Dmitri Medvedev added that more details could be found in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Men in Black" films. This is an example of what the AP describes as "a sense of humor slightly more subtle than [President Vladimir] Putin's.

  • nixiebunny

    It’s hard to imagine an American high government official making such a subtle joke. Because it would be plastered on the front of every supermarket tabloid as God’s honest truth.

    • http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

       well, not if you’re Herman Cain, who is himself a walking punchlines.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBmht9caas

      • Navin_Johnson

         Listening to John Oliver talk about this on The Bugle was fantastic.

    • Brainspore

      “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” —Ronald Reagan (August 11, 1984)

      Yeah, that one didn’t go over too well either.

    • http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

      Reagan made a very similar joke, not to the press, but to Steven Spielberg.  The ‘Berg had just shown E.T. in the White House to Raygun and a bunch of dignitaries, and afterwards Ronnie looks at him without a hint of a smile, and says “You know, I’d say there are about 4 or 5 people in this room who know just how real that picture actually is!”  Everybody did a double-take and then started laughing.  I’d always assumed the incident was an urban myth, but Spielberg confirmed it awhile back in an interview with aintitcoolnews.  Great story.

    • Boundegar

      If Obama made this joke, the blogosphere would come alive with rumors he was planning to give the aliens green cards and free health care.

    • ocker3

       Oh, you poor Americans, you only wish you had a leader as cool as ours :D

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtj3gDaE64

  • bcsizemo

    It’s a lot easier to tell the truth when you are an alien yourself…

  • http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair
  • Lobster

    It’s hard not to have a sense of humor more subtle than Putin’s.  All his jokes involve blood loss.

  • eldritch

    If a major authority DID tell the world the truth that there are absolutely no aliens on the planet, people would still panic on the simple grounds that it must be a coverup.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gregoire.tricoire Grégoire Tricoire

    Poke the russians, poke the russians, OMG they are coming !
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wf5j2VWYnw

  • miasm

    It would cause panic because there are none and the world is booooring.
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