You’ve got to hand it to them

A TEAM of alien hunters claim to have come across an enormous alien claw buried deep beneath a desert in Peru.

The amateur alien hunters say the giant three fingered-hand must have either belonged to an alien or a giant humanoid.

Although the UFO hunters have not had their claims verified by any serious scientific bodies, you’ve got to hand it to them – the creepy claw is quite the find.

The team responsible for the discovery, who describe themselves as “paranormal enthusiasts”, say they uncovered the ancient appendage in Cusco, Peru.

And they also claim to have found an elongated human skull near the dig site, which they say was in a desert in the South American country.

Youtube/Tyler Cusco

Youtube/Tyler Cusco

Although they have refused to reveal the exact location where the sinister hand was discovered, the researchers say the finding was made in a system of underground caves.

The unlikely discovery was then reportedly handed to Brien Foerester, a “paranormal researcher” in Peru.

Alien investigator Brien allegedly had the item tested by a team of unnamed “experts”, who concluded that the fingers had too many bones for the hand to be human.

Youtube/Tyler Cusco

Youtube/Tyler Cusco

The team also claimed that an x-ray verified that the hand was a genuine biological object, with the claw due to be sent to America for further testing.

Although no independent tests have been run yet, the team believe that radiocarbon and DNA testing will reveal the true origin of the mysterious hand.

Of course, this isn’t the first “alien” artefact to raise eyebrows among the scientific community.

Last year, conspiracy theorists claimed that a set of ancient Egyptian coins could be proof that an alien race visited Earth thousands of years ago.