Video recording of non-human intelligent beings

Video recording of non-human intelligent beings is the collective designation for a body of footage — distributed across broadcast television, VHS, and internet platforms from the 1940s onward — that claimants assert constitutes visual documentation of living, deceased, or captive non-human beings (non-human intelligent beings), their craft, or their remains. The footage ranges from alleged classified government film leaked by anonymous whistleblowers to amateur recordings of unidentified objects and entities in civilian contexts. The category forms part of the broader documentary evidence of non-human intelligent beings record.

Notable videos

Title	Date	Type	Description	Forensic status
Skinny Bob footage (ivan0135)	2011	Living being	Four clips uploaded to YouTube by anonymous channel ivan0135, purportedly showing KGB-era footage of a living Grey-type being displaying blinking, thoracic breathing, and voluntary movement. A five-person visual effects team concluded the film-aging effects match commercial software but could not replicate the entity's movement.[1] Metadata links it to the Victor alien interview.[2]	Unresolved
Victor alien interview	1996 (filmed 1991)	Living being	2.5-minute video from anonymous source "Victor" via Sean David Morton, purportedly showing a Grey-type being interrogated at a classified US facility. Broadcast on Sightings in 1996.[3] A 2023 investigation identified the filming date as 22 April 1991 and the subject as "a cloned extraterrestrial biological entity, type two from the Tau Seti star system."[4] The entity is described as separate from J-Rod/Chi'el'ah, dying of respiratory complications several months after filming.[5]	Unresolved
DRHEINZ32 video	1993 (uploaded 2007)	Living being	Video uploaded to YouTube on January 27, 2007 by anonymous channel DRHEINZ32, titled "Leaked REAL CLOSE-UP EBE INTERVIEW (no sound)," purportedly showing a J-Rod designated K-24 at S-4/Papoose and allegedly recorded July 6, 1993.[6] Dan Burisch refers to "K24 samples at Sector 4" in connection with Project Aquarius.[7]	Unverified provenance
Chi'el'ah at S-4 (classified footage)	c. 1994–1996	Living being (unreleased)	Dan Burisch stated that all of his more than 100 direct interactions with Chi'el'ah in the S-4 Clean Sphere were recorded from multiple camera angles.[8] Marci McDowell attested in a sworn affidavit that she personally viewed this footage at S-4 in 2006. Not publicly released. See: Research on Chi'el'ah at S-4.	Classified / unreleased
Zeta Reticuli family vacation (ivan0135 Video 4)	2011 (footage dated 1961)	Contact event	Color footage showing multiple Grey-type beings walking alongside human personnel near a military structure. References Document 072/E describing a 1961 treaty-violation incident.[9]	Unresolved
Santilli tape alien autopsy	1995	Remains / autopsy	Film distributed by Ray Santilli purportedly showing the autopsy of a humanoid recovered from Roswell. Broadcast in 33 countries.[10] Santilli admitted in 2006 the broadcast version was a "restoration" reconstruction.[11]	Acknowledged reconstruction
KGB non-human intelligent being autopsy video	1942 (released 1990s)	Remains / autopsy	Soviet-era KGB footage documenting the autopsy of a non-human being recovered from a 1942 crash site.	Unverified provenance
1947 alien autopsy video	1947	Remains / autopsy	Purported autopsy footage from 1947.	Unverified provenance
KGB UFO crash retrieval video	Soviet era	Crash retrieval	Soviet footage documenting a crash retrieval operation.	Unverified provenance
Jonathan Reed forest encounter videos (forest, examination)	1996	Encounter (living being)	Video recordings by Jonathan Reed of his encounter in Washington State with a being he named "Freddie," including forest footage of an incapacitated but living creature and examination footage recorded at Reed's home. Audio played on Coast to Coast AM in November 1998.[12]	Disputed
cow abduction video	Unknown	Animal abduction	Video purportedly showing the abduction of a cow.	Unverified provenance
Patterson-Gimlin film	1967	Living being	Approximately 59-second film recorded on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin at Bluff Creek, California, showing a large bipedal figure identified as a female Bigfoot. The footage has been extensively analyzed and remains one of the most well-known depictions of Bigfoot.	Disputed
Kumburgaz UFO video	Late 2000s	Living beings (inside craft)	Multiple clips totaling approximately 22 minutes recorded by Yalcin Yalman in Kumburgaz, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Some frames purportedly show Grey alien-type beings inside a craft with illuminated windows.	Unresolved

Subcategories

Living beings

Footage purportedly showing non-human intelligent beings displaying biological activity — breathing, moving, blinking.

Key examples: Skinny Bob (ivan0135, 2011); Alien Interview video (Victor) (1996); DRHEINZ32 video (1993/2007); Jonathan Reed forest video (Jonathan Reed, 1996).

