Excerpt from The Official NASA Procedures for Contact with Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life © National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Extraterrestrial Affairs, 2029 (Classification Level AAA)

OFFICIAL GREETINGS

In the (hopeful) event that the secondary contact proves to be friendly, rather than hostile, the primary objective of the encounter ought to be to welcome the IEL to earth and begin to foster peaceful relations between our species. Therefore, the first message will most likely be to extend warm greetings to the IEL (though what form this message is delivered in will be left up to DEXA’s linguistics team). Ideally, the president and other world leaders (including the leader whose country contact has occurred in—assuming they are not despotic) will be among the first members of humanity to communicate with the IEL, but given travel times, it may not be feasible to wait for them. Therefore, the senior US government representative on location will most likely be tasked with extending the initial message of greetings, and they (as well as all other representatives of the USA present) should do all they can to make the IEL feel welcome and comfortable on our planet.