In New York just after morning recess, school-children at a Manhattan school start screaming as their noses start to bleed simultaneously as if a tap had been opened.

In Japan, a rocket carrying the country’s first astronauts launches into space. Reaching the thermosphere, the astronauts see something they hadn’t seen before. Within minutes, something rips into their ship as easily as if it were made of cardboard, hurling all of them into cold, dead space.

In Oklahoma, a soon to retire small-town police chief spends his last day wishing he had a bigger legacy to leave behind until an ordinary call leads to something possibly extraordinary- a mysterious crop circle and two missing townsfolk.

In the Philippines, members of an old powerful, and corrupt political family prepare to attend their formal return to power. Thirty-five years after they were ousted in a populist bloodless coup, they have regained the presidency using the same cunning & manipulation they have always used. On the way to the inauguration, on the same stretch of highway that was the scene of their defeat three decades ago, their entire convoy of vehicles along with their military escorts is suddenly hurled into the air, as if by an invisible giant hand. The vehicles fall back to earth and onto the confused crowds of their supporters lining the highway.

Invasion is an American science fiction television series created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil. It premiered on Apple TV+ on October 22, 2021.