A humorous look at the odder things that go on in the world written by author Mikel B. Classen. If you’re looking for something to pick up your day, this is the place to look.
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This appears to be the real Romanek video.
JEFF PECKMAN ON DAVID LETTERMAN – JUNE 10
WE JUST UPLOADED THESE! THEY WERE DONE IN THREE PARTS THAT’S WHY THREE VIDEOS.
PART ONE – Alejandro Rojas’s outlook on Romanek’s alien video
PART TWO
PART THREE
This was part of yesterday’s conference in Denver.
The video you just watched has the fake Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society video at the end.
FAKED VIDEO DONE BY THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARANORMAL RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR $90!
We’ve just viewed the video of the alien that Jeff Peckman showed to the Denver City Council this morning. (picture Below) Suppossedly It was photographed at Stan Romanek’s home in Nebraska in 2003. You see the picture, now you can judge, Is this a real alien? For a quick dose of reality, I live in Michigan and a close friend of mine used to work as a special effects person. He could build this alien and make it work just like in the video. Certainly the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society was able to do it for $90 as in the video above. Especially if they only have to show it from the neck up. There are a lot of people out there that would like UFOs to be real. I’m one of them. Nothing would make me happier than to have some irrefutable evidence pop up that says “we’re not alone.” For me, this isn’t it. For Peckman, it apparently was. He told the audience at the screening, ”it’s time to take extraterrestrial life seriously. It’s time to get ahead of the curve.” He added that some high government officials in other countries and some retired military officers in the U.S. are among the believers. Granted, but that doesn’t mean this film is real. The Gray in the footage actually reminds me of the aliens in Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, the old Ray Harryhausen movie. It’s one of the oldest images in Sci-Fi. The other thing that bothers me is Stan Romanek. He’s a father with two daughters, definately not wealthy and now he has this video which is getting world wide attention. Same thing with Peckman, a would-be politician that people weren’t paying much attention to until now. It’s ripe for being a load of horse hockey. Let’s check in and and see what MUFON has to say. Yes, they were at the meeting too. “I have no idea,” said Alejandro Rojas, a moderator from the Mutual UFO Network International, who said more investigation of this film needs to be done. Well that was definative. Thank you for that in depth analysis. Apparently even MUFON is staying away from this one. Well, the debate rages on and I’m sure it will for quite a while longer. Alien window peepers, who’d a thunk it.
For those that are interested Stan Romanek’s website
Here’s one for The Mutual UFO Network – MUFON
And here’s The National UFO Reporting Center
PHOTO HANDED OUT OF PECKMAN AND ROMANEK’S ALIEN IN DENVER.
Well it appears that Andy Warhol was wrong on this one. Jeff Peckman is definately receiving more than his 15 minutes of fame. As a matter of fact, so much is being made of this space alien video that he is promising to show that he is receiving phone calls from all over the world.
“I’ve got about four or five interviews already, and I’m in discussion with Inside Edition, Good Morning America, Fox national news and a Moscow TV station that wants to send a team,” Peckman, 54, said Thursday. His phone kept ringing all day. “NBC national wanted me in five different time slots tomorrow on different programs. I took three of them,” Peckman said Thursday afternoon. Yes, instant celebrity. Virtually every news service is contacting him. If nothing else, the subject has got the world talking. The video Peckman has promised was analysed by Colorado Film School instructor Jerry Hofmann. He describes it thus: “He kept the camera handy, and he saw this little gray (alien) running around his house. He saw it, so he got the camera out,” Hofmann said. “The thing is about 4 feet tall. The only thing that shows up in the video is his head. It pops up from underneath a window. But his eyes blink. His cheeks move. He turns his head side-to-side. The “He” Hofman mentions is Stan Romanek the man that actually shot the footage. All this attention has not pleased everyone. Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown said people can believe what they want, but the attention “is not very favorable to our city. Suddenly we’re getting more national and international attention on this issue than the DNC,” he said, referring to the Democratic National Convention in August. Apparently aliens really are coming to Denver. “In some respects, it’s a welcome relief amidst all the polarizing politics that we have,” Brown said. “That’s probably good, but it just doesn’t bode well for our city.” It seems, not everyone has fallen under Peckman’s spell. I can’t believe this guys name is really Charlie Brown. The interesting thing will be to see what Peckman and Romanek do with all of this new found fame. If Peckman’s making appearances, it means the money’s coming in. Has anybody thought that maybe Peckman and Romanek are actually aliens themselves and this is all a conspiracy to get themselves placed on a government commission so they can start taking over the planet? Hmmm? Has anybody run tests on these guys? It could be you know. More to come after they’ve shown the footage tonight.
