From: Doug Roberts (doug@nolimits.demon.co.uk)
The Sun Newspaper
28/07/95

Riddle of bodies filmed after 'spacecraft' crash 50 years ago.

This amazing picture is said to be a genuine shot of a creature from another world.

It has a bald, oversized head with black, lizard like eyes and six fingers on each hand.

The picture, from a film the cameraman kept secret for decades, is baffling scientists and medical experts who have yet to prove it's a fake.

You'll be able to judge for yourself whether it is an elaborate hoax or evidence of life beyond the stars when the film is shown in the Channel 4 documentary 'Secret History' at 9pm on Monday, August 28th.

The amazing footage is owned British film maker Ray Santilli.

He says that it was recorded nearly 50 years ago by the U.S. armed forces and shows two dead aliens being examined after their spacecraft crashed in the New Mexico desert.

Ray explains: "I didn't know anything about UFO's before I discovered this film but after seeing the evidence I am convinced these creatures are aliens."

The footage is part of a riddle which began at 11.30pm on July 2nd, 1947, when a mystery object fell to Earth near Roswell airforce base.

Hundreds of eyewitnesses and experts have come forward, claiming the object was a UFO and that it's crash was covered up by the U.S. Government.

One couple, who were sitting on their front porch, told how a "big glowing object" shot across the night sky and appeared to hit the ground a few miles away.

The next morning the crash site was found by civil engineer Barney Barnett.

He saw sunlight reflecting off what looked like a piece of metal and went to investigate.

With a group of archaeologists working in the area he found an oval metallic craft about 30ft long.

But that wasn't all. The ground beside the machine was littered with bodies.

And they could see more inside the wreckage. The beings were hairless, about 5ft, with small eyes and wore grey one-piece clothing.

CRUMPLED

Campers James Ragsdale and Trudie Truelove, who reached the scene shortly afterwards, said the craft seemed to be made of strong tin-foil which would reform itself when crumpled.

But then jeeps arrived from the air base 35 miles away and cordoned off the area.

The witnesses were warned to keep quiet about what they had seen and the craft was taken away in a truck.

Some of the bystanders told Sheriff George Wilcox about their experience - and he later claimed he was threatened with death if he ever talked about the crash to anyone.

Rancher Mac Brazel found fragments of the same foil-like metal on his land, covered in strange symbols. When he told the authorities, they closed off his farm and held him for questioning for three days while they cleared his land of the evidence.

Firemen called to the crash site reported seeing the corpses being carried away in body bags. One, Dan Dwyer, said they looked like "deformed ten-year-old children."

Air base spokesman Lieutenant Walter Haut had already told local newspapers and radio stations of the recovery of a "flying disc" and undertaker Glenn Dennis was asked by the base to supply child-sized coffins.

But suddenly the authorities stopped releasing information.

They told the press not to report anything and denied that a UFO had crashed, claiming the object had been a weather balloon.

Later they said it was a balloon but part of a secret military exercise called Operation Mogul to monitor Russian atomic bomb tests.

But many locals and investigators are sure the craft was a UFO and believe there was a massive cover-up to stop panic spreading across the nation.

Existence of a film showing the dead aliens had been rumoured for some years.

But recently a retired U.S. cameraman, now 82, claimed he had been flown in by the U.S. Air Force in 1947 to make secret recordings of the examination. He said he had kept one copy for himself without the authorities knowing. Now he has sold it to Ray Satilli for one hundred thousand pounds.

Experts say the three-minute film is around 50 years old and agree the medical methods used match those of the era. The alien cut up during the film seems to be the body of a teenage female.

It has an injury on it's left leg which appears to show burned tissue and it's flesh is seen to bleed when cut.

Internal organs similar to the human heart and lungs were removed but the brain, was smooth, unlike a humans with it's folds and grooves.

The U.S. Government continues to deny that anything extra-terrestrial was discovered.

Graham Birdsall, editor of UFO magazine, said "We've investigated the film - it's a fake and we intend to prove it. Why would it only come to light now?"

AMAZING

"I'm sure a spacecraft did crash in the New Mexico desert 50 years ago. At least 180 witnesses saw something which has yet to be explained."

"The owners have got an amazing piece of footage but I don't believe these are aliens."

"I think they are humans but possibly part of some experiment carried out by the U.S. Government."

But Philip Mantle, Director of Investigations at the British UFO Research Association, said: "If it was a hoax it would have to be an incredibly elaborate one involving hundreds of people."

"Something would have bound to slip out."

"This film has aroused global interest. The world will never be quite the same after it is screened."