04/06/2008 / USA
Pervy alien "captured" on video
The only released screenshot of the footage showing a bald egg-head at the window.
The possible sighting of an extraterrestrial creature peering into a Denver resident's window has sparked excitement in the US where the three minute "unfakeable" footage of the blinking baldie is supposedly being examined by "unnamed experts".
Denver resident Stan Tiger Romanek says that he captured the "alien" on video after he suspected someone was perving on his twin teenage daughters through their bedroom window and planned to catch the peeping tom by setting up a video camera. Five years later, the footage appeared at a conference on Friday 30 May 2008, apparently unable to be released to the public or photographed because it's still under observation by experts. A screenshot of the film has been released, and of course YouTubers have taken it upon themselves circulate various fake versions of the unlikely occurrence.
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The famous CNN talk show host Larry King went as far as devoting a whole debate to the subject on Monday. CNN even created a reconstruction.
"The American people take this kind of thing more seriously"
Chris French is a professor of psychology specialised in the research of pseudoscience paranormal activity at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also the editor of The Skeptic magazine.
On the basis of what they've released so far there's nothing convincing. There have been more convincing hoaxes in the past that are by now universally recognised as rubbish, and I expect the same of this one. It's stunningly unimpressive evidence and there are lots of warning signs that it's not real. Who are these un-named scientists? Why didn't this emerge in 2003? He would have gone straight to the press with it or the scientists, if at all respectable, would have named themselves. This is just the latest in a long list of alien, Loch Ness Monster and UFO hoaxes. I would bet a lot of money on it.
This guy's either a fantasist or a self-publicist; maybe looking for a book or film deal, or just attention. Then there's the guy who's trying to get a commission set up [reference to Jeff Peckman, the organiser of the conference, who's using the video to try to push for an "Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission" to be established in Denver] Well he's just someone who buys into the conspiracy theory. And that's ridiculous. It would mean that all governments in the world would be collaborating. There'd have to be thousands involved. Can you imagine dictators conspiring with western authorities on this?!
There are certain broadcasters who will show this stuff - they know it pleases people. I think the American people take this kind of thing more seriously. It plays on their attitude with their government. They're very ambivalent - they have this great patriotism and yet they're very distrustful as well. The conspiracy idea falls on fertile ground over there. Here [in the UK] we're just more cynical."
"The real video" by a YouTuber
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The alien at the window
Submitted by Unregistered user on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 20:12.Marvelous stuff. In a move straight out of the Mugabe book of political charm, the prof' manages to transition from an alleged alien loitering outside some doozies window, to conducting a somewhat provocative social and cultural analysis of the American people that ultimately leads to a mildly international flavoured spat. And all within the space of two nominal paragraphs.
...Nice one Cyril.
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Ohhh...
Submitted by Brandon (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:39....So what you're all saying is that Europe is full of a bunch of godless, closed minded (effacé)?
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Godless is great
Submitted by Adam Sinclair on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 12:03.Godless yes indeed. At least in the UK. We find the whole "God is Great" thing in the US really backward. We might also be "assholes" (especially in God's eys I suppose!!). But closed minded... well, I think that usually suits religious fanatics more...
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Pervy Alien
Submitted by Anonyme (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:39."The real video" by a YouTuber is possibly Michael Jackson with "shades"
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I Tend to Agree
Submitted by Hemroids Guy (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:38.I tend to agree that in general the U.S. as a whole can be rather distrustful about conspiracy theories and most things.
I believe because in many ways much of the people in the US have been let down by years of distrustful leadership.
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Your bigotted generalizations about other societies
Submitted by Joe Noory (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:36.I think the American people take this kind of thing more seriously. It plays on their attitude with their government. They're very ambivalent - they have this great patriotism and yet they're very distrustful as well. The conspiracy idea falls on fertile ground over there. Here [in the UK] we're just more cynical."
Just how is it that you formed this theory about 300 million people with such absolute certainty? Why not say that we're also "tall but short", with the specific delusion that no-one else on earth is.
That statement of yours' may be the most casually venal thing I've read in months, and having spent half of my life on the benighted, holy continent of Europe, populated uniformy with entirely flawless people, I've had to hear my share of self-indulgent trash.
As for people dwelling in this business, you seem to be able to benefit from whatever aggregious flaw that is, becasue I centainly doubt that without that persistent lunacy about the paranormal, there wouldn't be a position for you to chair.
As for our "attitude toward government", I think you'll find a broadness of opinion and attitude in America that makes each cultural mini-orbit in the UK and the EU seem more like the cramped monocultures than anything you'll find outside of the third world.
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Be honnest
Submitted by Yves (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:36.I totally agree with what the guy says. Americans are childish. It's a stereotype, but it's true. Aliens are fun, so CNN makes its headline about it, even though it's clearly a hoax. How do you explain that Americans go crazy for this kind of paranormal stupidity? In Europe, we gave up on that S... a long time ago. Same thing for religion. Looks like America, although it's the most powerful country, is still backward in many ways.
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wow
Submitted by Brandon (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:37.So what you're saying is that Europeans are a bunch of godless closed minded assholes. Congradulations!
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Be intelligent
Submitted by clem (yet antoher french man) (not verified) on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:37.The CNN topic is what we are used to call, in journalistic parlance, 'infotainment'. This category of news also exist in France. Yes, our journalists do not talk about UFOs, but they love talking about this superstition about UFOs in America. And the French love reading this kind of articles: it gives them more reasons to despise Americans.
Superstitions are everywhere. You seem, for instance, quite superstitious when you say that religion is a sign of historical delay. The very idea of being historically backward or forward is actually some kind of ludicrous belief.
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