Fox airs 'Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?'
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Fox broadcast a special built around Ray Santilli's black-and-white film said to show a 1947 alien autopsy, hosted by Jonathan Frakes. In 2006 Santilli admitted the film was a staged recreation, while still claiming it was based on genuine footage he had seen; no such footage has been produced.
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How the story came out
Happened 28 Aug 1995. First made public 3 years later (28 Dec 1998).
- 28 Aug 1995It happened (this event)
- 28 Dec 1998Fox special 'World's Greatest Hoaxes' calls its own Alien Autopsy film a fake - first made public
- Apr 2006Alien Autopsy producers admit the footage was a staged 'restoration'