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Skinny Bob
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A series of short black-and-white clips posted in May 2011 by an anonymous YouTube account, "ivan0135," presented as KGB archive footage showing an extraterrestrial being who survived a crash. The figure, with a broad skull and large eyes, blinks and moves its head. Analysts note movements that are too smooth and an irregular blink, the signatures of animation or an animatronic; the theory of a promotional campaign for a film has never been confirmed. Fifteen years on, no author has come forward, no provenance has been established and no public technical analysis settles the matter definitively. The critical consensus treats it as an unusually careful hoax.