In this week's cover story, I examined the case of Stan Romanek, the Denver dude who claims he videotaped a big-eyed gray alien peeking through his window.
Until now, that video has only been made publicly available at UFO conventions, but it might finally show up in your homes next week. Romanek has posted on his Twitter feed that he will be featured on ABC's 20/20 on Tuesday, August 18.
His publicist told me two weeks ago that the so-called "Boo video" had not before been broadcast anywhere because -- among other things -- Romanek had signed the initial broadcast rights to ABC.
Few people have seen the Boo video, but many have seen the parodies of it have popped up on YouTube since Romanek first announced its existence last summer. While this one is called "the REAL romanek" video, it isn't. Still, it's not far off what the man himself showed at Kansas City's Mysteries of the Universe conference last month.
Last June, our friends at Denver's Westword paper put together this amusing list of the best parodies.
After the jump, a "fallow-up" on all those online eyewitnesses and supporters of Romanek's who all coincidentally mis-spell the word "follow" the same way he does!
In the feature I point out that many of the anonymous eyewitness accounts backing up Romanek's stories of UFO sightings suffer from a rare quirk of written English shared by Romanek himself: a tendency to type "follow" and "following" as "fallow" and "fallowing."
After we'd gone to press, I turned up two similar cases. Both are signed online comments expressing support for Romanek's claims that he scribbles down mysterious star-charts and equations that the aliens implant in his head.
First, on a Rense.com article titled "Stan Romanek's Mystery Equastions," a "Steve Coe" posted the following on January 19, 2004:
"I have been enthralled with the Romanek case for some time now it is a great story. As I fallow his adventures on your site, I see something that others have missed."Coe goes on to point out that nobody else had noticed that a star-chart Romanek drew was actually an upside-down illustration of Orion. Romanek still relies on this insight today when he suggests that his star-chart corresponds to a date in 2012.
Second, there's this January 2008 post on the AboveTopSecret.com forum from self-described physicist "Tommyboy." I quote it in full out of my admiration for the way this Chris Farley-loving scientist bothers to include a plug for Romanek's Web site:
reply posted on 14-1-2008 @ 11:04 AM by tommmyboyWherever he is, I'm sure Tommyboy the physicist would like me to remind you that Stan Romanek's book Messages is available now at Amazon.com!I'm new and noticed the post about Stan Romanek. I am a physicist, I didn't think much about Stan's case at first, and then I started fallowing it in detail. Everyone here has been talking about the predictions that Stan made. That's not what impressed me. What impressed me were the equations, most of them are new to science and Stan's first equation is the chemical structure for element 115 years before anyone actually developed it. How in the world did he get this? Concerning the predictions, when I did my research, I found out that a guy named Dana Thibault was involved with Stan case and convinced him that he got the date drawing wrong. Thibault was probably a government plant if you ask me! If you are interested it looks like there is an official website for Stan, the new stuff is amazing and there is an explanation to the predictions. I copied the URL so go towww.stanromanek.com...
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See the article on my blog titled "Lost In Space" at http://followthemagicthread.bl... for more examples of how the word "fallow" shows up in Romanek's case.
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