Jeff Peckman and Stan Tiger Romanek on Larry King

Since I seem to be getting a fair number of hits for having linked to the Denver Post's story, I thought I'd follow up again with a video that someone posted to YouTube of this segment from Larry King.

Notice that they only show the same still that the Denver Post showed. When they show moving video, it is clearly labeled "Reenactment" and is not represented as being the actual video that Romanek says he took.

Other people have posted on YouTube what they claim to be Romanek's footage, but they appear to be versions of the "Reenactment" video shown on Larry King.

I'm not saying that I believe Romanek -- personally, I'm reserving judgment until I see more evidence for myself. I'm just saying that to all appearances, they have only released the one still image and no video footage, and that there seems to be evidence that YouTube videos claiming to show Romanek's video are actually a reenactment.

[UPDATE: Bad Astronomy supports what I said in that last paragraph about people posting the fake video and falsely calling the the Romanek video: "...members of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Society were able to create a fake video in a few hours and for under $100, which looks "slightly more animated" than the real thing. ... The fake video is all over YouTube already, and of course some people are claiming it’s the real thing. It’s not. ... The differences are obvious — most notably the shape of the head, and the mullions (crossbars) in the window. ... So where are we? We have a video few people have seen, a claim it couldn’t be easily faked, proof it could be easily faked, and the fake video being claimed as the real one on the ‘net. Still with me? The dumbosity of this is climbing faster than even I thought it could."]

Update on alien video

As promised, they didn't release the video to the public. But they did release this still image.

According to the Denver Post, "...the video was taken on July 17, 2003, in Nebraska by Stan Tiger Romanek, who set up the camera because he thought peeping Toms had been looking into his house at his two teenage daughters."

Which sounds innocent enough in an "I had no intention of photographing aliens" kind of way.

However, the story also says "Romanek, who moved to Colorado after the recording, claims to have had more than 100 encounters with aliens...One of many websites detailing Romanek's encounters shows photographs of him with red marks on his back and arms that Romanek says were inflicted by aliens. He says he was abducted by extraterrestrials and has posted pictures of spherical burn marks in his yard marking where a spaceship hovered or landed."

[UPDATE: Here's a video of Peckman and Romanek on Larry King Live. For more info, see my more recent posting.]

Coming soon: Alien video

Jeff Peckman of Denver, Colorado, has been trying to get his city to start a panel to prepare the city to deal with "issues related to the presence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth." Peckman also claims to have video of a four-foot tall alien taken with an infrared camera. The video was shot by someone named Stan Romanek.

The video has been examined by someone with extensive experience in special effects, who says that if it's a fake, it's a very expensive fake. The image is not computer generated or the result of post-production work, and if it's an animatronic or a costume, it's an extremely sophisticated one.

Peckman is showing the video to members of the press today, but the video will not be available to the public for at least another month, if not longer. The footage is being used in a documentary, so they don't want to let the public see the footage until after the documentary is completed and released.

The SF Examiner has a page full of links to their own stories about Peckman and the video, as well as links to other sites about the story. [UPDATE: The story is now old enough that the Examiner seems to have taken down the links.]