
In the medical laboratory of Zone 51 , scientists begin the opening of the biomechanical combination of the extraterrestrial captured by Steven Hiller, still unconscious and held for dead, but the operation turns into disaster , because the extraterrestrial wakes up Suddenly kills telepathic scientists. After an unsuccessful negotiation attempt, the alien is shot dead while trying to kill the president. Thomas Whitmore learns that this is not the first time humans have been confronted by these extraterrestrials: an alien hunter crashed in 1947 around Roswell and was recovered in the utmost discretion by the US Air Force . Meanwhile, in the ruins of Los Angeles , Jasmine Dubrow, Steven Hiller’s companion who survived the annihilation with her son Dylan, manages to clear several survivors of the rubble, including the First Lady of the United States , Marilyn Whitmore, whose helicopter crashed shortly after the start of the destruction of the city.

Hiller finds himself in the desert of Lincoln County , southeastern Nevada , with the alien he knocked out. He is joined a little later by a convoy of caravans pulled by people who have escaped annihilation, and he will guide to the Area 51 . this. Crushed under the number of hunters thrown up by invading ships, the planes are shot one after the other, with the exception of that of Captain Steven Hiller, who manages to lead his opponent in a rocky labyrinth before blinding him and make it crash. Whitmore ( Bill Pullman ) wonders what to do. For his part, David Levinson ( Jeff Goldblum), a computer analyst, discovers that the signal picked up by the radio telescope is nothing but a countdown. He decided to inform the president, with the help of his former wife Constance Spano ( Margaret Colin ), a White House counselor. The president then decides the general evacuation, but it is too late: from each of the ships arises a ray which destroys the cities instantly . The next day, they are only ruin and desolation, and the number of victims is very heavy … Then enters scene Steven Hiller ( Will Smith ), Captain of the US Marine Corps (USMC) … With the few survivors, President Whitmore, who narrowly escaped the destruction of the capital, decided to organize theriposte .Īs soon as the Air Force One was safely on the Zone 51 military base , the first massive air attack was launched on the ships, but as soon as the battle was underway, the pilots realized that their armament could not pierce the energy shield that surrounded them. On July 2, a SETI radio telescope captures waves emitted by a disproportionate UFO that has come to rest in Earth orbit . The Pentagon decides to keep the secret on this discovery. But soon after, huge ships enter the atmosphere and take up positions above the world’s megacities . In Washington , US President Thomas J.
