Obviously if a UFO landed in your back yard, followed close behind by a squadron of U.S. fighter jets, you wouldn't have much of a secret to keep.

But assuming the UFO was able to arrive undetected, and was able to remain undetected by your neighbors, etc.

What would you do?

If you shook an alien's hand in greeting, you might contract a deadly alien disease. Or the alien might contract a pathogen from your handshake, a bacterum that's harmless to humans, but deadly to UFO pilots.

Government officials would want the UFO, to figure out how it works, so they could adapt its technologies for military purposes.

Biologists might want "samples", etc.

What's the right thing to do?

What would you do?

The Government already know how they work and have their own UFO's. My bet is that the majority of sightings we see are our own UFO's.

I would shoot it, and pawn off the alien technology and the ufo.

They already do and you do what they want, apparently.

You're just along for the ride, so to speak.

I would run outside in my pyjamas swinging a rolled up newspaper, screaming "Get of my lawn you crazy kids!! "
Then I would probably die from many laser gunshotwounds.

This kid has it right!! I'd deffinitely do the same damned thing. Probably get a nice chunk of change selling that off to the highest bidder...

At the very least, I would find a good camera with a TRIPOD.

HN

If a UFO landed in my back garden i'd ****, and phone the police, you cant have Aliens causing a nuisance, we have enough trouble with the riff raff of our own species, without ET's

First, I would piss myself, then if anyone else was with me, I'd piss their pants too(just to make sure we're on the same page) Then I would get a group photo with the alien. So if you ever see a photo of a man with pissed pants standing next to an alien, it's prolly me.

I would follow standard MIB Immigration procedures - check travel documents & ID documents were in order, carry out a customs search of all luggage, ensure no non indiginous fruit/vegetables or seeds were being imported, make sure all pets were correctly innoculated or quarantined and all weapons confiscated in accordance witth the relevant galactic treaties.

Then determine the travellers intentions regarding duration of stay, intent to work that sort of thing , finally pass them on to the alien registration department for processing - allocation of new identitys disguises etc IE its just another normal day at work!

oh yes I would also repair the fence - ours is a very small back yard!

I'd stay the hell away from it. Probably go out to a movie and check back later to see if it's gone. What do I want with one of those things? Radiation burns? Kidnapping? Amnesia? Implants? Life-changing quasi-religious experiences? Visits from shadowy officials? Gosh, thanks, but no. I would say, "oh, look, a hallucination!" Then I would leave for several hours.

Damn aliens

I would kick all the aliens out of it. And try and fly the thing.

You left out Probes. Did you see the southpark episode?

dang you beat me to it ... was going to say:

I would get my camera phone instead of my Canon, take some really grainy video of it with the night vision thing on even though it's day time and zoom in and out alot while spining in circles, shouting at my wife to get the kids to see it.

id lock my door and hope they didnt get in from some air duct or hope they dont know how to teleport. i refuse to be abducted. although i understand if they choose u u got no choice in the matter.

It is quite obvious that if a UFO landed near you within your line of vision they did so with some sort of purpose.

Sure some would be scared and say stay away from it but i couldn't, my curiosity is what would drive me to either unlocking the secrets of the universe, first contact, hell even a tour around their craft or a small chit chat would be good enough for me to take the risk of injury or death.

"Klaatu Barada Nicto."

I would tell them that the hookers are all downtown. Nothing here but sheeps.

Human are one of the most nasty things on earth, so he/she/it might get sick. But I hypothesis that instead it would be similar to virus that jumps across animals, but have to be far more adaptable to an alien's biology.

I would give the alien over the government but ONLY if they kept me informed.