Loveland alien abduction author Stanley Romanek on Thursday was sentenced to two years in a halfway house and ordered to register as a sex offender after being convicted of felony possession of child pornography.
Romanek, 55, was found guilty by a jury in August of found him guilty on a possession charge, but not guilty of a more serious charge of distributing child pornography.
Romanek will be subject to 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation, barred from using computers or electronic devices without being monitored and will also be unable to legally contact children under 18 years old without approval from the community corrections program.
Romanek briefly addressed the court before he was sentenced.
“I am a decent human being, a good person,” he told the judge. “I would like to beg the court’s mercy. I will do whatever you ask me to do.”
Romanek gained a following within UFO and alien-abduction circles through claims that extraterrestrial beings have contacted him. His court case was further publicized by a documentary on how his controversial claims have affected his life. The documentary was syndicated by Netflix’s streaming service just weeks before his trial began.
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