‘The day the earth stood still’, (2008), Scott Derrickson.
· The alien takes a human form.
· They attack by Realesing a swarm of insect-like nanites that begin destroying everything in their path.
‘Skyline’, (2010), Colin Strause, Greg Strause.
· The alien ships look similar to a squid like form.
· They shine bright blue lights down on earth which attracts the humans, then vacuums them up into their ships.
· The brains of the humans are ripped out and placed into bodies of new aliens.
‘War of the Worlds’, (2005), Steven Spielberg.
· Lightning strike the ground and huge machines on three stilted legs bursts out of the holes.
· The tripods were brought to earth long ago and been buried underground.
· The tripods end up dying off on their own as they ingested a virus from the human's blood.
‘Independence Day’, (1996), Roland Emmerich.
· A giant alien mother ship, over 340 miles in diameter enters orbit around Earth, and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped "destroyer" spacecraft’s that take positions over many of Earth's major cities.
· The ships attack the city. And releasing smaller ships to blow up our army planes.
· A computer virus is inserted into the mother ship which disables the protective shields around the destroyers and attackers leaving them to be easily taken down.