Case · UFO Afrinews No 14, July 1996
'Why Are They Here?' Part II: The Santilli Film, with Hind's further comments on the Alien Body Film
1947 ยท Roswell, New Mexico and a dry lake bed near Magdalena, west of White Sands, out past an Apache reservation, 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
Dr Diana Cammack reports the BUFORA Sheffield meeting where Santilli's autopsy footage was screened. Santilli says he bought it from an elderly US military cameraman while sourcing Elvis film; the man had been sent to film a supposed Russian spy-plane crash and instead shot debris and occupants. The segment shows a six-fingered, navel-less, large-headed female humanoid with a leg injury, a wall clock running 10:20 to 12:15, and an I-beam with odd characters. Hesemann added a second 1947 site near Magdalena with three injured entities and black boxes on their chests, 120 original reels, and Kodak dating the stock to 1947 or 1967. Hind then weighs Kent Jeffrey's sceptical points against Bob Shell's identification of 1947 Super XX stock and a Bell and Howell Filmo 70 camera, and admits she now leans towards authenticity.
What Hind made of it
Hind cannot call the film genuine but finds the accumulating evidence, especially Shell's dating of the stock, tipping towards a real body; she leaves the reader to choose.
Explanation offered
Hoax by Barnett and/or Santilli; disinformation to undermine the US-GAO Roswell enquiry; Turner's syndrome cadaver (reader's letter, later withdrawn)
In their words
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the film is 1947-vintage Kodak 16mm Super XX Panchromatic high speed safety film.
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there now appears to be more in favour of the reality of the body than against it.
Cross references
- UFO AFRINEWS No 13 (Hind's earlier analysis)
- MUFON Journal March 1996 (Kent Jeffrey)
- Photo Shopper 4 December 1995 (Bob Shell)
- Letters from John Stepkowski and Leo Sprinkle, this issue
- In Conclusion: Hallam University screening 19 August 1995