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Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story


ChrisJohnsen

Paranormal Adept
This documentary just became available to stream via Netflix. I'm in the middle of watching it. I'll save my opinion until I'm finished but I will say Stan is no Academy Award winner, if you know what I mean.

Update:
I finished the doc. The only thing that stops me from filing this guy 100% into the "hoaxer" category, which he clearly has been involved in over the years with at least some elements of his "story," is the participation of someone I consider level-headed and very credible - Alejandro Rojas. Frankly, I was rather surprised when he showed up in this doc.

There is a bit of interesting footage of a silver craft from 2000. Though the filmmakers don't talk with any experts to analyze it. There is the ubiquitous "red orb" footage which he claims follow him around. Unproven. There are the alleged "multiple witnesses" to this phenomena following Romanek, none interviewed on camera. There is some other interesting tiny orb footage showing a small ball of light zipping through the house and in the backyard, which admittedly looks quite interesting, but again, no expert is interviewed to explain what this might be. You're just supposed to take the footage at face value with no questions asked. Some photo/video software effects are used to represent "analyzation" of the video frames and picture stills in question to presumably show that these visuals have not been manipulated in any way, but again, without an expert in visual media, like D'Antonio or Maccabee, explaining the veracity of the tests and providing professionally-interpreted results, how is the layperson supposed to know what, exactly, they might be looking at?

Don't get me started about the footage showing a grey alien peeking in the window, or the "grandpa grey" looking in through the sliding glass door, or the mysterious "phone calls" from his alien-human hybrid children, or "Audrey" the English-accented robotic voice entity calling him "Starseed" on the phone and explaining he has a mission. All are of dubious provenance.

I did come away feeling bad for Stan's long-suffering wife, Lisa. She's interviewed and you come to realize that Stan has allegedly fathered 7 alien-human hybrid children with another human female experiencer, Victoria Albright. Stan and Victoria end up meeting in real life and have a connection Stan's wife has trouble accepting. Victoria is also interviewed in this doc. There is another woman, Heidi, but I don't know how she fits in to all of this other than when one of Stan's hybrid children, "Kioma," suddenly cuts in on a conference call they are having (and apparently conveniently recording).

Parts of the doc definitely made me go "huh, what could that be?" but I cannot help feel that the Romanek story "well" has been judiciously poisoned by his previous, ham-fisted fakery attempts to bolster his original story. Even some of the "experts" interviewed allude to his past hoaxing by qualifying their comments, saying "even if only 40% of what Stan claims is true" and "do I believe everything Stan says? No." Obviously, none of the more notorious hoaxing gets mentioned directly in the film as actual hoaxes. Some, as I've outlined above, get presented as "evidence." The participation of Paola Harris does not help the film's credibility either.

Finally, when we talk about Stan Romanek these days, we can't omit his very disturbing 2014 arrest on possession of child pornography. The film deals with it at the very end, though not talking with Stan about it. There is no on-camera interview portion addressing it, there is no vociferous denial from Stan. Probably due to legal reasons, as I believe the case is ongoing. However, there is an attempt to show, via referencing news article headlines, that viruses and/or hackers and/or the government can easily plant that kind of stuff on a person's computer. That's obviously not untrue as a general rule but you have to ask yourself if that is a plausible explanation in this specific case. Is Stan's (Starseed's) "message" so threatening to the powers-that-be that they need to frame him for child pornography? I guess you'll have to be the judge of that (until the actual judge finally rules).

I'd love for Gene and Chris to watch this documentary and then have Alejandro Rojas on an episode of ATP to discuss his involvement and to expand on his feelings about the Romanek story itself. He is apparently very familiar with it and seems to be friends with Romanek himself.


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This documentary just became available to stream via Netflix. I'm in the middle of watching it. I'll save my opinion until I'm finished but I will say Stan is no Academy Award winner, if you know what I mean.

Update:
I finished the doc. The only thing that stops me from filing this guy 100% into the "hoaxer" category, which he clearly has been involved in over the years with at least some elements of his "story," is the participation of someone I consider level-headed and very credible - Alejandro Rojas. Frankly, I was rather surprised when he showed up in this doc.

There is a bit of interesting footage of a silver craft from 2000. Though the filmmakers don't talk with any experts to analyze it. There is the ubiquitous "red orb" footage which he claims follow him around. Unproven. There are the alleged "multiple witnesses" to this phenomena following Romanek, none interviewed on camera. There is some other interesting tiny orb footage showing a small ball of light zipping through the house and in the backyard, which admittedly looks quite interesting, but again, no expert is interviewed to explain what this might be. You're just supposed to take the footage at face value with no questions asked. Some photo/video software effects are used to represent "analyzation" of the video frames and picture stills in question to presumably show that these visuals have not been manipulated in any way, but again, without an expert in visual media, like D'Antonio or Maccabee, explaining the veracity of the tests and providing professionally-interpreted results, how is the layperson supposed to know what, exactly, they might be looking at?

