Does this look like an alien to you?

[cynatnite]

Over the course of three minutes or so, the footage shows a white creature with a balloon-shaped head that keeps popping up and down in a windowsill that was eight feet above the ground. The face was white, with large black eyes that seemed to blink.

"If it was a puppet, it would be a very elaborate and sophisticated puppet," said Alejandro Rojas, education director of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network,
who spoke at the press conference.

Rojas said the video was taken July 17, 2003 in Nebraska by Stan Romanek, who set up the camera because he thought peeping Toms had been looking into his house at his two teenage daughters.

About 50 journalists were in the room for the screening, including up to 20 TV cameras. Photographers were not allowed to capture images from the footage today because experts are still reviewing it, Rojas said.

The screening, organized by Denver resident Jeff Peckman, was not open to the public.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9427587?source=rss

[havocmom]

1. Looks like a neighbor's big cream colored Lab

or the Anatolian another neighbor used to have.

[EFerrari]

91. It looks like my Lab. She's not an alien . . . as far as I know.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Anyone who's raised children

has, at one time or another, wondered if, perhaps, they were extraterrestrial beings, just sent her from a planet far, far away.

[Warpy]

3. The peeper is wearing a mask

Problem solved.

[lildreamer316]

49. 8 feet above the ground? That's some quick moving of a ladder! n/t

[Kutjara]

52. Psst!

He's using these:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Oh Thor, you pesky rascal.

[cynatnite]

10. You'd think he'd know better...

[tridim]

5. That's it?

Bwhahaha

[Beetwasher]

6. Well, That Certainly Settles The Issue Of ET's Visiting The Earth Now, Doesn't It?

I'm convinced!

[Kutjara]

7. "If it was a puppet,..."

"...it would be a very elaborate and sophisticated puppet," Yes? So it was a very elaborate and sophisticated puppet. Next!

[geomon666]

Exactly.

Apparently it's so sophisticated because it blinks. Um...Jim Henson did that almost 40 years ago.

[beac]

88. Help! Help! Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is peeping in my window!!

Dirty, Beeker-abusing perv!

[geomon666]

90. Beeker used to freak me out as a kid.

Just look at those eyes. It's a mad man!

[Mountainman]

8. Why don't aliens were space suits? Why do they go around naked?

Maybe that is a space helmet or something. Or maybe a soccer ball on a stick with painted eyes. I think I see Jesus on it!

[Kutjara]

13. Because, by some fluke of parallel evolution...

...all aliens are bipedal humanoids that metabolize oxygen. By some even bigger coincidence, they also have eyes, noses, mouths, fingers, and toes in approximately the same places we have them. I guess Nature has a pretty limited palette when comes to building critters.

[Deja Q]

18. Carbon vs silicon life forms, there are inevitable commonalities...

Horses, gerbils, birds all have noses, toes, and so on too.

[Mountainman]

24. As does the Pillsbury dough boy and the Stay Puff marshmallow man.

and the guy made up of a bunch of white tires. The Michelin man.

By the way why no Stay Puff marshmallow woman?

[Kutjara]

32. Not so inevitable.

Horses and gerbils (and other mammals) all evolved from a common ancestor a few hundred million years back. Birds did the same, a few hundred million years before that. The same is true for just about every macroscopic creature on Earth. It's not surprising, therefore, that they have some similarities.

But mammals, reptiles, marsupials, and avians are only a tiny proportion of the life on Earth. Plants don't have noses and toes. Neither do many of the exotic creatures living in the deep oceans. Bacteria, which comprise the majority of Earth's non-plant biomass lack all these things. And many of them don't even respire oxygen. They're all "carbon based," but you'd be hard pressed to tell just by looking at them.

Now consider a species that has no commonality with any creature on earth. Is it likely they'd look anything like us, except by the wildest coincidence?

Anyway, we're only fixated on Carbon (and perhaps Silicon) as the "atoms of life" because we're made of carbon and think that carbon's flexible valence is necessary for the creation of complex molecules. A few scientists have speculated that, because silicon has a similar electron structure, it could also be suitable as a substrate for biology. This all strikes me as very parochial. Just because we use carbon, doesn't mean carbon is the only way to bootstrap complex chemistry.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

59. Meh.

"A few scientists have speculated that, because silicon has a similar electron structure, it could also be suitable as a substrate for biology."

A few chemistry students and sci fi authors have speculated that. Real scientists? Not so much. Carbon and silicon really aren't very similar.

[Kutjara]

63. Exactly. The idea of "silicon life"...

...is just a case of trying to shoehorn some of carbon's properties onto another element, in the interests of making alien creatures more "exotic." It's sort of the molecular-biological equivalent of sticking some rubber prostheses onto an actor and pretending he's from another galaxy.

I think it's highly likely that, if we do ever stumble across life in other solar systems, we'll walk straight past it without noticing, because it'll be so far outside of our frame of reference, we won't even recognize it as life. "Captain, it appears the configuration of stalagmites on this planet's surface have created sentient wind patterns." "Oh, for fuck's sake, have you been smoking that Vulcan Gold again, Spock?"

