Alien Autopsy? Part 1

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Indeed, there is no shortage of debatable evidence and probable
hoaxes when it comes to the subject of UFOs and aliens. Yet as
with any cultural phenomenon, there are those prime examples that
rise to the top to become forever cemented into our collective
consciousness. One such artifact is a 17-minute black-and-white
film that became so iconic it is merely, and famously known only
as "Alien Autopsy." The film sequence purported to show
government or military Medical Examiners performing an autopsy on
an alien lifeform supposedly recovered along with debris from an
equally famous event, the 1947 Roswell UFO crash. One could
argue that the film has become more well-known than the incident
upon which it was supposedly based. The first public
screening of the film occurred on May 5, 1995, in a small theater
at the Museum of London. The organizer of the event who had
possession of the film at the time, a music and television
producer named Ray Santilli, had invited the Press, UFOlogists,
and even clergy members to witness the extraordinary footage to
generate buzz and controversy. Accomplishing both aims,
news outlets around the world picked up on the story. But
the biggest sensation sparked on August 28th of that year, when
Fox Television aired a documentary Special featuring the footage
titled, Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction. The Special was
re-broadcast two more times, with each one generating millions of
more viewers. The backstory Santilli stated then was that
he purchased the footage from a retired military cameraman who
shot the film during the actual autopsy at the Roswell Army Air
Field. However, just before the release of a 2006 British
comedy called Alien Autopsy, which dramatized the story of the
events surrounding the film, Santilli admitted that the film he
and his partner Gary Shoefield released was a recreation of the
original footage he acquired in 1992. He claims that in the time
he first viewed the 22 original reels and the 1995 release, the
film deteriorated so severely that his team needed to recreate
the shots based on what he had seen. But Santilli also
insists that they spliced frames from the original footage into
the film they released – that an authentic, 1947 autopsy film
existed. But that is his story, and as we all know, there
are always more sides to one. Enter tonight's guest,
magician and media producer Spyros Melaris. Spyros has a
convincing story of his own, that he and his friend, sculptor and
Special Effects artist John Humphreys created the film and
everything seen in it – that there is no authentic autopsy
film. Whatever you may decide after hearing part one of our
interview with Spyros, one thing is sure: the Alien Autopsy film
captured the imagination of the world and might be one of the
greatest hoaxes of all time.

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