Don't get me started about the footage showing a grey alien peeking in the window, or the "grandpa grey" looking in through the sliding glass door, or the mysterious "phone calls" from his alien-human hybrid children, or "Audrey" the English-accented robotic voice entity calling him "Starseed" on the phone and explaining he has a mission. All are of dubious provenance.

I did come away feeling bad for Stan's long-suffering wife, Lisa. She's interviewed and you come to realize that Stan has allegedly fathered 7 alien-human hybrid children with another human female experiencer, Victoria Albright. Stan and Victoria end up meeting in real life and have a connection Stan's wife has trouble accepting. Victoria is also interviewed in this doc. There is another woman, Heidi, but I don't know how she fits in to all of this other than when one of Stan's hybrid children, "Kioma," suddenly cuts in on a conference call they are having (and apparently conveniently recording).

Parts of the doc definitely made me go "huh, what could that be?" but I cannot help feel that the Romanek story "well" has been judiciously poisoned by his previous, ham-fisted fakery attempts to bolster his original story. Even some of the "experts" interviewed allude to his past hoaxing by qualifying their comments, saying "even if only 40% of what Stan claims is true" and "do I believe everything Stan says? No." Obviously, none of the more notorious hoaxing gets mentioned directly in the film as actual hoaxes. Some, as I've outlined above, get presented as "evidence." The participation of Paola Harris does not help the film's credibility either.

Finally, when we talk about Stan Romanek these days, we can't omit his very disturbing 2014 arrest on possession of child pornography. The film deals with it at the very end, though not talking with Stan about it. There is no on-camera interview portion addressing it, there is no vociferous denial from Stan. Probably due to legal reasons, as I believe the case is ongoing. However, there is an attempt to show, via referencing news article headlines, that viruses and/or hackers and/or the government can easily plant that kind of stuff on a person's computer. That's obviously not untrue as a general rule but you have to ask yourself if that is a plausible explanation in this specific case. Is Stan's (Starseed's) "message" so threatening to the powers-that-be that they need to frame him for child pornography? I guess you'll have to be the judge of that (until the actual judge finally rules).

I'd love for Gene and Chris to watch this documentary and then have Alejandro Rojas on an episode of ATP to discuss his involvement and to expand on his feelings about the Romanek story itself. He is apparently very familiar with it and seems to be friends with Romanek himself.


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glad you brought this up i too have checked the stories of Stan out and at first they seem completely insane but then Alejandro has been very credible in the field of ufology for many years and i doubt he would be easily fooled, i find it a fascinating case file which i think needs to be investigated further but with the onset of the alleged "child Porn" court case i don't think many people will take it on but like you said this could be planted by hackers to discredit him to stop people from looking into his case,i mean why would you have that sort of material on your computer systems if your in the public eye and in the field of UFOLOGY knowing files get checked and double checked. Alejandro has been investigating Stan from early on also i have spoken to Lisa many times myself via Facebook and she's convinced that he's experiencing theses incidents but on the documentary her body language tells a different story, maybe he's convinced her the story of abduction to cover up his "Affair" ? again this is just what could be going on.

But yes id love to have Alejandro and Stan on the show and here there side of the story especially Alejandro as he was the first person i contacted while i was serving in Afghanistan. and told him of some stories that we had experienced over there.
 
I find it peculiar that a guy with so much accumulated documentation of events, would suddenly be under investigation for child porn. I'm not sure what to make of his accounts, but if you want to ruin someone's reputation, then framing him for child porn would certainly do it. It just seems very odd to me that a guy would go to such extreme lengths to hoax all of this, and then suddenly has an ongoing trial for something that could utterly ruin him.
 
Everyone should be afforded the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. Not being intimately familiar with the details of the case, I have no opinion either way about whether Romanek might be guilty of the charges he's been accused of: possession and distribution of child pornography.

That said, I'm not inclined to believe that this is some elaborate conspiracy by local AND Federal officials to discredit a man whose "claim to fame" is that he has made a number of dubious claims, videos and audio of alleged alien contact over the past 17 years. Romanek has done a good enough job of discrediting himself the past 15 years, no need for the Feds or local police to jump in to help.

There may be a simple, non-creepy, and mistaken reason why Homeland Security tipped off local law enforcement about Romanek's alleged possession and distribution of material considered child pornography, OR, "Occam's Razor," he's a total pervert and ultimately was randomly caught up in and traced visiting illegal websites that were being surreptitiously monitored by the gov't and busted trading photos of minors with other like-minded pervs. Time, and the courts, will tell.


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Having met Stan and Lisa my opinion might be skewed. They are both great people to get to know. i had witnessed several weird anomalies while camping with them at the UFO watch tower near Hooper CO. I have posed several questions towards Alejandro Rojas in regarding his current opinion on Stan. Out of respect for Lisa he is reluctant to talk much about it but he did express ( on podcastufo.com) that he was upset that Stan had lied to him. (i assume regarding Stan had a recording playing during a phone interview that wasnt legit.) Alejandro & his cousin Jason had gotten pretty close with the Romaneks when he still lived in Colorado. I know that it is frustrating that Stan apparently embelished stuff but what i witnessed in Colorado I can attest he is a magnet for "high strangeness". I hope he gets a fair trial. I pray for him & Lisa.

