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Question of the Day | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

You are walking in the woods and a UFO lands near you. Nonthreatening aliens offer you a ride. How do you react?

Close encounters? Join Mary Wells, Candice Bergen, Cynthia McFadden and the wOw women in this extraterrestrial conversation.
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Liz Smith

Liz Smith | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith Gets Real

I would try to wake up! I’m a realist.

Judith Martin

Judith Martin | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

Judith Martin's Mother Said to Never Accept Rides From Strangers

My mother told me never to accept rides from strangers and I presume that she did not grant an exemption for strange strangers.
Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

Candice Bergen Would Hop Aboard a UFO

If I were sure they wouldn’t extract any bodily or cranial fluid with a two-foot-long hypodermic, I would hop aboard and hope I’d be returned in my lifetime.

Joan Juliet Buck

Joan Juliet Buck | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Juliet Buck's Alien Scenarios

Depends. If I’m a little depressed I’d go with them — what the hell, here’s another adventure, how’s the cell phone reception up there, can I text home? If I’m feeling attached to daily outcomes I’d refuse politely. If I had children I’d get their license plate and report the UFO as a danger to humanity.
Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney Would Politely Decline

I would say "no thank you." I’m an unrepentant coward.
Cynthia McFadden

Cynthia McFadden | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

Cynthia McFadden: Reporting From Outerspace?

I grab my camera and hop aboard … hoping that it’s a round-trip flight.
Mary Wells

Mary Wells | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm

Mary Wells Carries a Flip in Case a UFO Approaches

I carry the Flip Lesley (Stahl) gave us as a gift just in case a UFO lands near me and offers me a ride or I am offered a similar thrill. I would not be afraid, but I would certainly want to send the picture back to wOw.

86 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

C jay
s/b "2 full tanks … "
By C jay on 06/24/2009 11:49 pm
Dona Howlett

The only think I would want to know before boarding their craft is

Do you have a bathroom aboard………that’s all I’d be worried about.

Off we go…………..what a trip that would be.  I hope my kids don’t worry.

By Dona Howlett on 06/25/2009 5:47 am
Ali Bell
Well, before we leave, could you lend me a quarter E.T.?…. I’d like to phone home.
By Ali Bell on 06/25/2009 8:28 am
Paula Huff

Something similar happens out at my cousin’s ranch a few times a year, except the aliens are from Earth. So let’s rephrase the question:

You are walking in the desert with a pistol in your holster and two pitbulls by your side, and the dogs flush about 100 illegal aliens wearing all-black out of the scrub bushes on your property. The aliens are waiting for the coyote (human smuggler) to show up, pack them tightly into the back of a delivery truck and give them a ride past the border checkpoint. How do you react?

Answer: React the same way as last time it happened, and the time before that, and the time before that - Call Border Patrol again.

By Paula Huff on 06/25/2009 10:25 am
Danielle Greisl

Well , being an avid sci-fi reader … I am gonna agree with the character Trisha McMillian , by Douglas Adams … there are times when you just dont go back for your bag , and when an alien offers you a lift , thats one of them. Hopefully , I will be armed with all I need. But it makes me wonder if I should be carrying around a towel now …

 No but seriously … I think it would be fitting of me to leave with aliens … I dont think anyone would doubt I did it… 

By Danielle Greisl on 06/25/2009 1:27 pm
Lisa Hawkins
Sure, sounds like a great adventure. Just let me call my hubster and mom so they know what’s going on.
By Lisa Hawkins on 06/25/2009 2:30 pm
Susan Crawford

I would probably go if I felt that the beings truly were not a threat. (If I thought there was going to be any sort of "probing" questions, I’d take a pass!)

I think I have a residual Close Encounters of the Third Kind condition. Whenever I feel down, I watch that film. The final scenes never fail to restore a sense of wonder and adventure and the idea that keeping an open mind is the real passage to happiness.

By Susan Crawford on 06/25/2009 9:00 pm
Gila Beckermann

I would call my girlfriend (she reads a lot of Science Fiction books) and ask her what to do (hopefully my cellphone would work in the woods).

If I wouldn’t be able to reach her, I would hitch a ride, I hate being in the woods by myself.

By Gila Beckermann on 06/26/2009 11:44 am
Bobbi Spence Bowie
I’d ask them if I could bring my dogs with me….  I watched The Last Starfighter about a bazillion times.  :o)
By Bobbi Spence Bowie on 06/26/2009 12:04 pm
FeliJane Ramjohn
I would tell them pick me up at the same spot in a few houres. Id go to the nearest supermarket, pick up thirteen cadbury chocolate bars and walk out without paying. Id finally feel the urge to walk down the street wearing my panties and bra alone. Id hold up a bank with a watergun, then play drop dead..and wen Im sure ive done all the mischief i culd tink of Ill let the police chase me out into the woods and the spaceship will land, I will climb aboard..vwada bing wvada boom, Ill be returned in the next century when the posters advertising me MISSING and WANTED have been rain beaten and torn…returned a happy and content girl in New York..not in Guyana, South America..
By FeliJane Ramjohn on 06/26/2009 9:17 pm