First Contact Imminent — Joe Jablonski

"A flicker of movement caught Donovan's eye. He glanced down and his jaw dropped. Ice grains had formed a pale blue rectangle at his feet. The rectangle was edged by other dark blue ice grains. As he watched, some of the dark blue ice grains bounced towards the center of the rectangle. Here they formed up in lines. Not lines A picture A picture of a vacsuited human Ignoring his protesting knee, Donovan knelt, the better to observe this phenomenon." -from An Alien Initiative by Vincent Morgan, one of 18 stories in this anthology of alien first contact which will take you out of this world.