Case · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995
The Santilli 'alien autopsy' film (Philip Mantle briefing)
1995 ยท Roswell, New Mexico (alleged 1947 filming); footage held by Ray Santilli of the Merlin Group, London, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Philip Mantle, head of the Yorkshire BUFORA group, sent Hind a five-page briefing on the 'alien autopsy' film. About two years earlier Ray Santilli of the Merlin Group in London had bought Elvis Presley footage from a veteran American cameraman, who then offered film he claimed to have shot at Roswell in 1947 of pathologists dissecting an alien body. Mantle found his appointments repeatedly cancelled and only snippets shown, which he called suspicious. The dark footage shows two figures in white coats taking tissue from a large-eyed body in a tent or shed; a clearer segment shows a hairless humanoid with enlarged abdomen and six-digit hands on a slab in a white room, its dark eyes removed, the head cut open and a marble-sized crystal taken from the chest. Santilli was to show it at the BUFORA conference in Sheffield in August 1995.
What Hind made of it
Either one of the bigger hoaxes in ufology or the story of the year; no proof either way; Hind will report from the BUFORA conference in No 13
Explanation offered
Hoax suspected; Mantle found the cancelled appointments and restricted viewing suspicious; opinions mixed on authenticity; Hind heard the cameraman had often filmed for the US government
In their words
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We feel it is either one of the bigger hoaxes in ufology, or it is THE STORY OF THE YEAR!
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There is no proof that this is a reality but neither is there any proof that it is a hoax.
Cross references
- 12-16-3 Roswell 1947
- BUFORA Conference, University of Hallam, Sheffield, 18-20 August 1995
- UFO Afrinews No 13 (February 1996)
- Conclusion, page 42