Case · UFO Afrinews No 13, February 1996

The 'Alien Body' Film (Santilli autopsy film)

1947 · location of the autopsy not stated; film titled 'The Roswell Incident', which Hind calls a misnomer, screened at Hallam University, Sheffield, England, 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

Hind saw Ray Santilli's alleged alien autopsy film at the Sheffield BUFORA conference on 19 August 1995, screened under tight security, and admits that on first viewing she thought it might be genuine. She sets out reasons for withholding a hoax verdict: Santilli said the body was two to three hours old and filmed on 1 June 1947, so the Roswell title is wrong; the clumsy camera work exceeds what a hoaxer would fake; the 1947 Army Air Force listed no pathologists, so surgeons operated; the telephone cord dates from 1937; her surgeon brother-in-law faulted nothing and thought the body not human; the pseudonymous cameraman was paid in cash. A source says only six surgeons served the Army Air Force that year and is trying to trace the polio-affected photographer. She and others are pursuing one aspect and reserve judgement.

What Hind made of it

Thought the film might well be genuine on first viewing; argues ufologists shout hoax too readily out of fear of ridicule and that the evidence needs in-depth study; believes Santilli sincerely thinks he bought a genuine film; doubts the US$100 000 price sometimes quoted; she is investigating one aspect with others and gives no final verdict.

Explanation offered
Hoax (a 50-50 vote at Curitiba); Turner's syndrome as an explanation of the body, which Hind rejects because the syndrome was written up in 1938 and would not justify full coveralls in 1947.

In their words

If this is a hoax, it is certainly a brilliant one and would have cost millions to create.

Cynthia Hind, spread 6
on first viewing and without any prior discussion, I thought the film might very well be genuine

Cynthia Hind, spread 5
What are you doing about it?

Cynthia Hind, spread 6

Cross references

BUFORA Conference, Hallam University, Sheffield, 19-08-95
Third International UFO Conference, Curitiba, Brasil, September 1995
The Nightmare, poem dedicated to Ray Santilli, spread 7 (printed p. 8)
Cammack, 'Why Are They Here?', spreads 10-12

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 13 (February 1996), spread 5-6