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An 'alien head' has been discovered in a Croatian graveyard.

Workers made the freaky discovery while digging the soil at the cemetery in the northern region of Medjimurje.

Local mayor Ivan Stefic told Croatian newspaper 24 Sata that the "head" smells of male perfume, and he has asked now scientists to examine it.

“It was found about one metre under the surface and gave the workers quite a shock," he said.

“I know it sounds crazy, but we can’t think of any more rational explanation for what we’ve found."

Locals say the head is made from a material similar to soft rubber and has a beak-like mouth.

But others have suggested it is little more than an oddly shaped tree root.

One doubter said: "Wait, a buried alien head is a 'rational explanation?' "It’s ridiculous!

"This looks like an oddly shaped tree part. The bark could have become soft from the burial.

"Wood should be easy to discern from other substances like rock and bone. "

(Image: Sirius documentary)

In April, the mummified remains of a six-inch “space alien”, discovered a decade ago in the Chile's Atacama Desert, were identified as human.

The tiny skeleton had fuelled speculation for 10 years, with many considering it to be proof of extra-terrestrial life while others believed it was an aborted foetus or a monkey.

But UFO documentary Sirius revealed that the creature Ata, known as the Atacama Humanoid (or ‘Ata’), was not a hoax but in fact a mummified human.

And in June a Labour councillor claimed he had his first sexual encounter with an alien when he was six-years-old.

Simon Parkes, a representative for Stakesby in Whitby, showed ITV’s This Morning hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby a picture he'd drawn of the first alien he ever met, describing it as “a green creature, about 7ft tall, wearing a purple robe”.