The Manchester Evening News (6 April 2006) called it a scam that "fooled the world". Not exactly: Skeptic magazine covered it from the beginning of the 1995 film Alien Anatomy. But now, the famous creators of the fake alien corpses used for "dissection" have been publicly acknowledged.
The film, part of a "documentary" broadcast by fox television networks, is purportedly an autopsy depicting an alien who died in a UFO air crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Skeptics and many UFO scientists were quick to characterize the incident as a hoax.
Among the numerous observations, they point out that the film carries a false non-military code, that the aliens suffered injuries that do not match the plane crash, and that the person performing the autopsy holds scissors like a tailor, not a pathologist (a pathologist trained to place his middle or ring finger at the bottom of a scissor hole and then fix the blade with his index finger).
Trey Stokes, a Hollywood special effects expert whose work includes Batman Returns and Bunker Legends, said: "This alien corpse behaves like a dummy, looks light, rubber-like, so it moves unnaturally when picked up." (See Joe Nickell's Alien Anatomy Scam, Skeptical Inquirer, November/December 1995, pp. 17–19).)
Manchester sculptor and special effects creator John Humphreys, who now claims that Roswell aliens are his masterpiece, was destroyed after the film was made. He revealed the news when the new movie Alien Autopsy was released, in which he recreated the original alien.
Humphreys told the BBC: "Interestingly, I used exactly the same approach as before. You start with stills from the movie and zoom in on them as much as you can. Then you make an aluminum armature, cover it with clay, and finally add all the details. "Clay models are used to make a mold that produces latex castings.
Humphreys also admitted that he played the role of pathologist himself in the original autopsy film, but his identity was obscured by a pollution lawsuit.
The hoax of alien autopsies represents years of rumors, myths, and blatant deceptions designed to prove that the remains of flying saucer wreckage and humanoid occupants are kept in a secret facility, for example, a secret research base that simply does not exist. At Hangar 18 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the small bodies were dissected there or elsewhere.
The pranks are as follows:
• The 1949 sci-fi film The Flying Saucer is said to contain scenes from a captured spacecraft. One actor posed as an FBI agent and vowed it was true.
• In 1950, writer Frank Scully wrote in his book Behind the Flying Saucers that the U.S. government possessed at least three Venus spacecraft, as well as their humanoid corpses. Two confident people told Sculley the story that they wanted to sell an oil positioning device supposedly based on extraterrestrial technology.
• In 1974, Robert Spencer Carr began publicizing one of the crashes mentioned in Scully's book, claiming to have first-hand knowledge of where preserved aliens were stored. But as the late plaintiff's son admitted, Karl was a liar who made up the whole story.
• In 1987, the author of a book about Roswell published the infamous "MJ-12 Document," which appeared to prove the story of the plane crash recovery and the act of top government officials in covering up the truth. Unfortunately, document experts have easily debunked the documents as botched forgeries.
• In 1990, Gerald Anderson claimed that in 1947, while searching for rocks in the New Mexico desert, he and his family found a crashed flying saucer carrying injured aliens in the still-burning wreckage. Anderson made public his uncle's diary, which allegedly recorded the incident. Unfortunately, forensic tests showed that the ink used to write entries was not produced until 1974.
Roswell's most elaborate hoax, however, is probably the most popular movie, Alien Autopsy, which will be remembered as a classic of this type of fiction.
The Truth About the Roswell Affair: The crash device was just a secret American spy balloon part of Moher's plan to monitor emissions from the expected Soviet nuclear test, which continues to be overshadowed by crooks and conspiracy theorists.