Roswell

THROUGH THE HAZY black and white
footage, the relaxed shape of a
bloated, swollen-headed, six-fingered
humanoid figure can just be viewed. The
grainy scene is a bizarre image of death as the
pathologist cuts into the alien skin. Could
this be the most incredible evidence ever
uncovered to prove that something out of
this world really did land at Roswell over
fifty years ago?
On 7th July 1947 the wreckage of a strange
vehicle and some non-human bodies was
found on the Foster ranch just outside
Roswell. The next day, a press officer from
the Roswell Army Air Fields was happy to
announce to the Roswell Daily Record that
the 509th Bomb Group, an elite section of the
Air Force, had salvaged an alien vessel.
Immediately his words were refuted. The US
8th Air Force’s commanding officer, General
Roger Ramey, said they had actually
recovered an experimental balloon. Ramey’s
explanation was quickly adopted as the

official line throughout the following years,
and this technique of outright denial would
continue to be championed by governments
questioned about flying saucer stories.
Although the public initially accepted the
official version of events, this episode
sparked a consistent stream of UFO
sightings, particularly around remote US Air
Force bases. Sites such as Area 51 in Nevada,
and the government’s denial of its existence,
led to suspicion and conspiracy theories.
The 1947 ‘Roswell Incident’ itself has also
never quite left the public consciousness. In
1994 a New Mexico congressman instigated
an inquiry into the affair. The investigative
department of the US Congress, known as
the General Accounting Office, discovered
that many relevant US Air Force documents
had gone missing or had been destroyed.
However, the GAO also came to the
conclusion that it was, indeed, a weather
balloon that had been recovered from the
Foster ranch, and the bodies there were in

fact anthropomorphic dummies. Case closed.
Little did US officials realise that the
‘Roswell Incident’ was about to dramatically
appear on television screens across the
globe. In 1992, a British media businessman,
Ray Santilli was in Cleveland, Ohio to meet
a retired cameraman. Santilli wanted to buy
some vintage 1955 Elvis footage from the
man, who revealed he also had some
interesting alien autopsy film from his time
in the military. Santilli purchased the film in
November 1994 and agreed to show it at the
British UFO Research Association annual
conference on 19th August 1995. However,
by March 1995 news of the film had been
released to the media, and a serious world
premier of the footage was needed. It took
place in front of invited guests at the
Museum of London on 5th May. By the end
of August 1995, millions of people around
the world had seen moving pictures from a
supposed alien autopsy.
Although this was compelling evidence,
doubters immediately began voicing their
theories about the film. The most obvious
suspicion was that the autopsy had been
created by movie special effects processes.
Many experts believe the film is fake, but
they also believe it is very high quality. The
Hollywood effects industry is a closed shop,
with insiders having friends and contacts
across the range of companies, but so far noone
has an inkling as to who created the
Roswell film. Other experts in the field of
biology are less convinced that the body is
entirely man-made, and some suspect that it
may be a human being adapted to look otherworldly.
There is a whole host of further questions
about the Roswell autopsy. Whoever
captured the footage has never been
revealed, although a bizarre film was
released where someone purporting to be the
cameraman attempted to explain his
involvement. Santilli has never uncovered
the footage he has of another alien autopsy
and has never really allowed any of his films
to be subjected to proper scrutiny. Most
importantly, the aliens in the footage look
nothing like the bodies witnesses saw
recovered from the New Mexico desert floor.
All experts who view the autopsy film agree
that it is a fake. Santilli has made a great deal
of money from the Roswell autopsy footage,
and he still maintains that it is genuine. The
rest of us will probably never know. The
public’s natural instinct is to question
governmental denials, but the other options
here are also so unreliable that it is very hard
to determine the truth