[meteorite-list] Thought this was hilarious – For Those in Denver

From: Greg Stanley <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:58:07 -0800
Message-ID: <SNT117-W274B79B026A580D8FE06A0D2940_at_phx.gbl>

For those in Denver
Greg S.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/03/2009-12-03_now_thats_really_out_there_denver_voters_to_decide_on_possible_extraterrestrial_.html


Folks in the Mile High City think it's high time they rustled up a welcome party for ET, whenever the cute little varmint finally touches down.

Maybe it's something in the rarefied air or the famed Rocky Mountain water, but activist Jeff Peckman managed to gather the nearly 4,000 valid signatures to have Denver voters consider his plan for an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The new city panel would promote "harmonious, peaceful, mutually respectful and beneficial coexistence" between earthlings and extraterrestrials, in part by developing protocols for "diplomatic contact."

Its seven members would include an expert in taking testimony from people who've survived "direct personal close encounters" with aliens, the paper reported.

And in what has to be good news for space cadets beyond the city limits, the initiative says, "Members who are not Denver residents may participate from anywhere in the universe," the L.A. Times said.

Closer to home, Brown could see the dark side of Denver having a space alien agency. "If someone was looking to locate a business here, they'd think, 'What kind of city is this?' " he told the L.A. Times yesterday.

Brown also wondered whether Colorado should float such an oddball plan so soon after the "Balloon Boy" hoax that was hatched in Fort Collins.

"It's like saying you're going to have a ballot initiative about the existence of Bigfoot," Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, told the L.A. Times.

But Peckman, 55, is plucky. He was bummed that President Obama hadn't revealed what the government knows about extraterrestrial beings, so he dreamed up the donation-funded commission to act as both an investigative body and an information clearinghouse -- a panel that would also display Denver's ability to "think big," the paper reported.

The self-described entrepreneur admitted his own experience with aliens is limited. He has spotted a UFO just once -- the day Michael Jackson died.

Peckman was standing downtown, chatting on a cell phone, when a green ball of light flashed by. "It didn't fizzle out like a meteorite. I just stood there awe-struck," he said. "The next morning, I read someone had seen a green ball of light over Neverland," the L.A. Times reported.

Whether Peckman or his city can make friends in other galaxies is up in the air, but some UFO groups wish his campaign would flame out.

The commission would duplicate existing programs and hobble attempts for ET hunters to be taken seriously, Mark Easter, a spokesman for MUFON, in Fort Collins, told the L.A. Times.

"God, this is really desperate to put something on the ballot," said Julie Shuster, executive director of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.
                                               
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