Deadly Artifact (Classified Skies, #1)

Deadly Artifact is the first book in the Classified Skies trilogy. The story follows a U.S. government meteorologist named Jack Davis, whose life is dismantled by shadowy government agents after he uses scientific instruments to document a massive UFO over Phoenix, Arizona. Recruited by billionaire Bob Sinclair into an elite research team, Jack joins a multi-disciplinary investigation into anomalous phenomena that leads them all over the world on a mission of discovery. This eventually leads the team to the site of an alleged 1974 crash in Coyame, Mexico. There, they unearth a double-edged nightmare: a buried Soviet nuclear warhead and a dormant extraterrestrial pathogen. When a local cartel inadvertently unleashes the virus, the team must perform a desperate moral calculus, authorizing a nuclear detonation on foreign soil to prevent a global biological extinction event. Though they successfully contain the threat and recover revolutionary alien artifacts, the survivors are left navigating a geopolitical firestorm, under active threat from both government black ops and a vengeful criminal organization.