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Bizarre footage from a Mike Tyson fight in 1995 appears to show a spectator filming the fight on a smartphone - five years before the first camera phone was released.

Footage shows the controversial boxer during a bout with Peter McNeeley in Las Vegas.

As Tyson prepares to fight, a spectator in the front row can be seen standing up holding an object.

The bizarre footage appears to show him filming the action inside the ring on a smartphone.

However, the first camera phone was only sold five years later in 2000.

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This has prompted a number of conspiracy theories - with some even speculating that it could be a human time traveller from the future.

The video was first published on YouTube in September 2015 but has now resurfaced again as people look for answers.

The first person to release the video on YouTube said nobody can explain what camera it is.

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As reported by Mail Online, JammyBantam, said the object appears to have a lens in the centre just like a smartphone.

He said: "I dunno if it's a time traveller or not, but no one can explain what camera it is; a QV-100 doesn't have a silver bit on the right, and this camera doesn't seem to have a black line under the lens”.

However, Scott C Waring from UFOSightingsDaily.com was less uncertain .

He wrote: "What we have here is a time traveler coming back to watch their favorite fighter and sitting in the front row seats.

"Back in 1995 they did have phones, but they didn’t yet have cameras on them.’

The fight was the first time in four years that Tyson has took to the ring.

At the time, it was the highest grossing fight ever.e