Alien Fury Countdown to Invasion (2000)

Set in San Diego the movie follows the desperate acts of Bill Templer head of a covert defense agency perpetrating a terrifying fraud on the American public involving the imminent invasion of aliens by leaking to the press a satellite image of an alien armada poised to strike earth As terror of an alien attack spreads the President of the United States orders the launching of Peacemaker a surveillance satellite retrofitted with a nuclear warhead Templers elaborate plot is threatened when police detective Kevin Anjanette discovers that the alien images were faked To protect his scheme Templer swiftly unleashes the lethal head of his security Ava Zurich onto Anjanette But its soon revealed that an alien force actually does exist and is poised to strike if Peacemaker is used In order to protect mankind from total annihilation Anjanette must race to abort the nuclear bomb that will trigger the alien attack