Denver Voters Reject Plan to Track Space Aliens
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An image on the Facebook group for the Mission for Inhibiting Beaurocracy explains its mission: preventing what it views is a frivolous vote on alien life. (Facebook)
Denver residents have jettisoned a plan to officially track space aliens.
The proposal defeated soundly Tuesday night would have established a commission to track extraterrestrials. It also would have allowed residents to post their observations on Denver's city Web page and report sightings.
Early results show Denver residents voted 106,776-20,162 against the proposal.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Denver man who proposed the measure, Jeff Peckman, says the government is tracking alien sightings but refuses to make the reports public. Peckman is a meditation instructor and promoter of new technology, including something he says reduces the "chaos of electromagnetic fields."
Peckman contends opponents greatly inflated the commission's projected cost.
He previously proposed an unsuccessful ordinance requiring the city to offer stress-reduction measures.