TIME'S UP

Did you enjoy the movie Don't Look Up? If you did and you want more of this genre then TIME'S UP may be just the ticket.So let's say that you are the President of the United States and a group of possible aliens, who never actually show themselves, arrive over NYC in what might have been a spaceship. The supposed aliens tell of the fast approaching end of all life on earth. They describe how it will happen in great detail but the whole story is pretty far-fetched. Nothing remotely like it has even been imagined in a sci-fi movie. Along with the buzzkill prediction comes an offer to evacuate a small number of humans to a new planet. Though witnessed by thousands of people from all over the world and documented in hundreds of thousands of cell phone images, none of what seemed to have happened was corroborated or detected by any government agency, sensor or official.
Oh, and one even more important issue. Mid-term elections are coming up and your Party cannot afford to lose a single seat. So now what do you do? Accept everything at face value? Declare it all a huge hoax? Label it a terrorist attack? Has one of our adversaries developed some unbelievably powerful new technologies? Do you take actions and, if so, what actions? How will the opposing Party spin your actions...or inaction? Or do you cover the whole thing up as fast and completely as possible? Why did this have to happen on my watch?