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UNITED KINGDOM UFO MAILING LIST

Date: 3rd September 1995

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Alien has got cold feet!
A real alien...or an earthly hoax?
">From the Daily Sport newspaper dated: Monday, August 14th, 1995

PLEASE BEAM ME UP SCOTTY


A Public meeting in Britains UFO capital may be called off...because the ALIEN due to address it has got cold feet!

Scottish councillor Billy Buchanan hired a hall so his pal Zal-us
could tell the secrets of the universe.

The man from outer space - who dresses in black, has a face that's
both young AND old and has piercing blue eyes - called at Billy's
office several months ago demanding a chat.

He claimed he was a member of Cloud Nine, an extra-terrestrial group spying on Earth.

Billy is so convinced Zal-us is genuine he has hired the town hall in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, so the PUBLIC can have a close encounter.

Ridicule


He is also calling for a Government enquiry into HUNDREDS of eerie
alien incidents at Bonnybridge, near Falkirk, dubbed the UFO capital of Britain.

But he said last night: "I'm afraid the man I've been seeing may now want to pull out. He might not want to go ahead with it because of
the ridicule that this meeting has received."

He added: "I'm being made out to be an idiot, but I'm sincere in what I'm doing."
">From the Daily Mail newspaper dated: Thursday, August 24th, 1995

A real alien...or an earthly hoax?

Take a long, close look at the facinating pictures on these pages.

Slightly gruesome they may be. But are they, as some claim,
incontrovertible proof that our planet has been visited by aliens?

Or are they an attempt to pull off one of the most elaberate hoaxes yet played on a gullible world? Some thing to rival the Hitler
Diaries - or even the War of the Worlds broadcast by Orson Welles?

Now you have the chance to make up your mind.

On Bank Holiday Monday, a channel 4 documentary, The Roswell
Incident, will screen grainy black and white film taken by a fast
moving cameraman purporting to show an autopsy being conducted on an extra-terrestrial being at a top secret U.S. military base.

The documentary made by respected film maker John Purdie, is a
serious examination of the mysterious events which took place in
Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

But most attention will be on the few minutes of 'alien footage'
which enthusiasts insist was shot there.

Already some experts, including the Mail's correspondent Roy
Hattersley, have dismissed it as a crude hoax - the UFO equivalent of the perennially-controversial film of the Loch Ness Monster. Other
authorities, including medical experts and scientists, are not so
sure.

Today, the Daily Mail gives an exclusive preview of the pictures -
and examines the arguments for and against the films authenticity.

The Roswell Incident arose when a farmer living near the town
discovered mysterious debris in one of his fields. It looked like
nothing he had ever seen before, so he took it to show his local
sheriff. Equally baffled, the sheriff called in experts from the
top-secret air force base nearby. At the time Roswell was one of the worlds most secret establishments - the only U.S. base from which
atomic bombs could be launched.

But then New Mexico, covered by one of the wildest stretches of
desert in the North American continent, was itself the ' Secret
State' - home to many hush-hush defence projects. It was here that
Werner von Braun and his German engineers worked on the rockets which would later conquer space.

The farmers discovery caused consternation at Roswell and the base
commander authorised his Press secretary to put out a statement
saying that his men had the remains of a flying saucer which had
crashed.

But when the worlds media decended on Roswell, the story had
dramatically changed. What journalists were shown, and what they took photographs of, was clearly the remains of some kind of balloon.

The military authorities announced that the so-called flying saucer was, after all, only a weather balloon.

There the story would have ended, but for the insistance of several witnesses that it was a cover-up to deflect attention from the unique discovery that was the being housed in a hangar at the military base.

It was more than two years later that the Pentagon admitted there had been a cover-up. But not involving aliens.

What they had been hiding, they claimed, was a politically-sensitive high-altitude balloon used to test whether the Soviet Union had
learned how to explode an atomic bomb.

Such an eplanation did little to quell speculation, not least because various witnesses insisted that they had not only seen the remains of a flying saucer at Roswell, but five dead aliens.

The supposed sequence of events boiled down to this: A flying saucer had crashed near Roswell and five bodies of aliens - small, hairless, humanoid figures - were found in various stages of mutilation.
Autopsies had been carried out on at least two and a cover-up was
ordered by the then president Harry Truman.

Enter Ray Santilli.
Mr Santilli is an English entrepreneur whose business is making music videos. He was working for Polydor records and making a film about
fifties pop stars. While in America, he met a cameraman who said he had rare footage of Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley at the beggining of their careers. Santilli says he went to the cameramans house, saw the footage and bought it.

Now comes the controversial part of Santilli's story. He says that
the cameraman then told him he had 'some more unusual film he might be interested in'.

The American explained that during the 1940s he had been attached to the US military and had been asked to film various top secret
projects in New Mexico. Santilli says the cameraman got some old cans of film out of his loft. Much of it had disintergrated. But he did
project one 20 minute reel onto his living room wall. That film is
what you will see on Channel 4 on Monday.

It purportedly shows an autopsy being carried out on a small,
hairless, humanoid figure - apparently female.

Santilli says that, thinking it was some footage from an old horror movie, he asked what it was. The cameraman told him; 'It's the
Roswell Incident.'

Santilli insists that at that point he had never heard of the Roswell Incident, but decided to buy the film and show it to some UFO
experts.

They were staggered at the discovery - but frustrated that Santilli refuses to name or identify the cameraman.

Santilli says that he promised him anonymity and refuses to break
that pledge, even though he knows most people will dismiss the film as a hoax.

The excited UFO experts released two stills from the film on the
Internet. When those pictures were seen by the worlds Press, the
response was staggering. Last weekend Santilli's footage was shown to a restricted audience at the British UFO Conference in Sheffield,
where Roy Hattersley saw it and was not impressed.

He wrote: 'About the film, only one judgment is posssible. There is not the slightest reason to believe that it portrays an autopsy being performed on an alien.'

'Not once, during it's whole flickering length, does it contain
anything that could be reasonably described as evidence or could not be put together by any film special effects department.'

But is he being too cynical? Is there not even the remotest
possibility that we might be gazing on a creature from beyond the
stars - with all the staggering implications that raises?
"There are further articles from this news clipping which I shall post as soon as possible.

Dave.

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