Jeff Peckman, a Denver, Colorado citizen has been trying to get an initiative started through the city of Denver that would create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission to prepare the city to deal with aliens. Now he is claiming to have footage of an alien peeking inside of someone’s window. Great, a peeping Tom alien. He intends to premiere this Friday. It sounds awfully Hollywood to me. I wonder if this will be a red carpet affair. Apparently the video, is supposed to become part of an upcoming documentary about earth being invaded by aliens from outer space. He claims the video is authentic and is part of what convinced him of the current need for action in Denver. “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.” It sounds pretty vague and what other evidence? He says he will show the video to City officials and media on Friday. This blog will be checking in on that. “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. The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking,” Peckman said. If they’re only four feet tall, they don’t sound like much of a threat. Why were they there with infrared? Were they expecting it? Had it given prior notice of its arrival? Was this an RSVP?Here’s the thing that gets me. No one will be allowed to film the presentation Friday because there is some kind of deal in place for it regarding the documentary. What documentary? Who’s doing it? Even before I see it, this sounds staged to me as well as bought and paid for. This certainly is a way to get publicity for a small budget film. Maybe it’s trying to be another “Blair Witch Project.” How about “Voyeur Aliens From Space” or maybe it’s something like “Aliens Gone Wild.” Whatever it is we’re, going to be following this new illegal alien issue.
In Britain a $2 million dollar grant has been awarded to a company to develop a robot that can stir soup. Why does this seem stupid to me? It is funded by the European Commission and they feel it is a way to introduce robots into the service industry. I guess Americans aren’t the only ones that have to deal with government waste. Besides, aren’t these jobs supposed to be done by illegal immigrants? Bristol Robotics Lab in England is the lucky winner of the cash. “It will specifically look at the problems of a human and a robot working together in the same space, for example in a kitchen where the service robot is performing a task such as stirring soup, while you add cream.” Let’s see, the economy is going into the toilet, unemployment is everywhere and you’re going to develop a robot that helps take away the few jobs that are out there. Am I missing something here? Why can’t we develop a robot that maybe runs into burning buildings or searches for earthquake victims? “Excuse me, call in Robby the Robot, soup’s on.” Lab director Professor Chris Melhuish explained: “When we interact with other humans we are interpreting facial expression, body position, gestures, tone of voice as well as sharing a goal and understanding and following verbal instructions. For example in the soup situation, not only does the robot need to know what the goal is but he also needs to know how hard to stir the soup, what it means when you hold up your hand to say enough, to interpret the look of pain on your face if you accidentally get splashed with hot soup, and to stop stirring when told. This project aims to develop the rules we need to introduce this level of sophistication into service robots who are working closely with people.” Ok, I’m beginning to detect some issues here. Somebody doesn’t like working with people. Man, you need to get out more. Have you thought of dating. Is the soup bad in England? I mean, c’mon, you eat pickled eels and serve coffee (civit coffee) made from cat poop. How good can your cuisine be? The only thing palatable in England is the beer and that’s got alcohol to sterilize it. Just what I need is a robot bringing me my meal that whines like C3PO. “Oh my, I can speak 1000 languages and I’m stirring soup. R2, don’t touch that. R2 don’t go in there. Oh my no you’ve done it, the soup’s scorched.” What about the customers? “Oh waiter, there’s a microprocessor in my soup.” Robotic research fine. A robot to stir my soup? Get a real project.
