Denver man's real, live alien video being saved for a documentary

(image courtesy Dirk HR Spennemann)

The Rocky Mountain News (thanks io9) reported yesterday that there's a guy in Denver who claims to have video of a living extraterrestrial, but he's not showing it because he wants to save it for his movie.

Jeff Peckman is the same guy who is attempting to set up an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver -- ostensibly to allow us to prepare for the inevitable encounter. If you read the ABC News article linked in the previous sentence, you'll see that Peckman even got a professor from Colorado Film School to "authenticate" the footage. That's right, a certified movie expert thinks this is the real thing. 

(Amusingly, the quote ABC news gets from Prof. Jerry Hofmann is somewhat more equivocal:  "If this was faked, it's the most elaborate fake I've ever seen," he said. "This is no 29-cent puppet." But, er, isn't every hot new UFO video the most elaborate one we've seen? If you were just showing spinning pie plates, it'd be hard to get much attention.)

As someone who's written about UFO hoaxes before, I find it very difficult to take anything like this seriously. If there were actual indisputable alien footage, it would be simultaneously the most incredible scientific discovery in history and the most explosive news story of all time. Scientists, reporters and governments the world over would be clamoring to analyze it. At that point, it seems unlikely that it would be within one UFO believer's power to keep it secret.   

UPDATE: This is apparently a still from the video in question. It just so happens to portray the alien peering into someone's window.  What could be more recognizably, uninspiredly E.T. than that?

It's guffaw-worthy that the reason he gives for sitting on this bombshell is that he's embroiled in movie talks: "No one will be allowed to film the segment with the extraterrestrial because there is an agreement in place limiting that kind of exposure during negotiations for the documentary," Peckman told the RMN. 

Forget just putting it up online and letting everyone judge for themselves. Eveyone knows you can't make money on YouTube! Even with a real live alien that looks better than a 29-cent puppet.

Comments

[Aaron]

"If there were actual indisputable alien footage, it would be simultaneously the most incredible scientific discovery in history and the most explosive news story of all time."

When will there ever be alien footage that's indisputable? NEVER. No matter if you took the video yourself and saw the alien and knew it was real, would it ever matter to the rest of the world. Technology is at a point where any and all things can be faked quite convincingly. There's no point in time when the "world" will believe that some alien footage is real. Alien ships would have to darken every sky across the globe where people could walk out and seen them with their own eyes. Until then, no amount of video "evidence" will sway the mainstream or scientific communities.

[nate]

I agree with Aaron. The notion that science, governments, and the press worldwide would be extremely interested in this video is naive. The UFO topic is taboo. Besides, the Tremonton film as well as a film shot in Montana were subjected to the most demanding scrutiny the US Air Force could muster. This was in the 50s and the verdict then: UNKNOWN.

[Sean K]

Aaron: The reason there will never be alien footage that is indisputable is because the 'aliens' will never arrive. Given the enormity of space and the number of stars, the odds of intelligent life on other planets, to be fair, do seem likely... however, it is this very enormity and the distances between objects within that make contact between any intelligent life about as likely as the entire population of NYC winning the lottery on the same day. There are simple tests that can be done to determine if a piece of video or photo evidence is a hoax. Any first year graphic design student familiar with photo shop can debunk alien photos, and I'd venture to guess the same is true of anyone with experience in CGI and computer animation. That's why you don't see verified alien footage... ALL of it has been EASILY debunked.

[R. J.]

I saw the photo of this man's alien, taken from the press conference. It is fake. And I say that as someone who has had a life time of experiences with different beings.

[David Sarno]

@nate: Wait a second, how is the UFO topic taboo? I just wrote about it, and there are at least a half a dozen (and counting) MSM articles on this story, PLUS Larry King is featuring it tonight. Larry King alone does enough UFO shows every year to definitively counter your taboo claim. The guy is a UFO maniac.

It's not that people don't want to talk about this stuff, it's that there's not enough evidence / information / facts to talk *about*. The journalism world runs on documentation, not speculation -- or at least, it's not supposed to.

And @Aaron: I've got to disagree with you that there's no such thing as definitive evidence. It's true that UFO stories probably have a higher standard of proof, because there's never been a proven one before, but are you telling me that if a Martian space ship landed at the Dodger game, no one would believe any of the 30,000 eyewitnesses, hundreds of thousands of cell phone or photographer photos, or the accounts million+ viewers at home? It is the height of conspiracy theorism to posit that no matter how much evidence supports it, your theory will never be believed.

