LOL - where is Geraldo? It would be slightly more plausible if:
1) the encounter was recent instead of many years old 2) NOT an 8 foot high window (ladder? anti-gravity?? or very tall alien) Heck, we all know the lil' buggers are shorter than Randy Newman.... 3) circumstances involving teenagers vs cranky father, where pranks would be expected. They would know the father (Romanek) was a nut-case who had claimed to have seen many, many UFOs in the past, and use that as part of the prank. 4) publicity motives for Peckman 5) profit motives from many including the media (the Geraldo effect) 6) This patent: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4690653/description.html which describes the blinking eye effect etc. and a company in LA which makes the masks for props All in all, my odds of it being either media scam or teenage prank, instead of real alien, are about 10^20:1 ... yet at the same time, I would say the odds of there being intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe are just as high the other way -- but the two situations are not connected in any way. The 'smoking gun' of implausibility: "Romanek, who moved to Colorado after the recording, claims to have had more than 100 encounters with aliens" and gets little support or backing from family members and neighbors ... For something far-out, more entertaining, and with at least a big dose of plausibility- try Lynne McTaggart's "The Field" ... recommended by ACC
