The most friendly of encounters between parties were considered curious at best, with large crowds typically coming out to watch a 'UFO' travel overhead. Typically though they were stand-offish meetings between the Colonials and the scrambling military of a Great Power. For example; near London anti-aircraft artillery fired on an appearing Colonial 'airliner', while off Florida a Naval Flight intercepted and attempted to shoot down a Viper wingpair. A Colonial military airship dropped bombs in Ruhr before making its way towards the Atlantic and Colonial troops landed in Texas in large enough numbers and with significant enough firepower to secure themselves and begin expelling or harassing locals while in search of supplies.