The extraterrestrial is piquing curiosities and debate in Denver. Jeff Peckman, a Denverite and UFO journalist, is trying to get an extraterrestrial commission passed through Congress.
Peckman said the government is hiding information they have regarding aliens and he wants them to come clean. He claims to have seen aliens and said he thinks we should be prepared to confront them peacefully when they arrive.
Denver councilman Charlie Brown said he is concerned with the issues that are going to come out of this initiative. Putting an Extraterrestrial bill through Congress is going to cost tax payers a lot of money and is going to drive attention away from potentially more important issues.
Another firm believer in the Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission is Denver resident Stan Romanek. Romanek said he has never been one to believe in aliens or ghosts, and he used to think the people that did were completely crazy. After seeing an alien aircraft hovering near Red Rocks, he said he has since been convinced otherwise.
Since he spotted the UFO near Morrison, CO., Romanek claims to have been abducted by aliens. During his alleged abduction, he claims that equations were transmitted into his brain and experiments, among other things he just doesn’t want to remember, were done to him as well.
Romanek released a video of an alien peering out of a window, in order to help pass the extraterrestrial commission in Denver.
Erin Ahl, a 22-year-old senior, said although it’s not impossible, it is unlikely that aliens would land on Earth.
“I’m not going to say they don’t exist, the universe is huge!” Ahl said. “Even if the ballot was passed, we would still be in a complete state of chaos if aliens arrived.”
Double-majoring in history and political science, Ahl said the biggest obstacle with extraterrestrials would be communicating with them, assuming they don’t speak English. She said if she were to ever encounter aliens from outer space she would run the other direction.
Junior Eric Lord, a 22-year-old majoring in EBIO, said he has heard some things about Peckman and would not vote for the bill if it got on the ballot.
“I don’t know if there is extraterrestrial life, I don’t see why there couldn’t be,” Lord said. “But we don’t need to stress about it, or pay for it.”
The 22-year-old says that when he was young he thought he saw a UFO and then realized it was just a spotlight.
Councilman Brown said people would have a bad impression of Colorado if we have an extraterrestrial initiative on our ballot. Brown said Peckman needs to get a “real job.” He has received other requests from Peckman in the past to add other strange initiatives to Colorado’s ballot.
Will McCaskill, a 20-year-old sophomore majoring in economics and Chinese, laughed when asked about an alien commission in Denver. He said it is possible that there are aliens out there but it is unnecessary to prepare.
“With how spaced-out the universe is, the odds are against us,” McCaskill said.
If aliens were to land in Colorado he said he“hope[s] we’d all be friends.”
It seems as though many students agree there could be aliens out there, but whether or not they will land in Colorado is debatable. But not to worry, Peckman said the alien he encountered was a friendly one.
“This one looked very gentle, and very innocent and youthful.”
Contact CU Independent Staff Writer Amanda Dovel at Amanda.dovel@colorado.edu.
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Stan Romanek will share his personal experiences on February 13th, 2010 in Fort Collins Colorado.The details are listed below. Perhaps the CU students who were interviewd for this article would like to come, it is open to anyone wanting to know more about Stan’s experiences.
Stan will be presenting photographic, video and audio evidence of his documented ten years of experiences with Extraterrestrial beings, UFOs and other “high strangeness” that surrounds him and his family. Stan has come to realize that the Extraterrestrials have chosen him to be a messenger of sorts, to simply share his experiences with others to help them understand the reality of the ET’s existence.
Stan authored the bestselling book “MESSAGES” that was released in May of 2009. Stan was an adamant skeptic – a non believer in UFO’s until he witnessed his first UFO in December of 2000. His perceptions of UFOs was irrevocably altered. Are you willing to consider the possibility of Extraterrestrial life…both off and on Earth?
Northside Aztlan Center
112 East Willow
Fort Collins, CO
1:30pm Social time – snacks and desserts available
2:00 – 4:30pm Speaker
5:00pm Closing
http://www.noeticwisdom.com/events/lecture-series
Over the past year and a half, Denver has had the uncomfortable burden of being thrust into the world headlines because of one man. This man is Jeff Peckman.
During this time Denver citizens should have suffered great embarrassment. Instead, they have laughed along with the world because they thought that the laughter was directed at Peckman only. They were wrong. The world has been laughing at Denver, for Peckman claims to their representative.
Peckman has worked hard to get an initiative on the August 2010 City Of Denver Ballot. This initiative aims to create a committee that will ‘prepare Denver for contact with extraterrestrials.’
The now infamous ET Commission was originally inspired by a hoax; an unconvincing piece of footage showing a phony alien peering into a window.
Peckman’s proposed initiative makes bold declarations such as:
The People of the City and County of Denver hereby declare that:
The presence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings and extraterrestrial vehicles on Earth, and within Earth’s atmosphere, has been confirmed by credible evidence, official government documents, and whistleblowers formerly working for the U.S. Government and government contractors;
Where is this credible evidence? Where are these official government documents? Who exactly are these whistleblowers?
Peckman has not and will not address these questions. If we vote in favor of the initiative, we are “declaring” that all of this is just simply the truth.
The purpose of this letter is not to examine the document point by point. The objective is to express that Peckman’s ideas are not representative of the citizens of Denver.
Peckman needed approximately 4,000 signatures to get the initiative on the ballot. However, during the first year of the campaign he was only able to acquire about 10% of that number.
In his desperation to meet the shortfall of signatures, he started emotionally bribing the people by offering to donate a dollar to charity for every one received. When that ploy failed, he purchased the remainder from a company that “acquires” signatures for ballot initiatives.
In this way, Peckman obtained over 10,000 signatures. However, 60% of those were invalidated. Surprisingly, he still squeaked by with just enough signatures.
In Peckman’s own words, the truth is lost:
Over 10,200 signatures total were filed with the Denver Elections Division on Sept. 4. 2009 and Nov. 2. The City Clerk and Recorder confirmed on Nov. 30 that the required 3,974 valid signatures had been exceeded which qualified the the ETA Commission initiative for the August 2010 ballot in the next citywide election.
If this initiative were to pass, Denver will suffer. The stigma will ensure that the city will be overlooked for business opportunities, and damage the city’s credibility.
Of course, this ridiculous proposal would never pass, right?
The problem is that most Denverites feel this issue is a joke and are ignoring it. If the people continue their silence, the few supporters will be the deciders.
Peckman and his ‘little green people’ are not representative of the people of Denver.
Now the people have spoken.