Roswell Incident

The creator of Max Headroom, a 1980s television cyber-presenter, has claimed he was one of the hoaxers behind the Roswell film, the grainy black and white footage supposedly showing a dead alien being dissected by American government scientists after a UFO crash. Alien Autopsy, a movie about the footage, is currently on release across Britain. It stars real-life television presenters Ant and Dec. John Humphreys, a sculptor and consultant on Alien Autopsy who has also worked on special effects for Doctor Who, said it was he who made the models for the alien dissected in the original fake footage. His confession, 11 years afterthe Roswell footage was first shown, will raise questions about the role of Channel 4, which unleashed Max Headroom on the world in the 1980s and bought the UK rights to screen the Roswell footage in Britain.

The footage was first exposed as a fake by The Sunday Times, but an estimated billion people still watched it around the world. Rather than being shot in 1947 near Roswell in the New Mexico desert as previously claimed, the film was actually made at a flat in Camden, north London, in 1995. Philip Mantle, a UFO researcher and author who has been investigating the Roswell hoax for 10 years, said Humphreys had been a prime suspect but had never before admitted involvement. Mantle, who next month will deliver a lecture at GlasgowUniversity on the Roswell story, said: “I didn’t think it would take so long, but I am delighted this hoax has finally been exposed and the mystery has been solved.” Humphreys, who is based in Manchester, says he also appeared in the Roswell film as the chief surgeon. The bug-eyed alien models were filled with sheep brains, chicken entrails and knuckle joints bought from Smithfield meat market. After filming, the dummies were cut up and dumped in bins across London.

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The bizarre tale of how two men created a hoax alien autopsy in Ridgmont – using a bucket of giblets and a 12-year-old wearing a mask – has hit the big screen. Keith Bateman and Andy Price-Watts, who ran a karaoke company in Milton Keynes, captivated the world with a film which purported to be a genuine autopsy, held in 1947, at a UFO crash site at Roswell, New Mexico.In fact, the clip was filmed 47 years later in a barn in Bedfordshire, and the 'alien' was Price-Watts's 12-year-old son.Now the wholemysterious saga has been adapted for a film, unsurprisingly entitled Alien Autopsy, starring Geordie duo Ant and Dec.Both Price-Watts and Bateman have disappeared from Milton Keynes, in something akin to an alien abduction.However, video producer Bruce Barlow, who was involved in the hoax when he included the clip in a documentary he made about aliens, has been traced.Mr Barlow, 64, of Leighton Buzzard, said: "Yes, I will go to see the film because it was something I was connected with and it will be interesting to see how true it will be."People like that sort of thing and I think it will do quite well."He added: "Isuppose it was fairly convincing.

It was shot quite cleverly because it was very grainy and frames are taken out to make it jumpy. It whipped up everyone's interest."All we said was we were approached by someone and did not know whether it was genuine, and put about three to four minutes of it on the end of our documentary."

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Not only is it feasible to build an alien-themed amusement park in Roswell, a city official said, it’s the only city where such a park could work. Zach Montgomery, planning director for the city of Roswell, said New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Business Center did the feasibility study on the possibility of locating an alien theme park in Roswell. Because of the worldwide recognition of Roswell for aliens, he said, it was much more viable in the area. “This is not a guaranteed project, but it has gone farther than any other theme park that has been considered for the city of Roswell,and it’s looking very positive,” he said.”This project will add greatly to the things to do for the visitors that visit our great city in search of answers regarding aliens and UFOs, and the tax benefits and profits that could be realized from a project of this magnitude are tremendous.”Such a theme park could also provide many new local jobs, Montgomery said.Local officials approached Gov.

Bill Richardson in early December about the next phase of work on the alien theme park, and Montgomery said the governor encouraged them to request the funding from state Tourism Secretary Michael Cerletti because the phase will cost less than $250,000.The next phase, Montgomery said, is creation of a businessplan, a competitive analysis, a cost-benefit analysis, a management analysis, a schematic design and a development plan.Montgomery said that in size and scope, the alien theme park would likely be similar to Six Flags Over Texas, a theme park in Arlington, Texas.“It’s going to have multiple rides, a learning center for research, if anyone wants to do research on their own, interactive stations where you can interact with the data,” he said.

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If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery. Answering questions at a townhall meeting Friday, a Dell employee asked Richardson about the 1947 incident in which many people still believe a flying saucer landed near the eastern New Mexico town."I've been in government a long time, I've been in the Cabinet, I've been in the Congress and I've always felt that the government doesn't tell thetruth as much as it should on a lot of issues," said Richardson, who is governor of New Mexico.

"When I was in Congress I said (to the) Department of Defense ... 'What is the data? What is the data you have?' "He was told that the records were classified. "That ticked me off," he said, as the crowd laughed. "What do you want me to do? You want me to open up all those files?" he asked the alien enthusiast, who said he did. "I'll work with you on that." Roswell has become a Mecca for conspiracy theorists in the years since a July 8, 1947, press release sent from Roswell Army Air Base disclosed the recovery of "a flying disk" at a ranch near Roswell. The nextday, higher-ranking officers said the debris came from a weather balloon that crashed; authorities displayed some bits and pieces. More than 30 years passed, and the incident was generally forgotten. But then, an Army officer who took part in the recovery of the debris came forward to assert it had been from an alien spacecraft, and the government was covering it up. Eventually, the Air Force disclosed it had been part of Project Mogul, a top-secret effort to monitor Soviet-era nuclear testing. But that story never satisfied believers who advanced tales of alien bodies recovered in the desert.

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