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Extravagant events to mark the end of the Games are seen by millions around the globe.

Hours of singing, dancing and an abundance of fireworks range from the entertaining to the downright comical.

But the closing ceremony in Los Angeles 32 years ago has remained one of the most memorable – and extraordinary.

(Image: IOC) (Image: IOC)

The packed Memorial Coliseum witnessed performances from singing legend Lionel Richie, medal ceremonies, a lap of honour from horses and riders, and a traditional Chinese dance.

Yet it was an unexpected visitor that stole the show half-way through.

The entire stadium goes pitch black apart from the flickering of cameras form the thousands of spectators in the stands.

(Image: IOC)

Eerie music – like something out of the X-Files or Strange Encounters – fills the air as the Olympic flame burns bright.

Then the iconic Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss – used in the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey – is played as a huge alien mothership takes up the night sky.

Green lasers with sound effects are shot around the stadium before the appearance of an alien from the spaceship.

The peculiar being wears a white spacesuit with breathing apparatus and six extremely long fingers on each hand.

The special effects were incredible for its time, with millions watching at the ceremony and at home believing aliens had visited Earth for the first time.

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An outlandish theory across the internet claims the spectacle was a false flag for an impending alien invasion.

The term false flag is used for covert operations or events designed by secretive governments to deceive the public into thinking they are a real event.

Truth seekers have been discussing the show on internet forums for years, with many claiming it was “predictive programming” to prepare us for the day extraterrestrials visit the planet.

And some believe such an event could happen THIS year.

(Image: IOC) (Image: IOC/GETTY) (Image: IOC)

Late conspiracy theorist Bill Cooper, who was outspoken on the existence of aliens and the JFK assassination, alluded in an interview it may have been a real UFO.

He said: “There was no helicopter up there holding this thing.

“They’ll tell you that, but it’s not true. Can you imagine the liability they would have if they were carrying this thing suspended on a cable underneath the helicopter over the heads of hundreds of thousands of people?

“It was under its own power.”

It's not the only conspiracy theory surrounding the Olympics.

Blogger the Illuminati Watcher claims the Games is a mass "pagan" ritual of "Satan worship" fuelled by the "cult obsessed Nazis".