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culture? technology? science? language? These things could be utterly foreign to them. The simple fact that they got here doesn't mean they have technology... at least by our standards. Vikings sailed across the ocean... it didn't make them technologically advanced, even for their time. Our assumptions are that they assumed the same limitations that we have... perhaps they just saw things a different way?! This is akin to assuming they'll be bipedal, two-armed, one-headed, two-eyed creatures. Maybe they have no ability to produce voice. Perhaps they communicate psychicly, maybe even in a way in which they could not "interface" with us. Maybe they have neither and communicate via writing? We think that sounds silly becasue things would develop so slowly, but perhaps they are adept at writing and reading at a rapid pace?
Culture? Again, pushing human assumptions on them. Perhaps they are communal in a very primitive sense. Maybe they don't have emotional motivation to create culture, or perhaps they have no concept of emotion at all, which would make them grossly different from us.
What would I do? That would depend a LOT on the situation. If they landed in my back yard, and baby-sized humanoids came out waving and saying "G'day mate!" I might just kinda stare in awe. If something shot down into my backyard (ala the War of the Worlds remake) and came out as a 10-legged, gnarled beast with saliva (or some equivalent) dripping off of fangs, I'd probably just get eaten.
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