Editing UFO conspiracy theories (section)

===="Alien Autopsy" hoax====

[[Alien Autopsy (1995 film)|Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction]] is a 1995 [[pseudo-documentary]] containing grainy black and white footage of a hoaxed alien [[autopsy]].<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|93}} <ref>{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|p=219}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|pp=203–217}}</ref> In 1995, film purporting to show an alien autopsy conducted shortly after the Roswell incident was released by British entrepreneur [[Ray Santilli]].<ref name="Frank2023p1101">{{cite book |last=Frank |first=Adam |title=The Little Book of Aliens |date=2023 |publisher=Harper |isbn=978-0-06-327977-3 |edition=ebook |location=New York}}</ref>{{rp|1101}} The footage aired on television networks around the world.<ref name="saf">{{Scientific American Frontiers |8 |2}}</ref> The program was an overnight sensation,<ref name="Jose1">{{cite book |last1=Levy |first1=Michael M |author-link=Michael M. Levy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvaKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 |title=Aliens in Popular Culture |last2=Mendlesohn |first2=Farah |date=2019 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-3833-0 |location=Santa Barbara, California}}</ref>{{rp|32}} with ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine declaring that the film had sparked a debate "with an intensity not lavished on any home movie since the [[Zapruder film]]".<ref name=Time>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983764-1,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216074850/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983764-1,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 16, 2009 |title=Autopsy or Fraud-topsy? |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |author=Corliss, Richard |author-link=Corliss, Richard |date=November 27, 1995 |access-date=April 23, 2010}}</ref>

The program was thoroughly debunked. The autopsy footage was filmed on an inexpensive set constructed in a London living room. Its alien bodies were hollow plaster casts filled with [[offal]], sheep brains, and raspberry jam.<ref>{{harvnb|Frank|2023|p=1109}}</ref> Multiple participants in ''Alien Autopsy'' stated that misleading editing had removed their opinions that the footage was a hoax.<ref name="Time"/><ref name="Jose1" /> Santilli admitted in 2006 that the film was a fake.<ref name="Jose1" />