A Chinese farmer who posted photographs of him posing with an ‘alien’ that he claimed to have electrocuted after its UFO crash-landed on his farm has been jailed for ‘disrupting social order’.

The pictures of Mr Li standing next to a crude looking extraterrestrial made from rubber sparked a frenzy of speculation on social networking sites across China.

Mr Li had claimed he saw a formation of UFOs buzzing across the night sky along the Yellow River in Binzhou Shangdong province.

But he has been forced to admit he made the whole thing up following five days in prison after police arrested him.

But he refused to admit the rubber doll was a fake – claiming he bought the ‘body’ from a villager and decided to keep it in his freezer.

However, when police discovered files on his computer that provided further evidence of the deception, Mr Li finally confessed.

Police issued a statement saying the rather unconvincing figure at the bottom of a chest freezer was, in fact, not another life form but high quality rubber.