according to santili it's a recreation.he says happened to the original alien autopsy video he purchased. >> we got the film back into england and ran it through the machines. it was peeling off through the machines. we had to stop. >> i was very, very disappointed and upset. we thought we had something to show the world. >> if you bought something this valuable it might seem logical to try to restore it. instead, santili decides to recreate it with the help of john humphries. a well-known hollywood sculptor. >> john was given the responsibility of creating exactly what was on film so that we could doctor it into the film. and sort of create what would be a seamless 20 minutes. so we plugged the gaps, basically. >> the alien in the film i saw looked like it had been very badly injured. in some kind of incident. there was a big tear around the knee and burns here and there and bruising. i was very shocked, very shocked. >> humphries says he viewed frames from the original damaged film and was able to replicate the alien seen