15 Biggest Hoaxes That Fooled The World

A grainy, black and white film supposedly showing the autopsy of an alien life form surfaced in the early 90s and caused a sensation. Wen it was first released, it was claimed that it depicted the experiments carried out in 1947 on a body recovered from a "flying disk" that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. The video shows a small, potbellied alien stretched out on an operating table with a severe injury to its right leg, and a group of hazmat suited doctors performing an autopsy.

The footage is conveniently grainy enough that true detail can not be picked out, and the cameraman could well have won some awards for "Least Steady Hands in the Universe", but it was convincing enough that many people still believe in its authenticity. In 2006, the film's creator, Ray Santilli, admitted that the video was a fake, shot in a flat in Camden with two alien dummies, animal organs and lashing and lashing of raspberry jam. However, this was with the caveat that it was actually a recreation of the original that he had seen in 1992, which had since become so damaged that it was rendered useless.

It is this detail that still adds fuel to the fire of the suspicion that surrounds the Roswell crash as the original film has seemingly disappeared forever. It still remains one of the most elaborate and hotly debated hoaxes ever to be attempted.