Controversy surrounding photos of aliens, extraterrestrials
Controversy around the photos
June 2, 2005
Readers have sent me what they consider to be proof that the photo(s) reproduced are fake. Here is the document:
Source: http://www.ufoplaza.nl/~ganzegal/pix/jrodfx.jpg (a Dutch UFO site)
Let's compare these two photos:
There are significant morphological differences: the shape of the skull, the importance of the lower jaw, the sunken cheeks. If these are mannequins, I would say they are two different models, and the one on the left seems "more successful" than the one on the right.
The top photo, showing our "laughing pranksters," doesn't mean much. We are in an undecided situation. Indeed, if the composition of a mannequin posed some problems at the time when Jacques Pradel had spread the document produced by Santilli, today the techniques have made great progress. Let's not even talk about computer-generated images, which today make the concept of an "authentic photo" practically meaningless.
If a photo of a real alien escaped the control of the authorities, sufficient means would quickly be put in place for the "debunking" to fulfill its role. We come back to the basic idea: the nature of the document cannot be analyzed. We must focus on what it "says." In the case of Santilli's film, the exotic information was the presence of dark membranes removed from the creature's eyes. If I'm not mistaken, if science fiction and ufological literature is full of "little men with big heads" and this was long before 1947, I don't think this intriguing detail appears in the literature. At least not to my knowledge. It is quite significant that no one noticed it at the time when everyone was falling on poor Pradel.
I envy the readers who consider that the recovery, on the web, of the photo at the top of this page allows them to consider this as a "closed case."