Have you ever thought, hmm. I’ll only be a minute so I’ll just grab the handicapped spot? Sure, you have. You may not have done it, but you’ve thought it. In Missassauga, Ontario a police officer thought that and got caught. He decided to run into a Tim Horton’s coffee and donut shop, grab a cup of coffee and a sweet treat and run right back out. No problem right? Just as he ran in, a double amputee from Sault Sainte Marie, Canada pulls up. “I was shocked,” said Gerard Taylor, “I said, ‘Quick, we have got to get a picture.’” This was one cop that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. We all know that coffee and donuts is a high priority for these guys. Lesson for the day: I have to admit, I live on the Canadian border, Tim Horton’s coffee is awesome, but certainly a 20-foot walk probably would have done this cop some good. It’s called exercise. Yes, you too can get off you butt and actually get your blood moving for about 30 seconds in prelude to that cholesterol laden taste treat that you’re about to stuff in your head. According to Taylor the cop was only there for a couple of minutes, he thinks someone told him he’d been caught, but it’s the principle of the thing that has him irked. There’s nothing worse than caught in the act. “He was only parked there for 90 seconds because I think someone told him about us snickering and talking about taking a picture, so he left without even a coffee in hand,” he said. “Still, that is 90 seconds of a handicapped person’s life that is already hard enough. It’s the principle.” Only time will tell if the police department will actually do something with this lazy cop, especially now that it’s made the news with a picture and they are publicly embarrassed. Taylor calls himself one of the unofficial “accessibility police.” He lurks about just waiting for those moments of “I’ll just be a minute.” Yes in this day and age of cellphones with cameras, compact video recorders and the like, you’d better watch yourself. Those handicapped spots are under surveillance. The Accessibility Police will get you. Even if you are the police. Beware the temptation of the handicapped spot.
A northern California biotech company has announced that it will hold five online auctions to have your dog cloned. Yes now you can get copies of your favorite fido. The only thing is that the minimum bid is $100,000. Well, that’s a bit steep to pay for a dog, even if it is genetically engineered. The place is BioArts International located in Mill Valley, CA. It is the brainchild of Lou Hawthorne, and the research is led by Hwang Woo Suk a South Korean scientist who suffered international disgrace for having faked his research. OK, let me get this straight, you want me to pay over 100 grand to clone my dog with a guy who’s a known fraud. They must be operating from the theory that there’s a sucker born every minute. People are up in arms about this because they think this is the first step to human cloning. I think this is the least of their worries. Hawthorne used to run a company called Genetic Savings and Clone, but it folded when they tried to get people to clone their cats for $50,000. They had few takers and went bankrupt. Now he’s back and has set his sights on dogs. “The average dog owner has a different relationship with his dog than the average cat owner,” Hawthorne said. “The level of intensity on the dog side just dwarfed what we saw on the cat side.” In other words, he thinks they’re easier to fleece. I haven’t found out yet where the online auctions are to be held, but I’m hoping Ebay will refuse this one. The guy just doesn’t have good feedback. Of course there always those out there that have too much money and no sense. It’s not the research I object, though god knows we have enough normal pets in the world that people don’t want already, but it’s the man’s reputation. I think maybe hwang ought to consider horticulture. BioArts said in a statement it has been granted the sole license for cloning dogs, cats and endangered species using patented processes developed for the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned animal. Ok someone isn’t paying attention to the background here. We have a previously failed company and a fly-by night scientist. This thing screams plot for a bad “B” sci-fi movie, Attack of the Clone Dogs. Well, at least something is still being made in America. Step right up, get your preordered dog, use our handy drive-thru window. Would you like a happy meal with that?
