“Scientists Criticize Claims of Alleged Extraterrestrial Corpse Displayed Before Mexican Congress.

One of the two corpses, Jaime Maussan claims, is not human. Photo: Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency

The Mexican Congress held a hearing on September 14th regarding ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ (UAP), a term now used to describe UFOs. UAP has been a topic of hearings in the US Congress for the past two years, according to Live Science.

A group, including Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan and military doctor José de Jesús Zalce Benítez, presented two corpses placed in coffin-like boxes before the Mexican Congress. They stand at just over a meter tall, seemingly emaciated, with grayish skin and large heads. Maussan and his associates claim DNA tests reveal these three-fingered creatures are not human, with their abdomens containing eggs for reproduction. According to Maussan, the corpses originated from Peru, and carbon dating suggests they are 1,000 years old.

The two corpses caused a stir in 2017 and 2018. At that time, scholars concluded the bodies were a mixture of human body parts pieced together. Maussan mentioned that subsequent tests since then indicate these bodies are not human. However, he also emphasized that he does not state that they are extraterrestrial.

Rafael Bojalil-Parra, research director at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAD) in Mexico City, regards this as a meaningless story. “Allowing this self-appointed UFO expert to speak at Congress reflects the prevalent anti-science trend in Mexico,” Bojalil-Parra said. Bojalil-Parra also denied UAD conducting DNA tests on the corpses. A carbon-14 test took place in 2017, but commercial agreements prevented the university from disclosing the results.

If these are indeed extraterrestrial bodies, the carbon-14 dating method becomes futile. “Carbon dating relies on carbon atoms produced when sunlight interacts with Earth’s upper atmosphere,” explained David Anderson, associate professor of anthropology at Radford University in Virginia. “To determine the age of extraterrestrial beings, we’d need to know the carbon-14 ratio on their planet, not Earth’s.”

Other scientists also refute the information provided by Maussan. According to Andrew Nelson, head of anthropology at Western University in Ontario, studies show some of the corpses are human mummies intentionally altered to resemble extraterrestrials, such as the feet.

“The feet show signs of intentional modification at bones 1 and 4, skin and soft tissue removed behind the toes, creating a foot with extremely long toes,” concluded Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, a vertebrate paleontologist at Cayetano Heredia University and the Natural History Museum in Lima, in an analysis in 2017.

According to Nelson, despite Maussan mentioning carbon-14 and DNA evidence, he hasn’t presented test results for scientific scrutiny. If the corpses are indeed 1,000 years old and from Peru, the question arises as to whether they were stolen and removed from Peru, and by what means.”