[glo]

I am disappointed with the picture. I thougth we would of gotten a better tease than that.

[Honest John]

Let' see:
1) Al Gore invented the Internet in his spare time.
2) OBama has visited "all 57 states" and "saw" many of "America's fallen heros" in the audience of his Memorial Day speeck.
3) Hillary has experienced spoken of parallel realities, e.g. the Bosnia "under sniper fire" vs the photos with the flower girl.
4) Billary vividly remembers "the balck churches buring" in Arkansas in his youth - a parallel reality that was missed by the news media of the day.

So why pick on this guy for trying to cash in on his parallel reality experiences??

[dave]

I heard it was a viral marketing campaign for the X Files movie...thats the most logical explanation really. It'd be fantastic if this were real, though.

[Jaquemo]

HOW MUCH MONEY did Jeff Peckman pay Jerry Hufmann (Colorado Film School) to endorse this footage as "AUTHENTIC".......?

Remember the "Blair Witch Project"? That movie had a very simple basis ($35k budget) and yet grossed over $248 M I L L I O N dollars. That's a 7,085% return for you simple-simons...

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT, in my opinion.

[Wilbur Varela]

We will believe that aliens exist when they land on the white house lawn, and not on elmer fudds farm in Iowa. Sean K's comment is right on....God built a universe where each world is too far from the other to interact.

maybe in a million years, we will get a radio signal from a long dead civilization. until then, all we can do is make slick movies.

[John]

If Aliens do "arrive" some day, they won't be what they appear. They will be demons preteneding to be aliens. All this will be a setup to the events foretold in the Bible's book of Revelation.

[lordanimal]

all this guy wants to do is build suspense and make money. If this was real footage it would be way more important than this guy's film. it would be the biggest thing in our history. all this is doing is to further disprove anything out there that might be legitimate.

[cobra]

*** Google (www.ufodigest.com);
1) They Are Here
2) The Bible and the Invisible UFOs
3) Astronauts of Antiquity
4) Talking to the Gods
5) Messiah - His Spaceships, etc.
*** Details in the book "Planet Eris and the Global Warming" (can be found at Amazon)
*** NASA AND PLANET X
http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040466-937,00,00.html

[Brady]

This is clearly one of those cases where we all need to be citizens of Missouri. Just "Show Me" and if its anything more than out of focus video, I will believe.
Don't write off scientists as close minded skeptics. Any real scientist lives as one who is open minded but skeptical. And the burden of proof does NOT fall on the skeptic to prove a claim wrong; the burden of proof falls instead falls on the proponent of a claim to provide evidence in SUPPORT of a claim.
And as David Hume put it," The wise man (person) proportions his (or her) belief to fit the evidence,"
So far, we should give this claim a small grain of our beliefs...

Brady P.

[Kha Sekhem Re]

What ignorant are most of these comments on the issue. Real live Alien, caught peering through a man's window. Hard evidence. What is disgusting, is the amount of lies and debunking fed by the Government, and idiots sucking it in like a Hoover Vacuum. Now anytime a photo is taken, it's automatically faked. Until an Alien craft crash lands into someone's bedroom. And even then it would be faked. The ordinary poor people would have hoaxed the entire incident, including the Radioactivity in the immediate area of the crash.

Humans use 6% of 100% of brain matter. Of this only 2% is being used, because 98% of the world has common sense!! Aliens have no reason to make themselves public to a world of beasts that kill each other regularly, and have created weapons that can destroy entire planets. It's not even logical to do so even from a rational human mind. They are here, have been here, are seen daily, and filmed and photographed by our somewhat useful technology. It is in our faces. Accept it, learn from it, and prepare for what is to come. Some are here to assist us, some are here to rid of us. It's the way of survival.

[Tabloid Baby]

URGENT!!!

This "alien" video is more than a decade old. It was the subject of a half hour episode of the syndicated show Strange Universe in 1997.

And its authenticity could not be determined!!

[Jim McDade]

Photos and videos cannot be used to determine the truth or falsehood of a claim. It is too easy to fake images. There is no such thing as a photographic or video expert who is capable of saying that any image or video is authentic. It is true that some experienced and well-trained analyst can pick out obvious traces of trickery or special effects, but nobody can claim to make an absolute pronouncement one way or the other.

Feel to believe what you will, but your belief is not good enough to convince me. The only way to confirm the existence of aliens is to come into possession of a warm (or cold) body of an alien life form and subject it to thorough scientific testing. The same standard of proof holds for UFOs, Big Foot, Unicorns and Leprechauns.

