Source : Perth Now news
The team behind the 1995 alien autopsy film have finally explained how they created the shocking footage that fooled the world.
Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield shared 18 minutes of grainy footage that purportedly showed US officials dissecting the body of an alien recovered from a UFO crash site in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and it was turned into a film called Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction which was broadcast around the world and sparked years of debate before it was later confirmed the footage was actually shot in the living room of a house in Camden, North London.
Now Ray and Gary have opened up about the making of the film in new documentary The Alien Autopsy Scandal claiming they bought the original film from a shady character named only as The Camera Man during a trip to the US but the nitrate filmed degraded after being opened for the first time since 1947 – forcing them to recreate the autopsy to satisfy their investors.
In the documentary, its revealed the model of the alien was made by a special effects expert who had previously created creatures for sci-fi TV show Doctor Who and the body was filled with animal organs from a local butcher to make the autopsy look as real as possible.
Trevor the butcher explained how pigs’ eyes were used in the face of the fake alien while they also used lamb brains, a pig’s heart and other organs so the men playing the scientists – including the special effects master – were able to dissect the body, which took around seven hours to film.
The alien autopsy team also explained how they went to great effort to source original medical instruments that would have been used in the 1940s and they made sure every detail from the phone to the lighting and the outfits seen onscreen were as historically accurate as possible.
However, both Ray and Gary insisted they were simply restoring the footage that had been lost due to the degradation of the film and not creating a money-spinning hoax.
Ray also teased that some of the frames from the original film had been saved by a specialist film company in Wembley, North London and they were edited in alongside the recreated footage to add “realism” and “authenticity”.
The Alien Autopsy Scandal is available to watch now on Sky Documentaries and NOW.
