Denver Rejects UFO Agency To Track Aliens

Republicans weren't the only ones to win big yesterday. Aliens in The Mile-High City can breathe easier thanks to voters rejecting a plan to officially track them. From the article: "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." Let the anonymous probings begin!

Comments

Re:Would these be illegal aliens?

[Skarecrow77]

I was about to point out that tracking aliens, as they're most likely crossing state lines on their descent from orbit, is obviously a federal responsibility, and thus completely out of the jurisdiction of the city of Denver.

Finally!

[headhot]

Something R's and D's can come together and not support. UFO research!

THE STEALTH BLIMP

[kraemer]

For Christ sake, lets declassify stuff like this FIRST and THEN see if people still see UFO's??? OK???? http://www.thestealthblimp.com/

Re:The ghosthunters opposed this

[smellsofbikes]

Presumably, to give some official sanction to the shenanigans. If some guy walked up to you and asked you for a donation to the contact-the-aliens fund, you'd think he was going to use the money to go get drunk. In contrast, if some guy walked up to you and provided you with official City Of Denver contact-the-aliens literature and explained how the voters had passed a resolution to ... well, do whatever it is they were going to do, you'd at least know that your money wasn't going to be used to get that guy drunk right that very moment, that there would at least be some official oversight and transparency to the whole lobbyist-martian-hookers-and-glowing-green-blow show.

In much the same way, the local utility company runs a fund to subsidize low-income families' heating bills, run entirely by voluntary donations that people add to their standard utility bill. A similar fund run privately would have nearly zero traction for a number of reasons.