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Suspected ‘non-human’ bodies displayed at UFO hearing in Mexico
Purported ‘alien’ bodies shown at UFO hearing in Mexico
- Display of purported mummified remains sparked reactions ranging from surprise to disbelief and ridicule on social media
- The alleged corpses, greyish in colour and humanlike in form, were said to have been found by a UFO enthusiast in Peru in 2017
Mexican lawmakers heard testimony that “we are not alone” in the universe and saw the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the Latin American country’s first congressional event on UFOs.
In the hearing on Tuesday on FANI, the Spanish acronym for what are usually now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), politicians were shown two artefacts that Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed were the corpses of extraterrestrials.
The specimens were not related to any life on Earth, Maussan said.
The two tiny “bodies”, displayed in cases, have three fingers on each hand and elongated heads.
Maussan said they were recovered in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017. He said that they were about 1,000 years old, analysed through a carbon dating process by Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM).
Similar such finds in the past have turned out to be the remains of mummified children.
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Maussan said it was the first time such evidence had been presented.
“I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with non-human specimens that are not related to any other species in our world and that all possibilities are open for any scientific institution … to investigate it,” Maussan said.
“We are not alone,” he added.
Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, Director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican navy, said X-rays, 3D reconstruction and DNA analysis had been carried out on the remains.
“I can affirm that these bodies have no relation to human beings,” he said.
UNAM on Thursday republished a statement first issued in 2017, saying the work by its National Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry with Accelerators (LEMA) was only intended to determine the age of the samples.
“In no case do we make conclusions about the origin of said samples,” the statement said.
Maussan faced swift backlash and criticism from sceptics on Wednesday who questioned the authenticity of his presentation.
Julieta Fierro, a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at UNAM, said that many details about the figures “made no sense”.
“Maussan has done many things. He says he has talked to the Virgin of Guadalupe,” she said. “He told me extraterrestrials do not talk to me like they talk to him because I don’t believe in them.”
Lawmakers also heard from former US Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who has participated in US Congressional hearings about his personal experience with UAP and the stigma around reporting such sightings.
Congressman Sergio Gutierrez, from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s ruling Morena party, said he hoped the hearing would be the first of other similar events in Mexico.
“We are left with reflections, with concerns and with the path to continue talking about this,” Gutierrez said.
In recent years, the US government has done an about-face on public information on UAP after decades of stonewalling and deflecting.
The Pentagon has been actively investigating reported sightings in recent years by military aviators, while an independent Nasa panel studying UFOs is the first of its kind by the space agency.
Nasa was set to discuss findings from the study on Thursday.
On the internet, the Mexican hearing generated both astonishment and mockery, including jokes accompanied by photos of E.T., the alien creature in the film of the same name.
The event “shows the contempt that this country has for science”, one user wrote on the social media platform X, formerly called Twitter.
Others shared videos of the event with the words “The Martians have arrived”, while there was a tongue-in-cheek call for Maussan to be named “president of intergalactic relations”.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse and Associated Press
