Stan Romanek is telling everyone to look at the sky.
Most of the people standing around on this mid-July evening outside the Intrigue Park Place Hotel, near Interstate 435 and Front Street, don't need to be told. The annual Mysteries of the Universe Conference — a national gathering for devotees of the paranormal and the interstellar — is again in Kansas City, and Romanek is one of the main attractions.
Before this break, during the first two hours of a presentation about his alien abductions, Romanek described the way UFOs seem to follow him. At a recent speech he gave in Denver, Romanek says, during a break like this one, 200 people saw three red lights overhead. Tonight, about 60 people are standing out here, chatting and smoking, just like any conventioneers. But they've also set up telescopes. They gaze upward hungrily.
"Over there!" a woman shouts.
Sixty heads turn up, to the east.
"That's Venus," someone calls.
Attention returns to Romanek, who fields questions. He says he doesn't travel by airplane because he wouldn't put it past "them" to take out a whole plane to get him. Whether "them" refers to the aliens or the government isn't clear. "Still," he adds, "I bet I have more frequent-flyer miles than anyone."
If Romanek is telling the truth, he has already shown this crowd the single most important piece of film footage in human history.
Shot in 2003 in the middle of the night in his daughter's bedroom in Kearney, Nebraska, Romanek's so-called "Boo Video" purports to show the head and face of one of those black-eyed gray aliens peeking into his window. It's nothing less than evidence, at last, that we are not alone.
He has been on Larry King Live. Soon he'll be on 20/20. His book, Messages, is in every Borders and Barnes & Noble in America. But he shows the Boo Video only at UFO events and conventions like this one. His associate, Jeff Peckman, discussed the video on Letterman, Fox News and a host of other major media outlets last summer. But the most Romanek would let them broadcast was a single still frame.
Romanek is a disarming guy in his 40s, goateed, still a little thick from his bodybuilding days. He comes across as straightforward, maybe a little brusque, an unpolished guy trying to remember not to swear in front of a crowd. He seems to hate BS, and there's something refreshing about the way he takes on natural objections.
"People say, 'Aliens come 50 billion light-years — why would they peep in your window?' Then, exasperated: "I don't know! But it happens all the time!"
Many in the crowd have journeyed far to see the video. Two teenage brothers from Denver have seen Romanek speak three times. The younger brother describes how the older one used to freak him out by slowly pushing a copy of Whitley Strieber's Communion: A True Story up over the edge of the bunk bed, so that the black-eyed, waiflike gray alien on the cover seemed to stare at him.
In some ways, Romanek's video looks like the same stunt.
Just as philosophy has failed to offer definitive proof of God, science has had no luck determining the existence of alien life. Scientists have guessed at the likelihood. In 1960, astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake whipped up what has come to be known as the Drake equation, an attempt to quantify the key factors that must be considered in order to begin determining the probability of human contact with an alien civilization.
The equation multiplies seven variables: the average rate of star formation in our galaxy times the fraction of planets that develop life, times the fraction of those whose life is intelligent, times four other factors. Finally, multiply this ever-shrinking number by the length of time that intelligent civilizations might bother to beam signals to each other through programs like SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and you have a vaguely scientific number of communication-ready civilizations.
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The following link is a video interview between me and Stan Romanek discussing ABC's Outsiders Abduction episode in which we were both featured in. Included in this interview is Stan's explaination of the missing implant, and also a more in depth description of the alien he saw.
http://ufonut.com/wordpress/?p...
The following link is a video interview between me and Stan Romanek discussing ABC's Outsiders Abduction episode in which we were both featured in. Included in this interview is Stan's explaination of the missing implant, and also a more in depth description of the alien he saw. http://ufonut.com/wordpress/?p=601
I have my doubts about the news article's writer's allusion as to how he ended the story. It sounds like he's implying that Stan is simply making money out of a fake story.
I doubt that because it sounds to me more like a tone of exasperation or sarcasm coming from Stan, like this-is-what-I-do-now-can-you-f*ing-believe-it-? If he's a smart faker as the article seems to suggest, would he have answered so directly as to hurt his cause?
Stan (by his own admission of fifth grade math, etc.) would be no Whitley Strieber in terms of organizing his thoughts into a cohesive, bullet-proof story. As even bright people sometimes do (sorry Bill Clinton but I think you'd fit as a good example for your cigar episode), he will drop incosistencies time and again and those inconsistencies will be the ones that get picked on by people who are only waiting for crashes and explosions in the highway or space shuttle launches. So what if, say, he faked independent eyewitness accounts? (I'm not saying he did.) I look at stuff I proudly wrote years ago and am now embarrassed by them. To me the most important thing is that the elements of his story are in line with Strieber's and the late John Mack's. Unlike other abductees who would rightfully choose to be anonymous, here's a guy who wouln't.
