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Journalist and UFOlogist Jaime Maussan drew the ire of multiple scientists after presenting what he claims are two alleged three-fingered “non-human alien corpses” during an official event in Congress in Mexico City.
The bodies, reportedly discovered in the city of Cusco, Peru, were claimed to be around 1,000 years old. They also, according to testimony during the hearing, are not part of “our terrestrial evolution” as one-third of the corpses’ DNA is “unknown.”
Maussan also claimed during his testimony that scientists at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) used radiocarbon dating to determine this DNA evidence.
“Let me tell you that all this is complete nonsense,” Rafael Bojalil-Parra, research reinforcement director at Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAD) in Mexico City, told Live Science in an email. “That our Congress gives a forum to this self-proclaimed UFOlogist is a reflection of the anti-scientific mood that prevails in our country today.”
In the face of this skepticism, on Tuesday, Jaime Maussan enlisted the help of a laboratory in Mexico City to perform X-rays and CT scans on the “alien” corpses. Footage of which was released following the tests.
According to José de Jesús Zalce Benitez, the director of the Health Sciences Research Institute of the Secretary of the Navy, the tests proved that the “alien” bodies had not been assembled or manipulated by piecing together unrelated animal or human bones.
“[The bodies] belong to a single skeleton that has not been joined to other pieces,” he said.
Unfortunately, José de Jesús Zalce Benitez was one of the people who, along with Maussan, presented the corpses to Mexican Congress, therefore calling his credibility into question.
Because of his presentation in Mexico, Maussan is now the subject of a criminal investigation based on his claim that the bodies were taken from Peru after being “found in diatom (algae) mines.”
Peruvian officials want to know how these corpses were taken from the country, as well as how they came to be in Jaime Maussan’s possession.
Maussan, in response to the probe, said, “I’m not worried. I have done absolutely nothing illegal,” adding that the information Peruvian officials seek will be revealed “at the appropriate time.”
This isn’t the first time Maussan has claimed to have discovered “alien” bodies in Peru. In 2017, he made a similar discovery, but the mummified corpses turned out to be the remains of human children.