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Li Kai sparked an internet frenzy when he posted a series of pictures of the interred dead creature.
But he was unmasked as a master hoaxer when police picked apart his extraordinary story.
Li, from Binzhou in the Shangdong province, wrote a lengthy account on Sino Weibo – China’s equivalent of Facebook – about his extra-terrestrial finding.
He told how he stumbled across the ‘electrocuted’ martian in late March after he followed a string of UFOs along China’s Yellow River.
He claimed he spotted five aliens – and one even crashed to the ground and hit a high voltage rabbit trap – which Li had put in place.
Li said he collected the corpse and drove home and preserved the body in his freezer.
Close-up shots show the alien’s wide-eyed face and a sinewy hand with a red cigarette packet placed on its palm.
In other pictures, the creature’s feet are bound as it lies in his deep freezer.
eyebrows were raised about the Martian’s authenticity and Li was hauled in by police for questioning.
He insisted his story was real and said DNA tests proved the ‘alien’ did not come from earth.
Li later claimed to his followers that police had blocked the news and pressured him to keep quiet.
But his concocted story was exposed when police declared the spooky discovery was in fact a home-made rubber alien.
Shandong police said yesterday that Li had admitted his story was a hoax.
Officials said Li spent 120 Yuan (£12.50) and made the alien with rubber and other materials bought from a local farmers market.
Police said the matter is under further investigation.
y’all finding what you didn’t misplace… una welldone o!
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