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Conspiracy theorists have gone wild over footage showing a mysterious figure with characteristics far from human.

The video – thought to be taken in 1992 in Eiger, Switzerland but “only just made public” – shows various pictures of a body with an over-sized head.

It has large eyes but small, spindly arms and torso – much like the stereotypical image of an alien.

One picture of the being shows it propped up by what appears like an electrical wire – suggesting it may have been electrocuted.

Another shows a group of scientists seemingly examining the body.

YouTube channel UFO Today first posted the clip, claiming it was an EBE – extra-terrestrial biological entity – and added it was filmed in a hurry” in “clandestine circumstances”.

(Image: YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY)

It claimed to have found the footage “on a server on the dark web” – part of the internet which is thought to contain hidden parts of society and which is not indexed by search engines.

Renowned alien hunters Brett and Blake Cousins re-posted the video on their own site and claimed it resembled an extra-terrestrial being.

Thousands of people have seen the footage since it surfaced on Monday (November 6).

(Image: YOUTUBE/UFO TODAY)

“This looks authentic to me,” one user wrote. “The arm and finger length are very abnormal.”

Another added: “It looks like a real alien.”

But a third disagreed, commenting: “The video’s out of focus. Could easily be faked.”