For God So Loved West Texas

A big white nothing in the sky is sucking up people, livestock and machinery and there's no scientific explanation for it. It's a metaphysical mystery.
The Air Force brigadier general on the scene is pinning his hopes on the ancient knowledge of a Kickapoo medicine man. The old Indian is counting on the good spirit of a marauding, murderous mountain lion. And the president of the United States is holding out for that old-time religion.
A collision course is set on the high desert of West Texas, with the fate of mankind hanging in the balance.