>> the deception goes all the way to, oh, okay, well, it was a hoax, but now we'll make money telling you how the hoax was done. >> despite questions about the film's validity, the fascination is real. >> when we went public with the alien autopsy footage, we were visited by a number of delegations from various countries around the world. and the people that we saw were really very high up in their sector of either politics or military. the film also influences hollywood invasion movies such as "independence day." and santilli believes it has a bigger influence. >> first time the government acknowledged area 51 after our first transmission of the film. we transmitted at the end of august '95, and a couple weeks later the american government acknowledged the first time its existence. >> in 2006, more than a decade