The truth has now been revealed behind one of the most infamous alien videos, as an 18-minute long extraterrestrial autopsy released over 30 years ago has been debunked by experts.
There have been countless alien related conspiracies spiralling throughout the United States and wider world across the last few decades, with new alleged sightings cropping up every single year.
Self-professed alien hunters scour across the country in search of a fabled UFO sighting, and absurd floating objects in South America only continue to add fuel to the fire that keeps people believing in life from another planet after all these years.
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One piece of 'evidence' that many alien enthusiasts still cling on to, however, is the infamous footage of a supposed alien autopsy that was released in 1995, nearly half a century after it was supposedly captured following the 1947 Roswell crash.
As reported by the Daily Mail, this footage has long been speculated due to its realistic depiction of an allegedly dead alien who perished in the mysterious New Mexico crash, with grainy footage showing scientists cutting open its absurd-looking body.
Many took it to be proof that aliens exist, especially as enthusiasm for extraterrestrials had grown in America across the decades prior and speculation surrounding locations like Area 51 sparked countless conspiracies.
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However, it has since been revealed by those that were behind the video that it was all a hoax, with the so-called alien being made up of plastic casts and animal parts — although it certainly does looking convincing to the untrained eye.
It was part of plans for a larger film that extended beyond the 18 minutes of footage that we can watch, with storyboards created by filmmaker Spyros Melaris showing mockups of the alien crash site and consoles that they used to control the UFO.
What remains fascinating and still inspires hope for alien believers though is the claim from Ray Santilli – the man who released the video to the public – that it was in fact based on real footage of an alien autopsy that he had watched in 1992.
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Despite admitting that the publicized film was indeed fake, Santilli continues to insist that it was a 'restoration' of a real life event involving aliens, although there is no proof that such footage exists or was ever produced.
"There has never been any authentic film of an alien autopsy," asserts Philip Mantle, who wrote a book on the Roswell alien autopsy. "Ray Rantilli promised a number of people a piece of the film for analysis, but it never happened."
The mere suggestion that there was a real version is more than enough for some alien lovers though, as blurry photos of supposedly dead aliens continue to circulate throughout social media despite widespread scepticism.
"Sadly, a lot of people have not learnt their lesson," Mantle expresses in relation to the public's continued willingness to believe alien-related hoaxes.