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SCULPTOR: John Humphreys.
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Salford man admits alien autopsy fake


6/ 4/2006

A SALFORD-BORN special effects expert, who has designed the aliens for Ant and Dec's big screen debut Alien Autopsy, claims he made models that 10 years ago fooled the world into thinking they were really watching the dissection of a real-life extra-terrestrial.

Sculptor John Humphreys has done modelling work for films such as Alexander and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and for TV series including Doctor Who.

But until now, he says, he has kept secret his most well-known work - footage of an alleged post mortem of an alien which, some say, crashed to Earth in Roswell in the United States in 1947. For years sceptics have claimed it was a hoax, but John has stayed quiet - saying he was sworn to secrecy.

But with the release of sci-fi comedy Alien Autopsy, which features Ant and Dec and which is based loosely on the Roswell film, John says he has decided to reveal his role in the making of the 1996 film.

'Identical'

John, who grew up on The Avenue in Lower Broughton and now lives near Eastbourne, says the latest film features creatures which are identical to the aliens he created for the Roswell film.

"All we did for the Ant and Dec film was recreate the models we made 10 years ago from photographs we took at the time," said father-of-two John, who says he also played the role of the surgeon in the original film as well as designing the iconic aliens.

"The first time around we put together a fantastic film in a very short space of time and the models we used were destroyed after we made the film," he said.

"Ant and Dec were great to work with - they have really kept their feet on the ground and they were a pleasure to be around. I visited the set for a few days and they were fantastic."

Despite his admission about his role in the making of the original film, John doesn't claim to be able to explain the truth about what happened at Roswell.

"The truth is out there but there are layers and layers, it's like the real X Files and people will have to make their own minds up," he said.

* Alien Autopsy is out on general release from today and if you want to find out more about John's work you can visit his website at www.john-humphreys.com


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   First, so-called UFOs are quite real. Google "Thomas Townsend Brown" if you want an overview of his "electrogravitic propulsion" and "electrogravitic craft" patents. Any competent physicist, mathematician, or EM engineer (with a marginally open mind) can read the literature and see what he invented and how it works.

Second, if that is true, why defy Occam's Razor and add "aliens" into it? Why not just work with the obvious: that HUMANS built these craft? We have - the patents have been on the books for decades, and several of the core technologies are used in non-top-secret applications. Google "negative resistor".

Seriously, anyone can (and did) fake that video, so why not rely on the hard-core science instead? Have Americans become so dumb that they can't do high-school math? Have we become so gullible that, when presented with a claim, we can't use simple logic to test it for fallacies?

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, 'whether real or promulgated' [emphasis mine], that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." - Henry Kissinger

"There's a sucker born every minute" - P.T. Barnum
Ellis Wyatt, Hollywood
25/11/2006 at 01:53

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   ...fooled the world....Very very few people were fooled. I was at the screening when it first arrived and I remember that most people I spoke to said that this film on its own does not prove anything. We were all frisked for secret cameras which was a joke.
Gerry, Newport
18/11/2006 at 19:36

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