Alien in the attic

An English man found something disturbingly gruesome while remodeling a cottage he bought in Norfolk. Hidden away in the attic and wrapped in yellowed newspapers from 1947 was a baby "alien" in an old candy jar. Floating in a thick, disgusting liquid, the foot-long monster fetus has apparently been in the attic for nearly 60 years. Barry Broom, 54, bought the cottage eight months ago and had just gotten around to working on the attic loft. The previous owner was an "old spinster," Broom said. As for the creature in the jar -- which was wrapped in Daily Mirror papers from October 1947 -- Broom doesn't believe it's an actual pickled space monster.

"I haven't got three heads and I'm not the sort of eccentric lunatic to think it's an alien," he told the Guardian this week. "But it's a funny thing to find in your loft." The strange numbers on the alien's left foot turned out to be an American-style serial number that looks particularly military in nature.

Broom believes it might be some kind of model used by the U.S. Air Force. There are two large American air bases nearby, and many thousands of U.S. military have lived in Norfolk from WWII to today. Without seeing the curiosity from Broom's attic, the USAF denied having anything to do with the alien fetus. "It's a hoax," said an Air Force spokeswoman. She did not explain what about a figurine in a jar might be a hoax. Curiously, the style of alien figure was not known to the public in 1947.

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