Alien autopsy film
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| Type | Book, film or media |
|---|---|
| Also known as | alien autopsy, Ray Santilli, Santilli |
| On the Timeline | 5 events, 1989–2011 |
The alien autopsy film was a black-and-white film released in 1995 by British music producer Ray Santilli, said to show the autopsy of an alien recovered after the 1947 Roswell incident. It was broadcast worldwide and drew huge audiences. In 2006 Santilli and his partner admitted that they had staged it.[1][2]
Broadcast
Santilli said he had obtained the footage from a retired military cameraman. Fox television broadcast it on 28 August 1995 as Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?, presented by Jonathan Frakes, and repeated it twice to rising ratings. It was also shown on Britain's Channel 4 and sold on video. Time magazine compared the debate it sparked to that over the Zapruder film.[1]
Debunking
Critics, including surgeons and special effects experts writing in Skeptical Inquirer, quickly pointed out problems with the film, and several people interviewed in the programme said their doubts had been edited out.[1]
Confession
On 4 April 2006, shortly before the release of a comedy film about the affair, Santilli and fellow producer Gary Shoefield admitted on a Sky documentary that they had made the footage themselves in a flat in Camden, London. Sculptor John Humphreys built two dummy bodies filled with sheep brains, chicken entrails and raspberry jam, and played the chief examiner. The man shown as the original cameraman was a homeless man they had recruited in Los Angeles.[1][2]
Santilli maintained that he had seen genuine footage in 1992 that was later lost, and described parts of his film as "restored". He has never let the original film he says he had be independently tested.[1][3]
On the UAP Timeline
- John Lear's source Mike (1989) (January 1989) — John Lear says a source was flown to an underground site to photograph a saucer and autopsy.
- Hynek autopsy rumor (1994) (26 February 1994) — Vallée and a filmmaker discuss a rumor about Hynek and autopsies, calling it disinformation.
- Corso's doubts about autopsy reports (1997) (13 January 1997) — Philip Corso tells Vallée he may have received disinformation about alien autopsies.
- Flickinger autopsy material claim (5 March 2002) — Kit Green says an Air Force physician told him he saw alien autopsy material.
- Kit Green's autopsy tissue package (2011) — Kit Green says he received an anonymous package of supposed alien autopsy tissue.
References
- Alien Autopsy (1995 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Ant and Dec leap into the unknown", BBC News (2006), archived · web.archive.org · archived copy
- Ray Santilli — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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