It was a "galactic event," called "The Scout." The dialogue was something like: "You find an alien looking at your planet and quickly surround it. Then you find out the alien is from across the galaxy looking around and in a cloaked ship." Then you get the three options of what to do (good, evil, neutral). I remember two of the bonuses, unlocking cloaking device and +50% engineering research, mostly because I thought the +50% engineering research was op and if the cloaking was not real how severely unbalanced the choices were. I did pick the option that unlocked Cloaking, but I could not find this technology. I quickly saved my game afterwards as to take advantage of this if it was actually there. The race I was playing, if that matters, was Drengin.