[Canuckistanian]

41. I saw a cartoon

Of an alien who just crashed on Earth.

It was crawling on the ground, gasping "Ammonia! Ammonia!"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

55. A classic by Robert Grossman.

He did the Firesign Theater album cover for "Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers!".

[Canuckistanian]

65. Oh, thanks!

I saw the cartoon YEARS ago and wondered how to find it.

Oh, and I loved Firesign Theatre, too. "Georgie... Tirebiter...."

[Bluebear]

9. It looks like a golden retriever peering in

[JanMichael]

23. That was my first thought too---oh goody, there are Golden

Retrievers on other planets.

[geomon666]

11. It's fake.

Even without seeing the video. It's just laughable.

[countingbluecars]

12. The alien just happened

to keep peeping in at his two teenage daughters. Right.

[Cleita]

14. Ah the grainy UFO picture again.

Also, the window seems to reflect the indoor room. I'd say the "alien" is the person who took the picture of the reflections in the mirror wearing a mask inside the bedroom.

[eShirl]

15. oh that guy

[Phoonzang]

16. Can someone PLEASE tell me what I'm

supposed to be seeing. I've looked at the pictures and have seen the video several times, but I can't see a damn thing. I see nothing. No alien head, fake or real looking, just a dark window pane. Yet everyone else seems to see something.

I know it can't be my monitor...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Near the bottom of the window. Look for two black spots, just above the sill.

It does kind of look like an alien, if you ignore the muzzle and notice the floppy ears are in the shadows.

http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-16039959.jpg?size=572&u...

[geomon666]

25. Well...

There's a pale image of a typical "alien" face perfectly centered in the image and video. Might want to turn up your brightness and lower the contrast a little.

[Phoonzang]

28. Ok, I kind of see something..kind of

I'm not impressed...

[geomon666]

29. Yeah it's not even remotely impressive.

I've seen Halloween masks more elaborate.

[shain from kane]

27. If you're hoping to see an alien head, it ain't there. Maybe, a fake alien head, at the most.

[Chiyo-chichi]

35. where's the video?

I only see the still photo. The only video of is of this guy, Jeff Peckman, yacking at a press conference.
The story seems to indicate that they're keeping the video close to the vest other than showing part of it at this presser.

"A documentary is in production that will include much more of the videotape and other evidence, he says. It is due to be released later this year."

Oh, and hey, dude... If I thought someone was trying to peep at my daughters, I would sneak or run out there with a baseball bat. Or install some motion detector lights. Or call the cops. Or all of the above. Setting up a camcorder would be low on my list.

[Mojorabbit]

53. the video is on youtube

or at least part of it is. http://youtube.com/watch?v=wN-SNd3OYfc
I'd like to see it lightened up. It is too dark to make much of anything.

[nebenaube]

56. uh..

The window in the video link you posted is not the same window in the picture in the OP.

[Mojorabbit]

60. Hmmmm

my apologies. Someone had posted the link earlier and I assumed it was the video in question.

[Deja Q]

17. It looks like the shadow of a squid masturbating with a mastercard.

Good CGI, but in 2003 why would anyone use black and white? (or is it an infrared or other sort of film?)

[KansDem]

19. Sure...

And so does this one

[shain from kane]

21. So, he set up the camera because he thought there were peeping Toms. And surprise, surprise, a

peeping Tom showed up. Was it the same peeping Tom that continued to show up, as suspected? So, where did the "alien" go between all these peeping Tom sessions? Just sort of hung around the neighborhood? And no one noticed him when he wasn't doing the peeping Tom routine?

[Poll_Blind]

22. "He's a hydrocephalic and I don't think you should make fun of him!"

Tom Hanks:I don’t want to go up there and sit around and wait for the neighbor with the gigantic head to fall down the stairs.

Carrie Fischer:He’s a hydrocephalic and I don’t think you should make fun of him.

The 'Burbs (1989)

PB

[cbc5g]

26. Grainy picture of a dog looking through the window

God when will they give this shit up. It's like ghosts, I won't believe it until I see it myself in person or scientists globally agree upon its existance.

[Lerkfish]

30. um, not really

it looks like a peeping tom, on a ladder, with a disguise.

but then again, this is a still shot from a video. Its possible the video is more compelling.

[AutumnMist]

31. Not that I am being crappy here...

I don't know if there is anything else out there and I will admit that its a fascinating possibility that we could find other life forms on other planets. Even different solar systems. My point with the video is this.

Why would such highly evolved creatures peer through a window like a peeping tom when they could travel through space and time? If it was a possibility to take anyone at anytime to a ship or another location why would this one just choose to check them out like that? Their GPS was down? Teenage alien rebellion?

I do think that there are things we don't understand and that we might or may never scientifically be able to explain them. But sometimes it gets silly. The truth is out there.

