Valentin Degterev from the city of Nizhny Tagil in central Russia who calls himself a"researcher of the unknown" claims a huge unidentified object that can be seen lying half-buried in the ice-land wastes of Antarctica is in fact a flying saucer which crashed three years ago.

Posting pictures and the Google Earth coordinates onto social media, Degterey said: "I found the unique object using the online service of Google Earth in Antarctica.

And the alien hunter who gives the coordinates as 80°34'08.4"S 30°05’19.3"W estimates the UFO to be a whopping 204 feet wide and 40 feet tall.

The satellite image was taken on 15 February 2012 but now that Valentin has published his report it has quickly gone viral in Russia.

He added: "I think there is very large disc-shaped flying machine amongst the frozen ice."