Kevin Birmingham
college student
“Go outside. Greet them. And create the world’s first private alien club.”
Matthew Cottle
Cal Poly director of corporate relations
“Greet them, and thank them for not showing up in some backwoods place in Appalachia were people would try to shoot them.”
Claudia Makeyev
marine biologist
“Want a beer?”
Denny Mynatt
retired
“I’d freak out. My wife would be extremely happy, though, and would probably want to go with ’em.”
This article appears in Jan 20-27, 2011.