I have my doubts about the news article's writer's allusion as to how he ended the story. It sounds like he's implying that Stan is simply making money out of a fake story. I doubt that because it sounds to me more like a tone of exasperation or sarcasm coming from Stan, like this-is-what-I-do-now-can-you-f*ing-believe-it-? If he's a smart faker as the article seems to suggest, would he have answered so directly as to hurt his cause? Stan (by his own admission of fifth grade math, etc.) would be no Whitley Strieber in terms of organizing his thoughts into a cohesive, bullet-proof story. As even bright people sometimes do (sorry Bill Clinton but I think you'd fit as a good example for your cigar episode), he will drop incosistencies time and again and those inconsistencies will be the ones that get picked on by people who are only waiting for crashes and explosions in the highway or space shuttle launches. So what if, say, he faked independent eyewitness accounts? (I'm not saying he did.) I look at stuff I proudly wrote years ago and am now embarrassed by them. To me the most important thing is that the elements of his story are in line with Strieber's and the late John Mack's. Unlike other abductees who would rightfully choose to be anonymous, here's a guy who wouln't.
Lisa - you've *completely* missed the point about the misspelled "fallow," but since you're obviously a fact-dodging spinstress, I shouldn't be surprised. He didn't misspell it once for god's sake, he did it EVERY TIME IT APPEARS in an "account" written by a fake "witness." You both are liars, con-artists, snake oil salesmen. I hope more people get wind of this story so that neither you or your husband can make money off of the public ever again.
Christ, woman, get a real job.
Lisa - you've *completely* missed the point about the misspelled "fallow," but since you're obviously a fact-dodging spinstress, I shouldn't be surprised. He didn't misspell it once for god's sake, he did it EVERY TIME IT APPEARS in an "account" written by a fake "witness." You both are liars, con-artists, snake oil salesmen. I hope more people get wind of this story so that neither you or your husband can make money off of the public ever again. Christ, woman, get a real job.
Stan Romanak sets the UFO truth movement back everytime he opens his mouth. I wish REAL contactees would expose him instead of letting the press do it, articles like this are necessary but they make us ALL look bad.
Stan Romanak sets the UFO truth movement back everytime he opens his mouth. I wish REAL contactees would expose him instead of letting the press do it, articles like this are necessary but they make us ALL look bad.
Hello everyone. I am Stan Romanek's wife. This is not the first time this "fallow" question has been raised, nor will it be the last I am sure. I wonder how many dislexic people ther are in this world? Do any of you know? Stan wrote a book for goodness sakes, have any of you? Becasue he misspelled follow once,is he now responsible for everyone else's spelling problems? when you pronounce it, it does sound like it should be spelled that way. Did you stop to think that maybe other people may have the same issue, or when they wrote the reports they were frightend. Of course not.
Now, as for Stan having a third grade spelling level,again, he just wrote a book, and it is doing amazingly well, for a dyslexic person who has trouble spelling he has never made a secret of his spelling or math problems. It is a disability, and I am ashamed of you all for being so hateful. As for what Stan does for a job, not that it is any of your business, nor will you care, but he is disabled from a sever blood sugar disorder. He has many doctors, that treat him, and NONE of them will allow him to return to work. The crazy part about it is that he was a healthy man, before this ET contact began. But again your hate filled minds can not accept that truth either can they!!
Stan and I are not doing this to prove that ETs are real, or even that UFO's are real. It is about telling Stans story, of what he has experienced, that is all. You are all supposed to be smart enough to make up your own minds about what you choose to beleive and not beleive. Are your minds so full of loathing for other people that you can not stop talking trash long enough to think for your selves,do you have to spend all of your time surfing the web in search of some piece of crap news here or there, that is based on one mans opinion, and not your own. I am appauled by the lack of compassion shown for my husband and thousands of others like him who are trying to deal with a terrifying experience, violations,fears, and then to be assaulted by thier peers.People like you are the casue of them all feeling like they have to hide the truth and remain isolated... No wonder the ETs are so afraid of us.I am afraid of us too.
i believe he has the math knowledge of a fourth grader... because he has the spelling knowledge of a third grader.
hoaxers like him make any sort of real investigation impossible. the fact that he has no job and his entire livelihood is based on appearing at ufo conventions should tell you something.
