I've read this story: BBC NEWS | UK | Urban myth exposed by trial twice now and I'm still not sure how all the pieces fit together. Whatever, it's fascinating. Check out this quote: "He believed that some time in the 1940s an alien from the planet Atlantis, called Dr Thor De Allah Kahn, met Earth officials at a rest stop in Virginia and handed over some bonds which were supposed to be distributed to improve Third World countries."
The article is filled with stuff like that.