Starseed: Stan Romanek 2.0

Wow, time has flown by! This is an episode from the vault and was recorded in August 2017. 

It's May 2026 and I'm uploading a few episodes for your listening and reminiscing pleasure. Kind of prophetic and, dare I say, spot on?! Miss you Melvin and TU...

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Welcome. Settle in. It's time for your weekly dose of Truth Unscripted. Welcome to Truth Unscripted. I am Julie.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

And I'm Melvin. Welcome back, listeners.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

So how are things today, Melvin?

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Going pretty good. How about you?

SPEAKER_01 0:31

I am great today.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Yeah, I think we have an interesting topic for discussion today.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

All right.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

And part of that takes me back to when I was a little kid, and I would hear my mom talk about a story, something that happened to her and her dad and her little brother. And they lived in the hills of West Virginia. Okay. And she was about 12 years old. And she says that they were sitting out on the front porch one lovely summer evening looking for fireflies and all of that. And all of a sudden, above the mountain, they saw three cigar-shaped objects that were illuminated red. Um, they all saw it and were amazed by it. And she says that her dad went in and actually reported it, called the police department or sheriff's department and reported it. And I guess there were quite a few other calls about that incident at that time. And kind of a side note, her little brother now is an author and journalist, and he has written a few books about uh UFOs in Appalachia. He does research on that and is really involved in that. Um his name is Kyle Lovern, so shout out to Kyle. Um, so I do have some um I I can't say that I completely believe in aliens, but I did grow up uh hearing the stories and imagining it and thinking about it. And so I'm kind of on the fence. I'd like to see some proof, uh, as I think everybody would. Sure. Some concrete uh proof of the existence of aliens. Um, but I'm kind of on the fence.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Proof is a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yes, and I know, and I know you feel that way about this subject uh in particular. So there is currently a guy in the news, uh, his name is Stan Romanek, and some of our listeners may have heard about him. He has been having experiences, uh, sightings of UFOs and aliens. He claims to have been abducted by aliens and has been gathering evidence and information for you know over 13 years. Actually, it's it's longer than that now, it goes back to 2000.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

And his story is pretty compelling. You know, when you look at all of the evidence that he's gathered, there are, I believe, over 195 documented pieces of evidence. One of the things that really put Stan on the public stage was a video that he took in 2003. And supposedly they thought that they had a peeping tom. And he says that that had gone on for about four months where they they would catch a glimpse and thought that someone was looking into their house. And so he sets up a camera and he catches a video that has to to this day, uh, when I last checked, over a million views on YouTube. He's most well known for this. He gets a lot of of heat for this video, people that have uh done their own versions of this and and all of that. So it's it's been kind of crazy for him. But uh the video shows an alien head slowly rising up and looking into the house, and he is you know, the alien is blinking, and you know, I have to say, as far as alien videos go, it looks pretty realistic. The blinking adds to it a lot, and it's creepy in general. The video is creepy. So the part that I do question, however, is his response. Um, if I were to see an alien looking in my window, I would have a different response than he did. It was it was comical in a way. Um I don't know. I know you have something to say about this.

unknown 4:37

I do.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

I do. And you know, so first of all, I am not a believer, not necessarily just a stand romanic, but as far as the whole alien thing, and that's it doesn't make me an authority or anything, but I you know, I'm I'm not one of your avid believers in in the whole alien thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

Right.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

But even the video, you know.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Now you didn't think it looked slightly realistic. I mean, come on, compared to some that have been out there.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

To me, yes, it did not.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

What part of it?

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Um all of it. Really? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Because I thought the alien and the way that it moved and and the blinking again, as I said before, um, it kind of looked realistic.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

Let me tell you something. If even if I accept in my mind that I'm looking at a video tape that may not have been, you know, it wasn't 4K or 1080p, and so I'm gonna even say maybe the video is a bit degradated, is degraded. Just like you said, if E.T. was looking in my window and I walked in and I saw him, there is going to be some furniture moving around in me attempting to get away from that window. It's not gonna be some like, you know, somebody just goosed me and I'm gonna, you know, but even the alien to me.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

It does look a little like somebody goosed him.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Even the alien to me looked like a, you know, a Halloween costume head on somebody, and that's just me.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Yeah, I I want to disagree with you on that. I kind of felt like and maybe I'm comparing it to other things that I've seen of that nature because there are some really obviously faked alien videos, but this one, there was an element of realism to that. I agree with you, his response. He did look like he just, you know, somebody pinched him or whatever, and he, oh, you know, he jumps up and kind of runs away, and the way his facial expression and all of that, and that's pretty consistent with his response. There are a couple of other occasions if you watch this documentary where he has a sighting of an alien, and his response is not too believable. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:00