First rule, when you go into the party store to pay for your munchies, make sure you have enough money. Second rule, if you don’t, put something back. Third rule, look around at your surroundings. Fourth rule, and this is the big one, don’t try to pay with pot when a cop is standing behind you in line. Take Wade Churchward of Wellington, New Zealand for instance, actually, don’t the guy’s too loaded, you wouldn’t want him. He had apparently been drinking, getting stoned and had an attack of the screaming munchies. Personally I would have gone to find an all-you-can-eat buffet here, but to each his own. He pulls into a local party store to cure his all consuming problem. His mind is focused on one objective, food, food. He picks up two packages of M&Ms and some potato chips. This is a very sensible stoner diet. So far so good. When he goes to the cashier to pay for it, he realizes he doesn’t have enough money to pay for it. Red, Flag, Red Flag. Time to resort to the barter system. He reaches into his pocket and finds something he thinks he can trade. So far, not so good. Here we get to Churchward’s prime error. He had apparently failed to notice the police vehicle parked outside the building and the police officer that had taken his place in line right behind him. Ooops. Actually, big ooops. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small sack of marijuana and the pipe to smoke it in and asks if the store clerk is willing to trade. The police officer behind him slaps on the cuffs. No kidding, what a surprise. That’s enough to turn any day into a fast bummer. He pleaded guilty in District Court to possessing marijuana. Yes, that one is going to be a little hard to argue. Even Perry Mason isn’t getting him out of this one. Churchward was released on bail and will be sentenced on July 3. I wonder if they allowed him to barter that. “Dudes, I’ve got a kilo I’ll trade for bail.” Marijuana possession is usually punished by a minor fine in New Zealand. So, next time you go to the store, stupid stoned, check to make sure you have enough money AND LOOK FOR THE COP BEHIND YOU IN LINE! Today’s lesson has been brought to you by Wade Churchward, winner of the coveted “Can’t handle your high” award. Congratulations, your certificate will be arriving in the mail. (I wonder if he’ll read this and actually check for it?)
We’ve all heard about the pilot and stewardess tales, flitting from one destination to the other having affairs on their layovers and in general partying in all of those wonderful exotic locations. This story shatters that dreamy idyllic illusion. Yes there are a million stories with the naked pilots, this is one of them. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, so much for the exotic location, Jeffery Paul Bradford and Adrianna Grace Connor, gotta love the names though, both employees of Pinnacle Airlines were having dinner at a diner. It had been a long night of drinking and partying. Their evening was not over. Pheromones were thick, as was the overwhelming urge of alcohol so they decided to take a walk in the woods. Somehow, it’s not really clear when, either during or after satisfying their carnal urges to two became separated from each other and their clothes. Oh horror, naked white people are running loose in the Pennsylvania woods. Yes, they were lost. People in the neighborhood summoned police at about 9:30 pm saying they had seen a naked man and an intoxicated woman wandering about. That’s when they called in the helicopter with the heat seeking equipment, the search was on. Bradford was discovered hiding behind a shed shortly before midnight. Connor was picked up after she had stolen someone’s car. “We just wanted to do it in the woods.” Was all they had to say for themselves. They did it alright. Bradford is being charged with indecent exposure, public drunkenness, and other unspecified charges. Connor is charged with theft of a motor vehicle, public drunkenness, and other minor offences including the theft of a flashlight from a neighbor’s car. Yes, our story ends with one bit of advice, if your’e going into the woods, take a compass stupid. Or better yet get a room. It’ll keep the dirt out of your butt. And your name off the internet.
You’re driving along a country road at night and you see a little girl in the middle of the road. You swerve, and next thing you know you’re in the ditch. You get out to make sure the little girl is alright and she’s gone, just like she wasn’t there. Well that’s supposedly what’s happening on a stretch of road near Birmingham, England. People have reported seeing a girl, around five years of age and clothed in Victorian dress on the road. It has been blamed for several crashes and near misses over the years. So who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! Well, England’s version of it anyway, called Parasearch. It just doesn’t have the same ring to it does it? A West Midlands Police spokesman said the most recent incidents included a crash involving a motorbike and a car in November while last July a woman was taken to hospital after a collision on the same stretch. David Taylor, chairman of Parasearch has said he hasn’t found a rational explanation for the sightings so far. I bet not. Finding it would only mean the job was over and the paychecks wouldn’t come in any more.I suggest checking to see how close the local pub is. The tale of the five-year old girls seems to be repeated and now that the news has gotten out, I expect that she will be blamed for most of them. “But officer, I wasn’t drinking, it was a strange little girl in the middle of the road. The twelve Guiness’ had nothing to do with it.” Of course this could all be an optical illusion of some sorts, like marsh gas, or pink elephants.Taylor says that “The area around there is an accident blackspot and there have been some serious incidents, so maybe they had all seen the same thing.” He has been investigating paranormal claims for over 22 years. We don’t know if he’s actually been successful at it. Of course all of these sightings have happened in the dead of night, after the pubs have closed. I think there may be a correlation here. Wow, I’ve explained it. Maybe I should start my own Ghostbusters. Haunted house? How much liquor, ya got? Explained it. I’ll cash their check in the morning.
