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Jeff Peckman, the indefatigable UFO hobbyist and lobbyist, has secured a place on next year's ballot for Denver citizens to approve his Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission. Will Denver become known as the city that opened its doors to the universe? More »
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Should you choose to protest at the Democratic National Convention this year, you may be hit with a case of a muddy bottom. The cops are reputed to be considering the use of a poop gun, otherwise known as the "Brown Note," which blasts an infrasound frequency that debilitates a person by making them defecate involuntarily. The use of this crowd controller would truly make a mark among scifi weaponry. Fox News asked Denver's biggest activist on how they will prepare for such an occurence. Click through for their answer. More »
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As many of our commenters have noted, the video we showed below was some fake footage created for about $90 by somebody wanting to make fun of poor Jeff Peckman, the Denver man who sponsored a ballot initiative to create an "Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission" in his city. Now the Rocky Mountain News gang has seen Peckman's actual video, and liveblogged the whole affair. The video has not yet leaked online, but we do have a picture from it here, and the Rocky Mountain News' Bill Scanlon says it's basically two minutes of an alien head appearing and disappearing in front of a window in the middle of the night. [Rocky Mountain News] More »
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Yesterday we told you about the Denver man who is pushing for his city to create an Exterrestrial Affairs Commission." He even got a measure on the ballot, so voters can weigh in on this issue in the next Denver election. Today, he showed selected press a video which he claimed was "living breathing proof" that aliens exist and that Denver needs to have a commission to deal with them. Though he refused to put the video online, it got leaked anyway (with a few sound effects edited in). Here it is - now the voters can decide whether this alien would prefer to deal with a local Denver city commission, or maybe to deal with an international alien rights organization instead. [via Gizmodo] More »
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UFO fiends were abuzz with the news: Jeff Peckman, who has proposed a ballot initiative to create an "Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission" in the city of Denver, will be promoting his cause tomorrow by showing a video of what he calls an "actual living breathing alien." But the story behind this tape is as mysterious as the purported alien itself. Our sources at the Rocky Mountain News, who first broke the story, say that Peckman has a lot of peculiar rules about how the video will be shown and reported on. More »
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