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The video 'Incident At Roswell' contains additional "alien autopsy" footage and is released by Merlin on August 29th, from all good video stores at 12.99 (UK money).

Secret History: The Roswell Incident is on Channel 4 at 9pm on Monday, August 28th.

What really happened in 1947 when a strange craft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico? For half a century, official cover-ups kept it a mystery but now an astounding video video claims to show an autopsy on an alien.

(Text under first three photographs) The surgeon removes the black membrane from the crature's eye. Critics say the removal takes seconds, as if Doctors knew what to expect. Producer Ray Santilli agrees, but says that this may not have been the first autopsy. The surgeon continues to investigate the creatures face. The beings six fingered hand is clearly visable.

(Text under second three photographs) Alien debris, including a beam with weird symbols and an alien "control panel", fitting the beings six fingers.

(Main text) Do our exclusive pictures prove that extraterrestrials have been here, or are they just an elaborate - if brillient - hoax? The film they are taken from, claiming to show an actual autopsy on an alien from a crashed UFO near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, has split UFO watchers.

We arn't coming down on either side. Just look at the astounding stills and make up your own mind.

The shaky black and white film shows a surgeon dissecting a being 5ft tall with six fingers and toes. It resembles a human but it's internal organs are different.

British video producer Ray Santilli found it while in the U.S to buy old footage of fifties pop stars. An elderly cameraman sold him film of high school rock shows featuring Elvis - then offered him footage from the famous Roswell incident.

After a thunderstorm in July 1947, ranch manager William "Mack" Brazel found a massive groove ploughed through the desert scrub and a long trail of weird wreckage. The U.S Air Force, who had a base near Roswell, investigated and intelligence officer Marjor Jesse Marcel collected debris, including "wood" that wouldn't burn, some with strange symbols, and a thin metal that couldn't be cut or dented. The USAF put out a statement saying they had recovered a "flying disc", then retracted it, claiming a weather balloon had come down. It was rumoured that bodies of extraterrestrials were recovered from other sites nearby and the film seems to bear that out.

UFO watchers are split about it's authenticity. Philip Mantle of the British UFO Research Association says: "It is not an obvious hoax. I've studied the film in detail and I cannot find fault with it."

JEnny Randles, author of books on UFOs, resigned from BUFORA because it supports the film. She says: "Although I cannot say that this film is a fraud, it does not match the evidence as we know it."

Ray Santilli has the last word. "I believe it is genuine but I can't guarantee it is."