Scientists expose suspected alien corpse

Scientists are criticizing claims of alien remains on display in Mexico's Congress.

One of two bodies that Jaime Maussan said were not human. Photo: Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency — One of two bodies that Jaime Maussan said were "not human". Photo: *Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency*

The Mexican Congress held a hearing on September 14 on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP), the term now used to describe UFOs. UAP has also been the subject of congressional hearings in the United States for the past two years, according to Live Science .

A team including Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan and military doctor José de Jesús Zalce Benítez presented two skeletons in a coffin-like box to the Mexican Congress. They were no taller than a meter, appeared to be very thin, with gray skin and large heads. Maussan and his colleagues claimed that DNA tests revealed that the three-toed creatures were not human and that their bellies contained eggs that could be used for reproduction. He said the skeletons came from Peru and that radiocarbon dating showed they were 1,000 years old.

The two bodies caused a stir in 2017 and 2018. At the time, scholars concluded that the bodies were composed of human body parts stitched together. Maussan said that since then, multiple tests have shown that the bodies are not human. However, he also emphasized that he did not say the bodies were aliens.

Rafael Bojalil-Parra, director of research at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAD) in Mexico City, said the story was nonsense. “The fact that Congress allowed this self-proclaimed ufologist to speak reflects the anti-science trend that prevails in Mexico today,” Bojalil-Parra said. Bojalil-Parra also denied that the UAD had conducted DNA testing on the remains. A carbon-14 test was conducted in 2017, but a commercial agreement prevented the university from disclosing the results.

If the remains are alien, carbon-14 dating is useless. “Carbon dating is based on carbon atoms produced when solar radiation hits Earth’s upper atmosphere,” says David Anderson, an associate professor of anthropology at Radford University in Virginia. “To determine the age of an alien body, we have to know the carbon-14 ratio on their planet, not on Earth.”

Other scientists have also dismissed Maussan’s claims. According to Andrew Nelson, head of the department of anthropology at Western University in Ontario, studies have shown that some of the bodies are human mummies that have been purposely modified to look like aliens, such as feet.

“The foot shows signs of modification at the first and fourth phalanges, cutting the skin and soft tissue behind the toes, resulting in a foot with extremely long digits,” Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, a vertebrate paleontologist at Cayetano Heredia University and the Natural History Museum of Lima, concluded in a 2017 analysis.

According to Nelson, although Maussan mentioned carbon-14 and DNA evidence, he did not submit the results of the tests to the scientific community for review. If the remains are indeed 1,000 years old and come from Peru, the question remains whether they were stolen and how they got out of Peru.

An Khang (According to Live Science )

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