Aliens are very fashionable right now. Steven Spielberg recently announced that they are real and have been visiting us since for ever – but then he does have a poorly reviewed new movie to push. Trump’s White House, meanwhile, has been busily trolling us with hints that it knows more about the subject than it has hitherto let on. I personally think it’s all bollocks – or, if you believe Project Blue Beam, worse than bollocks. But whichever camp you fit into, I think you’ll thoroughly enjoy the three-part documentary series The Alien Autopsy Scandal.

It has the feel of one of those old-fashioned capers where an unlikely band of English eccentrics with specialist skills – butchery, model-making monsters for Dr Who, magic tricks, scamming mug punters – gather to pull off an impossible hoax: to persuade all the world’s experts that their elaborately staged alien autopsy is none other than actual footage from the 1947 Roswell Incident.

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Amazingly (unlike in the movies where these escapades always end in failure), they pulled it off and at least two of them seem to have got very rich indeed off the back of their bogus product........

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