You know, again, uh you know, I've never I've never had the alien alien sighting, so I don't know exactly how I would respond. But I mean, I've been startled before. And now and my response is typically uh aggressive as opposed to I'm more of the fight than flight type of person.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

Um, as my friends will tell you when they've attempted to surprise me or try to prank me. But, you know, that's just me. But again, there were just several things about it that for me just did not pass the smell test, and I was just not impressed. And even as far as all of the evidence going, you know, that we talked about, a lot of it are items and things that are very easily faked. And and I think that's been some of the criticism that he's received um over the years.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Aaron Powell Well, in regard to the video, I've also heard some people say that, oh, it wasn't the first time that he saw aliens, so his surprise was diminished or his response was diminished. And I don't know if I agree with that because I don't recall hearing that he had actually seen an alien by that point. I could be incorrect. And listeners, you can correct me if you know the the answer to that.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

But some of the images of him and the the the um injuries, some of the images of him and what happened to him after he was abducted. If I saw an alien outside my window after I had had those things happen to me, I'm telling you again, I'm doing some repairs in my house afterwards with the effort that I'm making to go the opposite of the water.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

Are you saying it would be one of those cartoons, you know, where it busts through the wall and it just leaves the the image of the water.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

Here's the thing that struck me odd about that this specific video. So they he sets up the video and he says, you know, I'm going to bed. Okay. And as soon as he walks out of the frame, and it just may be, again, it just may be a video thing, it felt like for a for a very split second, there was a a jump in the video to me. It wasn't it it was not um uh extremely visible, but it just seemed and it could have just been a lighting thing. So I dismissed it as such. But there was audio because you could hear him when he came back into the room.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

But there was no audio or anything to draw him back into the room. There was nothing, there was not a sound when this head popped up to draw him back into the room.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Well, let me clarify something. He didn't actually go to bed. I think he said he went and sat in the bathroom and he had a magazine and he was just kind of waiting because he was trying to catch this person, so he was waiting for that opportunity. Okay. So I don't know if he had a vantage point where he could see that window, and so he saw some movement, and maybe that's what you know caused him to very possible, very possible. So, okay, so we are we are so-so on the whole video. Uh, I find it creepy and somewhat believable, and you are just like, no, this is this is like Saturday Night Live skit.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

I'm telling you. Bad Saturday night live skit.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Okay, well, a couple of other things that are interesting, evidence-wise. Um, he in 2004 started getting robotic sounding phone calls from a being, I don't know if it's person, whatever, named Audrey. And this voice actually has a British accent, uh, which was nice, you know, they're very polite. And basically, she says that Stan is different in the way he perceives the world. He seems more advanced than other people, that he has no idea who he really is. And she starts to refer to him by the name of Starseed, which this sends me, I don't know. I'm ready to like throw the whole thing out based on the fact that she calls him Starseed. So there are a number of other conversations that they have, and she refers to him as Starseed. Oh, I don't know. Um, and then he is made aware by a phone call from a little girl in 2009 who tells him that he is the father of nine children. She is one of the nine, and that they are half alien, half human. And he, you know, he's the father. And you come to find out as you watch this documentary that there is another woman that has been abducted also, and that gets to be a little interesting because Stan is married and has a wife who doesn't really like that relationship going on between Stan and this other woman.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

And that whole situation seems a little odd to me. I'm not quite sure, but I think that there's more to that triangle, that story there.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

So so the um Guardian of the Galaxies characters. I can't help but think about that. I know it would be based on Stan. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Please don't say that. That'll be hold. I love Star Lord, I love that movie subsidiary.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Well, could he possibly never mind? Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Well, I think Starseed, I mean, there's some thought that he is, I've heard people say that they were using his DNA to start a new race. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

So we really are in trouble.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

But Audrey, Audrey says that he is different, and you know.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Well, I'm I'm gonna go along with Audrey on the fact that he's different.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Um I agree too. I think Audrey is absolutely correct on that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

And if there are aliens, I'm going to have to question their choice in progenitor of, you know, if he is the DNA that they have selected as being prime.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

And that was my question. Why him?

