Ray Santilli

Born in London, Santilli was the son of Italian immigrants. He spent his childhood in Islington London.

Ray Santilli started his professional career in 1974 as a session musician, record producer and music distributor.[4] In 1982, Santilli founded AMP Entertainment, where he produced and promoted acts of the day.[4][5]

In 1981, Santilli produced the Tweets album featuring The Birdy Song. In 1985 he founded "Music Broadcasting Services Ltd", an independent record label which handled the exclusive rights to the Walt Disney Audio Soundtrack Catalogue in the United Kingdom.[6][7]

1n 1987 Santilli produced the Charity record The Wishing Well featuring Boy George, Dollar, Grace Kennedy for the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. In 1991 Santilli founded the Merlin Group. The company specialised in the re-recording of hits with original artists. Merlin also produced and marketed a number of television specials.[8] In 1994 Santilli formed Orbital Media Ltd where he produced a succession of TV documentaries and films for television.[4]

Santilli is best known for his claim to have discovered footage which depicted the autopsy of an alien creature. [9][10] The Alien Autopsy footage, supposedly of extraterrestrial corpses from the so-called Roswell UFO incident, was broadcast to a worldwide audience on 28 August 1995.[11][12][13]

In 2006 the story of Ray Santilli and the Alien Autopsy was the subject of a Warner Brothers film Alien Autopsy featuring the British double act Ant & Dec.[14][15] Dec plays Ray Santilli with Ant as Santilli's real life business partner and friend Gary Shoefield.[16][17][18] That same year, Ray Santilli claimed that sections of the Alien Autopsy footage had been restored.[19][20]

• Ray Santilli at IMDb
• Interview with Ray Santilli
• My Story by Ray Santilli