Cool Spoofs on Official Announcements

I dearly love a great parody, and recently I happened across two parodies of official government announcements that had me rolling on the floor.

First, there’s the Sesame Street Terror Alert Level. I love this parody because, in my opinion, the official American color-coded Threat Advisory System is so cryptic and vague as to be dangerously meaningless in practical terms.

By the way, here is today’s Terror Level:

…Yep, that makes about as much sense to me as a “yellow alert.”

Second, apparently some folks at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been passing around a fabulous spoof press release. The release, “Martian Air Force Denies Stories of UFO Crash” begins:

“Gusev Crater (MPI) – A spokesbeing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien spacecraft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Saturday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that “the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien spacecraft.”

BRILLIANT! Many thanks to Steven Aftergood, editor of one of my very favorite serious newsletter, FAS Secrecy News, for having the guts to run this!