SPEAKER_00 13:10

Right. Why him? So, you know, it started for me in the at the very beginning of the evidence and some of the video, and the fact that you see a UFO flying in the air, zipping around and doing its thing, and it notices you. You know, I don't know if you've ever been on a plane. Um I'm I'm sure you have. I have. And you figure up at altitude, you know, you can see a house maybe depending upon where we are in altitude. You might even be able to see a town. But how many individuals have you ever seen from that? Now, of course, I guess they could have some highly acute vision, but you know, it's just is that was a little bit odd for me, the fact that they noticed him. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Yeah, I I agree. And that is where I started to really think about the mental health issues with Stan, because I think at the very least he's a narcissist. Because he's not only being chosen by the alien race that you know is contacting him, they've noticed him, they are following him, they want him to, you know, be basically the beginning of this race of of beings. It's it's uh questionable and concerning to me.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Well, tell me something. If they think so highly of Stan, why are they beating him up all the time?

SPEAKER_01 14:32

Well, and he's well, and that's true in the abduction. And I don't think um I think the one time that I in the documentary when he's beat up, it's because he actually has an incident when he's riding to work on his bike.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

And he's attacked by people he says he thinks are from the government.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

Ah, that is true.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Um they tased him, and it's because they want him to shut up about this because talking.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

It wasn't the aliens, it was it was the men in black.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

So uh the aliens obviously are putting those pattern things on him, but they're not breaking his nose and tasing him.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

And um the the government issue comes into play and as it relates to some of why he's in the news now, supposedly. Uh huh. All of that. Is that that's that is true.

SPEAKER_01 15:22

And let me go ahead and um and again, as Melvin said, this is this is what's going on right now. Uh, this is part of the reason we're discussing it now because it's, you know, this is kind of a current situation. We don't really know what's going to happen here. So Stan, I don't know if you know this, Melvin, was arrested in February of 2014 after the conclusion of a long-running investigation that was started by Homeland Security. He was arrested for online sharing and possession of child pornography. The investigation was continued by the Loveland, Colorado Police Department and the Northern Colorado Regional Forensics Laboratory. The police executed a search warrant at his home in 2013 and seized computers. They reportedly located more than 300 images as well as video files depicting child pornography from a laptop that was found inside his office closet. The Department for Homeland Security reported they had tracked images and movies containing pornography, child pornography from an IP address belonging to him back in 2009 and again in 2013. So he actually was interviewed. He agreed to be interviewed at some point during this investigation and arrest, and he admitted that he had seen files on his computer that could be considered child pornography, but he didn't know how it got there. And this is where that whole topic of, you know, there are a number of people who think that he is being framed.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

And that is part of his feeling in his life.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

It absolutely is. Both he and his wife have claimed um that they're victims of harassment, hacking, and threats because the government doesn't want them to be talking about UFOs and extraterrestrials.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

And as it relates to timeline, this uh Netflix um show or the video and everything was actually created back in 2013, even though it did not release until 2017. And interestingly enough, you know, it's being is done here in 2013, and then so now in 2013, he's arrested on these charges that he claims are trumped up.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

Right. Okay. And there are a number of people who believe that this is all just an attempt to keep them quiet. And at the end of the video, there is a statement about his arrest, and it gives a list of other cases where people have been framed, where things have been allegedly placed on their computer, and it's just all I don't know, uh it's kind of an interesting, the interesting timing and all of that. Um, the trial has been put on hold a couple of times, but it actually uh the trial started August 31st.

SPEAKER_00 18:25

Right.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

So at the beginning of this week, this trial is going on now.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

And so while there's a whole lot more about this story to talk about, and this is kind of the the prelude or the first the first episode, if you will, of us discussing Stan the Man as I'm referring to him now. Uh there's a lot for us to talk about. There's a lot to talk about about the trial that's happening now, and I guess as it's in the news now, we'll have a lot of opportunity moving forward to kind of dissect and and and talk about the validity of his claims of conspiracy. Uh which is, you know, one of the things that uh we hope to talk about in terms of just topics on our show moving forward. And we'll have an opportunity to further discuss some of the evidence that he has presented as it relates to aliens, as it relates to the conspiracy, and all of those things in between.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Well, Melvin, let me ask you. Sure. Where do you fall on the alien issue? Are you somebody who believes? Are you somebody who staunchly does not believe, or are you kind of like me on the fence where I am not on the fence?

SPEAKER_00 19:43

I am clearly over here in the field of nah.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Really?

