Cuckoos of Midwich

...One clear September night, the inhabitants of the typical quiet English village of Midwich were covered by a strange hemisphere, which lasted over it for about a day. Birds fell from the sky dead, and people sank into a sleepy... oblivion. A couple of months later, when everyone had begun to forget about the mysterious incident, it suddenly became clear that all women of childbearing age in the village were pregnant. Even unmarried women, widows, and virgins. And in due time, strange golden-eyed children were born, remarkably similar to each other… Children capable of imposing their will with the power of their gaze…