From ten-seventeen that night, information about Midwich becomes episodic. Its telephones remained dead. The bus that should have passed failed to reach Stouch, and a truck that went to look for the bus did not return. A notification from the R.A.F. was received in Trayne of some unidentified flying object, not, repeat npt, a service machine, detected by radar in the Midwich area, possibly making a forced landing.