"Alien at the window" video emerges

A video purportedly showing a live alien looking through a window has surfaced.

This footage is supposedly a snippet of the film shown earlier this year to journalists in Denver, Colorado, US.



As previously reported here, Stan Romanek was concerned about a "peeping tom" that his daughter said was looking through her bedroom window. So he set up a night-vision camera trained on the window in the hope of filming the offender.

In this short clip you see the "alien" looking around and blinking. The full clip shown in Denver lasted for around two minutes, and showed the "alien" raising its head from below the window and lowering it again several times.

People who were present at the original screening have confirmed that this clip is a segment from it. The official release of this footage will be in a documentary by Stan Romanek, expected later this year.

So, is this footage of a real alien? This creature seems to be behind the reflection and has slight facial movement, but how easily can these effects be reproduced? Jerry Hofmann, a professional film editor with more than 30 years of experience, says here that the footage is real:

"There is no doubt in my mind that (Stan Romanek) did not post-produce this material. In other words, it's not a trick done in special effects," Jerry Hofmann, a professional film editor with more than 30 years of experience, said Thursday. "I have equipment that will test to see if that shot was recorded originally on that tape, which it was," he said.

"He kept the camera handy, and he saw this little gray (alien) running around his house. He saw it, so he got the camera out," Hofmann said. "The thing is about 4 feet tall. The only thing that shows up in the video is his head. It pops up from underneath a window. But his eyes blink. His cheeks move. He turns his head side-to-side. This would be a very elaborate puppet."

Hofmann said people who work in Hollywood animatronics have seen the video, and he said that such an elaborate puppet would cost around $50,000.

"The guy (Romanek) lives on a freaking government pension," Hofmann said. "He's got a wife and three kids. He doesn't have money. I just don't think he faked this. I think what we got here is the real thing."