Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?) (1995) (TV)

Director:

Tom McGough

Writers:

Robert Kiviat (writer)
Tom Seligson (writer)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

In 1947, something happened in Roswell, New Mexico...

Plot:

This provacative FOX Network "prime time" television special investigates the purported "Alien Autopsy" footage that was allegedly filmed by the United States military after the legendary UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Pseudo Documentary | Fiction | Spoof | UFO

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jonathan Frakes	...	Himself - Host
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paolo Cherchi Usai	...	Himself - Senior Curator - Eastman House
Allen Daviau	...	Himself
William Dear	...	Himself - Private Investigator
Stanton Friedman	...	Himself
Walter Haut	...	Himself
Kent Jeffrey	...	Himself - Coordinator - International Roswell Initiative
Philip Mantle	...	Himself - Director of Investigations, BUFORA
Jesse Marcel	...	Himself (as Dr. Jesse Marcel)
Chris Milroy	...	Himself - Senior Lecturer in Forensic Pathology (as Dr. C.M. Milroy)
Kevin D. Randle	...	Himself - Author "UFO Crash at Roswell" (as Kevin Randle)
Dr. Roderick Rock	...	Himself - Navy Combat Cameraman
Frankie Rowe	...	Herself - Roswell Eyewitness
Ray Santilli	...	Himself
Steven Schiff	...	Himself (New Mexico Congressman) (as Congressman Steven Schiff)
Cyril H. Wecht	...	Himself (as Dr. Cyril Wecht)
Stan Winston	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:PG (special edition)

Filming Locations:

Rochester Square, Camden Town, Camden, London, England, UK

Company:

Kiviat/Greene Productions Inc.

Goofs:

Plot holes: An autopsy on a human takes several hours. Being that this is supposedly an alien, they would have taken extra time to be more thorough than usual. But look at the clock on the back wall.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Area 51: The Alien Interview (1997) (V)

Clearly fake

This is supposedly a videotape that was made in the 1940s to document an alien autopsy. If so, then we have serious problems. The doctors behave more like barely-decent actors than medical professionals. They make many errors that show that they know little about autopsies. Another problem is that the the quality of the footage is very poor for something purporting to show an the dissection actual extraterrestrial being. I would have expected it to be in color (still a novelty in the 1940s).

One important question is: if this an extraterrestrial that evolved independently light-years away, why does it bear such a striking resemblance to a deformed human child? While humanoid aliens may be common in science fiction, the chances of encountering one in real life would be infinitesimal.