friends while crying.
Two boys fight in an alley at night, shouting, shoving and pushing each other up against a chain link fence, but no one is injured.
We hear that an older girl used to beat up two boys on the playground until one of the boys told the girl that the other boy had Polio (he did not have it).
At a government lab a boy cries while being interrogated by two adults: men bring his friends in and another man orders them to help him find an alien spaceship, pounding his hand on a table, yelling and threatening to disable it permanently; he says that if the ship takes off, it will kill everybody in a neighborhood.
A teen girl argues loudly with her parents concerning a dress that she will wear to Homecoming in three years and she screams and goes to her room.
A middle school-aged boy with two young passengers drives a car erratically, crashing into large plastic trashcans, but injuring no one and continuing along a highway; the kids in the car switch to a pickup truck they take from a junkyard before rescuing another boy and a small alien creature; they drive fast down a highway, nearly hitting two semi-trucks and the alien uses magnetic power to separate the pieces of the trucks and reassemble them safely at a point down the road.
Three boys enter an arcade that is closed for the night and the machines switch on by themselves; metal parts float out of the machines and are caught by a metal cylinder carried in a backpack before a security guard chases the boys, catches one of them and tells a police officer outside to take him away for felony charges.
Three boys enter a pawnshop at night and something unseen screeches and shoots around the ceiling of the shop, melting a French horn and some electric guitars before finally knocking down one of the boys (he's OK); the boys rush out of the shop, apologizing to the owner.
Thunder sounds inside a biker bar and something unseen flies around the ceiling, sparking lights and causing glasses to crash to the floor, shattering (no one is hurt); three boys run out of the bar (please see the Substance Use category for more details).
In a girl's bedroom at night, a small jewelry box shakes before a spark hits it and pillow feathers fly in front of the camera; the girl and three boys argue, but she eventually agrees to join them on a bike trip.
Two boys and a girl rescue another boy held by police by having an alien create earthquake tremors to distract the officer.
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