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THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL INTERVIEW
IS THIS CONTROVERSIAL VIDEO FACT OR FICTION?
Background
 The
color video footage, which lasts for a total of two minutes and
fifty-five seconds, was apparently smuggled out of the secret Groom Lake
"Area 51" facility in Nevada by a man referring to himself as "Victor".
The video film depicts a Grey alien being interrogated at the government
facility.
The footage first came to light on the Art Bell radio show on 13th
March, 1997 when ufologist Sean David Morton was interviewed. Morton
claimed the interrogation was fairly recent, sometime in 1996, and that
renowned UFO expert Bob Dean apparently cried at the advanced screening
of the film.
After claiming to have smuggled the film out of the Groom Lake facility
in Nevada, Victor resolved to have the footage broadcast on network
television as soon as possible in order to pulicly expose his claims.
Victor believes that if his identity is discovered and he is
subsequently assassinated, this would only further help to confirm the
claims and authenticity behind the film.
Victor approached many television companies in his attempts to show the
footage to the public. He first approached Fox TV, who turned him down
after the problems in authenticity they had when the Roswell autopsy
footage was shown by them. Fox felt they were being deceived for a
second time. Eventually, in July 1996, Victor found an independent
production company in Los Angeles, California called Rocket Home
Pictures Productions, who agreed to produce a documentary based around
the interview. Morton was brought in by Rocket's president, Tom Coleman,
to give his views, thus being the first "outsider" to view the footage.
Contents Of The Video
After seeing the interview footage, Morton provides a chilling and
detailed description of what he saw:
"The film was shot through a large plane of glass. There was no sound
accompanying the images. The interview took place in a darkened room,
lit with an eerie greenish glow, I could make out the silhouettes of two
men, one dressed in military uniform with what appeared to be the stars
on the epaulet of his jacket, and another more casually dressed man with
his hand occasionally rubbing his forehead. They sat with their backs to
the camera at one end of a long table, which was littered with wires,
chords and microphones. There were what appeared to be medical devices.
One in particular was blinking erratically, as if it was monitoring a
very sick heart. And there sitting at the end of the table was a small,
beige-skinned, black-eyed, bulbous headed
creature, the like of which haunt the nightmares of thousands of
unwilling abductees."
Morton made many references to the creature's sick appearance and
condition. The alien made very jerky movements and kept bobbing up and
down. He continued to describe the apparently distressed state the
creature was in.
"Its skin was a pinkish beige, but the rest of the head looked purple
and bruised, as if it had suffered severe contusions across the skull."
The contents of the tape grew progressively more disturbing. Towards the
end of the tape, the creature goes into what appears to be violent
spasms, as if it was having a seizure. The mouth of the alien opens and
closes before a foam begins to come out. At that point the heart monitor
(as described by Morton) begins to start jumping wildly, at which point
the man in the military looking uniform signals to a couple of medics,
who rush into the frame and aid the alien. As the doctors treat the
alien, the footage suddenly comes to an abrupt end.
Fact or Fiction?
The authenticity of the footage is seen differently by many people.
Morton is convinced the footage is real due to strong relationships with
stories of alien abductees and the information on the footage in the
lower part of the frame.
I myself am dubious, but do recognize the factors which lead to its
possible true authenticity. The ET's appearance and features are
recognizable as those mentioned by hundreds of abductees. Known as "The
Gourdos" or the more feared "Grey" species, the alien is instantly
recognizable by any Ufologist.
Another factor helping the video's authenticity is the information
etched into the bottom of the video.
The footage has the characters DNI/27 burnt into the bottom line of the
frame, along with what appears to be the time code numbers for date,
minutes and seconds. The letters DNI could be an acronym for the
Department of Naval Intelligence, the group responsible for the Area 51
base, a fact not many people know about. The DNI connection to Area 51
has been widely investigated. George Knapp, the TV journalist who
encouraged Bob Lazar to go public with his knowledge has shown that
Lazar's pay cheques from the time he claimed to be working at Area 51
had DNI stamped on them.
Victor's Reasoning
The best place to possibly determine the authenticity of the alien
interview footage is the source, in this case a mysterious man known as
Victor who won't reveal ANY specific details about himself in fear of
discovery and assassination. If the man is telling the truth about his
background at Area 51, then this is understandable. But how can the film
be verified without any knowledge of it?
The producer of the documentary, Jeff Broadstreet, does know how Victor
took the footage from the base. Victor told him he managed to obtain a
copy of the video when in an unsupervised moment. Broadstreet stated the
following:
"He was assisting in the process of downloading a large amount of video
analogue tape to storage on DVD or digital video disc."
He further explains that Victor deliberately removed the audio track to
protect the identity of the men in the video and to also help protect
his own anonymity. Victor also told the producer that he thought the man
on the left, who is seen with his hand to his head during much of the
segment, is a military telepath apparently used to assist in
communication with the creature.
Since the creature is obviously in a great deal of distress, when
Broadstreet asked if the creature died later, Victor replied
cryptically, "I'm not sure, but I know it was retired from the interview
process."
According to Victor, the contents of the removed audio track involved an
attempt at trying to obtain some form of technological information from
the alien about the coordinates of a ship or object. He does not know,
or wouldn't tell, whether the alien was attending the interview
voluntarily or against his will after he had been recovered from some
UFO crash retrieval operation.
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