- "I have first had knowledge that allegedly Ray Santilli
will soon be charged with consumer fraud and this will be appearing on
TV."
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- The Alien Autopsy Secret Out of the Bag:
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- On April 4, 2006, two days prior to the UK release of
Alien Autopsy, a British comedy feature film on the subject of the footage,
British Sky Broadcasting broadcast a documentary, Eamonn Investigates:
Alien Autopsy, presented by Eamonn Holmes. In this program, Ray Santilli
and fellow producer Gary Shoefield finally revealed the details of what
they claimed to be a restoration of the footage.
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- A set was constructed in the living room of an empty
flat in Rochester Square, Camden Town, London. Santilli states that the
set was a perfect mirror of the autopsy room in the original footage. John
Humphreys, an artist and sculptor, was employed to construct two dummy
alien bodies over a period of three weeks, using casts containing sheep
brains set in jelly, chicken entrails and knuckle joints obtained from
S.C. Crosby Wholesale Butchers in Smithfield meat market, London. Santilli
claims Props were also brought in from around the world to match exactly
images within the original film. Humphreys also played the role of the
chief scientist undertaking the examination, in order to allow him to control
the effects being filmed. There were two separate attempts at making the
footage. After filming, the team disposed of the "bodies" by
cutting them into small pieces and placing them in rubbish bins across
London.
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- Alien objects, supposedly items recovered from the crash
site, were depicted in the footage. These included alien symbols and six-finger
control panels, which Santilli admits to being the result of artistic licence
on his part. These artifacts were also created by Humphreys. The footage
also showed a man reading a statement "verifying" his identity
as the original cameraman and the source of the footage. Santilli and Shoefield
later admitted that they had found an unidentified homeless man on the
streets of Los Angeles, persuaded him to play the role of the cameraman,
and filmed him in a hotel.
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- Santilli and Shoefield maintain that their film is not
entirely a work of fiction. They claim that in 1992 they viewed twenty-two
rolls of film, averaging four minutes in length, which were said to have
been shot in 1947 by a US Army cameraman in Roswell, New Mexico; this film
supposedly depicted an "alien autopsy". However, by the time
they returned to purchase the footage two years later, they say, the film
had degraded from humidity and heat, with only a few frames staying intact.
They now claim that they "restored the footage" by filming a
simulated autopsy on a fabricated alien, based upon what they saw in the
real film. They say that five percent of their film is still genuine footage,
intercut with the later "re-creation". However, they have not
identified this original footage, despite Santilli claiming (during an
appearance on Channel 4's afternoon talk show Richard & Judy) that
he would be able to do so.
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- Robert Kiviat, the producer of the "Alien Autopsy"
which was broadcast on the FOX Television Network in 1995 will be a guest
on The 'X' Zone Radio Show on Thursday, November 9th
- from 10 pm 11 pm Eastern.
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