Man pushes creation of panel to prepare city for space aliens

By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published May 2, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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Jeff Peckman is back at it, and this time he is bringing little green men along for the ride.

The Denver man, who sponsored an offbeat ballot initiative that would have required the city to implement stress-reduction techniques, now wants to ask voters to create a commission dealing with space aliens.

"It is important because if you're driving down the highway and you saw a crash of a small spaceship and a car or a bus full of kids, you really wouldn't know what to do," Peckman said Thursday. "Do you wait for the hazardous materials experts to show up because of potential contaminants from another solar system? What do you do? People really don't know."

Peckman, 54, who is single and lives with his parents, has submitted to the city a draft of the proposed ordinance, which would require the creation of an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission.

As required, the city is holding a "review and comment" meeting on the proposed ballot initiative with Peckman on Thursday.

"I don't know what we're going to ask him yet," said David Broadwell, an assistant city attorney.

Peckman hopes to collect enough signatures - he needs about 4,000 - to get the proposed initiative on the November ballot.

According to the proposal, the 18-member ET commission would "create a responsible, common-sense strategy for dealing with issues related to the presence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth," among other tasks.

Peckman said the proposed initiative is "a shortcut to disclosure of the knowledge of extraterrestrial beings on Earth and interacting with people on Earth." He said he has never seen an space alien, but that he has seen evidence proving that they exist.

"I certainly believe that they visit somewhat frequently," he said. "I don't know that they're walking around the streets of LoDo - others might disagree with that. But they do seem to have made their presence known all over the world to a lot of people."

Councilman Charlie Brown was an outspoken critic of Peckman's 2003 "Safety through Peace" initiative, which failed but garnered a healthy 32 percent in support. Brown called the 2003 initiative "looney-tooney" and Peckman's latest proposal "even loonier."

What's next

The Denver City Council will hold a "review and comment" meeting on the ballot initiative at 2 p.m. Thursday in Room 391 of the City and County Building, 1437 Bannock St. The meeting is open to the public.

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May 2, 2008

12:52 a.m.

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wow writes:

<<<Peckman, 54, who is single and lives with his parents, >>>
This factoid may be more relevant to the story than it should be. Actually, if you use your imagination, it really says it all....
Mr. and Mrs. Peckman, you have my deepest sympathy.
May 2, 2008

2:19 a.m.

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clyde writes:

I think he might be talking about the entire City Council. Most of them seem to be from Riegel 4.
May 2, 2008

4:16 a.m.

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steelblu writes:

Perhaps we should build a nice new fence, make it a glowing one, we could call it (The Peckman Barrier). We need to do all we can do to avoid extraterrestrial accidents on our Colorado highways.
May 2, 2008

6:26 a.m.

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happymike44 writes:

Okay someone call the alien overlords and tell them Peckman is on to them.The invasion can not happen tonight after all.Beside that TO SERVE MAN IS A COOKBOOK.Plus I am sure we would deal with that illegal alien the same way as with the current ones?
May 2, 2008

6:58 a.m.

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nuclied writes:

No way, I'll sign the petition! This guy is great! I like the idea of shedding a little light on the mockery that is Colorado's Gov't. I mean, if this got on the ballot, I think the city has a good enough sense of humor to pass it! Money spent wouldn't be any worse than some of the other crap pet projects we've heard of....go Jeff and good luck to you and your little green men!
May 2, 2008

7:03 a.m.

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rray writes:

Wonder how long it will take CDOT to create an "Alien Only" lane along I-25?
May 2, 2008

7:23 a.m.

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Art writes:

If Peckman is serious about this I hope he intends to include some ETs on the commission. I know of a few who would volunteer and I think there is at least one on the city council who could represent their niews on the commission. This commission would be more worhtwhile than many of the things the city government does. And once it is in place the state should look at implementing such a commission. Which of our state leaders would be best to chair the group?
May 2, 2008

7:31 a.m.

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Scott writes:

Actually Peckman is out of his element ... he needs to move to Boulder.

Scott
May 2, 2008

7:45 a.m.

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Spencer writes:

What about Big Foot? What's the plan if I run over Big Foot? (Sasquatch or whatever)
May 2, 2008

7:49 a.m.

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Buckwheat writes:

Damn, more illegal aliens to worry about. They can't control the ones that are already here.. They had a misprint right? That was Boulder and not Denver correct?
May 2, 2008

8:22 a.m.

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kathyM writes:

Didn't the ETs receive a permit to land at the DNC?
May 2, 2008

8:23 a.m.

