Faked-or-Fiction Updates:
6/1/08
It's been almost nine years since we bothered to post any updates to the site - there wasn't a lot more to say.
Until the "autopsy" hoaxers finally confessed in early 2006, that is. Okay, it was two years ago and we didn't post an update about that because we weren't exactly shocked - we're the ones who said it was a hoax since day one, remember?
11/7/99
No,
nothing new in Alien Autopsy news - but we just wanted to share this link to an
article entitled
Captured
By Aliens, in which author Joel Achenbach goes to a convention in search of
the answer to the eternal question, "Am I really an alien in human form?"
And guess what? He is!
He also has
a
new book out, with the same title.
Coincidence? We don't think so...
6/12/99
We recently noticed this
rather unusual listing in the
Internet Movie Database.
Listings in the IMDb are mostly supplied by users -
apparently somebody submitted this bogus info, and the IMdb posted it without
checking up.
The question is - is this a joke... or a public
confession? (We're guessing it's the former.)
12/14/98
Well, here's an interesting news story...
"Alien Autopsy" a Hoax, Fox
Says
by Bridget Byrne,
December 11, 1998, 5:20 p.m. PT
Remember Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?,
Fox's much-hyped 1995 special that purported to show a real, deceased E.T.
sliced and diced on tape?
Now, that documentary, which paraded out
several "experts" (including Hollywood makeup men) to account for the veracity
of the autopsy footage, has been shown to be a fake. Believe it or not, it's
Fox itself that has "exposed" Alien Autopsy. The news is revealed in, you
guessed, another hokey sensationalistic special scheduled to air on the
network.
In fact, World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets
Finally Revealed, hosted by Lance Henriksen and airing December 28 at 8 p.m.,
is executive produced by Robert Kiviat, the same guy who made the
ratings-friendly Alien Autopsy.
Kiviat says that the idea to do a special
on hoaxes came about when he was looking at footage for inclusion in his 1997
Fox special, UFO's, The Best Evidence Ever Caught on Tape. He wondered how some
of the stuff was created. According to a flamboyant Fox press release, the
latest hourlong special uses "NASA-type video enhancements" to shed new light
on how the peep into alien innards--"one of the biggest hoaxes of all
time"--was accomplished.
Kiviat, who says he always doubted the
truth of the alien autopsy, describes his specials as having "a documentary
spin." Digital enhancement revealed a previously invisible face in a segment of
very dark footage. Four months of what he calls "Woodward and Bernstein-type
journalism" enabled his researchers to track down the actor with that
face.
Turns out the autopsy was
not shot on film in 1947 when aliens reportedly landed near Roswell, New
Mexico. It was shot on video in 1994...
Reprinted from
E! Online
http://www.eonline.com:80/News/Items/0,1,4038,00.html |
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What? The "Alien Autopsy" is fake? Imagine
our surprise!
Naturally, as soon as this show aired, there came an
explanation
of why Fox's "evidence" didn't prove a thing.
And to be honest - we agree. Then again, we didn't
think Fox's original PRO-autopsy "evidence" proved anything three years ago,
either.
Is it possible tabloid TV simply isn't a reliable
technique for scientific research? |
11/15/98
Trey was a guest lecturer at the conference on
Hollywood, the Media and the Supernatural in Los Angeles on November
14th. (Other speakers included Steve Allen and actor/director Peter Bonerz.)
Trey's topic? "Alien Autopsies Across the Globe" - an
overview of "alien autopsy" re-creations.
8/11/98
A modified text version of How To
Make An Alien appears in the book
The
UFO Invasion.
(All proceeds from sales of the book go to
CSICOP.)
4/6/97
Just when we start to think this whole "alien autopsy"
thing is over, it starts up again. (And with the 50th anniversary of the
"Roswell Incident" coming up this summer, it may not be over for a long while
yet.)
And the bandwagon got rolling again recently, with Trey's
April 4th appearance on ABC's 20/20.
One of the highlights of the 20/20 interview which
ended up on the cutting room floor involved correspondent Bob Brown asking Trey
if he'd ever get tired of the role of "alien autopsy FX debunker".
The answer? "What do you mean, if?"
(See the CSICOP Web page for
a brief description of the 20/20
show, which also included a dandy new autopsy sequence by Steve
Johnson.)
1/5/97
It seems there have been a number of "Alien Autopsy - One
Year Later" follow-ups in the media lately.
Certainly one of the most amusing results of this whole
affair is the number of times Steve Johnson's "Roswell
- The Movie" alien has been used in fake autopsy photographs. (And every
time it shows up, it seems that
somebody decides
it's the "real" alien.)
We'd like to think Steve's alien is the hoaxers' dummy of
choice because we suggested the idea over a year ago... but it's probably just
coincidence.
