Meet the Siberian 'alien'

It's worth a look - and nearly 1.5 million people have - but this video of what is claimed to be the body of an alien found in Siberia is said to be a fake.

The vision supposedly shows the frozen remains of a tiny alien creature discovered in the snow in the Irkutsk region of southern Siberia.

The apparent "alien discovery" has become a YouTube sensation since it appeared a few days ago.

But local reports say that police quickly put an end to the truth being out there in Siberia.

The tiny "dead alien" is just skin from chicken filled with bread, reports the website 7d.org.ua.

Police questioned the men who claimed to have found the "body" and they allegedly confessed to creating it themselves.

The chief editor of the local Kabansk-Info newspaper initially thought that it was the body of an infant in the video and alerted the police.

Officers investigated and identified the alleged author.

They went to his house and asked him about the infant's body. The scared man reportedly showed a fake alien corpse. It was even painted in "alien colors". Scolding is the only possible punishment for such a stunt as it cannot be considered a crime, the report says.

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