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What would motivate one to make claims, videos and audio of alleged alien contact over the past 17 years. That would have to be a highly dedicated individual. It's nuts either way, truth or hoax.
 
I'm not going to judge his guilt or innocence. That someone seems nice and honest doesn't mean they don't have a dark side and that they aren't doing really nasty things.

But I find it stretches credibility to think that "they" were out to get someone that was already regarded as pretty much a fake and a crank. Why frame someone like that? There are surely more credible candidates.
 
Having met Stan and Lisa my opinion might be skewed. They are both great people to get to know. i had witnessed several weird anomalies while camping with them at the UFO watch tower near Hooper CO. I have posed several questions towards Alejandro Rojas in regarding his current opinion on Stan. Out of respect for Lisa he is reluctant to talk much about it but he did express ( on podcastufo.com) that he was upset that Stan had lied to him. (i assume regarding Stan had a recording playing during a phone interview that wasnt legit.) Alejandro & his cousin Jason had gotten pretty close with the Romaneks when he still lived in Colorado. I know that it is frustrating that Stan apparently embelished stuff but what i witnessed in Colorado I can attest he is a magnet for "high strangeness". I hope he gets a fair trial. I pray for him & Lisa.

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Seems he does get a lot of sightings especially when he's out and about and with other people. id love to hear Alejandro on this matter.
 
Alejandro Rojas ambushes Walter Bosley on the Paracast, calls his theories BS, yet appears supportive on a Stan Romanek documentary LOL, you can't make this stuff up people. One guy worked for the FBI (Bosley), the other guy was arrested by them (Stan).
 
i've been a longtime UFO/ET fanatic dating back 20yrs. from bob lazar to alleged whistle-blowers alike, but stan romanek's story...is just downright abysmal. the recent netflix documentary is so terrible it actually had me laughing. there's never been anything profound or convincing about him. i think we should be highly skeptical with such content, yet it disappoints how quick people jump to instantly believing. i don't even buy into abductions...the travis walton case...a farce. i challenge someone to show me substantial footage of an abduction. otherwise, it's 'their word'.

i take more of a logical stance. yes, the ufo phenomenon is fun and i'll admit that some cases have me pondering like the retired FAA chief John Callahan seemingly exposing the Japan Airlines flight 1628 over Alaskan territory UFO incident. along with a few other cases that just seem odd.

but, my belief seems heavily rooted in logic. what i mean by this is the overwhelming commonalities in the observable universe. the amount of stars and planets out in the universe are staggering. the region we can't see is suspected to be much much larger than anticipated; bubble universes, multiverses, etc... yet commonalities remain...stars, planets, moons, black holes, supernovas and so on. it's highly intriguing to me when science entertains the notion that we might be the only life in the universe, excluding life from the aforementioned commonalities. yet, it's refreshing when other sectors within the science community point out what appears to be the obvious - mathematically it's improbable that life elsewhere doesn't exist.

now whether advanced lifeforms are visiting us is something i still ponder, but i feel pretty certain life elsewhere does exist in some form or fashion.
 
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it's worth a second post on my behalf...'extraordinary the stan romanek story' is so terrible i'm convinced netflix accidentally listed it under documentaries when it should be under comedies. the ET dolls he placed in the yard and open fields. his fake excitement during convenient video footage. all of it...all the footage...the photos...is just downright horrendous. the part where he says he was always getting stabbed by gangs called the bloods and the crips...for f#ck sake...please!!!!! i mean it was so bad it compelled me to post about it again. just terrible!!!
 
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I re-watched it again and I'm so convinced that most of its fake, the Orb footage is quite cool but could be faked the whole story stuffs just a little bit off to me. and also when a Brit guy went round to his house about the old "peek boo" amen in the window he tried to charge them $50,000 just to view the source material, thats never sat right with me.

But...... Alejandro Rojas Swears by him and i have a lot of respect for Alejandro and his work so for me at the min 50/50 on some of his stories and i think the documentary is not well produced or directed. i think they could of Pressed lisa (his wife) a little harder.
 
A lot more of research should have be done. First Victoria have been abducted too, why they dont follow more her experience. The same things with the company witch have been there to replace the exterior wall, he think about asking them question but he never film the truck with the logo or the plate number. In those cases of abduction proof is the more difficult thing to get so the people around you beleived you, a lot of your effort should be put on that, we dont have thise kind of felling when we look at the documentory. He should have copy of his medical examination for his knee, the documentory dont give us those answer
 
No more research needs to be dedicated to this fraud. Everything he claims is utter BS. A child could watch his videos and immediately recognize the bad acting and fake props.
 
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