From: Doug Roberts (doug@nolimits.demon.co.uk)
The Guardian
28/07/95
The maker of a controversial Channel 4 documentary which claims to depict the secret US Air Force autopsy of extra-terrestial beings is to fly back to the US to shore up a much questioned story amid allegations from UFO experts of a hoax and a financial "scam".
Rupert Murdoch's FOX TV network has bought the footage of the autopsies, claimed to be taken by a US Air Force cameraman, for a sum which industry sources said was "well in excess of half a million dollars".
John Purdie, director of the documentary, said yesterday: "We have always born in mind the possibility that this footage could be a hoax, and that there may even be a commercial scam. If so, our film will reflect that. We have an open mind".
Mr Purdie, aware that the aliens in the film may have come from a Hollywood special effects lab, is to interview the now elderly cameraman who claims to have filmed the autopsies and who insists on anonymity to avoid exposure in the world press.
Veteran investigators of the crash of what the US Army Air Force said was "a flying disk" near the Roswell atomic bomber airbase in New Mexico in 1947, claimed yesterday that the film of the alleged autopsy had been doctored.