Sometimes I hate it when I’m right.
People waited with bated breath for this news conference in Denver, Colorado that was supposed to reveal a video of a space alien peering into the window of a man’s home. I didn’t wait. I knew it would be something about as exciting as watching one’s socks dry. The video in question is of course a snippet of a longer vid that of course will be part of some documentary you’ll be able to purchase online like those baldness cures or infomercial real estate deals that make people who can barely hold a bowling ball millionaires overnight.
Human beings love a good spooky story and like moths to a flame they’re attracted to those things that go ‘bump in the night’. This story, about two men, one Jeff Peckman who wants the City of Denver to spend $75,000 for what he feels is a need to handle extraterrestrials, and one Stan Romanek, a Nebraskan who says not only were aliens visiting his home, peeking in through windows at his teenage daughters, but he has video to prove it. These two modern day Paul Reveres don’t herald their visitations with lanterns in church steeples. Instead they held a press conference that did more to befuddle than bedazzle the small herd of wool-over-their-eyes newsmen who showed up.
Peckman and Romanek may be sincere in their pursuits but it’s going to take far more than just talking heads and peeping tom aliens to make the already cash strapped public who struggle with decisions like how to pay for gasoline and still buy those sugary crunchy breakfast cereals to cough up seventy-five grand for some little green men with a voyeurism fetish.
Times are hard, we’ve got two wars going, and political upheaval that makes the weekly donnybrook at the local pub look like a water balloon fight. Space aliens, are going to have to take a backseat in today’s battles for survival and both misters Romanek and Peckman are going to have to ride with them in their child protective seats until the aliens themselves decide they really want to sit up front and take the wheel.
