(February 27, 2026 at 3:12 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: What, the alien autopsy video from the 1990s was fake?! But they even had Jonathan Frakes in the documentary promoting it.
Quote:Magician fails to stop Louis Theroux using ‘alien autopsy’ film
A magician who filmed famous footage of a purported examination of an extraterrestrial has said it is entirely a hoax produced as a psychological experiment.
Spyros Melaris, 66, told the High Court on Thursday that he had evidence he filmed the entire footage in April 1995 at a flat in Camden, north London.
The black-and-white silent film was purported to be a recording of an autopsy on extraterrestrial beings recovered from a UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Since being made public in 1995 it has been widely cited as evidence of a conspiracy by the United States government to cover up proof of alien life.
Louis Theroux’s production company, Mindhouse, was due to broadcast a documentary on the origins of the “alien autopsy” on Sky this year.
Melaris sought an injunction to prevent Mindhouse breaching his alleged copyright by using footage of the “autopsy”. However, Judge Richard Hacon gave summary judgment against Melaris, saying he had no reasonable prospect at trial that he had a copyright claim and dismissed his injunction application. He ordered him to pay Mindhouse £17,000 of legal costs.
Sam Carter, representing Mindhouse, told the court that the autopsy footage was “an immediate global sensation” and was estimated to have been seen by 1.2 billion people worldwide. He said Ray Santilli, 70, a former musician turned film producer, claimed to own the rights to the footage.
“[Santilli] purchased some genuine 1947 footage of the ‘Roswell Incident’ from a US ex-serviceman in about 1992 [but] it had deteriorated to the point of being largely unusable by the time he got it back to the UK,” Carter told the court. “[Santilli] contends that he therefore put together a team of people to recreate the 1947 footage.”
Santilli said the film was made by a team including Melaris, who was the cameraman, Melaris’s girlfriend at the time, Georgina Damak, whose flat was used for the filming, and John Humphreys, who designed and made the alien body and other props, the court heard.
Santilli, from London, claimed that some frames from the 1947 footage he obtained were inserted into the 1995 autopsy “to give it greater authenticity”.
Santilli first “came clean” about the making of the 1995 footage shortly before the release in 2006 of a comedy called Alien Autopsy, with Ant & Dec.
Carter said that Santilli “then maintained, as he does now, that the 1947 footage did exist, and that frames from it had been spliced into the [1995 film], purportedly justifying his description of the [film] as a ‘restoration’ of that 1947 footage”.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/...-sgmcp7qhq
Kind of sad that alleged footage (with no provenance) was allegedly inserted into the completely hoaxed footage of an autopsy made it all the way to a court of law.
Boru
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