disinfo.com pointed me to this article from popular mechanics which (sort of) explains the government plans that have been outlined for dealing with first contact (not to be confused with the non-top-secret, non-binding, SETI declaration of principles).  in summation, “instead of getting a handshake from the head of NASA, it will be handcuffed by an FBI agent dressed in a biosafety level 4 suit. instead of sleeping in the lincoln bedroom at the white house, the alien will be whisked away to the department of agriculture’s animal disease center where it will be poked and probed by doctors from the national institutes of health. a department of energy nuclear emergency search ream will tow away its spacecraft.” ha ha ha, yeah right. as if we wont be and sterilized and enslaved or have our internal organs evaporated with ray guns in like 3 seconds. ha ha, puny humans.