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A student has mysteriously disappeared in Brazil, leaving behind a locked room covered in code and a £2,000 statue of a 16th-century alien hunter.

Alien enthusiast Bruno Borges, 24, reportedly vanished from his family home in Brazil last Monday while working on a secretive project.

The psychology student's disappearance has sparked worldwide interest - with many believing he's been abducted by aliens - after a bizarre video of the inside of his bedroom was leaked online.

Borges appears to have turned the room into a shrine to the extraterrestrial world, has removed all the furniture and put up a creepy self-portrait of himself with an alien.

The walls are also covered with coded writing and signs associated with Satanism and the Illuminati are spread across the floor.

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Among the writings were passages from the Bible and phrases from Leonardo da Vinci, which lay in among 14 handwritten books, which were also encrypted.

There was also a huge statue of philosopher Giordano Bruno - which was reportedly bought for £2,000 a few weeks ago - looming over the room.

Giordano Bruno was one of the first thinkers to predict the existence of extraterrestrial life – and some have suggested the boy was trying to complete his work.

Relatives say Borges was constantly asking them for funding for his latest secretive project - but wouldn't give any details apart from saying he was writing a series of books that would “change humanity in a good way”.

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The student's shaken businessman father Athos Borges, said he last saw his son when he left their family home in Rio Branco, Acre, without any money after lunch on March 27.

He said the family have received some information, but nothing concrete and nothing that would indicate what has happened.

He told G1.Globo.com : "We've tried to call him on his cell phone, but it's off.

"He's never gone before. He did not take anything and the last time we saw him he was leaving home."

Borges mother, Denise Borges, told the Gaucho newspaper that the family had lunch together and that everything seemed fine.

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She said: “He was clever. In school he was always different – a born leader with high powers of persuasion.

“He is such a kind-hearted boy.”

Mr and Mrs Borges had just returned from a month-long trip before his disappearance.

While they were away Borges' sister Gabriela said her brother had isolated himself in his bedroom, which which he always kept locked.

Gabriella says she believes her brother has a "plan" and is working on publishing the 14 handwritten books found in his room.

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She said: "We were very worried. Now we think he's okay. He has a project, which is the publication of these 14 books. I think he had to do it that way."

The 14 bound manuscripts – each with a Roman numeral on – were found in the room written in the same code as that on the walls.

A photograph that allegedly shows one page of one of the books has appeared online and has been “decoded” by a Brazilian computer expert.

One passage supposedly says: “It is easy to accept what you have been taught since childhood and what is wrong.

“It is difficult, as an adult, to understand that you were wrongly taught what you suspected was correct since you were a child.

“In other words, if you fit into the system, your behaviour will be determined, making you at the mercy of beliefs already provided and well established in dogmas and rituals, with the masses.”

The Criminal Investigation Department (DIC) are investigating Borges' disappearance.

According to lead investigator Fabrizzio Sobreira, the case remains confidential, but all possibilities are being considered.