Product Description

This video delves into the famous purported 1947 crash of a ufo near roswell new mexico and the alleged government cover-up. This special speaks with experts including cynics and believers in the fields of film pathology and special effects. Viewers are asked to decide for themselves if this was authentic. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/15/2005 Run time: 70 minutes Rating: Nr

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71615 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2005-03-15
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 48 minutes

Customer Reviews

See it, but don't expect an answer
If you happened to see this "documentary" when it first aired on FOX and were aware of the controversy that swirled around it, then there is nothing new here. If you didn't, and you happen to be a UFO buff, then you must see this despite the constroversy.

Is it a hoaxed "recreation" or an actual autopsy? There's no way to know. Awkward camera angles? Who cares. Period "prop" pieces or what happened to be in the room at the time? There's no way to know. Incredibly complex human-like dummy or actual cadaver? Who knows. Human with an exceedingly rare disfiguring genetic condition, or recovered alien body? Who knows. If it is a human, then why no recognizable internal organs? If alien, why the humanoid physiognomy?

Either this is the rarest, paradigm busting, ground-shaking footage ever released, or it is a cash cow for some unknown hoaxers. Either way, there's nothing else that even comes close to this seeming "holy grail" of ufology.

Amazing documentary of a Controversial Subject
Watched this video a couple of nights ago. Incredible--not only was this documentary very well "balanced", it opens up new questions into aliens that I'd never even thought of before.

For the reviewer R2xA, who titled his/her review "missing footage", I bought this DVD never expecting to see the "complete film." Nowhere on the package or product info did I find a reference to the whole unabridged film. It, however, is not a "special feature"-----it is instead a "continuation" of the documentary. As soon as the TV program ends, and the credits run, the DVD goes directly into the "autopsy film." Unless Lion's Gate made two separate and distinct DVDs, you'll find the whole ugly thing in its entirety!
This almost 20 minutes of film is set to a rather well done stereo music track!

The DVD package says the run time is 48 minutes. Believe me, its almost 20 minutes LONGER THAN THAT! Don't know if that was an error in printing--or if they didn't want anyone to know that footage was there!?!

Totally amazing!

If you have any interest at all in UFO lore, this DVD will "put your mind right!"

Interesting sidelight: I visited the Mayan TULUM ruins in Mexico, a few hours away from Cancun, a couple of years ago. Over some of the entrances to the various stone buildings were handprints, apparently in blood?, but the hands had six fingers! --An unknown phenonomen.
In this documentary, the alien has six fingers. Coincidence?

I'd heard before that there is a theory that extraterrestrials had long ago visited Earth and shared their technology with ancient civilizations. Could this be a clue?

Beats the hell out of me.

Watch, study, and decide for yourself!

A well-made documentary about a highly suspect film
In the mid-1990s, the release of the purported 1947 alien autopsy film footage divided the UFO community (which was probably the whole point) and generated a lot of attention nationwide, attention which Fox quickly made us of in the production of this documentary concerning the film. A majority of interested parties viewed the film with great suspicion early on and rather quickly came to the conclusion that it was a hoax, but the great believability of the film's nature allowed many to look upon it as authentic. Combine this with the similar debate over the alleged MJ-12 documents, for both seem to be interconnected in my mind, and you have the makings of one of two things: definite smoking guns or else dangerous sources of disinformation. Whatever you believe, the alien autopsy footage itself is still fascinating to watch, and this video does an excellent job of presenting the evidence in a fair and balanced manner.

The video, hosted by Jonathan Frakes, begins by touching upon the history of the Roswell incident in 1947, featuring interviews with such well-known witnesses as Walter Haut, the public relations officer at Roswell Army Air Base, Dr. Jesse Marcel, the son of the man who first examined the wreckage and brought some of the evidence home to show his wife and son before returning with it to the base, and other Roswell eyewitnesses. It then features Ray Santilli giving his story on the finding of this alien autopsy footage - this includes much of the information that makes the story such a dubious one. Then it shows a number of scenes from the alien autopsy itself - you will not find the complete autopsy film itself here in its entirety, however.

Then you get the opinions of assorted experts. Film specialists are asked if the film could have been made in 1947 (although the fact that Kodak was given film samples outside of what you find in the autopsy film is not mentioned), a World War II cameraman is asked to comment on the troublesome habit of the film going in and out of focus a great deal, medical experts including Dr. Cyril Wecht are asked to give their opinion on the medical aspects of what they are seeing in the film, and special effects experts such as Stan Winston are asked for their impressions of authenticity. This FOX TV special did not go hip deep into the evidence, unfortunately, but it did indeed leave the final answer to the film's authenticity up to the viewer. It gave equal time to those who think the footage is authentic and those who brand it a hoax for a number of different reasons.

Finally, the video features new film reportedly taken of some of the UFO wreckage from Roswell; this, to me, is even more dubious than the autopsy film. Personally, I think this film and the MJ-12 documents that a few ufologists continue to defend in such a personal manner are deliberate sources of disinformation intended to divert and weaken the UFO community. In any event, though, this particular documentary represents an excellent presentation of the autopsy film evidence and the debate over its authenticity back in 1995.