Strange Encounters

Here are some interesting developments... A recent article on www.telegraph.co.uk reveals that 54 year old Jeff Peckman still lives at home with his parents. Of course that means nothing, but it sure is comical. Peckman has also apparently contacted Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama regarding alien contact preparedness. Obama's office has yet to make a response.

Jeff Peckman made news with his ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver. His announcement was accompanied by a promise to show compelling video of an alien being looking through a window.

We'll have to wait for the DVD "documentary" to be released before we can see this footage, because the man who owns the footage, an alleged alien contactee named Stan Romanek, has sold his story to a company who is producing a documentary on his experiences. Amazing how this stuff always seems to build media hype prior to the release of a DVD or a book, isn't it? That should tell us something.

UPDATE
The Denver Post declared the video seen below to be a fake, and it can be found on YouTube with several other Peckman Alien Video fakes made by amateur video buffs. The Post released a still (seen on the right) from the "real" Peckman video, shot by Stan Romanek in Nebraska, which shows a bulbous white "head" with apparent eye slits peering into a window.

Initially I thought that this still had been altered with a "noise" filter in an image editing program. After further consideration, I'm thinking that the actual video shot by Romanek had a noise effect applied with video editing software and that noise is visible on the still. Apparently Stan Romanek is a graphic artist as well, and his talents may extend beyond mere graphic design: he might have the ability to create doctored videos too. The claim has been made that the footage in question was actually recorded on infrared film, not tape or digital video. This remains to be seen.

This whole Peckman/Romanek alien video business smells funny. Believers will cling to "expert" opinions from people like Alejandro Rojas, spokesman for MUFON, who said, "If it was a puppet, it would be a very elaborate and sophisticated puppet." An elaborate puppet is not required for such a video.

Also, Romanek is apparently on disability, unemployed with a family to feed. Could it be that he is concocting some elaborate story of alien contact in the hopes that maybe he'll get the chance to sell the rights to his story to some film company or book publisher? Nah, of course not. No one is out to make money, ow silly of me to even consider that.

The hoax video seen below is a perfect example of how easy it is to fake a scene of an alien head looking through a window and blinking. Anyone with a modest amount of creativity and technical skill can use video editing software to make a compelling hoax, and fool those who do not understand the technology.

This whole thing is nonsense. Though I'm sure Peckman believes in this stuff wholeheartedly. Not so sure about Romanek. He could just be pulling the wool over their eyes. But it's very possible, even likely, that's he's fooling himself as well.