MEXICO
\nMexican lawmakers heard testimony that \u201cwe are not alone\u201d in the universe and saw the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the Latin American country\u2019s first congressional event on UFOs.
\nIn the hearing on Tuesday on FANI, the Spanish acronym for what are usually now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), politicians were shown two artifacts that Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed were the corpses of extraterrestrials.
\nThe specimens were not related to any life on Earth, Maussan said.
\nThe two tiny \u201cbodies,\u201d 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, analyzed through a carbon dating process by Mexico\u2019s National Autonomous University (UNAM).
\nSimilar such finds in the past have turned out to be the remains of mummified children.
\nMaussan said it was the first time such evidence had been presented.
\n\u201cI 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,\u201d Maussan said.
\n\u201cWe are not alone,\u201d he added.
\nJose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, Director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican navy, said X-rays, 3-D reconstruction and DNA analysis had been carried out on the remains.
\nI can affirm that these bodies have no relation to human beings,\u201d he said.
\nUNAM 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.
\n\u201cIn no case do we make conclusions about the origin of said samples,\u201d the statement said.
\nLawmakers also heard from former U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who has participated in U.S. Congressional hearings about his personal experience with UAP and the stigma around reporting such sightings.
\nCongressman Sergio Gutierrez, from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador\u2019s ruling Morena party, said he hoped the hearing would be the first of other similar events in Mexico.
\n\u201cWe are left with reflections, with concerns and with the path to continue talking about this,\u201d Gutierrez said.
\nIn recent years, the U.S. 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.
\nNASA is set to discuss findings from the study on Thursday.
\nMaussan faced swift backlash and criticism from skeptics on Wednesday who questioned the authenticity of his presentation.
\n\u201cThis could really hurt efforts to take the issue seriously,\u201d said a user of X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they wait until a scientific paper was ready to publish it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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