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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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Jeff Peckman, who came to national attention earlier this year when he launched a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver and later announced that he possessed actual footage of a live ET, continues his campaign to thrust alien life into the political limelight. This week, he invited Barack Obama to hear a briefing on UFOs and extraterrestrial life from a private citizen's perspective. Adjust your tin foil hat and find out what Peckman has to say to the presidential candidate and why he wants to say it before the election. 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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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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In a world filled with naysayers and disbelievers, you have to thank the gods for Jeff Peckman. The Colorado man's previous forays into civic duty found him attempting to legally enforce stress-reduction techniques on the entire city of Denver. Now he's asking the good people of the Mile High City to vote "Yes" on the creation of a commission to deal with the arrival of aliens from outer space. More »
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