Jeff Peckman may be spaced out, but alien expert Stan Romanek is the real little green man.

By Jason Sheehan

Published: June 5, 2008-As the world now knows, a man named Jeff Peckman is fighting to get an initiative on the November ballot calling for the formation of an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver — which would deal with any problems that might arise should a group of day-tripping ETs decide to stop by. And last Friday, Peckman upped the ante by showing footage (to select members of the press, no photos or recording allowed) of an actual living, breathing alien peeking through a window. But here's the thing...

The video was just a piece of a much longer video shot by one of Colorado's own, Stan Romanek. And Stan? He's a weird guy. I was fortunate enough to catch a much longer dog-and-pony show he himself did for a standing-room-only crowd on the Auraria campus a few months ago. I'm fairly sure I was the only member of the press in attendance, seeing as how the vast majority of the crowd was drawn from the ranks of the UFO faithful. In short, Stan was preaching to the converted. And I was one of them.

Yes, I believe in UFOs. I believe in alien life. My wife and I have seen (and reported to the Mutual UFO Network) one UFO ourselves — not a spaceship, not an alien, but a truly unidentified flying object, outside Wagon Mound, New Mexico, six or seven years ago — and I have spent time since then hanging with the UFO community, trying to learn.

Which was why I knew Romanek's name. He is, to quote from his own website, www.stanromanek.com, at the center of "the most scientifically documented [case of] human/extraterrestrial encounters in the world. There have been well over 100 individually unique experiences that Stan has encountered since December, 2000 that remain unexplainable. Being abducted is only one of many experiences."

Among the believers, Romanek is a big dog. He's like Wayne Newton in Vegas. The man really packs 'em in. And when he showed the full cut of the alien-peeking-through-a-window video to the faithful? Needless to say, the room went nuts.

But not me. I was just disappointed. It looked so patently fake, so ridiculously cheap and goofy. In the course of the presentation, Stan had laid out so much other evidence that was so much more compelling (including examples of automatic writing, mathematical equations, additional photos and videos of UFOs and more) and plenty that wasn't (recorded phone calls from aliens, photos of aliens in his back yard that looked like nothing more than plaster dime-store garden gnomes, a purchase order for a computer bought for him by mysterious "helpers") that the final reveal — the little squash-headed "alien" blinking and staring into the house — just seemed to me like bullshit icing on a highly questionable birthday cake.

Setting aside any question of whether or not the footage is real or faked, Peckman's recent showing worked out well. It's gotten press all over the planet (and possibly beyond), and Peckman is the one getting all the ink. My question, though, is where's Stan in all this?

Oh, that's right. He's the one holding the video, refusing to post it to the web or allow it to be shown in public, accepting no sort of peer review or criticism beyond a few attempts at having the expurgated footage authenticated by local film experts. The reason? He's in the process of trying to complete (and sell) a documentary about himself: Starseed: The Stan Romanek Story, coming soon to theaters near you.

And to me, this is the most disturbing part. I understand the impulse to try and make a buck off what, if true, would be the biggest news story in history, but seriously? Some things are more important than a dollar. And if this video truly is as real as Romanek and Peckman claim it is, it needs to be released, in toto and immediately, so that everyone can have their look, have their say and make up their own minds as to whether or not "they" really are out there.

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http://www.westword.com/2008-06-05/news/star-wars

We continued our walk along the valley then across the green to the return path that is at the other side off the hill. At this time I was looking up trying to see any other UFO and my wife had wandered about thirty yards in front of me when I saw her watching something on a green half way up the hill. When I arrived beside her, she told me someone was watching us and pointed to the area, and at first I saw nothing, then a man came into view who seemed to bend over to do something. Now he was about fifty to one hundred yards from us so I assumed he was doing the same as us, walking a dog, so we continued our walk still watching his movements as it was midnight in the middle of nowhere so better safe than sorry.

As we followed the return path it took us up towards the green where we could still see what we took to be a man moving around on the green so even though it was quite light, I switched on my torch and highlighted my dogs. One is a longhaired German shepherd, and the other is a cross between ridgeback and great Dane, both big dogs. I then turned my torch off again, and continued up the hill to the return downhill path to the car park: this took us to about fifteen yards from the man who at this time had turned and moved about two yards in our direction then stopped.

I now could see him very clearly - his height was the first thing we noticed as he must have been over seven feet tall, very thin, dressed all in black. It was then that I noticed my wife kept referring to him as them, but as I could only see one I did not mention this at the time.

We continued walking up to the green, then we reached the downhill stretch of the path. we must have been about ten yards from him so we stopped and looked at him and he just continued to stand still and look at us. This is when we could see he was a lot taller than seven feet - he was big, but very thin. He then moved over about two yards then stopped, and we just continued our walk down to the car.

It was not until I started it and put on my lights ready to leave that the whole episode became clear and we started discussing the event. My wife was adamant that their were two people, dressed in black, both very tall, even though I only remember seeing one. The other strange fact is we cannot remember seeing a face, only a tall black human shape, with arms, legs, etc.

I noticed a belt with what looked like silver buttons on it. Apart from that, we cannot remember any other detail ablut the person. The other strange fact is that the dogs did not seem to notice him, were very calm, just wandering about as usual, and that is very unusual for them as they normally stick close when nearing someone and get defensive.

My wife and myself felt no threat at all or any fear and that is very unusual for my wife as she spooks very easily, even though I had my camera with me I had no inclination to take a photo, yet this would have been the first move I would normally make. We had no missing time and if we did it would only be about fifteen minutes. The whole thing was really very weird.

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