Even if you, dear readers, are interested in ufology, this information is most likely unknown to you. The fact is that in May 1997 on American television in the program "Mysterious World" a fragment of a video recording of a conversation … with a space alien was shown!
How the secret became apparent
The said TV show lasted only a few seconds, although the duration of the entire video was about three minutes. It is said to have been taken at the American Nellis Air Force Base, located at the bottom of the dried-up Groom Lake in Nevada and known as Area 51.
The cassette with a sensational recording was allegedly stolen by a former employee of the aforementioned air base, hiding under the pseudonym Victor. According to him, this videotape "is only a tiny part of the huge archive located in Area 51 and containing records of hundreds of hours of conversations with aliens of different origins."
A fragment of the video that flashed in the telecast re-awakened interest in Area 51 - eight years after the statement of the physicist Bob Lazar that the military had restored nine spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin on its territory.
According to Victor, he decided that people should see the entire record he had obtained, and offered it to the heads of several television companies, including Robert Kiviat, the author of the world famous documentary "Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?" But Kiviat, convinced that he had once already been deceived into believing in the authenticity of the alien autopsy tape, did not show interest in Victor's proposal.
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The cassette was eventually bought by the Los Angeles-based Rocket Pictures Home Video studio. They decided to use it in a documentary exposing the government's involvement in UFO research in Area 51. The studio commissioned independent producer Jeff Broadstreet, who is knowledgeable about UFOs, to make the film.
The latter showed Victor's video to a group of experts, among whom were famous ufologists Sean Morton, Whitley Striber and retired Colonel Robert Dean, as well as two special effects specialists working in Hollywood.
Video content
In August 1997, Rocket Pictures released the documentary Area 51: Interview with an Alien. Sean Morton, who starred in the film, says Victor's footage is "absolutely amazing."
Here's how he describes the video's content and his viewing experience:
“The shooting was carried out through a transparent screen. There is no soundtrack (sound track) on the tape. The interview was conducted in a darkened room, illuminated only by a dim greenish light. The silhouettes of two men are visible: an officer dressed in a uniform jacket with stars on his shoulder straps, and another, in a civilian suit, who rubs his forehead from time to time.
They both sit at the table with their backs to the camera. On the table there are wire harnesses, connectors, several microphones and some other medical equipment. Behind the table are monitors, one of them pulsating a curve reminiscent of a recording of a very sick heart.
On the other side of the table, facing the camera, sits a short creature with a pear-shaped or light bulb-shaped head and large black eyes. It is reminiscent of the nightmare characters that thousands of victims of abductions tell about."
However, the condition of the alleged alien soon caused Morton's concern.
“At some point, the head of the 'interviewee' suddenly turned red, strange swelling appeared on it, and she began to twitch. It looked like the creature was gripped by an attack of suffocation. It opened and closed the mouth, from which soon some liquid began to flow.
At the same time, the signal on the monitor, where, apparently, the creature's cardiogram was recorded, began to gallop feverishly across the screen, and at that moment two people in white coats ran into the room. One of them put his hand around the creature's head and shone a flashlight into his eyes, while the other stuck his fingers into his mouth, as if he wanted to ease his breathing. The video ends at this point."
Video credibility estimates
Jeff Broadstreet is very cautious about this video:
- Whether it is genuine or not, I cannot say for certain. Rocket Pictures intended to present the situation objectively, so in our documentary we provide not only information from Victor and the opinions of Morton and Dean, who speak about the authenticity of the recording, but also criticisms of special effects film specialists who consider a "space alien" or a mechanical doll, or a drawing made by computer graphics methods.
A study of his past would help to establish the authenticity (or fake) of Victor's video footage, but, as Broadstreet says, “He did not give us his real name or what he did at Area 51, although he claimed to have worked there. According to him, he fears most of all that the authorities might get on his trail, and then he will have trouble, like Bob Lazar."
In the film of the studio "Rocket Pictures" the mysterious Victor himself acts as a character, his voice sounds from the screen. But Victor's face is not visible there: instead of him there is a dark spot on the screen. This is another element of conspiracy.
According to Broadstreet's assumption, Victor erased the soundtrack from the videotape so that it was impossible to "figure out" who the two men who appear in the film are. Victor says that the officer is an assistant, and the conversation with the alien is conducted by a man in civilian clothes, a psychic telepath who works for the government.
Broadstreet asked Victor if the alien's sudden deterioration, captured on videotape, had ended in the death of the alien.
- I'm not sure about this, - he answered, - but I know for sure that he no longer took part in such events.
And when asked if he saw living aliens on the territory of Area 51, Victor replied that he happened to see them in other circumstances. Victor could not tell whether the aliens voluntarily ended up in Area 51. Or didn't want to.
UFO researcher Whitley Striber, author of the bestselling books Communion and Transformations, initially thought Victor's footage was a fake, but he was deeply moved and moved by the alien image he saw on screen. He reawakened Striber's memories of past years, when he himself had been in the role of alien abductor. The impression was so strong that he decided not to watch this video again.
Colonel Dean's dissenting opinion
Colonel Bob Dean, one of the investigators of the UFOs with which people belonging to the military environment occurred, considered the video to be genuine.
“When I was invited to watch,” he says, “I was sure that they would show me another fake. But what I saw made a very strong impression on me, and I realized that such a recording could not be fake.
By the way, Dean is one of those few ufologists who believe in the authenticity of the film about the autopsy of an alien. His belief in the veracity of both tapes is based on the fact that they feature creatures similar to those aliens, whose corpses were captured in photographs of victims of a long-standing UFO disaster.
“I know the autopsy film is not a fake,” the colonel says. - I saw these photographs 20 years ago, and then they were shown to our allies, members of the SEATO organization, the treaty of the countries of Southeast Asia.
"The release of Victor's video is part of a secret CIA plan to manipulate public opinion in this way," Dean said. In his opinion, the appearance of the alien from Victor's tape is the same as in other photographs of aliens. The same can be said for the alien autopsy movie.
- When everyone saw that the appearance of the alien does not correspond to generally accepted ideas, they considered the film fabricated, - continues the colonel. - The creature on the video also does not look like a typical gray man, but people do not take into account that we are dealing not with one, but with several types of others.
Afterword
Serious ufologists approach such sensational "evidence" as a film about an autopsy of an alien or a video interview with a creature of the same type with great caution. To recognize such "evidence" as genuine or, conversely, false, very convincing arguments of trustworthy specialists are needed.
In the meantime, about both "evidence" for a long time there have been heated debates, both in the ufological, and in the scientific and pseudoscientific environment. And there is no end in sight …
Vadim Ilyin