Spielberg's 'E.T.' survives kidnap ordeal

Silver Screen Saucers

A life-sized replica of Steven Spielberg’s iconic movie alien E.T. has “come home” to its owner four months after being stolen from its Hampshire UK residence.

The unique, handcrafted E.T. replica belonging to pensioner Margaret Wells, 76, was spotted floating in the sea off the coast of Old Porstmouth, Hampshire, by a local walker, just five miles from where it was taken. Fearing it to be a human body, the walker immediately notified the police.


According to The Daily Mail: “police and coastguard attending the scene quickly realised it was not a human, but the alien model... A Coastguard spokeswoman said: ‘It rolled up on the beach and gave somebody a bit of a fright.’”

Mrs Wells said of her beloved E.T.: “There's only one in the whole of England and that is mine.” The model is the work of Mrs Wells' daughter, Louise, who spent three months creating it while completing a stage make-up course.

“The police rang and said somebody has found a body in the Solent and it belongs to you – it’s E.T.,” Mrs Wells said, “I always knew E.T. would come home... he has lost a finger and looks a bit roughed up. But he has a smile on his face.”

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