Antarctic UFO’ spotted: 

Antarctic UFO’ spotted: ET-hunter claims to have spotted alien spaceship in the snow – or is it just a crevasse? Valentin Degterev from Russia claims to have found a UFO He located it using Google Earth and says it is ‘from the distant cosmos’ The elliptical object is 65ft (20 metres) wide and 230ft (70 metres) long. A UFO enthusiast claims to have found the wreckage of an alien spaceship in Antarctica. Using Google Earth, he zoomed in on a dark area and says that the shape is a clear sign that it is a crashed UFO. However, an expert has told MailOnline that it is just a shadow caused by a crevasse, while the blue tinge is bare ice. The image was revealed by self-proclaimed ‘researcher of the unknown’ Valentin Degterev from the city of Nizhny Tagil in central Russia. The satellite image was taken back in 15 February 2012, but Mr Degterev has now published it online and it has quickly gone viral on Russian social media website VK. ‘I think there is very large disc-shaped flying machine among the frozen ice,’ he claimed. Anyone can view the object by inputting the coordinates 80°34’08.4″S 30°05’19.3″W into Google Maps. ‘I found the unique object using the online service of Google Earth in Antarctica,’ said Mr Degterev. ‘In amongst the endless ice desert, it is the most genuine UFO in its most classic shape.’ Tellingly, the object of interest is among many other cliffs and shadows, and doesn’t particularly look like anything out of this world. Mr Degterev, however, is adamant the hole – which measures about 65ft (20 metres) wide and 230ft (70 metres) long – cannot be explained by anything from this planet. ‘I do not presume to know exactly what it is,’ he said. But Andrew Fleming from the British Antarctic Survey, told MailOnline that the object was quite clearly simply a crevasse in the ground. ‘A crevasse is a lot of ice formed by differential movement of the ice,’ he said. ‘They can be tens of metres deep. It’s one large slot, nothing unusual, but they are spectacular. It’s certainly not a UFO, though.’ He warned that crevasses can be quite dangerous and joked: ‘I’d much rather come across a UFO than deal with these things!’ He added that the dark area was likely to be a shadow, while the slight blue tinge was bare ice – which is ice without snow cover.