A NOTORIOUS "dwarf alien corpse" has finally been revealed as a human foetus deformed by a shocking 1957 Soviet nuclear disaster, according to a new report.

A woman who "took possession" of the remains ordered forensic tests on the "mummified creature", which was found in a Russian village in 1996.

6 The 'dwarf alien', pictured has been revealed as a human foetus by experts Credit: East2west News

6 It's understood to have been deformed by a 1957 Soviet nuclear disaster Credit: East2west News

Russia’s largest newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported this week it has completed three years' research into the "dwarf", whose corpse was eventually lost in the 1990s.

But the “creature” gave rise to supernatural and mystical speculation in Russia after it was found by elderly woman Tamara Vasilyevna Prosvirina in a Urals village in the years following the Soviet collapse.

A replica of the strange mummy was made in Japan in the 1990s, as efforts were made to understand what it was.

There were even bizarre claims in Russia of a UFO arriving to “collect” the real remains which were named Alyoshenka, while most medics always insisted it was a deformed human foetus.

'ALIEN'

The greyish form was just under ten inches long, with a hairless head and a number of dark spots.

There were apparently eyes occupying most of the face.

Local detective Vladimir Bendlin told the newspaper: “My boss didn’t believe that the mummy belonged to an alien.”

As a result, he launched his own investigation.

He said: “I took the creature back home and don’t even ask me what my wife said when she saw it inside our old spare fridge.

“I didn’t know what to do with the mummy, and my wife was really unhappy.”

He told the paper he passed the corpse to a Russian group called Star Academy which researched UFO cases after they promised to carry out forensic tests.

Local autopsy experts said they had all sorts of badly deformed still born babies after that tragedy Galina Semenkova

The woman who took charge of the dwarf was called Galina Semenkova and the paper said it had now tracked her down after years of failing to reach her.

“We ran a series of tests on the mummy with the help of a forensic expert, who confirmed this was not a humanoid but a human foetus,” she reportedly told Komsomolskaya Pravda.

It is unclear why she and her group did not earlier disclose its findings.



'NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS'

She said the unborn child was likely to have been deformed by pollution from the 1957 Kyshtym Disaster at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and fuel reprocessing.

“Local autopsy experts said they had all sorts of badly deformed still born babies after that tragedy,” she said.

“The mummy was destroyed after the forensic tests.”

The Mayak disaster is believed to be the third-most serious nuclear accident ever recorded.

More than 20,000 square miles was polluted, an area where 270,000 people lived, in Chelyabinsk region.

It was Bendlin's clinical assistant, Lyubov Romanova, an expert on children’s deformities, who had said she “had never seen anything like this”, claiming the ‘dwarf’ was "not of human origin”.

Her comments led to a media buzz claiming the ‘dwarf’ was an alien.

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But gynaecologist Irina Uskova told the paper: “This is a stillborn baby with a cranial pathology known as trefoil-shaped skull.

“This is a congenital pathology well-described in world medical literature.

“The foetus was about 22 weeks old which means it was not viable.”

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