Close Encounter with an Alien Civilization

Indonesians look on as a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force hovercraft
lands on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia Thursday Jan. 27, 2005. Two
Japanese military hovercrafts landed in tsunami-shattered Aceh on Thursday,
bringing a water purification plant and medical supplies to set in motion
in Japan’s largest-ever overseas relief effort. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

from AP