Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story

Ridiculous is all I can say. The aliens peeking up over window, and the one that slowly peeks around door.....reminded me of a SNL sketch. My immediate reaction was "laughing", not fear! And then they show the little girl aliens peeking thru the fence. Lol. OMG, they look like paper cutouts propped up against the fence. So do the little aliens in the woods. The phone calls from the supposed alien children sounded like a script from a 1960's B sci-fi flick; B for (Bad).

When I saw this on Netflix, I didn't understand, after the amount of time I have spent researching extraterrestrials, why I have never come across this guys name. Then I pressed play and realized why. Firstly, do you really think the USA would allow one of their citizens to make a documentary like this if it were actually true? And why would alien life target this one man and leave so much evidence when the rest of us search and search and never really find anything? This fake documentary starts off without explaining much, just showing a bunch of UFO clips and sightings, etc. I didn't think it was too ridiculous until I saw the clip of the "alien"looking at him through his window and his reaction to it. It's a clip I've seen a thousand times on the internet and I just shut it off after that. Embarrassing. Are you trying to make people believe less in aliens? Because well done if you are.

Or maybe a cry for attention.

At about the 15-minute mark I tried to just pretend it was a mockumentary and enjoy it for a laugh, but a few more minutes in and the "evidence" became so crushingly insulting to my intelligence that I just had to stop.

If I had to guess, I'd say Stan saw something that legitimately freaked him out years ago, but others either didn't believe him or didn't care. So he began fabricating a narrative to try and bolster the original story. Things got out of hand. Stan went off the rails. He couldn't stop lying, or making the lies bigger and more outrageous.

Maybe if Stan wasn't such a terrible actor (the scene at 22 min. is the worst in filmed history) I could have played along for fun, but… just, no. No mas, Stan

Stan Romanek is a sex offender who was convicted of possessing child pornography. He is a deceiver and a charlatan. That said, like most charlatans he is a great storyteller. So, if you're looking for some cheap thrills you might enjoy this, but make no mistake. This is Fake News. :)

I'm afraid I couldn't make it more than 20 or so minutes in to this. Even so early in to this 'documentary', there were many issues:

• The sound design is so awful that it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that it was intended to be as grating as possible. It was so jarring at points that I found myself grimacing in faux-agony

• Much of the 'photographic evidence' has quite clearly been photoshopped. At one point they show a picture of a young girl with large eyes, staring at Stan through the spindles of his deck's banister. Good lord. Even my 80+ year old grandparents could tell it was a fake.

• People apparently losing their minds over what were very clearly Chinese lanterns / balloons.

• An allegedly 'mysterious' caller leaving messages for Stan in which Stan is referred to as a "Starseed", regularly reminded of how special and unique he is... this is a manifestation of a very real problem - an individual who is not only completely deluded but also suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder. Sincerely, I feel pity for him and hope that he makes a recovery soon.

Don't get me started on the '''alien''' peering through his window.

Avoid this. It's an absolute travesty, and yet another fine example of some dolt robbing credibility from what is a fairly interesting field worthy of further investigation (UFOs, that is - not little green men).