The Alien Autopsy Restorations - Hoax - Fraud

The Sky One – Eamonn Investigates: The Alien Autopsy Show

Having watched this show a number of times I’m left with the same old feeling of what Ray Santilli is so wonderful at presenting; a circus, with 3 rings of fun.

I've seen Santilli on numerous TV shows and now presented in this new show, some 11 years later, the greasy feeling I get while watching he and his cohorts who helped Santilli “restore” his very own Mona Lisa and Sistine Chapel (their analogy, not mine), is stomach churning.

While I await the 2nd show in this series which, I hope, will finally put to rest this whole affair, I’ll give you a run down and my impressions about this show “Part One” as it were, and what I think of the whole Santilli / Alien Autopsy mess.

Gary Showfield tells us that while he and Santilli were in Ohio searching for Elvis footage etc., Santilli “disappeared” for two days, finding out later that Santilli traveled to Florida to see the cameraman about the footage. Nice guy, Santilli. Leaves his friend high and dry, not even a note to tell Gary where he’s gone. I very much doubt that this happened as Gary states it did.

Santilli makes the statement early on that he viewed the film at the cameraman’s house in 1992. He gives no specifics on how or what he viewed. He then goes on to tell us that by 1994, when he took purchase of the 22 cans of film, the film (in total, we assume) was now “oxidized” and useless. So the film was still playable after 40 odd years only to crash and burn in those two intervening years?

Santilli gave (free of charge?)  the Alien Autopsy video to broadcasters around the world in the hopes that they would research it and find out the truth. Which truth? That what they were seeing was a fake, or that the story around the fake video is real? Santilli told these people that what they were seeing was the “original” footage, not a “restoration” of footage, the story Santilli has now gone public with. Santilli out and out lied to everyone right out of the gates; UFO researchers, TV and magazine reports, broadcasters, etc. Santilli now states that the Cameraman's Interview is a complete fake. We researchers used that footage to put a face to the Alien Autopsy Story; we spent thousands of hours, thousands of dollars and pushed that part of the research to it's limit to find, nothing, because Santilli once again lied to us, yet sold off his lie once again to (at least one Japanese broadcaster) as the real deal... In the hopes that they would research it and find out the truth. Do you see a pattern here?

Furthermore, when Santilli sent the original video to Fox and Kiviat, that video included the infamous "Tent Footage." This Tent Footage was proven to be a fake many years ago. Let's all remember that Santilli used this Tent Footage as his calling card, and showed it "first" to many people and then gave it to Fox and Kiviat as "original" film shot by the cameraman. Only later did Santilli revise this statement, long after he showed it to Philip Mantle,  Reg Presley, Kiviat, Fox, etc., as film shot by the cameraman. Santilli has his story to back up his claims about the Tent Footage pedigree, so what. Santilli lied to the public about the Cameraman's Interview, and he never, ever stated anywhere that he and Gary reproduced the Alien Autopsy and inserted 5% of the original footage back into their production. Never, ever, not once, and not in anyway. This video was always presented as a video taken "directly from the reels of film the cameraman supplied" to Ray Santilli. Period.

Santilli states that his “restoration” matches the “original” footage so closely that he cannot tell you the precise location of the few “frames” they inserted into his restoration from the original footage. These “frames”, a few film snippets and Santilli’s memory of the one-time showing he saw at the cameraman’s house, constitutes (what we assume) to be the material used to “restore” the footage. In total, Santilli states that less than 5% of the footage inserted into the final product is material from the original film. Also, Santilli states that the 5% that was used as “reference material” i.e, film snippets and “stills”, were of “very poor imagery”.

Question to Santilli, “How much of the original film survived? Santilli, “A few frames”.

What I get out of this is that Santilli only viewed the film once, because after a two year wait to raise the money, the film stayed in the USA with the cameraman. Upon the films arrival in London, they found the film unwatchable, useless; oxidized.

