Obviously, being a farmer in China is not the most exciting job in the world, and for this reason one such farmer, known only as Mr. Li, decided to spice up his life a little bit by pretending that aliens regularly visited his farm.

During one such visit, he claimed, one of the five alien visitors accidentally stepped on an electric fence-trap, normally used to kill rabbits for food, and ended up dying. So, claimed Mr. Li (should there be an ‘e’ on the end of that name?), he picked up the E.T., popped it in  his chest freezer and posted photos of the ‘remains’ online.

Now, there has been some suggestion that the disgustingly ugly and misshapen form bears more than a passing resemblance to the Ed… however, if the thing was alive, judging by the size of the cranium, it would have had a large brain, therefore ruling the Ed out completely.

Back to Mr. Lie… sorry Li… well, this behavior is not acceptable in China and he was promptly arrested  for ‘fabrications that disturb public order’ and locked up. When the police visited Mr. Li, he admitted that there were never five aliens on his land, and that the ‘corpse’ in the freezer was, in fact, made out of rubber covered chicken wire.

Now, of course, conspiracy theorists everywhere are claiming a cover-up by the Chinese authorities and trying to convince anyone that will listen that the ‘close encounter’ is linked with another such incident in the Hubei Province of China.

We at the Gazette have decided that the alien looks to ridiculous to be real, so we do not believe the conspiracy theorists and believe that the ‘remains’ are, as the police say, a rubber and chicken wire model… or possibly, just possibly, an Ed lookalike.

 

(world, news, china)