He is Jeffery Alan Ingram, a 40-year-old Olympia, Wash., man who vanished on the morning of Sept. 9 when he was supposed to be driving to Alberta, Canada, to visit his parents.

Instead, he found himself on the 16th Street Mall in Denver, in front of the World Trade Center building on Sept. 10, unable to remember his name.

Family members contacted Denver police over the weekend after his story was featured on Good Morning America and the Today show.

"Obviously, I'm ecstatic," his fiancée, Penny Hansen, said Sunday afternoon. "I'm happy he's safe."

Later Sunday, she told the Olympian in Olympia, Wash., that "it's been a horrific six weeks since his disappearance. I'm anxious to talk to him and see how he's doing."

Denver police said Sunday they were able to verify Ingram's identity through the family. Until then, police had referred to him as "Al," rather than the "Alpha number" on his report file.

Police, however, do not think his disappearance or his allegation of lost memory is a joke. After consulting with doctors at Denver Health Medical Center, they think Ingram is suffering from a psychiatric disorder known as a "dissociative fugue state."

According to the Thurston County sheriff's office in Washington, where the original missing persons report for Ingram was filed, his fiancée reported that he experienced a similar bout of memory loss during a routine trip to the grocery store in 1995.

Ingram spoke to reporters on Friday but was not available Sunday. Quinones said plans call for him to return to Washington within a few days.

He has a long way to go," she said, adding that Ingram did not recognize pictures of his relatives. "He was just frustrated. He said, 'I know I should know these people - but I don't.' "

photo & story courtesy ap & insidedenver.com, 10/23/06