Spaced Out: Denver To Vote on “UFO Commission” in 2010

by elpresidente | 1:27 am, December 2, 2009 | Comments Off

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Local UFO “ambassador” Jeff Peckman–he of the failed “Safety Through Peace” ballot initiative from 2003–must be feeling outta this world tonight, after his previously shelved plans to create a Denver “UFO Commission” has been approved for a vote in 2010:

A proposal to create a Denver commission to study visitors from outer space will go before voters this summer after supporters gathered the required signatures to get it on the ballot.

City Clerk and Recorder Stephanie O’Malley sent a letter on Monday to Jeff Peckman, who submitted the signatures, stating she had deemed them sufficient.

The ordinance change required 3,974 valid signatures. Peckman submitted more than 10,000 signatures.

Peckman said he will ask voters to approve creating the commission from “grants, gifts and donations.”

The seven-member commission would be tasked with collecting evidence that extraterrestrials and their “UFO vehicles” have been visiting Earth.

Peckman, 55, of Denver, and a self-described entrepreneur, said the election on the issue would go with the next regularly scheduled citywide election, currently set for Aug. 10.

Peckman must not have felt as confident as he did earlier in the year, when euphoria over Barack Obama’s election had led him to shelve his plans temporarily:

“It’s on hold for now because of the confidence that I feel and a lot of people feel in the Obama administration in moving toward more disclosure of the UFO/extraterrestrial information,’ said Jeff Peckman, whose proposed Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission generated national headlines.”

If the ballot measure succeeds, Peckman may have to reintroduce his 2003 “Safety Through Peace” initiative which included “mass meditation sessions” should the, um, “alien” problem get out of hand:

Peckman, who in 2003 bedeviled city officials with his offbeat “Safety Through Peace” ballot initiative — which would have required the city to implement stress-reduction techniques — now wants to ask voters to create the world’s first Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission for dealing with visitors from outer space.

This was the “video” leaked by Peckman last year to “prove” the necessity of the Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission:

Frivolous you say? Some Denver City Council members agree:

The initiatives Peckman has pushed has generated concern among some city council members who fear the threshold for ballot initiatives invites frivolous initiatives. The current system for getting an ordinance change on the ballot pegs the number of signatures required to a percentage of the last mayoral vote, which in recent years has been low.

I knew it was Mayor “Teflon” John Hickenlooper’s fault!

Suggested EAC motto: “Be good.”

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