Alleged ‘Alien mummies’ go viral in Mexican Congress UFO hearing

What started as a Tuesday congressional hearing about the regulation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in Mexico quickly became a worldwide frenzy after ufologist and local journalist Jaime Maussan displayed two samples of what he said were “mummified bodies of two alien species,” reportedly found in Peru.

Asking lawmakers to “recognize the existence of extraterrestrial life,” Mr. Maussan provided X-rays images to show what he claimed was the skeleton and the internal parts of the two 60-centimeter-long humanoid-like objects he says are “over 1,000 years old.” 

The ufologist tried to add weight to his dantesque theory by saying that Mexico’s renowned National Autonomous University (UNAM) and members of the Mexican Navy would participate in his research. The military did not comment on the case as of today.

One day after the unusual exhibitions, however, UNAM’s Institute of Physics stated that the Carbon-14 analysis cited by Mr. Maussan is only used to “determine the age of the sample collected” and that “in no case do we make conclusions about the origin” of the material. Scientists are also labeling the events in Mexico as “fraud.” 

According to the ufologist, the two species were buried for up to a millennium in a type of algae that preserved and fossilized the samples since it does not allow the growth and proliferation of common bacterias or fungi. 

Mexico’s decision to investigate UFOs came shortly after similar hearings were held in the U.S. a few months ago, making press headlines across the globe. The Mexico ‘revelations’ were made just two days before NASA filed a 36-page report about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), in which the space agency said — without mentioning the Mexican episode — that there is no proof that aliens exist. 

Even former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who criticized the Pentagon for lack of UFOs-related investigations when he testified to lawmakers in the U.S., distanced himself from the Mexican ‘unveiling.’ He said on X (formerly Twitter) that such a demonstration “was a huge step backwards for this issue.”

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