# Onion: Government Admits To Hiding Embarrassingly Lame 1973 Extraterrestrial Encounter

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> “The event has remained classified for this long not because it contained sensitive information, but because the whole thing was just really lame and not even worth mentioning,” NSA commander Thomas Geary said during a press conference, explaining that neither humans nor their intergalactic visitors “came off particularly well” in the lackluster meeting.

[http://www.theonion.com/articles/government-admits-to-hiding-embarrassingly-lame-19,27584/](http://www.theonion.com/articles/government-admits-to-hiding-embarrassingly-lame-19,27584/)