A YouGov poll published in September 2015 found more than 56 percent of polled Germans believed in the existence of alien life.
But Germany has “no plans or protocol” if alien visitors ever attempt to contact the human race.
In response to questions submitted to the government, the German Ministry of Economics said it considered such an event “extremely unlikely according to current scientific knowledge”.
The Government said in a statement on the matter: “Concrete cases that could have been subject of bilateral or multilateral talks with other states are not known.”
There is very little in terms of official legislation on how the Earth should collectively react but there are some guidelines set in place by scientific institutions.
The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) stipulates anyone who encounters extraterrestrial signals has to immediately broadcast them to the rest of the world.
The Post-Detection Task Group, a branch of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), similarly says international governments would have to pool resources together to beam back a joint message.
The USA also appears to be greatly prepared for the threat of space-based attacks with an entire unit of the United States Air Force assigned to combating space-cable adversaries.