Ironically, some of the items most commonly cited as evidence of the “Alien Autopsy” film’s fraudulent nature actually don’t prove anything, although they are suspicious. The “princess” model telephone and cord, for example, did exist in 1948, although one would have to wonder why the US Army would use one.

Otherwise, here’s a quick-and-dirty rundown of the most obvious errors, most provided by Captain Kevin Randle.

Inconsistencies noted by Randle

* The movie violates Army regulations requiring the filming of all autopsies in color. The footage here is in black and white. Inventory lists for July 1947 indicate that Roswell Army Air Force Base had a full stock of Kodak color film that month.

* If a cameraman misplaced the color stock, or couldn’t access the film for other reasons (e.g., physical damage, unintentional exposure) and had to shoot it in black and white, he'd still shoot it according to Army regulations, especially since President Truman would review it. Army rules state that the movie camera must be mounted from the ceiling, shooting downward from an angle of sixty degrees, and stationary. The footage here depicts a camera that’s on floor level and constantly moving.

* Army regulations also required a still photographer take pictures from floor level, yet we see neither the cameraman nor the flash of a bulb.

* There is no fourth wall, thus indicating a set.

* At the end of the movie, when examining the alleged alien artefacts, one panel with letters that seem like exotically alien writing (but are actually just highly stylized Roman letters) clearly spell out the word “video.”

* The doctors here use instruments that are for a living patient, not anything that a forensic pathologist would use. If you’ve ever seen an autopsy on The Discovery Channel, or live, then you would know that the doctor uses a heavy gauge knife to make a deep incision from the armpits to below the navel, called a “V-cut.” She does this to expose the internal organs to examination. The doctors in this pseudo-documentary use a scalpel for this purpose, thereby making one of the sloppiest V-cuts in the history of modern medicine.

Inconsistencies noticed by X. Dell

* This contradicts much of the lore associated with the Roswell autopsy. That’s not to say that the lore is correct. But both the lore and this tape cannot be correct. And since the lore has better evidence to support it, I’m not inclined to believe the video when the two disagree. One quick example: accounts place a number of other people in the vicinity, among them security personnel, and an assisting nurse named Naomi Sipes. The film only shows three doctors.

* In addition to not knowing what instruments to use, these doctors don’t seem to know how to do an autopsy. They fail to examine the clothes (either while on the body or off), or do the inch-by-inch inspection required to find small puncture wounds (mostly from hypodermic needles) scars, and other small body parts that could provide evidence of identity. Instead, they start with the naked corpse, play with a few body parts, and try to get it to say “ah.” Then they just cut stuff up.

Inconsistency noted by Foam (affirmed by Helene)

* The eyes don’t seem consistent from shot to shot in their focus.

Facts noted by many other researchers

* The people responsible for perpetrating the hoax came clean. One even produced a feature film about it.