Phone home: Purported UFO video to be shown Friday (with a political angle)

[brooklynite]

from the http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/28/purported-ufo-video-be-shown-friday/">Rocky Mountain News:

Phone home: Purported UFO video to be shown Friday

A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver.

Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and convinced him that aliens exist.

"As impressive as it is, it's still one tiny portion in the context of a vast amount of peripheral evidence," he said Wednesday. "It's really the final visual confirmation of what you already know to be true having seen all the other evidence."

...snip...

"It shows an extraterrestrial's head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that's visible through an infrared camera," he said. The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking, Peckman said earlier this month.

In a statement, Peckman said "other related credible evidence" proving aliens exist will be shown at Friday's news conference, too.

We report, you decide...

[Fox Mulder]

1. I'm going to have to watch that.

[bluestateguy]

2. His "proof" will be shown to be a hoax within days

Please.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. days?

Either he'll suddenly decide not to show the evidence, citing some conspiracy.

Or it will be a clear joke upon first viewing.

[TCJ70]

3. I hope it's not a stereotypical gray alien.

I mean, come on...been there, done that...saw the Indiana Jones movie.

[Gato Moteado]

5. is cnn planning to air the press conference?

nt

[no limit]

6. I'm glad that there isn't something a lot more important going on now

like say maybe the war and how this media helped the white house get us in to it? nah, this is way more important.

[Indenturedebtor]

7. You'd think that after flying billions of miles to get here and still be alive

(ie lightspeed or close to it), the Aliens would have developed some kind of surveillance equipment more advanced than the "peeping tom maneuver" :eyes:

[madinmaryland]

8. This is the video...

Gorn..



:rofl:

[LibertyLover]

9. I think I've seen this video on You Tube

and if it's the one I'm thinking of, it is decidedly less then spectacular. In fact it wouldn't convince a true believer. What I want to know is why someone would have an infrared camera set up and taking photos out their window? It's not exactly a cheap item to purchase and have running, you know, just in case the neighbors from Alpha Centauri B decide to pop over to say hi.

[brooklynite]

10. Update: Rocky Mountain News LIVE-BLOGGING

10:30 a.m. Claude Swanson, a physicist from Virginia, was the first to show up at the news conference in the Tivoli on the Auraria campus.

He said he'll talk for a few minutes about "how time travel is theoretically possible."

11:59 a.m. The film showed a window, reportedly 8 feet off the ground in a rural Nebraska town in 2003.

It was shot by the homeowner, who had earlier reported seeing UFOs hovering above his house.

This time, he said he set up a camera because he feared a peeping tom was spying on his two teenage daughters.

In the enhanced version of the video, a creature pops up in the window, looks around, and pops back down, again and again.

12:24 p.m. Jeff Peckman, the man trying to form an extraterrestrial commission in Denver, told the audience it's time to take extraterrestrial life seriously.

"It's time to get ahead of the curve," he said, adding that some high government officials in other countries and some retired military officers in the U.S. are among the believers.

and we're off to a roaring start...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/30/alien-commission-causes-commotion/