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Subject: (Fwd) SPIELBERG BEHIND SANTILLI 'ALIEN AUTOPSY' FILM?
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Subject: SPIELBERG BEHIND SANTILLI 'ALIEN AUTOPSY' FILM?
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LAST WORD ON ALIEN AUTOPSY FILM?
A rumor circulated a couple of years ago that famous Hollywood
director Steven Spielberg had acquired footage of a 1947 UFO crash in
Roswell, New Mexico, and its dead alien crew. He supposedly obtained
it from a retired army cameraman who had kept it hidden for almost
four decades.
Spielberg was said to be preparing a new movie, designated
'Project X,' to
be released in 1997, the 50th anniversary of the so-called Roswell
crash. At the time, Spielberg's film company emphatically denied any
truth to the rumor, and it faded away when no proof was forthcoming.
A new twist to that rumor has now surfaced. In issue No. 34, New
Dawn reported on the controversial Santilli alien autopsy film. The film
became all the rage in the international UFO community, with half the
specialised publications featuring Santilli's alien corpse on their
front covers.
Now, Ufologist J. Antonio Huneeus, writing in his Fate magazine
column of March 1996, disclosed that Santilli now appears to be just the
front man for the real owner of the film.
Huneeus writes: "Santilli admitted as much in an interview on the BBC TV
show Good Morning with Anne and Nick. When asked how much he had paid
the alleged cameraman, Santilli responded: 'I didn't pay anything for
it. The money that we eventually got to pay for the film came from
Germany, but it was a significant amount that was required to acquire
the film.'"
"The identity of the shadowy owner," writes Huneeus, "Herr Volker
Spielberg," finally emerged, not through Santilli's mouth, but was
made by "Jacques Pradel of the French network TF1, which had
previously broadcast the original autopsy footage..."
Huneeus reports on a TV program conducted by Pradel, in which he
assembled a number of experts from various fields, and interviewed Santilli
live from London. "There can be little doubt that Santilli looked pretty
bad on this show. He was embarrassed several times by Pradel's
questions," says Huneeus.
As the program continued, "it became clear he [Santilli] just
didn't have
the original footage, that it was beyond his control. So TF1 sought
the identity of the reputed owner, Herr Spielberg, showing his small
production company offices in Hamburg. Spielberg, however, was not
there because he was dodging the media."
The TF1 cameras finally tracked him down to an apartment building where
Spielberg was staying. When contacted on the telephone, "his voice was
recorded... saying, 'I want nothing to do with journalists. I am a
collector, it's personal, the world is selfish, so am I.' He was
escaping from prying TV cameras just like corrupt officials or
businesspeople do."
In concluding, the way the film has been distributed and handled, in
Huneeus's opinion, is "highly suspicious," and "I don't expect to
discuss it further in this column. Enough is enough."
Perhaps we now fully understand Spielberg's comments to UFO researcher
Jacques Vallee, related in an interview published in New Dawn No. 34:
"When I met Stephen Spielberg, I argued with him that the subject
[of UFOs] was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it
was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but
that's not what the public is expecting - this is Hollywood and I want
to give people something that's close to what they expect.'"
Spielberg acts as the ET's greatest PR man, producing a string of
award-winning Hollywood films that present the aliens in a very
positive light. Who could not feel warm and fuzzy at the plight of ET?
Or feel pangs of compassion for the aliens downed in the 1947 Roswell
crash? No guessing who'll get the international TV rights to the joint
announcement by Rockefeller and Spielberg, two of the world's richest
men, of our friendly ETs' arrival at UN headquarters.
Above news item extracted from New Dawn No.36 (May-June, 1996)
(C) Copyright 1996 by New Dawn International News Service, GPO Box
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