On 15 May 1995, Joachim Koch wrote: From: koch@wad.fido.de Subject: Roswell ********************************************************************** *Announcement* *of the* *International Roswell Initiative* ********************************************************************** We received a report of Mr. George Wingfield, UFO researcher and editor of the main crop circle magazine, THE CEREALOGIST, UK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Roswell" Film Footage (1995) --------------------------------- On May 5th 1995 Ray Santilli organised a showing, in a lecture room at the Museum of London, of part of the film footage which is supposed to have been taken at Roswell in July 1947. Among 80 or so people present were press, TV, and radio journalists besides other film makers and several ufologists. Attendees were prohibited from taking cameras into the hall. The showing was subsequently reported in radio bulletins but it was almost entirely ignored by the British press which has been largely sceptical of the UFO subject for years. Santilli and a German backer claim to have acquired the film footage about a year ago from an unnamed 80-year old, who worked as a cine cameraman for the US army in the 1940s and was flown to Roswell from Washington D.C. specifically to film the retrieval of a crashed flying saucer and its dead or injured occupants. The cameraman (whose name is rumored to be Jack Barnett) supposedly took copies of the cine film on 16 mm film- stock and kept about 14 cartridges of it. Apparently he was willing to sell it a year or two ago in order to raise money to pay for his grand-daughter's wedding. Santilli reportedly paid him $100,000. It has been suggested, but denied by Santilli, that this Jack Barnett lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. The film segment shown on May 5th lasted about 25 minutes and was a videotaped copy of a number of the original cartridges.It was in black and white with no soundtrack, but had a few lines of rolling text recently appended to the beginning explaining in the briefest manner its claimed origin. Initially one sees the naked body of the dead alien lying face up on an operating table or similar horizontal surface. This appears to be in an operating theatre where the only other vis- ible fixtures are a clock and a telephone attached to the wall. A surgeon and his assistant stand beside the corpse clothed in what appear to be white anti-radiation or anti-contamination suits with attached hoods all in one piece. The hoods contain visors in the form of rectangular slits. This is quite unlike what two doctors wore in a different segment of the film (not shown on May 5th) where they worked in a tent or temporary shelter at the crash site. Reportedly these two did not wear masks or gloves while working on the bodies. In the May 5th segment, a further figure is seen through a large plain glass window in a wall at the end of the operating theatre. The corpse is about 5 ft tall, possibly just a shade less. The head is proportionately large but not unduly so: perhaps 25% larger than one would expect a human head to be. The eyes too are large, but are not that large, or all black as has been described as a distinctive feature of "greys". They are round, slightly oval, and have pupils. They do not appear slanted or almond-shaped. The neck appears normal and not unduly long or thin. Ears are minimal but seem to be positioned lower down on the head. The mouth is in the shape of a small inverted crescent giving the corpse, unsurprisingly, a rather sad look.The mouth seems open and so looks black inside, but it is hard to say whether the lips are thin or absent. The nose is small. The head and body are completely hairless, though they could possibly have been shaved; there is slight darkening in the pubic area. No external genitalia are visible and the corpse is flat-chested with little indication of nipples. Neverthe- less it seems possible the creature is female. The whiteness of the skin is the same shade as Caucasian human skin would be when filmed in monochrome. The body is bulbous and the abdomen appears swollen. The arms and legs are not spindly as one might expect of an alien grey.The thighs in particular are quite thick, tapering towards the knees which are not much in evidence. The musculature of the limbs is certainly human-like and not what one might expect to find in an entirely alien species. However, the feet quite distinctly have six toes but with toenails which look like human ones. It is not possible to be sure whether the hands have a similar number of digits or not, due to the fact that these were alongside the body and could not be clearly seen. Although the camera pans in on various parts of the body as the autopsy proceeds, detail is often not visible due to poor focus though one cannot be sure whether this is deliberate. The only visible injury is a long gash on the inside of the right leg extending from mid-thigh to almost mid-shin. Where the wound was gouged out the flesh appears black though this may be dark red were it to be shown on colour film. Likewise all incisions opened up by the surgeon merely reveal a black- ness which renders it impossible to identify internal organs. The surgeon performs the autopsy, decisively cutting into the body with a scalpel along carefully chosen lines and opening up the body cavities. The initial cuts along the centreline of the body result in slight trickles of blood, or at any rate a dark fluid. The stomach and chest areas are opened up and the dark interior is not easily visible, nor the dark shapeless matter which is taken out. The surgeon removes various internal organs placing them in glass dishes held by his assistant. It is impossible to say which organs are removed. At some stage the surgeon uses tweezers to pull dark membranes from each eye which he places in a dish. This apparently leaves behind just the white eyeballs. All this is done swiftly as if it were standard procedure. The clock on the wall moves on from an initial time of 10.20 to nearly 11.00 and then l