Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon)’s Timeline and Summary
- Jillian wakes up to find her son, Barry, wandering into the woods. She searches for the boy and finds him just in time to prevent him from being Wile-E-Coyoted by Roy's truck.
- She brings Barry to the UFO watcher's hill and meets up with Roy. Roy notices Barry sculpting a mountainous image in mud and recognizes it as the one he's been seeing since that night.
- The aliens crash in on Jillian and Barry. She tries to keep her son safe, but the aliens abduct him after he crawls through the doggy door.
- After making a report to the police, Jillian's hounded by reporters looking for a story.
- Some time later, she sees the news broadcast about the chemical spill in Wyoming and recognizes Devils Tower as the image she's been obsessively sketching since the UFOs arrived.
- In Wyoming, she's reunited with Roy. The two drive toward Devils Tower but are captured by the government.
- Jillian and Roy are put on a helicopter with the other Wyoming pilgrims. Before they can be flown out of the evacuation zone, they escape and trek toward Devils Tower.
- After climbing Devils Tower and narrowly escaping the military, she and Roy stumble upon the alien landing site.
- Jillian watches humanity make first contact with their extraterrestrial visitors. When Barry's released from the mother ship, she heads down to the landing site to be reunited with her son.