This particular alleged alien video is fairly cheesy. If I were to make video of an alien outside my window at night, I would certainly turn out the inside lights. The fact that this videographer failed to dim the lights is one of the first factors to rouse my suspicions. Another flaw in this fake video is the inadequacy of the illumination of the head in the window given the apparent lighting level at the window. The lighting properties appear to be uneven. It is also suspicious that these people will not release the raw video, in it's entirety, immediately. That makes this look more like a money making venture than an honest attempt to report earth-shaking news.

[rico]

Looks like my old labrador to me. Wonder how he's doing. Probably hungry.

[Les]

It always amazes me how intellectually bankrupt most people are when it comes to this discussion. Our ego driven me-ism has yet to advance beyond the point of understanding that the one thing we should all agree upon is that, collectively, we know virtually NOTHING about the way the universe was formed, operates, or what it may contain. Yes. It's a big place. Yes. Any prospect of any being boarding a spacecraft and getting here by any method we know of is not possible. But we know NOTHING about the possibility of time travel, the potential ability to "fold space", or other dimensions that our limited perceptive abilities as human beings have no clue about. You see an ant crawling on the ground. Can you communicate with it?? Can you make it conciously aware of your existance on any level other than it's perception of a threat?? No. Do you honestly think that any entity capable of time travel or getting here across 50k parsecs of space would have any ability whatsoever to communicate with us??? Bottom line is that we know nothing about anything beyond the 3 dimensions we are aware of. Do NOT discount the possibility that there are dimensions that exist RIGHT HERE...other worlds RIGHT HERE, but in other dimensions, times, or alternative universes. These aliens may simply be able to travel between these alternative dimensions or times and appear. Don't be so short sighted to believe you understand what the situation is when based upon how LITTLE we know about the universe or laws of physics.

[Thomas]

It's not really fair to say that extraterrestrial life couldn't contact us.

What's a little more fair is to consider that this solar system, our star, are young examples of their types. Imagine a civilization that's had a 1 million year headstart over us, one that also developed some kind of incredible technology or some kind of advancement that allowed for communication and transportation in ways that to us seem like science fiction, but may eventually actually become quite plausible scientific possibilities on Earth, provided we don't destroy ourselves. Would a space-faring alien race happen upon Earth by chance? Also highly unlikely, for the universe-magnitude reason. My point is a bit weak here, but in the same way the 'oh the universe is too big for that' argument is weak; it's based on assumptions of possibility. However, considering the progress mankind has made in just 10,000 years, if we survive, what we'll be like in 1 million...would be truly a remakable thing to see. Particularly in the realm of science and technology, at that, I think recent history speaks for itself, that we ought never say 'X or Y can't be done'. So who knows what an alien race may be capable of.

For me, what always makes me assume it's fake is what the alien looks like. It's hilarious how greys are so similar to humans...THAT seems highly implausible, that life on another planet would end up being so similar.

[Red Clay - TX]

I have to agree the distance between the planets would be a very difficult problem to overcome. That is why I feel, the "Aliens" encountered are actually time traveling Chinese from our distant future.

Time travel would be a much easier obstacle to over come than traveling through space billions of miles between worlds. As well, the issue with the "look" of the Aliens can be a mutated result of our future and Global Warming. Gray skin because Elephants don't sunburn, protective lenses for the eyes, slanted and tear shaped, because they are Chinese, which would account for the height as well.

Fast forward to our future and the world will be scorched & dying and, inhabited by Chinese descendants looking to the past to save the human race.... What we see is in this still is a glimpse into our future.

[Simple Simon]

Jaquerno, that's actually a 708571% return, assuming your numbers are accurate.

[Bob Skeptic]

An alien race comes thousands of light years to make first contact with humanity... by PEEKING THROUGH A WINDOW? There's technology today that can see through walls in various ways, but they didn't bring any with them for their apparently covert contact attempts?

Applying even a bit of logic to all the alien theories shows that they make no sense. They come all this way and don't want to be seen, but get spotted thousands of times per year? They want to make contact, but only in the most vague, cryptic ways instead of landing at Yankee Stadium?

[Bill]

Honest John, since you decided to make it political, you convienently left out all of of Bush's "misquotes". And if you did any research instead of recycling the same right-wing b.s., you would know that Al Gore never said he invented the internet. I'm kind of disappointed you didn't make an "Obama is a Muslim" reference.

[Joseph]

Actually - the picture shown reminds me of the comic book hero The Punisher's trademark outfit.