Peru does not know how alleged ‘non-human alien corpses’ ended up in Mexico
Peru has launched a criminal investigation to find out how alleged “non-human alien corpses” were taken out of the country to be displayed at the Mexican congress last week, causing a sensation among UFO conspiracy theorists.
Peruvian Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga has questioned how the bodies with human features, which she said were pre-Hispanic objects, left the country — and said a criminal complaint has been filed.
Controversial Mexican journalist and UFO buff Jaime Maussan claimed that the pair of humanoid “corpses” were found in 2017 in Cusco, Peru, near the pre-Columbian Nazca Lines.
Mexican doctors who have examined the two bodies, which feature elongated heads and three fingers on each hand, claimed they have found “no evidence of any assembly or manipulation of the skulls” — but other scientists have panned the discovery as an elaborate stunt.
Maussan, 70, who touted the purported extraterrestrials as “the most important thing that has happened to humanity,” has denied any wrongdoing.
“I’m not worried. I have done absolutely nothing illegal,” Maussan said in reference to the Peruvian probe.
How the so-called alien corpses arrived in Mexico is a question that he said he cannot answer.
Borrowed by Maussan for last week’s congressional hearing, they were in the possession of another man, who was in Maussan’s Mexico City office Friday and who declined to be identified.
When asked how the hominids — whom he dubbed Clara and Mauricio — came to be in his possession, the unidentified Mexican man cryptically replied that he would reveal all “at the appropriate time.”
An examination of the two specimens was conducted Monday at the Noor Clinic in Mexico and was livestreamed on Maussan’s YouTube channel.
José Zalce Benitez, director of the Health Sciences Research Institute in the secretary of the Mexican navy’s office, said tests proved the alleged aliens belonged to a single skeleton and were not assembled with human objects.
“Based on the DNA tests, which were compared with more than 1 million species … they are not related to what is known or described up to this moment by science or by human knowledge,” he said.
One of them, described by Maussan as a female, was discovered with lumps inside its abdomen, which Benitez suggested could be eggs.
The scientist previously said of the ancient-looking bodies — which have a mouth, two eyes, two arms and two legs each — that they “have no relation to human beings.”
On social media and in the hearing, Maussan claimed that researchers at Mexico’s National Autonomous University’s Institute of Astronomy used carbon dating to determine that the bodies are about 1,000 years old.
According to the UFO aficionado, the analysis showed that the humanoids are not related to any known Earthly species — and that one-third of their DNA is “unknown.”
“These specimens are not part of our evolutionary history of Earth,” Maussan told Mexican government officials and representatives from the US who attended the heating.
The university has since distanced itself from Maussan, claiming its scientists took no part in the research and never came into contact with the full “corpses.”
“In no case do we make conclusions about the origin of these samples,” the university’s National Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry With Accelerators said in a statement.
Julieta Fierro, a scientist at National Autonomous University’s Institute of Astronomy who reviewed Maussan’s test results for Reuters, dispelled some of the mystery surrounding the data.
She said the presence of carbon-14 allegedly detected in the specimens proves that the samples were related to brain and skin tissues from different mummies who died at different times.
Overall, Fierro concluded that the results “do not show anything mysterious that could indicate life compounds that do not exist on Earth.”
Many other scientists around the world have cast doubt on Maussan’s otherworldly claims.
“What we said before still stands, they are presenting the same rehash as always, and if there are people that keep believing that, what can we do?,” said Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, a respected Peruvian bio-anthropologist. “It is so crass and so simple that there is nothing more to add.”
Previous such finds have been debunked by the scientific community as mutilated mummies of pre-Hispanic children, sometimes doctored using animal bones.
Former US Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who attended the hearing to share his personal experience with alleged UFO sightings, later slammed Maussan’s presentation as a “stunt.”
“Yesterday’s demonstration was a huge step backwards for this issue,” Graves wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “I am deeply disappointed by this unsubstantiated stunt.”
Maussan has a history of making controversial claims about other “alien” remains that have been widely discredited.
In 2017, he participated in a TV documentary about other specimens recovered near Peru’s Nazca Lines, which experts have said appeared to have been concocted out of modified mummies.
With Post wires