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suburbdweller writes:

I agree with the suggestion that he present his proposal to the Boulder city council. It's not any loonier than prosecuting citizens for dyeing their dogs' fur.
May 2, 2008

8:26 a.m.

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DahmersCookbook writes:

Alien overlord here, I have rights too! I want free health care, and if I get one of your species preggers I then have the right to stay. Suckers!
Mr. Green

P.S. I'll take yer job too, payment in the form of cows to ravage.
May 2, 2008

8:33 a.m.

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alanbl writes:

And what makes this any different than building condos for beggars, transients and addicts?
May 2, 2008

9:03 a.m.

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SteveC writes:

It's about time someone did something about this! Just the other day I had a near miss on I-25 with a Zortoff Smegalops! Someone needs to teach those Aliens how to drive! There I was minding my own business when POOF out of nowhwere (literally)he was right on top me! Luckily I activated my quantum stealth intializer before something really bad happened and we both lived to see another day, well another day for me, another dimension for him, or her or it or whatever they call themselves.
May 2, 2008

9:12 a.m.

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Diff writes:

Quote from George W
" your doing a heck of job there Jeffie"
May 2, 2008

9:18 a.m.

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AC writes:

Posted by rray on May 2, 2008 at 7:03 a.m.: "Wonder how long it will take CDOT to create an "Alien Only" lane along I-25?"

rray: The way CDOT moves, forever. They can't even get the hybrids into the HOV lanes.
May 2, 2008

1:44 p.m.

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Dick_Tater writes:

In a few years when we don't know what to do with the influx of space aliens, we're going to regret not listening to this guy.
May 2, 2008

3:12 p.m.

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Shaupeen writes:

The best evidence we have that there are intelligent life forms out there is that they have made no effort to contact us!
May 2, 2008

3:28 p.m.

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Ztliano writes:

Okay, let's make a cubicle in city hall for the ET unit. Pay some one minumum wage to sit there and let's call it a day. :)
May 2, 2008

3:49 p.m.

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QuantumRon writes:

We are fortunate that there is usually someone who has the courage to bring out of the box realities to the attention of the general public, who as is apparent by most of the posts to this blog, spend their time trying to be clever rather than investigating the available information. Any open minded person who does even a minimal amount of research on this subject, has to become open to the possibility of UFOs. Further research shows that the entities in these off planet vehicles are far more technically advanced than us and are here to assist us in solving our rapidly growing problems. Go Jeff!
May 2, 2008

4:01 p.m.

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DeimosJB writes:

Oye vey. Condoms Peckman family, condoms!

Everyone complains about how much money our government wastes, and it's true. That doesn't mean we should intentionally waste more. Can't we get some kind of law passed that city council doesn't have to waste their time and our money dealing with imaginary issues such as space aliens, big foot or global warming?
May 2, 2008

4:08 p.m.

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my3pugs writes:

As long as Denver does not become a Sanctuary for these "aliens".
May 2, 2008

4:42 p.m.

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CaptainObvious writes:

So then would we have alien wars? Or alien rumbles?
May 2, 2008

7:05 p.m.

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happymike44 writes:

Well those little green guys are going to be mad as heck.When they get hit by their first uninsured motorist.All hail to the alien overlords and they mind control that will save us from our tiny little brains.But then I hear rigel 4 is lovely this time of year.All I have to say is boldly going where no man has gone before,please pass the toilet paper.I think I found a klingon. hahahaha
May 2, 2008

9:17 p.m.

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happymike44 writes:

This water tastes funny?Remember keep swinging.
May 2, 2008

10:58 p.m.

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sen007ranch writes:

ET Phone Home
May 3, 2008

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weedandwine writes:

Great idea. His parents must be proud in their twilight days. We need something like that here in Seattle. The clowns in city council needs something usefull and funny to work on. You just never know where those aliens will want to go.
May 3, 2008

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roadstar writes:

I have never seen so many people make fun of other people and put other people down as on the RMN's posts. No wonder the children in schools have such a problem with bully behavior and intolerance of people who are different than themselves. Adults set a very poor example, including Councilman Charlie Brown. It is not okay to have "a little fun" at the expense of others.

