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BY BRICE SANDER

She came over the bridge from Flushing to the Sheffields’ door-- but did the nanny named Fran make a pit stop in space first? That’s what Fran Drescher claims in an interview with the Huffington Post.

"You know, it's funny because [my ex-husband] and I both saw [aliens] before we knew each other, doing the same thing, driving on the road with our dads … We were both in junior high. A few years later, we met, and we realized that we had the same experience. I think that somehow we were programmed to meet.”

Drescher says she and her ex have matching, inexplicable scars on their hands -- evidence, to her, of alien-implanted chips. But her ex isn’t so sure. Here’s Portland’s KATU.

ANCHOR 1: “Her ex, who’s now openly gay by the way, doesn’t believe the abduction even happened. But Fran says that’s just what the aliens programmed him to think.”
ANCHOR 2: “Who hasn’t been abducted by an alien?”
ANCHOR 3: “Right?”

But some suspect the story’s a hoax in itself -- meaning the interview is a joke. The Today Show says …

“It's hard to read this story without wondering if The Huffington Post is using it as a test run for a possible Onion-like publication, or if Drescher is putting them on -- she is a comic actress, after all -- but [Huffington Post] writer Rob Shuter says Drescher told him the story ‘in all seriousness.’”

While there might not be a way to prove Drescher’s claims- the Examiner says more people will believe her than you think.    

“According to a Gallup poll, one-third of Americans believe in aliens that can program our thoughts. It is assumed aliens possess a power to alter our awareness of reality with delusions of everyday incidents to cover-up the experiments performed on humans.”

Drescher isn’t the first celebrity to claim an alien encounter -- Elvis, William Shatner and Mick Jagger all made headlines when they shared their experiences.