'Body' washed up ashore turns out to be ET replica

London, Jan 3 (ANI): A coastguard found a life-size replica of 'ET' when he was following up on a report that a 'body' had washed up on shore. The replica belonged to 76-year-old pensioner Margaret Wells, who was delighted to have been reunited with her beloved ET which was handcrafted by her daughter nine years ago. It was stolen - along with a haul of jewellery and an iron - from her home in Cosham, Hants, in September 2011. Police have ensured that the extra-terrestrial came home after it was spotted in the sea five miles away off Old Portsmouth, Hants. A walker dialled 999 after spotting it floating near the shore last Thursday. Police and coastguard attended the scene and quickly realised it was not a human, but the alien model. "There's only one in the whole of England and that is mine... The police rang and said somebody has found a body in the Solent and it belongs to you - it's ET," the Telegraph quoted Wells as saying. "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," she said. The model was made Mrs Wells' daughter Louise who spent three months creating it while doing a stage make-up course. "It rolled up on the beach and gave somebody a bit of a fright," a coastguard spokeswoman was quoted as saying. (ANI)