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Which is grammatically correct - What would you do if you saw or see a UFO?

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"What would you do if you saw a UFO?" is the grammatically correct form of this sentence.

(No sentence with the letter "u" in place of the word "you" is going to be correct.)

The structure and meaning of the sentence call for the subjunctive form of the verb (the subjunctive mood). The "if" statement is what we call "conditional, contrary to fact." It is speculative. You are not saying that you do see a UFO. You are saying "IF." The subjunctive lets us talk about things that aren't real or things that we don't know without making it sound like they are facts.

For the verb "to see," the appropriate subjunctive form is "saw." Notice that this is exactly parallel to the "would" form of "will" that you have here in the same sentence.

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