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The little-known director Spyros Melaris made a startling statement. The Briton admitted that he is the author of the 17-minute video titled “Alien Autopsy” published in 1995 which became the most famous video fake in history. Data frames, according to legend, were obtained in 1947 on American military base in Roswell, where two pathologists allegedly carried autopsy of a representative of extraterrestrial civilization.
Sensational video and the reaction of the world to it
If you remember, then 22 years ago this sensational material produced the effect of an exploding bomb. It was broadcast throughout channels, ufologists triumphantly shouted that finally received one hundred percent proof of the existence of aliens, paranoid preparing for an alien invasion, the Americans picketed government buildings, requiring the authorities to stop shelling “flying saucers”. In a word, the hype has risen unimaginable.
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However, many skeptics and officials were immediately found, who denied the authenticity of this film material. So, US Air Force officials said they never shot down any UFOs, and Roswell’s military activities are kept secret due to development weapons. And representatives of forensic medicine immediately reported that people captured on this video, never before picked up scalpels. Like, “pathologists” on the record are kept medical tools are wrong, and in addition, do not weigh internal organs of the “green man”, which is unacceptable for such work.
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But all this was only indirect evidence of a fake. Now it turned out that the sensational video was not received by intelligence agencies on a secret base, and an improvised film crew in ordinary London apartment. 58-year-old Spyros Melaris is upright today admitted in an interview with one of the British channels that he shot the legendary “Alien Autopsy”, which in our time was attributed to the art genre of pseudo-documentary. And the reason for this fakes are commonplace: this video, shot for 50 thousand dollars, brought the director and his colleagues millions when hoaxes sold their material to reporters.
How was fake created?
The Briton says that he visited Cannes in 1995 and met there film producer Ray Santilli. He offered Melaris create a pseudo-documentary black and white film about autopsy alien in 1947. A director suffering from a lack of work willingly agreed to such a “prank.” Also participated in the project special effects artist John Humphries, who had a hand in the cult the British series Doctor Who.
Old medical equipment and surgical clothes from the 40s years were taken by Santilli from theater props. The scenery was whipped up in a rented apartment in the north the English capital. The role of pathologists and government autopsy agents were performed by Spyros’s friends and girlfriend. In addition, in preparation for the filming, the director actively helped him brother, who also worked in the film industry. But the main problem is how it’s not hard to guess, it was making a doll, believable imitating an alien corpse.
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John Humphries was forced to use his 10-year-old son at that time. As a result, the foam frame was latex is stretched, which served as an alien skin. Doll belly stuffed with cow guts, and the alien’s foot with a deep the lamb’s thigh became a wound. The mannequin’s head was filled with lamb brains, after the British unsuccessfully tried to pour into it raspberry jam. The initial idea was that, in contrast from humans, the “green men” have a completely fluid brain.
Why did the director repent?
So what is the reason for the repentance of Melaris? Why was he silent for more two decades? In a recent interview, he said that “then released from the bottle the demon of anti-scientific obscurantism.” Perhaps all these years, Spyros has been remorseful over that once deceived a significant part of humanity, and indeed He also made good money on his deceitful fake. However perhaps there is another reason, namely elementary ambition.
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The fact is that the director’s career did not work out at all. Behind all his life he shot several episodes of a cheap series, two documentaries and one television picture. Above the only documentary that really hit viewers and became famous throughout the planet, he worked anonymously. Not It’s possible that the British simply experienced the torment of a creator who did not have before the opportunity to declare themselves and their authorship. However, many of us will probably find this to be Herostratic glory, and there is nothing special to be proud of.
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