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Footage of the ‘alien life form’ left people baffled when it was spotted crawling across rocks.

Huang Meilan filmed the mysterious insect after she saw it in Hsinchu, Taiwan on August 29.

She said she was shocked because she had never seen anything like it.

(Image: Youtube)

(Image: Youtube)

“I found this on the ground and it caught my eye,” she said.

“It was so strange and people said different things about it. But I wanted to know what it actually was.”

Huang appealed online and some suggested the insect appeared to be several nematomorpha – commonly called horsehair worms.

In some cases the creature can grow to two metres in length.

(Image: PA)

But others think the creature is proof of alien life.

Miffy Chu said: “It could be a new creature made from a genetic mutation that we’ve never seen before.

“It’s a bit freaky watching it, it looks like an alien life form that has got lost on earth.”

Another social media user claimed it was a little worm tangled in a plastic yarn.

And one Youtube user simply wrote: “Now that is scary as hell”.