Remains and autopsy

Footage purportedly showing deceased non-human intelligent being bodies, autopsy procedures, or biological tissue. See: video recording of remains of exotic beings.

Key examples: Santilli tape alien autopsy (1995); KGB non-human intelligent being autopsy video; Jonathan Reed home video of Freddie (1996).

Contact and diplomatic events

Footage framed as documenting official or semi-official interactions between human authorities and non-human intelligent being delegations.

Key examples: alien grey extraterrestrial zeta reticuli tape 06 family vacation (ivan0135 Video 4, 2011).

Craft and objects

Footage of unidentified aerial phenomena and associated craft not covered here; see Pentagon UFO videos and related articles.

Forensic classification and analysis

VFX and forensic analysis

Materials in this category range from acknowledged fabrications (Santilli) to unresolved anomalies (Skinny Bob, Victor) to footage whose provenance has not been independently investigated. A 2025 forensic analysis of the Skinny Bob footage using FFT analysis, motion tracking, blink detection, and deepfake-detection software (IMG-Detect) returned a 1% probability of AI generation, while also identifying anomalous motion smoothness and cloth-rigidity inconsistent with biological subjects — a mixed result exemplifying the ambiguity characteristic of this category. VFX artist Ben Phillips estimated the cost of producing the Skinny Bob videos at approximately £220,000 with a professional team — a figure that, if accurate, places the hoax hypothesis in the territory of a professionally resourced disinformation operation rather than an amateur production.

Analytical approaches to video classification in this domain include: (a) biological plausibility analysis of the depicted entity's morphology and movement; (b) provenance investigation of the chain of custody and original media; (c) comparative analysis against known film-era technology limits (resolution, grain structure, lighting physics); and (d) cross-correlation with concurrent testimonial and documentary evidence.

Remote viewing

Remote viewing has been applied to several items in this category as a supplementary authentication method. John Vivanco's five-viewer controlled remote viewing investigation of the Skinny Bob footage for Heather Wade's Midnight in the Desert program concluded "this was a real being" associated with a craft crash, with the entity's repeated behavioral orientation toward a liquid container corroborating the footage's closing pool-scene sequence. The Victor alien interview footage was subjected to a separate remote viewing analysis that likewise concluded the being depicted was non-human and alive at the time of filming, with the remote viewers providing specific environmental details about the S-2 facility that were later corroborated by independent human sources.

Provenance investigation and Congressional referral

Jon Stewart (not the comedian), a former professional wrestler and independent UFO researcher, conducted a five-year investigation of the Victor alien interrogation video concluded in 2023 and hand-delivered to the office of Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN). Stewart obtained — through intelligence community intermediary Richard Doty — the names of the two physicians who attended the being during filming, a list of five military personnel in the viewing gallery, and a DIA-sourced email identifying the film as depicting "a cloned extraterrestrial biological entity, type two from the Tau Seti star system," recorded on 22 April 1991 at the S-2 Alpha facility (not S-4 as commonly assumed) at the Papoose Lake complex. Stewart's cross-referencing of named military personnel included obtaining corroboration from a widow of one named individual who identified her husband in the footage, and receiving confirmation from Army Master Sergeant Michael Munoz and a second named source of the existence and layout of the S-2 Alpha facility. Stewart's analysis of the gallery personnel identified what he described as the profile of Colin Powell (then head of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs) alongside Admiral Ted Schaeffer (Deputy Director of the DIA).

Stewart's FOIA request to the DIA on Dan Burisch-related materials produced an unusually emphatic response — his file was removed from the DIA system while his name remained on the FOIA list — which he interpreted as evidence that the material touched genuine classified programs.

Stewart's forensic analysis of the Skinny Bob footage produced a mixed result: experts identified the use of the Shutter Shock film-aging program and a VHS-effect program, which could explain the visual degradation; but the same experts could not explain the entity's apparent organic eye blinking and jugular vein movement, nor the redacted timestamp segment, which is distinct from the expected blurring artifact of the Shutter Shock program.

Whistleblower accounts of unreleased footage

Multiple former government and military personnel have testified to the existence of video recordings of living non-human intelligent beings that have not been publicly released. David Grusch testified before Congress in 2023 that the U.S. government and its defense contractor base hold retrieved non-human craft and materials, with program participants — including individuals known to him personally — having viewed biological specimens associated with those programs. Dan Burisch testified repeatedly to the existence of multi-angle video documentation of his interactions with Chi'el'ah at S-4, footage described as still held within classified government archives.

Jon Stewart's investigation of the Victor footage identified a Carthusian monk designated "Brother Joseph," aged 92, who confirmed to Stewart's investigator: "Yes, I was recruited into the Alien Retention, Integration, Interrogation Program. Myself and one other monk had a unique gift. I knew exactly what these beings were trying to communicate."

Forensic status

See: disputes over claims of non-human intelligent being evidence.