Bill

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Hi AJ,

This is sort of awkward, but I saw your name in one of the usenet groups and thought you might be the same A.J. Samuels I had been looking for a couple of months ago. Are you the same A.J. Samuels whose named is associated with a picture from the Crop Circle Connector web page? If you are the same person I would be extremely interested in hearing more about the creation of this unusual photograph. If you are not the same person, please forgive my message.

Yes, there are a number of pictures of mine on the CCC page. Which one are you interested in?

Great! The photo that I was most interested in was the Roswell.gif composite of the crashed disk and autopsy alien. Mark Fusell of CCC had told me once before that you were the creator of this picture, and that it had been created as a joke. I was just curious as to where the disk-crash part of the photo had come from.

Oh, that one! OK, the original photo is a still from an episode of The Twilight Zone called 'Death Ship', broadcast in the early 60's. It came from a book on Sci-Fi TV programmes and films. I did the composite photo originally for my own amusement last year while playing around with some image editing software I had just acquired. I later passed copies on to a few friends and it ended up getting put on the bottom of the CCC web page as a bit of fun. I can send you a copy of the original pic, without the alien, if you're interested.

Yes, please do send me a copy of the original photo. Do you happen to know the ISBN number for the book you refer to? Or any other info (author, publisher) that might lead me to a copy of this book. When was it printed?

Picture coming shortly. I'll have to scan it again as I didn't keep a copy of the 'clean' version.

I bought the book in a secondhand shop - I don't know if it's still available. Here are the details anyway.

Title - FANTASTIC WORLDS Authors - Scot Holton and Robert Skotak Publisher - Starlog Magazine, New York USA Published 1978 ISBN 0-931064-03-1

You did a pretty good job pasting the autopsy alien into this other photo. What kind of image software are you using? I've just recently began playing around with a few myself. I've got Photoshop and it's a blast. Now if i just had some talent maybe i could create something to. :)

Thanks! Mine is Micrografx Picture Publisher 5.0. I think it's fairly similar to Photoshop in capabilities, but cheaper! It's not that difficult, the picture in question was one of my first attempts on it.

The downside of this type of software being widely available is that we now have to be much more wary of anything that is presented as photographic evidence for phenomena such as UFO's, unfortunately.

Attached file: TZONE2.JPG

This is the original Twilight Zone picture

The book gives the following info:

Fourth Season episode - "Death Ship"

A group of astronauts on a desert-like planet see a vision of the future which depicts a fatal crash-landing of their own ship.
Director - Dan Medford
Writer - Richard Matheson
Cast - Jack Klugman, Mary Webster, Ross Martin, Frederick Beir

I've put up a Web page devoted to your picture. :)

A whole web page? Fame at last.... :) I'll have to have a look. No, I don't mind. Sounds like it's probably a good idea to clear this up!

This page is at http://web2.airmail.net/yogi/crash.html. I will update the page with the new information you have provided. Thanks again for clearing this up.

I haven't been online very long, but having seen some of the rubbish that people are hawking round the net and trying to pass off as genuine, I can quite believe that there might be some who would be taken in by this picture.

Isn't that the truth. Some people are anxious to believe anything. I wonder why that is.

I think many people don't realise how easy it is to create this sort of stuff these days unless they've tried it for themselves.

AJ