After Mexico's 'alien' stunt, five other famous occasions when the so-called remains of extraterrestrials were found on Earth

When two apparent alien corpses were paraded in front of Mexico's congress earlier this month it caused quite the stir across the world. It later transpired, however, that the corpses – found preserved in a Peruvian mine and supposedly dating back 1,000 years – had already been debunked by scientists two years earlier. But it later transpired that the corpses had already been debunked by scientists two years earlier 'Ata' the alien Rewind 20 years and there was another discovery of a so-called mummified alien in South America. The 'body' was reportedly retrieved from a UFO crash site near her summer house in 2009 The creature was described as being 2ft long with an enormous head, large bulbous eyes and an appearance somewhere between a fish and a humanoid She said she had approached the flaming wreckage and crumpled metal – which she described as 'unbearably hot' – and that laying nearby was the dead 'alien'. Weird: In 2011, in the frozen wasteland of Siberia, two walkers claimed to have found the remains of an alien in a known UFO hotspot Its slender, badly-damaged body was supposedly discovered half-buried in snow close to Irkutsk, Russia A video of it was posted online and became a massive worldwide hit, with believers claiming that it must have been injured when a UFO crashed to earth.