Speaking of footage of an unbelievable event that so clearly faked you can't believe anybody actually fell for it, the rumoured film depicting the medical examination and dissection of a dead alien that started floating around in the early nineties...well, it's another example of that. Something that lived on in urban legend for way longer than it should've done once anybody actually clapped eyes on London-based entrepreneur Ray Santilli's stolen video. Supposedly an authentic autopsy on the body of an extraterrestrial being recovered from the crash of a "flying disc" near Roswell, New Mexico on June 2, 1947 more on that in a little while, by the way the Alien Autopsy video in practice is just a 17-minute black and white film of poor quality of what's clearly a dummy being chopped up. Santilli claimed that he had to reconstruct the original video, which was of an actual alien autopsy, because it was of poor quality and degraded horribly. That was the line used in Alien Autopsy, too, the semi-fictionalised story of the hoax video starring Ant and Dec that was actually not bad. Eventually Santilli admitted the whole thing was nonsense, but then he'd already sold it to a bunch of television networks.
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