Alright, here is one for any Australians suspicious of the Whitlam Dismissal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_constitutional_crisis_of_1975].
The CIA or NSA or some secret agency had been monitoring an Unidentified Flying Object in high orbit above the earth in the early seventies, and were prepared to make contact with it.
Surprisingly, instead it came into the atmosphere somewhere above Queensland, Australia. Perceiving it as a threat, Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister of the time, ordered it shot down but for no information to be released to the public.
More surprisingly, conventional weaponry proved effective against it. Gough ordered the remains to be secured and kept secret for study of alien technology. When the American agencies realised what happened they told Nixon, who requested, off the record, that the remains be sent to the US.
Being a near socialist after a long conservative period of politics, and also believing Australia had greater claim to any possible technology, Gough refused Nixon's request.
Infuriated, Nixon went through back channels to the Australian opposition leader Malcom Fraser, and told him that he would pressure the Governor General into sacking Whitlam if Fraser agreed to hand over the UFO remains when elected. *GASP!*
And so it all happened, but was kept from public knowledge.
Eh? Eh? All making sense now...?