Jeff Peckman has a legal right to present initiatives to the City Council. He should be treated with respect, whether or not he has any mental health or other issues. If I were his parent, I'd be proud he is trying to make the world a better, safer place.
May 3, 2008

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AskAndyM writes:

This isn't a whole lot loonier than some of the proposals from our (elected) politicians.
May 3, 2008

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ColoradoDave writes:

O come on, everyone knows the aliens are already walking around the West Village. They blend in you know.....
May 4, 2008

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thiacYn writes:

Ohhhhh my I have never laughed so hard, it has been awhile! I think I will move to this part of the country because you people have so much fun, and you have liberals in your parts, you can always have fun with moonbats! Keep up the posts I want to laugh some more! Are you sure this guy isn't an alien from Bezerkley California?
May 4, 2008

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doody writes:

An invasion of space aliens is just as plausible as many of the threats -- meteor collisions, terrorists, bird flu, etc. -- the government deems necessary to thwart. I like this guy, Jeff. He's sounds more intelligent than the ordinary Joe. He knows how to get his point across! I hope city officials will stop gaffawing and look into all the money and time that's spent on equally ridiculous programs. We need more people out there like Jeff.
May 4, 2008

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jimmyb20032003 writes:

Listen. You people think that this is a silly idea, but had this idea been implemented a few years ago, I might have been saved from the humiliation I endured.

I saw a giant blue orb, no larger than a Buick. I pulled over on the side of one of Colorado's gorgeous highways. As I approached the orb, I suddenly blacked-out. When I awoke I was standing naked in what appeared to be a mettalic ship. There were several of what are known as "greys" there, and there was one, really big lizard man. Suddenly, almost against my will... I was telepathically compelled to waltz around their ship with my genitals tucked between my legs. I was yelling, "I'm a little girl! I'm a little girl!" I could FEEL the lizard man's amusement by this. I blacked out again, and I woke up in my car with my underwear on my head. When I got home, my family was irate because they believed I had texted them a video of me walking around with my genitals tucked between my legs.

So, you see, I never should have approached that ship.
May 4, 2008

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BallycroyKate writes:

In 1710, an Irish churchman named Jonathan Swift visited London to take in the usual sights - including the city's famous madhouse. St. Mary of Bethlehem ("Bedlam" for short) was a "zoo" for the insane - its caged inhabitants on exhibit for mockery. Yet the madness that intrigued Swift most wasn't in Bedlam's cells, but outside them. What kind of society, he wondered, makes such sport and spectacle of illness?

Nearly three centuries later, the question still needs asking. These days, it seems, we mock our most troubled citizens in the newspaper - and keep the fun going online.
May 4, 2008

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nouse4u2 writes:

Hey- if this had been in place, maybe the state could have been saved from Douglas Bruce ever locating here- if men are from Mars, women from Venus, the only place Doug Bruce could have come from is ...
May 4, 2008

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entEngle writes:

I'm all for the aliens. Since I'm one. I'm TOLD I was born on this
planet. I've no proof otherwise. But with all else that goes on
with these damn humans, I swear I feel unrelated to them. If such
a bill passes into law, maybe I'll be recognized and get exclusive
treatment. I'll even let you read my cookbook. Yum.
May 5, 2008

12:21 p.m.

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evelszr writes:

My God... now I found the reason I have been looking for as to a good reason why I made the move back to Illinois.
May 5, 2008

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koko writes:

I am always looking for Linux application programmers. This guy seem to fit the bill. probably C++, python and experienced with ubunto kernals too.
May 5, 2008

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Athena writes:

The presence of extraterrestrials on our planet is a serious issue. I suggest that many of the ridiculing people here read "UFOs & The National Security State" by Richard Dolan for starters. Watching the Disclosure Project Witness Testimony video is another real eye-opener. As an experiencer of this phenomenon myself, I can say there is nothing like direct experience to make one a believer and researcher. Dedicated to this phenomenon, volumes of written material, scores of websites, and piles of video documentation have been researched and created. This in itself cannot be if there was nothing to it. Check out a well-written and documented article at http://www.americanchronicle.com/arti... for at least a beginning look. Those of you who ridicule without even doing a beginning amount of reading with a half-way open minded look at the volumes of material out there aren't even worthy of having any kind of discussion about this subject at all until you are educated enough about what you are ridiculing to have it. If you are going to say "Don't bother me with the facts, my mind's made up" you deserve to be dismissed as the ignorant folk you are. All the sadder when one considers the wonderous implications of first open contact with extraterrestrials for our society and our world.
May 6, 2008

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bustingloose writes:

JEFF PECKMAN FOR PRESIDENT (or at least Denver city counsel)! This guy isn't any crazier or more radical than the former friends, allies, and preachers of Barack Obama! "The chickens have come home to roost!"
May 6, 2008

11:38 a.m.