[Lerkfish]

33. well, according to "Signs" they get confounded by wood doors.

[AutumnMist]

36. And water

always keep at least eight glasses of water near you at all times.

[Lerkfish]

43. "swing away, merrill!"

[ColbertWatcher]

75. As long as you don't "happen" to water the plants with the water. n/t

[jobycom]

34. Who would know? What does an alien look like?

[undeterred]

37. What do aliens look like?

[pscot]

38. Most definitely

They look just like that, only green.

[Disturbed]

40. "eight feet above the ground."

This is a real tall alien or he/she was using a ladder.

[Kutjara]

42. It could have borrowed...

...those jetboots Mr. Spock used in one of the Trek films.

[flvegan]

39. Worried about peeping Tom's, yet the blinds are wide open.

Okay.

[Indenturedebtor]

48. Lol yah

Swing away! Swing away!

You know what I see? A free advertising campaign for a stupid documentary. How many movies get this much coverage before release? Mmmmm Hmmmmm.

[blondeatlast]

66. LOL! nt

[Growler]

44. It sure DOES!

One would think that aliens capable of traveling billions of miles wouldn't need to physically peer through windows... but this awesome video proves they do! Sure, they may have super-fandango gadgets that let them remotely image the insides of buildings... but why bother? Just look through the dang window! An elegant, low-tech solution that even "advanced" aliens appreciate!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

51. !

[SammyWinstonJack]

57. ...

[Digit]

45. I head some of the interview with the guy who filmed it

I was up late with half an ear listening to Coast to Coast while I was browsing DU.

To answer some of the questions I have heard in this thread, I can answer a few...

Yes, it is infrared film.

The window is 8 feet off the ground. The thing he saw was only 4 ft tall. He did not know how it managed to peep in the window.

The peeping had occurred on another night, and the father had run outside to confront the person. He saw the "thing" (just reporting what I heard), running off in more of a toe to heel type fashion.

The guy who filmed it has already been beaten up and has received death threats. He was not going to be at the unveiling.

[mikeytherat]

46. "the footage shows a white creature with a balloon-shaped head"

What could it be? Whatever could it be?



mikey_the_rat

[Rosemary2205]

47. ELVIS LIVES!!

[JackDragna]

50. It looks like the Punisher logo.

Obviously, someone's about to get shot.

[Fire Walk With Me]

84. Punisher logo- that was my first thought as well!

flvegan? That you?

[raouldukelives]

54. Dey took er jobs!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HKd6kSDcaYQ

[Goat or Panic]

58. Hello cthulhu

[Fox Mulder]

61. Yes.

But I don't know what to make of it. I'm going to have to look at it more closely.

[hvn_nbr_2]

62. Is that image from a pinhole box camera on Deguerretype ASA 2? nt

[Ferd Berfle]

64. I"m ready to beleive BUT - You're going to have to do a LOT better than that.

[blondeatlast]

67. So THAT'S where my kid's "Scream" mask went. nt

[katty]

68. this is it?

[jrtesq]

69. I think it was one of these

[ColbertWatcher]

70. I found a different view...

...this one shows a really, really old alien.

[Indenturedebtor]

71. LOL now that's freaky!

Bleh... Don't push your "guns for everyone" crap on this thread please. I see right through you! RIGHT THROUGH YOU!

[ColbertWatcher]

73. The alien in my first pic looks eerily like this Martian...

[Indenturedebtor]

78. LOL - Nasa is still hesitating to call this "signs of life" n/t

[cbc5g]

72. ROFL is that John McCain!!? lol n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

74. John McCain!? What are you trying to say?

[libnnc]

76. You are a DU treasure.

I love you.

[ColbertWatcher]

77. Aww shucks!

[cynatnite]

87. That is really really scary...

Those old hollow eyes

[Fire Walk With Me]

79. Does anyone else remember the Fawlty Towers episode

where Basil is trying to catch a rock star smuggling girls into his room, puts up a ladder, and ends up in the window looking at two elderly persons undressing? And they turn around and see him? One of the funniest moments in television history...

[soothsayer]

80. gawd, that was by far the best episode of the 6 or 8

[lonestarnot]

81. looks like a BA with two black dots painted on it.

[mmonk]

82. None that I've seen lately.

[PermanentRevolution]

83. THAT'S what all the fuss is over?

As someone else said, maybe the video's more compelling.

Though it'd be hard to be much LESS compelling...

[Madrone]

85. What I'm REALLY trying to figure out -

Is where is the golden retriever more than one person say they see in this photo?

[CK_John]

86. Looks like an owl. n/t

[and-justice-for-all]

89. They traveled millions of light years to peep into our windows!!!

What a waste of fuel.

[Fire Walk With Me]

93. Earth has the best lingerie.

It's a fact.

[TaffyMoon]

92. I'll Just Bet Aliens Dont Look Like Cartoon Aliens

Rolls eyes.