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News from the Japanese UFO community...

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Dear friends,

A J-ROD autopsy film has been released by Japanese TV during the two-hour "live" special broadcast on December 31, 2004. The footage announced as a great exclusive awakened expectation and a controversy among the Japanese expert panel invited to analyze the cases presented during the new year's traditional UFO and Paranormal nationwide TV show.

I just received a copy of the program and an alleged J-ROD autopsy film attracted my attention. As the show is in Japanese I'm in the proccess of getting an English translation from a Japanese friend to have the information and details.
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According to the report the story tells of a UFO crash and retrieval near the Kingman, Arizona base in 1953 where the legendary and controversial J-ROD Alien was supposedly captured and kept in custody. The existence of an autopsy film was unknown for me so this piece of footage was a surprise and I don't know if anyone of you have heard or seen it.

The footage is in color and the quality is very good. The "being" is almost identical to that famous and debated photo and looks very real. The autopsy procedures performed by the two doctors are very similar to the ones in the Santilli's film but this one has some more realistic details like the moment when the doctor pulled out the alien's tongue.

Some experts, including a Japanese special effects creator, were interviewed and it seems that they were impressed. Unfortunately all the information including the source was in Japanese so I just understood some things but I will try to have the english translation at once. A short piece of footage was also presented showing an alleged UFO being shot down by another UFO  but because of the language I could'nt understand the connection with the J-ROD autopsy film case.

As I had a colaboration in this Japanese TV special I heard some comments by a production company representative in the sense that they had a new piece of revealling footage never released before to be presented as an exclusive on new year's eve special. As a rule I don't give too much credit to these promised 'ultimate evidence' announcements because most of the time they result in the usual fiasco. But I must say that I didn't expect to see supposed J-ROD alien autopsy footage.

This is going to be a good one for discussion and debate. The film is good and looks like the real thing awakens many doubts in my opinion. However the general opinion of researchers and collagues will mark the appropiate definition.

Santiago Yturria