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July 9, 1995: Alien Autopsy Film - Linda Moulton Howe | Earthlight Theory - Greg Long

Jul 9, 1995
1h 45m
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Linda Moulton Howe reports live from the MUFON conference in Seattle, where researcher George Wingfield has just presented black-and-white photographs from the controversial Ray Santilli alien autopsy film. The images depict a hairless being with six fingers, six toes, and oversized eyes covered by a dark membrane that surgeons peel away during the procedure. A leading English pathologist who viewed the footage confirms the body appears genuine rather than a fabricated dummy, and notes the brain tissue looks distinctly non-human.

In the second half, UFO researcher Greg Long presents nearly two decades of findings from the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State, where fire lookouts and investigators photographed recurring orange spheres of light. Long examines the tectonic strain theory, which proposes that geological pressure along fault lines generates ionized atmospheric energy visible as luminous orbs. He documents beeping sounds recorded near sighting locations and explores puzzling connections between ball-of-light phenomena, Bigfoot encounters, and abduction reports in earthquake-prone regions across the Pacific Northwest.

A landmark broadcast weaving together two of the most provocative UFO investigations of the mid-1990s.

Key Moments

  1. Six fingers, six toes, no hair: Howe describes the Santilli autopsy stills shown at MUFON Seattle - five photographs of a nude humanoid with no hair, six distinct fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, large eyes, oversized head.

  2. Pathologist: brain not human: Wingfield reads from England's leading pathologist's report on the Santilli film - the membranes covering the brain and the brain itself were shown being removed, but the appearances and dark color were not those of a human brain.

  3. Tectonic strain theory of UFOs: Greg Long lays out Persinger and Doerr's tectonic strain hypothesis: pressure along faults ionizes the atmosphere into balls of light that move along fault lines, potentially explaining the Yakima Reservation orange-sphere reports.