The Alien Autopsy Film

The first showing of the film took place at 1 P.M. in a small auditorium in the Museum of London before an audience of 100. Everyone was physically searched for cameras before being allowed into the auditorium. There was no speaker or announcement to introduce the film. Before the film footage began, a few short statements appeared on the screen stating that the film had been acquired from the cameraman who originally shot the footage and that the copyright belonged to Merlin Communications, a company owned by Ray Santilli, a documentary film producer in London. The black-and-white footage then started. The scene was apparently a small autopsy facility with simple bright walls and a desk with a bizarre body. Two figures in white anticontamination suits, rectangular glass faceplates were standing in the room next to the table. Another person could be seen peering through a window into the room.He was not recognizable due to a mask covering his face. The two doctors circled the operating table while the cameraman moved about in the room. He failed to get any really good shots of the body, and the film was not always in focus.

The alien shown in the film had a large head, and the open eyes were black orbs. The ears were low on the head. The nose was small and the mouth was small and open. The body was approximately four feet tall. It had a large, protruding stomach and stocky limbs. There was no hair on the body whatsoever. There were no external genitalia or secondary sexual organs. The feet had six toes, and the hands had six fingers. The forearms were longer than the upper arms.There was a large wound on one thigh, as well as a wound beneath the right armpit. The right hand was almost completely severed at the wrist.

The table on which the body rested was an operating table, rather than an autopsy table, which has channels to drain body fluids. A tray of instruments could be seen in the film laid out on a utility table. There was an old-style handsaw used for removing the cranial cap.Also included was a palpation hammer, which is used to check reflexes. A smaller table covered with a white cloth held a Bunsen burner underneath a flask, five test tubes in a test-tube stand, and a large beaker containing a dark fluid.

The area near the leg wound was inspected and the knee joint was manipulated with great care. One of the doctor’s made a long, straight incision from the sternum to the pelvis. There was another incision from the lower part of the ear down the neck to the collar bone. The doctors removed the black lenses from the eyes in a matter of seconds. The skin on the skull was peeled back, and the cranium was opened. The chest and stomach were also opened. The doctors lifted organs clear of the body and dropped them into steel bowls. The entire film lasted about 20 minutes.According to the clock on the wall of the operating room, the two doctors completed the autopsy in about two hours. In addition to the hospital autopsy, the film had footage of a preliminary autopsy in a tent, shots of debris from the crash, and pictures of the spacecraft wreckage as it was lifted onto a flatbed truck. The film footage of the tent autopsy was so dark and poorly reproduced that little could be seen ex cept the two shapes of doctors, a shape on a table, and a lantern hanging from the tent pole. No one took the stage when the film was over to publicly answer questions.