The recent premiere of the documentary "Sirius" has brought speculation of extraterrestrial life when the film revealed a tiny "alien" skeleton. The film boasts claims of prominent UFO researcher, Steven Greer who has made a career out of accusing the U.S. Government of covering up evidence of extraterrestrial life.

On Tuesday Discovery News revealed that DNA and other tests suggested that the "alien" skeleton was actually a human that was in the range of 6 to 8 years old when he or she died.

However when news of the tiny "alien" skeleton was first reported it was described as a six inch long brown and yellow creature with a prominent head and spindly arms and legs.

The "alien" was discovered about 10 years ago in Chile's Atacama Desert. According to Examiner.com, speculation about its origins ranged from an aborted fetus, to a monkey, or even a "Men in Black" alien that had crash-landed on earth.

Garry Nolan, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, told LiveScience.com that, "While the jury is out regarding the mutations that cause the deformity, and there is a real discrepancy in how we account for the apparent age of the bones ... every nucleotide I've been able to look at is human."

"I've only scratched the surface in the analysis. But there is nothing that jumps out so far as to scream 'nonhuman.'"

Nolan and his team of researchers found that the remains of the skeleton showed skull deformities and mild underdevelopment of the mid-face and jaw. The skull also showed signs of turricephaly, or high-head syndrome, a birth defect in which the top of the skull is cone-shaped.

Although Nolan claims that the "alien" skeleton is in fact human, there is a 9 percent discrepancy in which its genes did not match up with the reference human genome.

However Nolan insists this can be due to various factors such as degradation, artifacts from lab preparation of the specimen or insufficient data.