Commander Conrad, of the US Naval intelligence is dispatched on a top priority mission to Scotland near Moray Firth. Two RAF Jets on a routine exercise over the North Sea have crashed near Moray Firth. At the same time a weather balloon unknown to some carrying sensitive military information has also crashed near Moray Firth. Conrad has to locate the witnesses to both the incidents so that they could be sworn to secrecy. The book deals with both a critical RAF crash, and visitors from space of great relevance to our times. Ultra is a hyper-intelligent being who lands with surety in Scotland. As Conrad conducts his search he begins to suspect that someone is peddling him to a kind of fin de si