In 1995, Fox television featured a program allegedly showing a military autopsy of an alien recovered from a 1947 flying saucer crash at Roswell, New Mexico. Over a decade later in 2006, several people involved in creating the film came forward to admit the footage was a hoax. Today we take a look back at Alien Autopsy. Alien Autopsy In the mid 1990s, Ray Santilli, a British producer/promoter, claimed to have received authentic footage of an extraterrestrial autopsy from an anonymous cameraman professing to be retired from the military. The film was supposedly a government-produced dissection of an alien recovered from a Roswell, NM saucer crash in 1947. Fox television aired the 17-minute black-and-white feature as part of a 60 minute documentary entitled Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction in the summer of 1995. The presentation stirred such excitement that it was replayed twice over the next three months to increasingly larger audiences. Suspected Hoax At the time of the broadcast, numerous ufologists, investigators, and skeptics dismissed the film as a hoax. Some even stated their leery opinions in interviews during the filming of the Fox documentary, yet their comments were edited out. One clear voice of reason came from the Committee of Skeptical [...]
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