One of the highlights of the week is undoubtedly the exhibition of two "non-human bodies" in the Congress of Mexico. Presented by the specialized journalist Jaime Maussan, the extraterrestrial corpses served for him to ask Mexican legislators to recognize the existence of alien life in the country.
However, several users of X (formerly Twitter) doubted the authenticity of these bodies, going so far as to call them "fake" in community notes that appear as a warning just below the post:
The bodies of two dead aliens have been unveiled in Mexico pic.twitter.com/FBNl494dP9
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) September 13, 2023
In the warning, readers said that "many people have analyzed them and pointed out obvious indications they are typically assembled with human body parts (possibly stolen from indigenous graves)."
The fraud of the 'mummies of Nazca'
It would not be the first time that Jaime Maussan is accused of committing fraud with alien discoveries. The bodies presented in the Congress of Mexico are quite reminiscent of those that the journalist claimed to find in Peru, Nazca in 2016.
Those "tridactyl (three-fingered) Nazca humanoid mummies," Infobae recalls, underwent several examinations and eventually turned out to be fake. One of those in charge of analyzing these bodies was Guido Lombardi, a doctor and physical anthropologist who studied mummies in Peru and around the world. He claimed that the bodies were not aliens but had been "modified for commercial purposes":
With the experience that we have all the researchers who have worked with pre-Columbian mummies, especially from the Nazca area, for us it is very clear that these mummies, the large ones, are pre-Columbian human beings that have been modified for commercial purposes, and the supposed small mummies are structures that have been assembled.
Lombardi also spoke in November 2021 with the newspaper El Comercio and assured that, unfortunately, the practice of "huaqueo" (when archaeological remains are looted) is very common in Peru and that it is not the first time it is used to try to prove the existence of alien life:
Fantasy is permissible... there are people who profit and earn a lot of money creating stories like this, to take ancient corpses out of Peru and mutilate them, cut off their ears, cut off their eyes to shape what they see on television and look like an 'extraterrestrial,' that goes against our own dignity as human beings, and this whole show goes against what Peru is as a civilized country.
Iker Jimenez says that extraterrestrial bodies are false
Spanish journalist Iker Jiménez also said that the bodies presented in the Mexican Congress are false. The host of the "Cuarto Milenio" TV program said that Maussan's discovery is "a complete fraud." In addition, he explained that these bodies are usually made with pieces of other animals, which explained that there were no human traces:
They are idols to deceive minds more or less interested in the subject and it has always been so. How can there be no non-human DNA if there are no non-human pieces, but they are not extraterrestrials precisely, but from other animals.
Mi opinión sobre las Momias ET presentadas en México. pic.twitter.com/TgxrUXmlHh
— Iker Jiménez (@navedelmisterio) September 13, 2023
