It happened in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. A carrier strike group appeared out of nowhere and wreaked terrible devastation on the invincible American fleet—it literally turned an American military base to dust—and then disappeared, dissolving into a milky-white fog… Who dared throw down a gauntlet at the only superpower on our planet? The first to learn the answer was Richard Dane, a fighter pilot whose plane was shot down by aggressive aliens. There were identifying markings on the wings of their aircraft from a country that does not exist: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics…