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June 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 30/06/2010 11:46 PM Page 17 Getting to know ... an UFO Expert 17 Getting to know ... an things around us and prepare to protect our the city's website. "Knowing the truth about extraterrestrial UFO expert planet from maybe a big rock coming alongside beings, their visits to Earth, and the broad and tearing us up. That's astronomy. So instead BY ED GEBERT of some of the other things we waste our time implications of these realities for humanity, is on, we should make sure we have a clear why an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission is understanding of reality on our planet." needed," states the campaign's website. Timmerman's stories raise more Supporters for the commission, questions than provide answers. He asserts that including Jeff Peckman, who says for decades the government has covered up information and the government has covered up the existence of changed facts in official reports. He claimed aliens, of alien abductions, and extraterrestrial that Hynek discovered the discrepancies and cures for cancer. spoke out against Project Blue Book - the Campaign supporters hope the delay project with which his name had become will give them more time to educate the public forever linked. about risks and benefits of interacting with Some of the stories that Timmerman has extraterrestrial visitors. heard firsthand can boggle the mind. He If passed by voters in November, the believes there is much that mankind does not seven member commission would post alleged know or understand, but does not offer much in evidence of extraterrestrial visitors on Denver's the way of speculation. Aware that his mind has government web site. begun to weaken, he has become content to The commission would be funded by raise questions and to urge people to wonder grants, gifts and donations. The commission about the unknown. says no money from the city budget will be used He said, "We should be reconsidering for the website. For John P. Timmerman, talking about Earlier this year, the Mission for unidentified flying objects is a daily occurrence. our belief in everything. We should pay Inhibiting Bureaucracy recently registered with attention to what we don't know now." The Lima native began his study of UFOs Timmerman has spoken out about UFOs the city as a political committee against the before the town of Roswell, New Mexico perhaps as much as people have spoken to him Denver Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission. became famous for a baffling experience. He on the topic. His work with the Center for UFO The M.I.B argues the commission would has interviewed many about their own experiences with UFOs, yet there is one major Studies has carried over to local groups like the cost the city $23,000 a year in incidental costs. Lima Area UFO Research Associates hole in his life experience. (LAURA). Although his mind works more "I have never seen what I would like to UFO Contact July 4th - experience," admitted Timmerman. "In the rest slowly, his steady voice still resonates strongly with a charge to look beyond what is already will alien beings celebrate of my life, I have spoken to, talked to, talked with thousands and thousands and thousands known. At an advanced age, Timmerman still Fourth with us? strives to teach people about the unknown. and thousands of real people who are part of the "I'm glad that I have taken a study of the program I put together for people to come to me unknown," he declared. "My wife wants me to The aliens are coming, the aliens are and tell me of their experiences. And they did." stay how and work in the garden! But I want to coming! Stop playing on your new Xbox 360 Now, at the age of 87, Timmerman's passion is to share what he has learned and to be informative and do things to increase and listen up! Apparently there is quite a bit of people's knowledge about the world in which internet activity with people concerned over get others to think about the unknown. they live." [] potential UFO Contact for July 4th, 2010. It's He noted, "I want to make sure that the people who really want to know will realize the understandable that some people may believe fireworks are a signal to extraterrestrial realities of their lifetime and study the subjects, UFO commission for the planets and the sky around us, because we're Denver on November travelers. The bright flashes in the sky may even spell out alien words we don't even realize, dealing with something extremely interesting. that promote peace or unrest among beings from To ignore it would make us all fools." ballot other planets. According to Timmerman, it was 1946 when his interest in astronomy collided with Web Staff KDVR Denver When it comes to aliens, you either reports of "flying saucers" in Washington. "I believe they exist or don't. The best way to prepare for them if you believe is to read alien wrote a letter to three professors in a college books and watch popular films which portray nearby and asked them if I could be of help in aliens. Some of the best include ET, Close finding stories," he remembered. "They sent a Encounters of the Third Kind, Men in Black, nice letter back to Lima and told me I was welcome to try." Signs and The Day The Earth Stood Still (the older version not the new one with Keanu Timmerman was asked to join the J. Reeves). Don't forget "Independence Day" Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies as an which actually was released for the July 4th investigator and board member. He jumped at holiday and marketed based on an alien the chance. "This was an opportunity for me to work invasion coming to the USA! Don't panic if you're expecting some with a man that I thought was highly intelligent sort of alien invasion on the Fourth of July. and deeply interested in what he was assigned to There has yet to be a confirmation that aliens do by the United States Air Force. All the calls will arrive here on July 4, 2010 by CNN, and experiences he had during that time were DENVER - The EXTRA campaign, which is something well beyond what he could handle by calling on Denver residents to help them post USAToday, Fox News or any other major news outlet. However, it's unclear how aliens would himself," stated Timmerman. alleged documented extraterrestrial evidence on notify us if they are planning to visit. Stay After all the interviews he has conducted the city's website, will have to wait until and all the investigations he has undertaken, November. tuned, and remember to use aluminum foil on your head like in the movie "Signs" to block Timmerman remains convinced that there is Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission more in the universe than most people realize. ballot initiative had been put on the August 10, While some sightings turn out to be easily primary election ballot, but the Denver explainable, others are not. Elections Division posted the change of date on Dare to Believe - Dare to be Heard "I can't explain all these things," he its web site in June. The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show shrugged. "I just think we should study the The commission wants to investigate with Rob McConnell extraterrestrials claims and post the finding on www.xzoneradiotv.com