# What Government/Military Agency Would Lead a Response to a Presumed Alien Landing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 18, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-government-military-agency-would-lead-a-response-to-a-presumed-alien-landing/940267 "2021-04-18T20:10:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-government-military-agency-would-lead-a-response-to-a-presumed-alien-landing/940267/21 "2021-04-20T03:36:09Z")
Border Patrol? C&E? FAA? [The UN?](https://www.amazon.com/Illegal-Aliens-Nick-Pollotta-ebook/dp/B004PYDS24/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=illegal+aliens+scifi&qid=1618889666&sr=8-3) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-government-military-agency-would-lead-a-response-to-a-presumed-alien-landing/940267/22 "2021-04-20T03:43:17Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > What would happen? Something really scary like a court order? Well, according to a friend of mine who was attached to the OSI for awhile, enough governmental red tape coupled with threats of lengthy background checks(a perhaps a whisper in the ear of the I.R.S.), and most local police will do as they are told. Of course this was back in the late '70s to early '80s, and she reassured me that it was mostly bluster. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-government-military-agency-would-lead-a-response-to-a-presumed-alien-landing/940267.md?page=1)