Usually, I like only to comment on items in the top 10 of Google Hot Trends, but this one was too good to pass up and I’m positive that it’ll make the top 10 sometime today. Let’s talk about “Alien Video.” It seems that Denver’s resident crackpot, Jeff Peckman is going to show a video to reporters today that proves, without question, that aliens are real. Now, you’re not going to see the video because he only wants the press to see it for now. More to come on this.

What’s his agenda? You may be asking this same question…from ABC News: “Jeff Peckman, a Denver resident and believer in alien life, has begun the work of putting a ballot initiative to the city’s voters that would, if passed, establish an “extraterrestrial affairs commission” made up of 18 members appointed by the mayor to ensure public safety in the event that aliens — or their vehicles, according to the ballot language — were to arrive in the Mile High City.” That’ll be great. A wonderful idea. What does the city counsel think of this? Charlie Brown (seriously, not kidding), a counsel member, has said, “Good grief.” Not really, but I couldn’t resist. He’s actually said: “This is going to take government time, legal time from the city’s attorney office; this is not free” and “Denver will be poked fun at on ‘Jay Leno’ or ‘David Letterman.” Yes, they will poke fun…and don’t forget the bloggers; we’ll chime in as well. It would almost be too easy.

The so-called proof that makes this video real was described by Peckman: “It starts out with a digital camera looking out across the room toward a window. There’s a couple of flashes of light. After a few seconds, there is a small head clearly rising above a sill, panning the room, blinking its eyes, all slowly. The skin of the alien’s oblong face, he said, is smooth, not wrinkled like the being in the popular film ‘E.T.’” Yep, that’ll prove it for me. Check it out…blinking always proves something is real:

So, some members of the press, who have to swear they won’t record the video, will get to see it, but the public won’t. Two things: first, if someone managed to record Saddam Hussein being hanged at the risk of potentially being arrested and hanged himself, someone in that room will record this thing. Second, the public will get to see the video, Peckman vowed, but only after a documentary that he is creating is complete. Read: you can see it if you want to pay for it. That certainly adds some credibility.

A filmmaker brought in to help Peckman make his movie has seen the video and had this to say, again from ABC: In his opinion, there is no possible way that the footage was doctored after filming. There is a chance, he said, that the alien figure might be a puppet, but only a very elaborate and expensive one. “If this was faked, it’s the most elaborate fake I’ve ever seen,” he said. “This is no 29-cent puppet.”

A elaborate puppet. That’s what we’re all waiting to see? And since when can’t you fake something on film? I don’t know about you, but Chewbacca always looked pretty convincing to me. How’d they do that? Where’d they find a Wookie for these movies? Is he in the Union? Do they have to pay him scale?

And I don’t know about you, but after I saw all the bugs in Starship Troopers, I didn’t step on a spider for weeks for fear that its big brother would tear my arms off.

Yes, folks, there’s nooooooooooooo way to fake an alien. No way.

UPDATE:

At 1:30 pm when Google Hot Trends updated, “alien video” moved into the top 10 as I predicted. I think it’ll go even higher.

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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Jonathan - Everyone But You
Filed under: A Little Bit of Everything, Aliens

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