Part Two
For over three years now, since December 2000, Stan Romanek and his family and friends have been living the life of an X-file in the twilight zone. He has seen and videotaped several UFOs, and had something of a contact experience that left scratches, phosphorescent traces and a burned spot on his lawn. He has been shown bits of esoteric mathematics, diagrams of solar systems and ³folding space,² as well as, most recently, an alignment of Orion with a hyper-cube. Mr. Romanek claims to be as mystified as every one else and stubbornly clings to a certain folksy ignorance while shrewdly promoting his experience.
The following a simple chronology, put together from Mr. Romanek¹s on words and descriptions, (see http://www.neilslade.com/ufos.html) with a few editorial additions:
While living in Colorado on December 27, 2000 at about 11:30 AM I drove up to the mountains to video tape the scenery to show my girlfriend. At the time she was living in Nebraska. As I was driving to my destination I noticed the traffic had slowed and everyone was looking off to my left. As I turned my head to see what they were looking at I noticed something hovering above the power lines... I then grabbed my video camera and pulled over as I did it straighten up and accelerated so fast it made a popping noise it stopped at about 1000 feet. I got it on tape. But from that point on my life has been a nightmare.
Stan Romanek¹s original UFO; still from video © 2000 Stan Romanek
September 1, 2001 there were a few of us driving back from Pennsylvania where I had business to attend to when my fiancé said she saw something up in the sky. We were dumbfounded to find it was a UFO, a perfect disk we took turns watching it with the binoculars.
(September 21, 2001) There was a big red sphere pulsating about 500 feet above my work. It slowly floated off to the NE, after it went away I closed up and high tailed it home. That's when I noticed it had returned and seemed to be following me home. When I got home I ran upstairs and got my camera and taped it. A bunch of us were outside watching this thing. The next morning I woke up and found I had gapping wounds in my back, and had the hair and skin rubbed of my wrists. The strange thing was it didn't hurt and healed really fast. I also remembered that I had a bad dream that night.
On September 22, 2001 I was invited to an astronomy party at a place called Daniel's Park. It was dark and as I was driving up to the park I noticed that the surrounding area was blinking red, I looked to see if I left my blinker on but I did not then I noticed it. It was a lot closer this time. As I got to the top of the hill it turned left and flew right over everyone that was up there for the party, there were a lot of scared people up there after that. What ever this thing was it was pretty bold and didn't seem to care what or who saw it.
The next time I saw the object it was the big one! On September 30th I had just got off work and was coming home from getting gas for my van. It was in the middle of Lakewood Colorado a suburb of Colorado. I saw a beam of light hit the ground next to my van, and then sweep across the van. I thought it was a police helicopter so I rolled down my window and waved at what ever it was beaming me then I noticed all the traffic had stopped and as I drove through the intersection people were leaning out the windows and were staring at me! There it was again this time I was mad and tried to chased it. As I did it shot off right over a park were a bunch of people were having a party I got out my camera and got some real good shots of it so did the people at the park.
July 2002 regression and equation from first encounter (12/27/00) hypnotic regression resulted in a page of remembered equations, image #1 at http://www.rense.com/general46/stan1.html, as well as a planetary alignment, image #2, that Mr. Romanek feels is a date. This was subsequently ³fixed² to give image #3, which does in fact give a date of December 12th, 2003. Mr. Romanek now disagrees with this interpretation, insisting that the original is the correct ³date.²
On August 30, 2002, at about 2:00am in the morning, something woke us up. Even with our eyes closed we could notice the bright lights filling our room and flashing through our eyelids. It seemed to happen once every couple of seconds flash after flash! Š If I would have at least looked down I would have noticed the object spinning on the road in front of our parked van, as it turned out I had to wait to replay the tape before we noticed it. As you watched the camera pan down for a short moment there it is.
September 3rd, 2002 second set of equations: Upon waking, my wife noticed alarm clock was upside down. Then we both noticed there were pens, pencils and paper in and around are bed. Lying next to me was this equation in my hand writing. I have no idea how I did it in total darkness and asleep...
One evening on September 7, 2002 my wife decided to go sit on the front step and watch the cats play. I heard her yell to come watch our cat Lacey she was acting very odd. When I got out side we watched in amazement, as the cat seemed to be stalking something that was not there. She was concentrating in the area of where the object had been on the ground in front of the van a few weeks prior.
On November 18, 2002 at 3:00 in the morning I woke up out side in only my shorts I was kneeling by a tree throwing up. When I tried to get back in to the house the doors were locked I went to the bedroom window and woke up my wife to let me in. when she did she immediately noticed that once again there was opened wounds in my back and that I was also tightly grasping something in my hand! I would later find out that I got a broken rib from this experience! Š When the sun finally came up a big circle was burned in the grass by our garage and within a few weeks the grass was completely deadŠ
January 5, 2003, correction (?) on bedroom window: It was drawn on the window, again in my handwriting.
October 10, 2003, third set of drawings, this time of Orion/hypercube alignment: I drew this down after a vivid dream I had in October 10, 2003. No idea what it means. When I did this, I did it freehand and I have no idea how I drew it so straight. I tried to duplicate it again freehand and in no way can I get it this good...Strange.
November and December 2003 An interpretation of the revised ³star chart² points to December 12, 2003. A minor flap ensues, in which Mr. Romanek denies the date¹s validity and stands behind his original drawing - 12/07/03, see http://www.rense.com/general45/stan.htm
December 30, 2003 Jeff Rense publishes Mr. Romanek¹s equations and drawings. A lively discussion as to their meaning ensued, which is where the Romanek affair rests at the moment.
Certainly a fascinating yarn, but is the whole thing a hoax? A real ET encounter? Some imaginative blend of the two, perhaps? A disinformation campaign? Or something even stranger, even more inexplicable?