In Boulder, Colorado, two men stood looking at each other, staring into one another’s eyes, waiting for the other to draw. Cue music from old Clint Eastwood, spaghetti western. Our story begins with a dispute. They always do. Harvey Epstein, a restaurant owner and Casey Dane, a supervisor for Security Services Inc. got into an argument over a metal boot that had been placed on one of the restaurant employee’s van. Showdown! Dane told police he was afraid Epstein was going to hit him with a 60 centimetre-long pair of bolt cutters. Epstein told police he had only tried to remove the boot with the bolt cutters and hadn’t threatened anyone with them. Epstein told police Dane put his hand on a holstered pistol and threatened to shoot him. Dane told The Associated Press by telephone that he did put his hand on the holstered pistol but never threatened to shoot Epstein. Have we sorted this all out yet? No, the best is yet to come. The two had a standoff. They stared into each other’s eyes. Then they drew… tasers. Both hit their mark. Both twitched uncontrollably. Both went down. “They shot each other,” said Police Sgt. Pat Wyton. “It was just kind of a bonehead deal.” Neither men needed medical attention. The security guard says that the van was parked in an area he was told to patrol. The employee says it wasn’t. So the argument rages on. Could we get a sequel? A Fistful of Tasers? For a Few Tasers More? Maybe we could talk Clint into doing a guest tasering. Hmmm, this has possibilities.
JEFF PECKMAN, STAN ROMANEK SPACE ALIEN VIDEO
Posted by mclassen on May 30, 2008
SPECIAL EDITION: Keep checking back. We’re doing our best to keep updated on this story and present the debate of this ongoing story as best we can. We’re uploading new information as we find it: Check out the videos below:
This appears to be the real Romanek video.
JEFF PECKMAN ON DAVID LETTERMAN – JUNE 10
WE JUST UPLOADED THESE! THEY WERE DONE IN THREE PARTS THAT’S WHY THREE VIDEOS.
PART ONE – Alejandro Rojas’s outlook on Romanek’s alien video
PART TWO
PART THREE
This was part of yesterday’s conference in Denver.
The video you just watched has the fake Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society video at the end.
FAKED VIDEO DONE BY THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARANORMAL RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR $90!
We’ve just viewed the video of the alien that Jeff Peckman showed to the Denver City Council this morning. (picture Below) Suppossedly It was photographed at Stan Romanek’s home in Nebraska in 2003. You see the picture, now you can judge, Is this a real alien? For a quick dose of reality, I live in Michigan and a close friend of mine used to work as a special effects person. He could build this alien and make it work just like in the video. Certainly the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society was able to do it for $90 as in the video above. Especially if they only have to show it from the neck up. There are a lot of people out there that would like UFOs to be real. I’m one of them. Nothing would make me happier than to have some irrefutable evidence pop up that says “we’re not alone.” For me, this isn’t it. For Peckman, it apparently was. He told the audience at the screening, ”it’s time to take extraterrestrial life seriously. It’s time to get ahead of the curve.” He added that some high government officials in other countries and some retired military officers in the U.S. are among the believers. Granted, but that doesn’t mean this film is real. The Gray in the footage actually reminds me of the aliens in Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, the old Ray Harryhausen movie. It’s one of the oldest images in Sci-Fi. The other thing that bothers me is Stan Romanek. He’s a father with two daughters, definately not wealthy and now he has this video which is getting world wide attention. Same thing with Peckman, a would-be politician that people weren’t paying much attention to until now. It’s ripe for being a load of horse hockey. Let’s check in and and see what MUFON has to say. Yes, they were at the meeting too. “I have no idea,” said Alejandro Rojas, a moderator from the Mutual UFO Network International, who said more investigation of this film needs to be done. Well that was definative. Thank you for that in depth analysis. Apparently even MUFON is staying away from this one. Well, the debate rages on and I’m sure it will for quite a while longer. Alien window peepers, who’d a thunk it.
For those that are interested Stan Romanek’s website
Here’s one for The Mutual UFO Network – MUFON
And here’s The National UFO Reporting Center
PHOTO HANDED OUT OF PECKMAN AND ROMANEK’S ALIEN IN DENVER.
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