Stacy Peterson Sighting?

In another weird development, the AP in Chicago is reporting that Stacy Peterson may have been sighted -- according to her media-mugging husband, former police sergeant Drew Peterson.

Attorney Joel Brodsky has alleged that Peterson, who is under scrutiny for the mysterious death of third wife Kathleen Savio and the disappearance of fourth wife Stacy, has received anonymous mail. Although Brodsky won't release any details beyond the claim of a sighting and letter, he claimed that the anonymous letter described chatting up Stacy in a grocery store in Peoria.

Peterson's also on the hot seat with his former employer, the Bolingbrook police department. Although officials accepted his pension-saving retirement over the objections of Police Chief Ray McGury, that pension may be in jeopardy.

Illinois state police say that they've uncovered evidence of potential crimes committed by Peterson while still working as a police officer. Peterson's rush retirement effectively blocked McGury and the department from launching an internal investigation into allegations of misconduct.

Peterson was previously fired for revealing the identity of an undercover officer to a known killer. He managed to get his job back.

Allegations of abuse throughout at least three of of his four marriages, and an engagement Peterson says he can't remember, continue to surface. Now an anonymous letter, claimed by Peterson and handed off to Brodsky for, apparently, publicity purposes, joins the mix of this increasingly bizarre affair.

And oh yes, Peterson made it onto the cover of People Magazine. Meawhile, cops who are doing their jobs, without abuse reports from wives and women, and without misconduct reports and firing offenses, don't get much media attention.

Maybe an anonymous letter from Elvis would help balance that out?

"Baby Boomer" UFO Craze Hits 60 as UFOs Appear in Turkey

Presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton, one of the poster children for the narcissistic branch of the Baby Boomers family tree, is now 60. Last night she and Bill, the presidential has-been, partied down with Elvis Costello, Billy Crystal, and folks who paid up to $2,000 a head to come to the NYC party.

But hers aren't the only candles and the only cake. This year, the modern UFO craze turns 60 too. Not only that, the year's significance hits a triple fruit on the old slot machine of coincidence.

Most importantly, there was Roswell, NM. where a UFO with aliens aboard reportedly crashed in the New Mexico desert. The fallout from that crash--which official sources said was only a weather balloon accident--continues with tales of autopsies on dead aliens, removal of live aliens, secret research on aliens at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. and those Men in Black.

After Roswell, the term "flying saucer" became a part of our official, everyday English. The Washington Post, in a rock 'n roll riff of offbeat news, cheerfully reported that it was only 55 (numerologists, take note!) years ago that the paper ran headlines like: 'Saucer' Outran Jet, Pilot Reveals" and "D.C. Girl Sees Saucer Float Under Clouds" as UFOs paraded around DC.

And the gold rush of ufology was on. Like panning for gold, looking for that elusive sparkle of a real UFO event--not just glittery fool's gold--is hard work. Then there's the testing phase, which is done in the laboratory of human experience and reaction.

If you didn't have the big bucks for Hillary's conga line, there's still a chance to party down, and for no more than $40. A day-long UFO conference, Mysteries of Space and Sky IV: Sixty Years of UFOs, will beam into DC's Anne Arundel Community College Saturday. Various luminaries of the celestial mysteries world will present case studies of UFOs.

And if you miss that event, not to worry. The topic of UFOs is hot, and the candles on this cake aren't likely to go out anytime soon. In fact, in the midst of the Turkey-Iraq-PPK tensions, UFOs have been spotted in the region, some say.




And, as that jazzy little song says "Everything old is new again." The craze for UFOs in the modern era has expanded to denials of America's landing on the moon, which co-exists with a belief that there are top-secret bases on the moon,alien and human.

UFO sightings, crop circles, claims of astronauts seeing strange things in space (usually mostly sparkles from spacecraft debris), aliens, alien abductions--they're all part of the standard daily mix these days. But hey--what do I know? I've read Project Blue Book (the Condon Report), interviewed UFO witnesses, visited Roswell, and have an "Area 51" parking permit on my car. (Disclaimer--perhaps you'd better ask about that permit.)

UFOs, and the purported aliens among us-as well as the jet-setting aliens who only drop in to visit or probe us--are alive and well in books, movies, documentaries, on the lecture circuit and on the internet. Aging well--not that they haven't been sporadically reported for thousands of years-- those strange sightings of crafts and beings have become part of our planetary culture.

Klaatu barada nikto, ya'll.