<![CDATA[io9: extraterrestrial affairs commission]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: extraterrestrial affairs commission]]> http://io9.com/tag/extraterrestrialaffairscommission http://io9.com/tag/extraterrestrialaffairscommission <![CDATA[Denver Alien Video — For Reals!]]> 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]

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5012165&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What's Up With the Mysterious Denver UFO Video?]]> 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.

Peckman refuses to let anyone save a select list of local reporters see the video. Not only that, but he won't be releasing it online, or allowing anyone to rebroadcast it. The people who get to see it (including the Rocky Mountain News folks) are only allowed to write about it — they can't even snap photos. So how will Denver voters make a good decision on the ballot measure if they have no direct access to the evidence? If Peckman is serious, he should release his video on YouTube so we can all judge for ourselves.

I want to believe, but how can I when Peckman won't let me?

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