Roswell Autopsy Hoax

Apparently the creator of Max Headroom is implicated:

THE creator of Max Headroom, a 1980s television cyber-presenter, has claimed he was one of the hoaxers behind the Roswell film, the grainy black and white footage supposedly showing a dead alien being dissected by American government scientists after a UFO crash.

Alien Autopsy, a movie about the footage, is currently on release across Britain. It stars real-life television presenters Ant and Dec.

John Humphreys, a sculptor and consultant on Alien Autopsy who has also worked on special effects for Doctor Who, said it was he who made the models for the alien dissected in the original fake footage.

His confession, 11 years after the Roswell footage was first shown, will raise questions about the role of Channel 4, which unleashed Max Headroom on the world in the 1980s and bought the UK rights to screen the Roswell footage in Britain.

The footage was first exposed as a fake by The Sunday Times, but an estimated billion people still watched it around the world.

Rather than being shot in 1947 near Roswell in the New Mexico desert as previously claimed, the film was actually made at a flat in Camden, north London, in 1995.

When I was a kid growing up in New Mexico, the flying saucer sighting that caught everyone's imagination was the Socorro incident. As I recall, two off-duty Socorro lawmen said they had seen an alien craft of some sort taking off, sometime in the mid-60's. The older Roswell incident was only a minor footnote.

Of course, as years went by, and especially after about 1980, the Roswell incident grew and grew in the popular mind, celebrated on TV, in the movies, and even in song (e.g. Sheryl Crow). The Roswell incident is celebrated especially by the Roswell Chamber of Commerce, which has built an alien museum, "Welcome to Roswell" signs featuring green aliens, and other tourist attractions. In comparison, the formerly-compelling Socorro incident is now all-but-forgotten. I wonder why that is?