This Side of the Pond

Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, but sometimes the truth is more bizarre than the hoax could hope to be. Such appears to be the case with a piece of “proof” that we are not alone in the galaxy, which turns out to have been entirely cooked up by one of my neighbors in London.

I am referring to the footage of a supposed alien autopsy that caused uproar in the mid 1990s. If you don’t recall the film, it appears to show government pathologists dissecting an extra-terrestrial.

The reason I assumed it was an American-made scam is that it was said to have been filmed by an American m...