KGB non-human intelligent being autopsy video
The KGB non-human intelligent being autopsy video (also called the KGB alien autopsy or Secret KGB UFO Files) refers primarily to footage distributed in a 1998 TNT television documentary, claiming to show a KGB autopsy of a non-human being recovered in a 1969 UFO crash in the Sverdlovsk region of the Soviet Union. The footage is distinct from the Santilli tape (1995, UK-produced, claims 1947 USA crash) and from the ivan0135 series (2011, claims KGB archive from 1942–1969).
The Secret KGB UFO Files (1998)
The documentary The Secret KGB UFO Files aired on TNT on September 13, 1998, hosted by Roger Moore and directed by Dan Goldman, with producers including Brad O'Leary, Carl H. Lindahl, Christian Moore, and David Doyle. The program claimed that a craft measuring approximately 3 meters high by 5 meters diameter crashed in the Sverdlovsk region in March 1969, in an operation designated Sverdlovsk Midget. The footage was said to have been purchased on the black market for $10,000 and smuggled from Russia. A named former KGB officer, Pavel Alexandrovich Klimchenkov, appeared on screen to confirm the operation's existence.
The autopsy footage depicts only a partial body — torso and one arm — with three physicians identified in KGB documents as Kamyshov, Savitsky, and Gordeenko, and a female stenographer identified as O. A. Pshonikina. The autopsy was said to have been conducted in Moscow approximately one week after the crash. The documentary also featured UFO researcher interviews with Stanton Friedman, Richard F. Haines, Antonio Huneeus, and George Filer.
The documentary's own opening disclaimer stated: "What you are about to see may or may not be true." Antonio Huneeus later concluded the autopsy footage was "probably fake," and analyst James Oberg identified some documentary footage as 1987–88 NASA Space Shuttle SRB re-qualification test footage repurposed within the broadcast.
Provenance and Soviet archive access
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a period of chaotic declassification and document trafficking made KGB-origin materials available on the open market. Author Brad Olsen described the phenomenon: "When the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred, you could go into Moscow with a suitcase of hard currency or gold, silver, and they would go into the KGB offices and say, what do you want? You could get alien autopsy videos or UFO crash sites, which are now all on the internet." The provenance chain for the 1998 TNT documentary footage — purchased for $10,000 and smuggled from Russia — fits this broader pattern of Soviet-era document and media trafficking that occurred throughout the 1990s. Whether the footage is authentic KGB archive material or was fabricated to meet demand during this period remains unresolved.
Soviet crash retrieval operations with biological material are corroborated by researcher Anton Anfalov, who spent decades interviewing KGB sources and witnesses to Soviet UFO recovery operations. Anfalov describes a 1987 series of three separate UFO recoveries in the Western Siberia region within the same year, including a 20-metre boomerang-shaped craft with a live crew aboard; a second 1987 recovery near the mouth of the River Ob in the northern Tyumen region yielded a 12-metre disc-shaped craft that had smashed trees upon impact and carried "a crew of two aliens on board." Anfalov's KGB source described the organisation as "extremely secretive in this specific subject" and noted that even senior officials, including national leaders, were not fully briefed on biological recovery operations.
The Soviet institutional infrastructure for studying non-human biological materials predates the 1969 Sverdlovsk event claimed in the TNT documentary. Anfalov traces formal NKVD (later KGB) involvement in anomalous research to the late 1920s, when a dedicated laboratory was established within the NKVD system — the KGB's predecessor — for psychic and paranormal phenomena, with crash retrieval operations integrated into this structure from at least the 1940s onward. This long-standing institutional lineage gives added plausibility to the claim that the KGB maintained dedicated protocols for non-human biological material by 1969.
Researcher analysis
Jon Stewart (UFO researcher) — a former professional wrestler who conducted an independent five-year investigation into alien-related video footage beginning around 2019, delivering his findings to the office of Congressman Tim Burchett — reviewed the KGB autopsy material alongside the Victor interview and other claimed footage. Stewart's investigation focused on technological consistency analysis — examining whether equipment visible in the footage matched the alleged period and whether the non-human biology depicted was internally consistent across multiple views. The partial-body format of the KGB autopsy — showing only torso and one arm — limits definitive analysis while simultaneously resisting easy debunking.
Unlike the Santilli tape, which was publicly admitted to be a reconstruction by its producer Ray Santilli in 2006, the KGB autopsy footage has never been formally acknowledged as a fabrication by any identified party.
Relation to the Alien Races Book
The Russian-origin KGB context of the autopsy footage intersects with the Alien Races Book (also known as the Dante Santori book or Russian Secret Book of Alien Races), a document alleged to have originated within KGB-connected channels in the Soviet era, cataloguing non-human species with physiological descriptions and illustrations. Its claimed Soviet military-intelligence provenance parallels that asserted for the 1998 autopsy footage, though no direct documented link between the two has been established.
Comparison to other autopsy footage
The KGB autopsy video is one of three major autopsy-format videos circulating in UFO communities:
- The Santilli tape (1995) — claimed 1947 Roswell crash origin, admitted as a reconstruction by Santilli in 2006
- The KGB autopsy (1998) — claimed 1969 Sverdlovsk crash origin, provenance unresolved
- The Victor alien interview — claimed Area 51 origin, authenticated as consistent with period equipment by independent researchers including Jon Stewart
The KGB autopsy's distinctive partial-body presentation and its framing within a formal documentary with a named KGB officer witness differentiates it from the other two. However, the James Oberg finding that the documentary repurposed NASA Shuttle footage undermined the program's credibility as a reliable chain-of-custody document.
Ivan0135 and the 1942 claim
The YouTube channel ivan0135 uploaded a separate series of videos in 2011 also claiming to present KGB-origin footage, spanning an alleged archive from 1942 to 1969. This series includes the Skinny Bob footage and an autopsy sequence. Researchers noted some scenes in the ivan0135 series were taken from the 1998 TNT documentary. See ivan0135 and Skinny Bob (entity).