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Article Last Updated: 05/30/2008 12:34:27 PM MDT

May 29: Video captures alien visitor, Denverite says

A few minutes of grainy, black and white video show a creature with big eyes peeping over a windowsill. But does it show a puppet, or an alien from outer space?

A press conference has just ended at Metropolitan State College in downtown Denver, during which the video was screened for media. It allegedly captures proof of alien life.

Over the course of three minutes or so, the footage shows a white creature with a balloon-shaped head that keeps popping up and down in a windowsill that was eight feet above the ground. The face was white, with large black eyes that seemed to blink.

"If it was a puppet, it would be a very elaborate and sophisticated puppet," said Alejandro Rojas, education director of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.

Rojas said the video was taken July 17, 2003 in Nebraska by Stan Romanek, who set up the camera because he thought peeping Toms had been looking into his house at his two teenage daughters.

About 50 journalists were in the room for the screening, including up to 20 TV cameras. Photographers were not allowed to capture images from the footage today because experts are still reviewing it, Rojas said.

The screening, organized by Denver resident Jeff Peckman, was not open to the public.

Peckman says he hopes to provoke debate about the existence of extraterrestrial life.

A documentary is in production that will include much more of the videotape and other evidence, he says. It is due to be released later this year.

Peckman has organized an initiative drive to require the city of Denver to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission to handle alien encounters, saying that government has not disclosed all it knows about the existence of life beyond Earth.

During the press conference, Peckman frequently referenced the initiative. A petition drive is underway currently. Peckman needs 4,000 signatures for the item to make it onto the ballot.

The press conference, which began shortly after 11 a.m., concluded shortly after noon.

Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com

Demetria Gallegos contributed to this report.

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