SPEAKER_00 19:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

Because I kind of feel like over the years, um 50 years, 60 years, uh there has been a lot of people who've come forward. We've had astronauts who've come forward, we've had government officials come forward and say that they have seen UFOs or had an experience.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Um I'd have to say I'm on the fence because of that. I think that where there's smoke, there's fire. These stories that are around and you know circulate always. Right. There has to be something to that. Now, I don't know if I can say that about Bigfoot necessarily. But for this subject.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

It's it's it's interesting to me that you know there have been stories about uh the Loch Ness monster and other things and out in the sea or in the water, and ultimately and eventually that we find some new species, and it is named, it is labeled, it is identified, you know, as some prehistoric, you know, member of the sea life. Um, we have animals that have never been seen before, and then eventually we have some evidence whether it is, you know, um bones or there's always some evidence to support a lot of these things that have been, you know, discussed for many years of you know, of beliefs that have been out there. I find it very interesting that a race capable or races, multiple alien races, if you will, that are capable of traveling to this planet from wherever which means great technology, you know, just in terms of their ability to do that.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

And we you know, well, you know, on on that note, we've had accidental discoveries. Sure we have. Who's to say that maybe they are not necessarily all that advanced? But they've accidentally discovered the the how to travel that way. I'll give them that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

I'll give them that. I'm just curious as to why every image of them is blurry, it's out of focus. We've never I mean, we and I say this because and we laugh about this all the time. I don't care what happens in the public today, people manage to get video of it. The fact that TMZ has not put out a video of an alien sighting proves to me that they don't exist.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Well, hey, that video we were just talking about, you it's out there, but you don't believe it.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

Have you seen the pictures of the little red the red dots and globes? For example, and we could go on about this forever, but all of the things that I look at in there, when we start talking about the stuff, the size and the scale of them, even the very first video, which you know I gave you, it was something on the film, I don't know what it is. And in this day of um what we can do with videotape, I believe, you know, half of what I hear and almost none of what I see, but I'm just I'm I'm just not impressed by any of the images that I've seen by him or anybody else at this point.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Yeah, and we can do so much with photography now, it's hard to know what's real and what isn't. Obviously.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

I believe footage I've seen of Bigfoot faster than I believe a lot of this footage.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

Oh, okay. Okay. Well, that's saying something. And I this is one area where we disagree. Absolutely. I I can't say that I am firmly on your side here.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

I understand, and that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

I just think there's too much out there, and I have seen some compelling video and some, you know, photographic evidence and all of that. So and again, where it it stays is part of our culture and and it stays in a topic of discussion.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

Right.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

I just feel like there has to be something to it. And even Stephen Hawking, you know, Stephen Hawking, my man.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

He said we do not get to talk about Stephen Hawking.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

He said, whether he's dead or alive, he said this, that we shouldn't be looking for aliens.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Listeners.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

I think Stephen Hawking believes in aliens.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Listeners, she does not to get to talk about anything that Stephen Hawking says because you heard her statement, whether he's dead or alive, and she questions whether Stephen is still with us. So you don't get to you don't get to use anything that he's doing.

SPEAKER_01 24:41

I can't help it. I can't help it.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

I need some proof that I need proof about his You're on the fence about aliens. But you're not giving Stephen Hawking the benefit of the doubt of being alive.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

No, you know what? I'm on the fence about him too. I need some proof. Somebody out there, please give me some proof. I'll give you the thing. That Stephen Hawking is not an elaborate.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

I'll give you on the fence. I'm not on the five. I don't know if that we see him today. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

You know you are.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

Part of you is. I'm not agreeing to that right now. I'm not.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Okay. Well, at any rate.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

At any rate.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

So we we disagree on the subject. And that's okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

We disagree. But that that's good because that means we will do our research and we will come back and we will have the opportunity to further discuss Dan the Man. And um Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

As this trial, I'm gonna be really interested to follow this and see where it goes. Yeah. See what happens to him.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Maybe they will abduct him out of jail when he gets there.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

I mean, I'm sure they don't want their main guy locked up. You know?

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Yeah. So and there are a lot of stories around this subject. I mean, I think this could go off into discovery of new planets and and things. All there's a lot going on right now around astronomy. We have the eclipse coming up on the 21st.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Amazing thing. Everybody should get out and and witness that. Um, so I'm sure we'll be coming back to these subjects again.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

Well, if Stan disappears out of the courthouse on the day of the eclipse, he he might get my interest.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

He might get my interest.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

We shall see. We shall see.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

All right. Well, it's been fun talking to you about this.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

It has indeed. I have enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

And so, listeners, consider this part one. That being said, hit us up on Facebook and Twitter at TruthUnscripted.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

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