Dead Aliens or Special-Effects? mysteriousuniverse.org /2014/03/dead-aliens-or-special-effects March 17, 2014 Nick Redfern As s omeone who spends a lot of time digging into stories of the distinctly strange kind, I find myself on the receiving end of a lot of correspondence from people that read my articles and books. Very oft en, people want to share their stories (or those of families and friends). More often than not, this process opens a lot of doors and offers greater insight into the subject at issue – whether the UFO phenomenon, Cryptozoology , or the field ofconspiracy-theorizing. Sometimes, however, I find myself on the receiving end of a very different category of story… That category is, for me at least, quite possibly the most vexing one of all. The reason being that it is filled with great and intriguing stories, but ones that I have never been able to get to the bottom of, and which languish in a realm that might accurately be titled: “Fascinating But Frustrating.” And, so, I thought I would share with you my perso nal favorite, one that ( A) really caught my attention; (B) has eluded every single attempt to resolve it; but (C) s till make me think there is something to it. In 1997, the U.S. Air Force published a report that suggested the “alien bodies” seen sprawled around the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 were dummies used in parachute experiments . We are, of course, talking about Roswell. But there is anotherangle to the “alien dummies” saga. A decade or so ago I spoke with a guy who c laimed his gran dfather, from the 1930s to the 1960s, worked in the world ofHollywood – specifically in the field of special-effects and model-making for horror and sci-fi movies. The grandfather also had another string to his bow: namely, a connection to the secret world of government. And that same connection surfaced in an intriguing fashion.
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In 1945, the acclaimed film-maker Billy Wilder – who died in 2002 – directed the English language version of a documentary
called Death Mills, which was produced by the U.S. Department of War’s Psychological Warfare Department. It was a
harrowing, but acclaimed, production that graphically revealed the sheer, horrific extent of the Nazi holocaust of the Second
World War.
The Pentagon describes psychological warfare as: “The planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having
the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as
to support the achievement of national objectives.”
It transpired that plans were afoot for Wilder to make a similar production for the PWD on the atrocities undertaken byJapan’s Unit 731 during the Second World War. It was, however, a documentary that ultimately did not come to fruition. It
transpires that my source’s grandfather worked on Death Mills with Wilder and, as a result, came to know some of the PWD
personnel.
Almost certainly as a result of his work alongside the PWD on Death Mills, in 1955 the special-effects expert in question wa
contacted by psychological warfare planners in the U.S. Air Force and offered a lucrative contract: to use his cinematic skil
to create what can best be described as faked alien bodies.