2023 has been a wild rollercoaster of global events – from the almost-follow-up to the French Revolution, to submersibles swimming too close to the Titanic. But if you think you’ve seen it all, think again, because a man has just presented to the Mexican Congress “evidence” of “alien” life.
On display were two mummified “non-human” specimens allegedly retrieved in Peru – and they have been the talk of the world since their presentation last night. However, before you start panicking and making tin foil hats, here’s what you need to know about these “aliens”.
The news went global mainly due to a misunderstanding that it was the Mexican Congress that willingly came forward and presented this evidence, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. To clarify, the man who largely organised the event and presented the remains was Jaime Maussan, a journalist by trade and a ufologist; Congress had only given him a platform to present his evidence.
According to Maussan, the corpses were retrieved from Cusco, Peru, near the ancient Nazca Lines, in 2017. Additionally, through carbon dating, he determined that the specimens are about 1,000 years old, according to Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). Maussan, during the coverage, invited experts from across the world to come and check the sources and the corpse themselves.
The alien discovery made national headlines in a matter of seconds, and thanks to a live stream from the YouTube channel Maussan TV, it became global news minutes afterward. The aliens had been presented to Congress in wooden boxes, sparking discourse among UFO conspiracy theorists. Additionally, there was also a slideshow presentation showing all the evidence and tests that had allegedly been done, including x-ray images showing that one of the aliens was actually pregnant with three eggs inside of it.
So, should you be worried about this? Not necessarily. Maussan made similar claims in 2015, when he first found mummified remains of supposed aliens also in the Nazca Lines – but this was debunked, as the corpse was later determined to be that of a human child.
For his most recent revelation, he claimed, while under oath, that it was the first time such evidence had been presented – but this has come under fire, as the exact same slides used in the Congress presentation and the corpses themselves appeared in a YouTube video two years ago.
The YouTube channel Scientist Against Myths had first showcased the two aliens that appeared at the Mexican Congress, along with the x-ray images, three eggs and all. However, the channel debunked their extraterrestrial origins by claiming that the “alien’s” bones are made from various animal and human bones that had been horribly rearranged.
Though many people have been clamouring for evidence of alien life, it seems that we have yet to discover anything concrete. Let’s see what the experts will have to say about all of this new “evidence”.
Sources YouTube [1], [2], Reuters, Independent, Forbes, Snopes, The Guardian, New York Times