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solarwind writes:

I don't know what Jeff Peckman's experience is with UFO's or ET's, or his mental health. BUT, I do know we are not the only physical beings in our universe. The beings that come to our planet are so far ahead of us in science and technoiogy. We can not use our way of doing things to prove that it is impossiable for them to come here. An open mind is needed to weed out the chaff from the grain. I am always amazed at other wise intelligent people who because they have not seen or had an encounter with other physical life forms, claim their are none and people who have had these encounters are nut's.
May 6, 2008

9:43 p.m.

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kennmcd writes:

Man, I miss Denver. You go get 'em Jeff.
May 8, 2008

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MichaelZWilliamson writes:

I, for one, welcome our insect overlords.
May 8, 2008

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zombie writes:

If we create a committee for EVERY improbably contingency, we'd have an indefinite number of committees gumming up the woodworks of local government. A committee for dealing with an unknown element is impractical. We don't know anything about these possible threats... so how the hell are we supposed to ever know what to do?

Aside from conspiracy theories about aliens having already visited, and their visit and a repositories of knowledge about them being covered up, (which I neither doubt, nor believe) creating a task force to handle such a thing would be fruitless, since we literally don't know what we'd be dealing with... radiation... bio hazard... alien viruses... For all we know the door to a ufo could open and invert the space time continuum for a mile all around... how do you prepare for getting stuck in inverted space? There's an infinite number of problems that COULD occur with an unknown craft from another planet... you CAN'T prepare for that. A handbook on what to do for each instance... it would have an infinite number of pages since there are an infinite number of unknown possibilities that could occur when dealing with such a thing.

And this guy, Peckman, is an idiot. He says most people don't know what to do in the presence of an alien spacecraft, then says he wants to make a "common-sense strategy for dealing with issues related to the presence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth"... How is that COMMON SENSE if no one has sense enough to know what to do? There's no way to approach this with any common sense.

You want to call a hazardous materials team to deal with something alien, that we know nothing about? People are too wrapped up in sci fi fantasy to realize that their idea of "little green men" is a hollywood fabrication. The word ALIEN is synonymous with UNKNOWN, FOREIGN. A hazardous materials team would only reduce the chance of hazardous materials not being handled properly by whatever percent ratio all the known hazards a team can deal with is by comparison with the number of unknown hazards they may not know of, or may not even be able to detect... and that borders on infinite zero. As in there's only a small chance in hell they'd even know what hazards to look for.

Humans have a brain for a reason... if they can't use it to adapt to what they can of the situation, observe and react accordingly, then any resulting death will just cleanse our gene pool of deficient members of the species.
May 11, 2008

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McFunster writes:

MMMMMMMMMMMEEP...
Where do I sign up for a green card
May 19, 2008

4:21 a.m.

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ghettomedic writes:

HA HA HA l.o.l l.o.l l.o.l

this story is funny this guy should be in Close encounters of the third kind as Richard Dreyfes brother

I'm surprised at the city council maybe they should join the crew of
Battlestar Gattlactica in battling ceylons in space or become members of the gattlactic senate l.o.l l.o.l.
May 19, 2008

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ghettomedic writes:

guffaw Laugh out loud i'm from California southern part we have real aliens amongs us about 400,000 + illegal this is probably from bezerkeley
May 24, 2008

1:51 p.m.

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PRG1946 writes:

Well now, "wow", given the man is 54, his parents would be in their late seventies or early eighties. Thus, it is quite possible he is a caretaker to his parents you little snot-nosed cretin.
May 29, 2008

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AdGuyAZ writes:

After looking at the wire photo of Mr. Peckman that was linked to this article, I think we can now safely assume that the Hale-Bopp Comet has made a much quicker than anticipated round trip back to Earth, and the cosmic essence that was once the human being know as Marshall Applewhite now resides comfortably within the body of Jeff Peckman.
May 30, 2008

9:28 a.m.

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GameGrrl writes:

What about the Roswell Incident that involved the recovery of materials on July 7, 1947? If our Government decided to admit something crashed and they collected some foreign materials .. rather than say it was a top-secret weather balloon, would this current story be such a big deal? We deserve to know the truth!!

Who cares if he still lives with his parents - he's probablly taking care of them!! I see too many grown adults still living at home, because they're too lazy to get jobs and they still need their mommies to kiss them goodnight!!

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Man pushes creation of panel to prepare city for space aliens

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Published May 2, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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