Kit Green's autopsy tissue package

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Kit Green's autopsy tissue package
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Date2011
TopicsBeings & bodies (topic), Disinformation & hoaxes (topic)
PeopleChristopher "Kit" Green
TestimonyShellenberger testimony, p. 172
Year2011 in UFO history
Timeline2011 on the UAP Timeline
Sources7

Christopher "Kit" Green, a physician and former CIA scientist, has said he once received an anonymous package at his home in the Detroit area that claimed to contain tissue from an alien autopsy carried out at Area 51.[1] No date for the delivery has been published.[1]

Green

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Green is a medical doctor who worked for the CIA and resigned in 1985. He was later an affiliate of Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) and has a long association with UFO research.[2][3]

The package

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According to researcher Keith Basterfield, the package held what was said to be tissue plus about fifteen pages of technical genetic analysis of neural tissue, including reverse-transcriptase results that supposedly showed alien genetic fingerprints. Green said the documents looked legitimate, but the material had no provenance.[1]

The review

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Green took the material to a National Academy of Sciences subgroup he chaired. A committee member who headed a genetics and molecular biology department at an East Coast medical school spent four or five hours on it and judged it a clever hoax. Basterfield tentatively suggested who that reviewer was but said he was not certain.[1]

The autopsy film

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Green was also linked to the 1995 "alien autopsy" film. A 2001 email attributed to him said the film was real, but in 2021 he told The Debrief that the emails were private, written before he learned he had never been shown anything classified about it, and that he now judged the film not credible and apologised for his earlier view.[3]

Assessment

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The tissue episode is known only from Green's account as relayed by others. It is one of many examples of claimed physical evidence that turned out to be fabricated.[1]

People and topics

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  • Christopher "Kit" Green — CIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
  • Alien autopsy film — A 1995 film of an alleged alien autopsy, admitted in 2006 to have been staged.

On the Timeline

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  • BAASS investigations (2010) — A BAASS investigator for the DIA program looks into UAP cases.
  • Kona Blue (February 2011) — A BAASS director reports to the DIA program about UAP studies.

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References

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