The story began with a report on RockyMountainNews.com last Wednesday, when Jeff Peckman announced that he would be showing a video that showed a live extraterrestrial at a news conference. Of course that got everybody very excited, only to get let down when Bryan Bonner, a member of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society, made a mock video of the footage that raised questions as to whether or not Stan Romanek’s video was real.

In what amounts to a bizarre new kind of viral marketing, the footage screened on Friday—to be included in an upcoming documentary about Romanek’s experiences—is also part of a ballot initiative to create a commission that would formalize contact with aliens.

Bonner’s mock video has since been plastered all over the blogosphere and mistaken as Romanek’s video, while their media conference made headlines worldwide. Peckman has made a big marketing splash for both the documentary and his political initiatives, but he also upset many people in the UFO community, who feel that the footage and the photograph is fake. When I first saw the rehash of a Denver news segment on Sunday, I felt the alien peeking through the window was a Photoshop rendition and that these men were looking for fame. So, I dismissed it without realizing just how much of a big deal this story was.

Below is a video of The Larry King Show, where King interviews two skeptics about the motive(s) of Romanek and Peckman.

Source: Denver Post
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