History Main / FirstContactFarmer

* In the Literature/PriscillaHutchins novel ''Cauldron'', Hutch and the others try making first contact by ringing up a physicist, which means first flying out into the boondocks and physically tapping into a phone line so they can place the call. When they do meet face-to-face they discover that, due to a mistranslation, they're actually speaking to a physical health guru.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty crashes into a pine tree, a scarecrow, and a barn upon arriving in 1955. He crawls out of the [=DeLorean=] and tries to apologize to Farmer Peabody. However, he's wearing a radiation suit and the farmer's son has already identified the car as a spaceship, so he just winds up having to drive away for his life when Farmer Peabody goes for his gun.

Related to CropCircles and CameFromTheSky. Often used for a StartToCorpse prologue.

* The main antagonist of ''Film/MenInBlack'' is an alien who crash-lands on a farm, eats the farmer who comes to check out the crash, and wears his skin as a disguise. Played for dark comedy, as the farmer, Edgar, is quickly established as an unlikable asshole and {{domestic abuse}}r.

* In Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'', a [[CameFromTheSky meteorite]] lands in the fields of a farmer named Nahum Gardner. The meteorite gives off light of [[FictionalColour a colour never before encountered]], whose influence [[TheCorruption gradually destroys]] the farm and all upon it.

* "It Fell Out Of The Sky" by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival. Whatever "it" is, it lands in the field of a farmer named Jody, who must then deal with various power groups - Hollywood, the Vatican, the U.S. government - who all want it. A rare case where things seem to go really well for the farmer.

* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'''s segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" is essentially an extended version of this trope, with a [[CameFromTheSky meteorite landing in the field]] of a dimwitted farmer (played by Creator/StephenKing, having the [[LargeHam time of his life]]). As you can probably tell from the title of the segment, it doesn't go very well for poor Jordy.

* ''Film/{{Brightburn}}'': A nice couple with a farm in the American Midwest desperately want a baby. One night, an alien spaceship crashes on their farm; they find a seemingly human baby in the wreckage, and raise him as their own, giving him a loving home. Alas, this is '''not''' Kal-El of Krypton, and [[spoiler:the baby boy grows up to adolescence to become an inhumanly murderous super''villain'', killing numerous people, including both his adoptive parents]].

Usually [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that farmland usually covers a significant area of most countries. If an alien lands away from cities or suburbs, there's a good chance that the first person they'll come across is a farmer.

-->The White House said, "Put the thing in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Room_(White_House) the Blue Room]]"\\

* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'': in "Suits" a community of farmers fights off an [[BugWar alien invasion]] with the help of makeshift mechas. [[spoiler: Subverted, in that they've set up their farms on a hostile world, and the aliens they're fighting have slipped through holes in their protective force field.]]

* In''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'''s "Second Contact" minigame, a Martian travels to Earth and interviews a farmer named Farmer Bob, who's a little ''too'' interested in meeting Martian women. At the end of a Superb playthrough, the Martian takes the farmer to Mars.

Related to CropCircles and CameFromTheSky.