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DENVER (CBS4) ―
A UFO Briefing was held all day Saturday in Denver with speakers from
around the nation, including a Colorado man who claims to have video of
an alien.
The
purpose of the event, held at the St. Cajetan's Center on the Auraria
Campus, was to provide the public with evidence of UFOs.
"From
research to sightings, Colorado is a hot bed for information and
experiences," Alejandro Rojas says on UFOThinkTank.com. Rojas is the
Mutual UFO (MUFON) Network Director of Public Education. "We average
over 100 reported sightings per year by concerned citizens who see
things in the sky that they can't explain."
Also on hand at the
event was Jeff Peckman, who claims there is a government conspiracy to
hide evidence of aliens. Peckman started the Denver Ballot Initiative
with the goal of creating an extraterrestrial commission to study the
implication UFOs have on the citizens of Denver.
Peckman and his
friend, Stan Romanek, who also spoke at the event, made news last month
when they said they have a video they claim shows an alien peering
through the window of Romanek's home when he lived in Nebraska.
Reporters were allowed to view the video at the time, but only a still
image was released to the media. The pair has a deal with a documentary
company for the rights to the video. Some say the video looks
legitimate, while others say it looked like a common extraterrestrial
hoax.
Peckman and Romanek appeared on Larry King Live in June.
Peckman also appeared by himself on David Letterman soon after news of
the video was released.
"I'm not trying to force you into believing," Romanek said at the briefing. "You can come to that conclusion on your own."
Romanek
claims to have been having strange experiences since December of 2000
after he went to Red Rocks to videotape the surroundings in hopes to
get his girlfriend to visit. He claims to have seen a UFO with other
witnesses and captured it on video.
After his first sighting
he claimed to have many more, including a time when patrons of a retail
store he managed informed him that there was a large "blinking object"
hovering above the store. He said he went home that night and was woken
up by a knock on his door at 2 a.m. He said his sister answered the
door and he remembered seeing three beings that weren't human in his
hallway.
The next morning, Romanek said his sister noticed
strange marks on his back and wounds on his hands with the hair around
his wrists gone. He said the wounds healed remarkably fast, but could
be seen as fluorescent under a black light long after they healed.
"My friend Mark suggested I get in touch with MUFON," he said.
Rojas
said MUFON made clear to him to note at the briefing that the
organization has yet to investigate Romanek's claims, but he had been
around Romanek long enough now that he believes him.
Other claims Romanek made are as follows:
• His van was the target of a UFO spotlight with many other witnesses at an intersection in Lakewood.
•
He caught more video of a UFO at Old Stone House Park with many
witnesses who filed reports that can be viewed on his Web site.
• The aliens have communicated with him through mental telepathy. He says they can communicate a whole idea in one "thought."
•
He has video of a "ball of light" in his house he claims is
extraterrestrial. The same ball of light could be seen on surveillance
video from cameras he set up outside his house. The ball of light seems
to go through a wall of his house.
• He said after being
abducted he was once found on the top of his roof. Another time he was
naked, outside with temperatures in the 20s.
Romanek said
after moving to Colorado Springs, he has been repeatedly harassed by
people he thinks might belong to the government. His friends have
received strange voicemails from a person with a computerized voice (he
said was from Audrey 3000 software) that seems to encourage him to
continue talking about his ordeal and to be wary of the military. The
voicemail told him he should leave Colorado Springs, the home of North
American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Fort Carson, Peterson Air
Force Base, the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), Schriever Air Force
Base, and the Air Force Academy.
He said in December of 2004 he
was riding a bicycle to work and a black SUV cut him off. A passenger
in the front got out and told him, "Keep your mouth shut!" He said he
told them he would never stop talking about it and was assaulted.
During the assault Romanek said two others got out of the SUV and he
hit one with a chain and believes he seriously hurt him. A stun gun was
then used on Romanek. Police responded quickly and the SUV fled. He was
told a chase ensued and the SUV disappeared into a military base.
Romanek
said the harassment continued and in February of 2005 his computer was
hacked. When he got home he noticed his computer wasn't working and was
frozen on a Web page with a CIA logo.
Another time he said he
was with his family when a suspicious white car drove slowly by him
while at a drive-in restaurant and his van instantly stopped running.
The mechanic asked if the van had been "hit by lightning." All
electronics on the van were fried. Romanek believes his van was hit by
a high-power microwave (HPM), a military technology.
Romanek
also says he is the constant victim of home break-ins, his TV and
surveillance camera cords have been cut. He says he has been followed
by helicopters during the day and night.
Other speakers at the
event were Paola Harris, and international journalist who specializes
in UFO research; Chuck Zukowski, who has worked with UFO investigators
who specialize in the Roswell Incident; Jeff Danelek, an author from
Denver who specializes in writing about the paranormal, religion,
spirituality and more; and Joe Fex, a paranormal archivist. Alejandro
Rojas also spoke at the event about the history regarding the military
and other government involvement in the UFO phenomenon.
Copyright: cbs4denver.com
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