A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.
Now out of college, the hapless Cindy Campbell is a TV news anchorwoman. Strange things begin to occur when crop circles appear on Tom Logan's farm, but the suspense climaxes when Cindy's best friend Brenda dies an eerie death somehow relating to a killer video tape. After her nephew Cody watches the video tape, Cindy fears the lives of all and takes matters into her own hands, summoning the help of the Oracle and visiting the infatuated Architect on Curlesco Island. From this point on, Cindy uncovers the eerie link between the crop circles and the killer video tape, and must eventually assist the President of the United States in preventing a full-scale alien invasion.