Hello everyone. I am Stan Romanek's wife. This is not the first time this "fallow" question has been raised, nor will it be the last I am sure. I wonder how many dislexic people ther are in this world? Do any of you know? Stan wrote a book for goodness sakes, have any of you? Becasue he misspelled follow once,is he now responsible for everyone else's spelling problems? when you pronounce it, it does sound like it should be spelled that way. Did you stop to think that maybe other people may have the same issue, or when they wrote the reports they were frightend. Of course not. Now, as for Stan having a third grade spelling level,again, he just wrote a book, and it is doing amazingly well, for a dyslexic person who has trouble spelling he has never made a secret of his spelling or math problems. It is a disability, and I am ashamed of you all for being so hateful. As for what Stan does for a job, not that it is any of your business, nor will you care, but he is disabled from a sever blood sugar disorder. He has many doctors, that treat him, and NONE of them will allow him to return to work. The crazy part about it is that he was a healthy man, before this ET contact began. But again your hate filled minds can not accept that truth either can they!! Stan and I are not doing this to prove that ETs are real, or even that UFO's are real. It is about telling Stans story, of what he has experienced, that is all. You are all supposed to be smart enough to make up your own minds about what you choose to beleive and not beleive. Are your minds so full of loathing for other people that you can not stop talking trash long enough to think for your selves,do you have to spend all of your time surfing the web in search of some piece of crap news here or there, that is based on one mans opinion, and not your own. I am appauled by the lack of compassion shown for my husband and thousands of others like him who are trying to deal with a terrifying experience, violations,fears, and then to be assaulted by thier peers.People like you are the casue of them all feeling like they have to hide the truth and remain isolated... No wonder the ETs are so afraid of us.I am afraid of us too.
i believe he has the math knowledge of a fourth grader... because he has the spelling knowledge of a third grader. hoaxers like him make any sort of real investigation impossible. the fact that he has no job and his entire livelihood is based on appearing at ufo conventions should tell you something.
Beth, what do you and your cause make of all that stuff about UFOs "fallowing a van"? It sure sounds like there's one source for all of his "witnesses."
Beth, what do you and your cause make of all that stuff about UFOs "fallowing a van"? It sure sounds like there's one source for all of his "witnesses."
First , I want to thank the author of this article, you did a great job of listening to the presentation given By Stan Romanek, in Kansas City. However, like some reporters you left out some important details... but why am I surprised about that, I'm not. If you want to write the full story, maybe you should actually talk to the presenter you are writing about. Or perhaps you should talk to the woman who organized this event, and ask her some questions about her brief interview on Coast to Coast and what she was told she could and could not say, and who she could and could not mention, then ask them more questions, about what they are hidding regarding Romanek and his lie detector test. Last I was made aware, Noory and his side kick still have not contacted the guy who emailed them with the information on the polygrapher. Brent was his name. Why was he never contacted? It really does not matter, it was last years news that is only thrown back in Romanek's face, but the guilty are still not being questioned. The man has health issues, He is disabled, His wife is never far from his side. Maybe he should make that a part of his presentation so that people who like to write articles based on facts can have some real details to work off of. Other wise good job on promoting Stan's Book, his web site, and his experiences. For this I will say thank you for supporting the cause, for helping to share the message that we are not alone. If each of us does our part to share the experiences we have had, the truth will spread faster.. Remember ya'all if you see something in the sky that you can not identify, it is considered a UFO. Report it to MUFON as soon as possible, write down as many details as you can as soon as you can. Blessings to you all.
Beth
First , I want to thank the author of this article, you did a great job of listening to the presentation given By Stan Romanek, in Kansas City. However, like some reporters you left out some important details... but why am I surprised about that, I'm not. If you want to write the full story, maybe you should actually talk to the presenter you are writing about. Or perhaps you should talk to the woman who organized this event, and ask her some questions about her brief interview on Coast to Coast and what she was told she could and could not say, and who she could and could not mention, then ask them more questions, about what they are hidding regarding Romanek and his lie detector test. Last I was made aware, Noory and his side kick still have not contacted the guy who emailed them with the information on the polygrapher. Brent was his name. Why was he never contacted? It really does not matter, it was last years news that is only thrown back in Romanek's face, but the guilty are still not being questioned. The man has health issues, He is disabled, His wife is never far from his side. Maybe he should make that a part of his presentation so that people who like to write articles based on facts can have some real details to work off of. Other wise good job on promoting Stan's Book, his web site, and his experiences. For this I will say thank you for supporting the cause, for helping to share the message that we are not alone. If each of us does our part to share the experiences we have had, the truth will spread faster.. Remember ya'all if you see something in the sky that you can not identify, it is considered a UFO. Report it to MUFON as soon as possible, write down as many details as you can as soon as you can. Blessings to you all. Beth
I really do believe in Alien life and I believe they are coming here, but that takes quite an open mind to just to believe that. To think they are getting out and looking in people's windows just seems a little ridiculous. If they can figure out how to get here they can see through walls, no need to peek in windows. That's my problem with Roswell, they are smart enough to get here and then crash!? what? I think "they" are real , but nobody seems to really know what IS going on.
I really do believe in Alien life and I believe they are coming here, but that takes quite an open mind to just to believe that. To think they are getting out and looking in people's windows just seems a little ridiculous. If they can figure out how to get here they can see through walls, no need to peek in windows. That's my problem with Roswell, they are smart enough to get here and then crash!? what? I think "they" are real , but nobody seems to really know what IS going on.
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