Hunter Kills Tiny Space Alien!

A Belgian guide leading an expedition searching for coal in the darkest jungles of Africa has shot and killed a pygmy-size alien from outer space - and the bizarre corpse is positive proof that life does exist on other planets!

Dieter Van Broek, a 56-year-old "white hunter" who has spent almost his entire life on the Dark Continent, said he shot the alien "more out of fear than hostility" in the jungles near Lake Nyasa in the southern outback of Tanzania.

"The creature made a move toward me that I perceived to be threatening," the guide said.

"I have hunted big game for more than 30 years and it has become second nature for me to react swiftly, not to stop and ponder the situation.

"The creature - I really had no idea what it was at the time - seemed to be charging me. My instinct was to shoot, and that's what I did. A 300-grain silvertip tore into him straight on and he has a hell of a hole in his chest. I didn't even have to look at him to tell the shot was a kill."

Van Broek said he returned to the base camp about three miles away and, saying nothing of the incident to others in his party, returned to the corpse with a camera.

"I wanted pictures to send back to an anthropologist friend at the university at Dar es Salaam," he said.

"When she learned the corpse was still in the jungle, she said she wanted to see it. Three weeks later, we were both staring down at the creature I had killed."

Van Broek, who flatly refused to identify the anthropologist, said she photographed the corpse before removing its clothing and the helmet that covered its head.

"It took a while to figure out how to remove the helmet," Van Broek said.

"But when we did, we both got a hell of a shock. There was no trace of decomposition. And I could see that the creature I had killed was not of this universe __ it was an alien being from God knows where."

Van Broek described the alien as 3 feet, 71/4 inches tall and weighing only 59 pounds. Its face and body were totally devoid of hair and it had neither toenails nor fingernails.

"It was the most unbelievable thing I have ever seen," Van Broek declared.

"Its skin was a pale shade of green and it had the look and feel of very thin, tightly stretched rubber like an inflated balloon.

"Its mouth was very small and somewhat round and its eyes were ruby red."

Van Broek said the space alien was crated and taken by truck to Dar es Salaam, where scientists plan to study the corpse in a secret laboratory.