Santilli’s states that they worked very hard on getting the right material to pull the job off convincingly; they used the “correct film stock”, Filmo camera, etc. Santilli, “It all had to look new because these props could not look like antiques.” Santilli, “The material to make the film came from around the world.” It boggles the mind to think that Ray Santilli could find, unexposed, 1940's film stock which he could shoot two Alien Autopsy on, develop that film stock, and then insert 5% of the original film into their product, edit it all together, twice. Film expert Bob Shell stated on the record that this would be impossible, and that the film would have to be used within two years of production life span.

Santilli located, with much trouble, the apartment were “95% of the footage (we assume the debris as well) was shot”. Please, take a close look at the Debris Footage. It is quite obvious that, that footage was not shot in an apartment. Santilli is lying to us once again.

The Special Effects Guy

John Humphrey’s says he saw the “original” film. Which film? The video? Santilli says when he got the 22 cans of film the game was up; it was unusable film at that point. What Humphrey’s saw is not specified, more than to state "film" and "frames".

They shot two films, and we assume with one dummy, though they do not specify that. Humphrey’s said it took him 3 ½ weeks to make the dummy. Humphrey’s states that he was the doctor whom cut the dummy up. Humphrey’s states that after the two films were completed, he cut the dummy up into bits and burnt it. Santilli says they cut it up, bagged it up and dropped it off throughout London in trash bins?!?

The Debris Footage

Humphrey’s states that he made “some” of the debris footage. Which debris and how much is not specified. Again, a few stills and Ray’s memory was used to “restore” this footage as well. At around 22 minutes into the show they show Santilli pulling out I-beans and such that look very much like the debris in the footage, though they do seem to be different than the original debris.

The Cameraman

The cameraman we see in the Cameraman’s Interview is a person Santilli pulled off the streets of Los Angles, cleaned up, applied a bit of Special Make-up Effects prosthetics to his face and gave him the script to read.

Question asked of Santilli, “Do you have any regrets?
Santilli: “The regret is that the original film did not survive”.

Interviewers closing comment: “This could go on forever…”
Santilli: “Great. Long may it continue.”

When Chuck Harder was being sued by Trimark and Kiviat Productions for bootlegging the footage, Santilli kept quite. As he states it now, Santilli owns this footage; he made it up, lock, stock and barrel. And yet he stayed quite and the court threw the case out.

We have pathologists willing to go on record regarding the “doctors” techniques used in the film. These professionals state that the people cutting up the dummy looked to be "trained in the procedures." Remember, Ray Santilli used those statements to bolster his position, the position that what you were seeing was original footage, not a Ray and Gary production. Keep in mind that Santilli used anything and everything that he could to help convince the public that what we were seeing was original footage; Kodak's film dating, pathologists views, military cameraman views, etc. Every effort Santilli made was to show evidence that it might be real, though even he stated that he didn't know if it was real.

Didn't know what was real Ray? That Santilli, Gary Showfield and John Humphrey’s fabricated 95% of the footage and the Cameraman's Interview?

We have people found by Philip Mantle who swear to God that they saw footage much like Santilli’s “restoration” years before Santilli release his video.

We have a possible crash site…

We have… Smoke and Mirrors…

We have Ray Santilli, a liar, con artist and cheat of the highest order, stating that it's all a fake, or most of it is, or it's based on a real event, but the video is mostly fake, but he couldn't tell you that because you wouldn't have paid him his due.

Word has it that Santilli is planning a big media push to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Roswell Crash in July, 2007. I would assume that he'll release the first Alien Autopsy, and maybe trot out the cameraman, or his family with documentation to back it all up. In the end, Santilli, never, ever, once told the public that he, Gary Showfield and John Humphrey’s fabricated 95% of the footage and the Cameraman's Interview, until 12 years had past and the Ant and Dec film, which they helped produce, was released. Santilli told us all that what we saw in that video came from the reels of film supplied by the man purported to be the cameraman.

Clearly and simply, and by Santilli's own admission, you've never seen a real Alien Autopsy. Only Santilli has, or so he says.

Mark Center

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