Steele, Alexander

Wishbone and Joe interrupt their winter revels when a valuable ring, a cherished rawhide bone, and their good friend David all disappear.

After witnessing an eerie glow in the sky, Wishbone begins to worry about aliens landing on Earth, especially when he hears a strange humming noise in the neighborhood.

Joe Talbot, filling in at "The Oakdale Chronicle" when the entire staff comes down with the flu, calls on Wishbone for help when a red-hot case breaks right under his nose.

David Barnes, who is going to debate against the possibility of aliens, begins to receive mysterious messages from the aliens themselves.

While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.