Santilli movie

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The Santilli film, also known as Alien Autopsy, is a film that supposedly documents an alien's autopsy from 1947. The recording was presented to the public in 1995, but has meanwhile been confirmed by the creators as inauthentic.

Release history

On May 5, 1995, Ray Santilli (* 1958), a film producer from London , presented the film to the public for the first time in front of representatives of the press and some UFO researchers. The film material is therefore named after him as so-called Santilli film or Santilli footage (German Santilli film material). Santilli claimed he acquired the film from a former American military cameraman. The Santilli film re-fueled the general discussion about aliens and UFOs, and for the first time the general public received evidence. At the Düsseldorf UFO World Conference in autumn 1995, Michael Hesemann (co-editor ofMagazin 2000 ) presented supposed additional cinematic evidence.

On April 4, 2006, the English television broadcaster Sky One showed a documentary in which Ray Santilli confessed to having shot the film in 1995. The alien model was made by John Humphreys , a special effects expert in film. He also confessed to having played one of the autopsy doctors in the film. Ray Santilli claims, however, that the project was a re-filming of a real autopsy, the footage of which he and his partner Gary Shoefield found in 1992 and which was badly decomposed. So they asked John Humphreys for help by making an autopsy model for their film based on what they were showing him.

content

The film, shot in black and white and about 16 minutes long, depicts the autopsy of a corpse, which is said to have taken place in an alleged UFO accident in 1947 a few weeks after the UFO crash in Roswell . The alien was then presumably taken to a laboratory in Fort Worth , Texas , where he was examined and autopsied. According to Ray Santilli, the film was shot in early June 1947. The cameraman had made backup copies of the material, which he sold to the British decades later.

The "humanoid alien" is roughly the size of a 12-year-old child, his body is completely hairless and has no obvious sex organs . The extremities appear disproportionate in comparison to the body and it has six fingers and six toes . The right hand is severed. The skull is elongated, the auricles are small and appear underdeveloped, the ear lobes are only recognizable in the beginning and the root of the nose is flat. The eyes are small but set wide apart and set deep in the eye sockets. They have bags under their eyes and appear sunken. The mouth with very narrow lips is open, teeth cannot be seen. Overall, the facial expression seems "distorted in pain" according to a human impression. The alien's right leg already has a large opening above the knee at the beginning of the film. It is not clear from the film whether this injury occurred during the autopsy or before.

After two sides of the room as well as the alien with some close-ups have been filmed, two forensic scientists enter the laboratory and then examine the corpse by gently touching it, turning the arm joint slightly, looking into the mouth and examining the injured leg in detail then move and bend the knee joint several times. Later they make a few incisions in the neck area with the scalpel , then open the chest and abdominal cavity and remove some organs. Then the eyes are examined and a cornea or lens is removed. Finally the head is examined, the skull opened and the brain removed.

debate

The film sparked a widespread debate about whether the featured alien autopsy was realistic or whether it was just a superbly crafted fake.

On the one hand, it is questioned whether the materials depicted in the film and the interior furnishings could have existed as early as 1947. In particular, a black wall telephone is discussed, which can be seen in the background and obviously has a spiral cable. However, research by the proponents of the material revealed that both the phone and the coiled cord were on the market by 1947. The cameraman, who walks around the table all the time filming the pathologists' work, avoids any close-up of the doctors as well as any shot of the other two sides of the room. The exposure in the room is poor and the pictures are partly out of focus. It is pointed out again and again that the amateurish-looking images, the small laboratory and the fact that the medical team only consists of two men seem inappropriate for a research project of such unique and elementary importance for mankind. On the other hand, the aspect of strict confidentiality must be observed. It is also astonishing that the two doctors wear radiation protection suits with small glass windows, although no radioactive radiation was measured at the alleged location in Roswell . The suits also appear to be inadequate as protection against virological contamination, as the doctors would also have had to wear a breathing device.

Furthermore, the autopsied “corpse” itself is questioned. On the one hand, it could be the real corpse of a person with genetically determined peculiarities (e.g. C syndrome or polydactyly ), the optical characteristics of which could be similar to the appearance of the being depicted. On the other hand, an excellently made fake film of an alien is also an option . The latter, however, would hardly be conceivable if the Santilli film had actually been shot in the 1940s, since at that time the film trick technique was not yet so well developed. Pathologists were also consulted to assess the work of the doctors shown in the film. The experts came to the conclusion that the "film doctors" disregarded all the usual forms and processes of a conventional and a scientifically performed autopsy and proceeded rather unprofessionally. The doubters are also supported by the fact that the Santilli film at all essential points of the autopsy, e.g. B. the opening of the abdomen or the head of the supposed extraterrestrial has film cuts that cannot depict the liquid course of the autopsy and thus allow enough leeway for changes to a potential dummy. In addition, a final analysis of the entire Santilli film material regarding the time of production and film development is still missing. Parts of the film had already been checked by Kodak and dated to the 1940s, but without exception they were celluloid fragments that neither photographed the autopsy room nor the corpse of the alien. Ray Santilli has refused to release the original footage for further investigation by Kodak and an independent commission.

Another aspect is the ethical discussion as to whether - if it is actually an alien - the way in which the film is treated with the alien is appropriate. Some pathologists go a step further and claim that if it is not an alien but actually a human with the suspected diseases, it is a criminal offense. These syndromes and individual features are comparatively rare and are mostly medically documented and archived. Therefore - according to the broad opinion of the medical profession - the person shown in the film would only have to have been illegally autopsied for reasons of the production of a film which was produced solely to deceive humanity. In addition, nowhere is it clear where the recordings come from, where they were made and who shot them.

Film comedy

The feature film Alien Autopsy - Das All zu Gast bei Freunde is a satire about the film shoot. The former head of the British "BUFORA Ltd (British UFO Research Association)" Philip Mantle , published the book Roswell Alien Autopsy: The Truth Behind the Film that Shocked the World in May 2012 and sheds light on the background of the Santilli film.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ imdb.com: Ray Santilli
  2. ^ Claudia Pai: Objects about Eschweiler . Der Spiegel , November 6, 1995
  3. ↑ Michael Hesemann: Beyond Roswell. UFOs: The curtain of silence is raised. P. 137.
  4. ↑ Michael Hesemann: Beyond Roswell. UFOs: The curtain of silence is raised. P. 135.
  5. ↑ The Truth is Out There! Check Out Philip Mantle's Roswell Alien Autopsy: The Truth Behind the Film That Shocked the World. , Accessed June 14, 2012.