Who in the US Government would have responsibility over a real UFO?

What if it landed in international waters?

The Unidentified Flying Object becomes and Unidentified Floating object, you can keep the acronym. Until it sinks.

Take me to the president of the internet.

Take me to ChatGPT.

We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune, we take turns being a sort of executive officer for the week…

If it crashed directly into the Vatican or Scientology headquarters (not that those are the same), it would certainly start some interesting conversations.

You don’t recognize this?:

Oh! Then I am afraid we will have to annihilate you for your own good.
:fireworks: :sparkles: :fireworks:
Pity, they looked like nice enough fellows. Now, what should we do with what’s left of the planet?

No, but it starts promising. “What time is it on Earth?” “Any time you want, you fool! Choose you longitude!” Will watch it a while, I guess it is not long.

It’s an episode of The Twilight Zone, which was 30 minutes long that year (25 minutes if you don’t include the commercials). YouTube splits it into 13 videos. It’s based on a short story by Damon Knight. Note that the man is smoking. Perhaps he hopes he will die from the effects of smoking before he gets to the planet of the aliens. Smoking was what killed Rod Serling.

OK, now I have seen it through. I wasn’t far off when I wrote “to serve man” has two meanings! And as a conference interpreter I really enjoy the colleagues depicted in the booths at the UN with no separation between the booths. Nice! That is not how it is done today, but back then… who knows?
Then the next episode starts automatically and Captain Kirk appears as a young man on a plane. I’ll watch that too. A new rabbit hole! How nice!
That was before my time, we had no telly back then or I was not allowed to watch it. I like those black and white videos. Thanks for the link! :slight_smile:

Even bigger question what happens if a large unknown object is observed into international waters in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific oceans?

Who would take responsibility for trying to recover the object? Would there be a fight over it?