“It is the queen of all evidence,” said Maussan. “That’s it: if DNA is showing us that they are non-human beings and that there is nothing like them in the world, we should consider it as such.” But he cautioned that he still did not want to refer to the bodies as “alien.”
The apparently desiccated bodies were reportedly found underground in the sandy Peruvian coastal desert of Nazca. The area is known for gigantic, enigmatic figures carved into the earth and seen only from an aerial perspective. Most attribute the Nazca Lines to ancient indigenous communities, but the formations have captured the imagination of many.
In 2017, Maussan made similar allegations in Peru, and a report from the country’s Public Prosecutor’s Office concluded that the bodies were, in fact, “recently manufactured dolls, which were covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate the presence of skin”.
The report adds that the figures are almost certainly man-made and that they are “not the remains of ancient aliens they attempted to present.” The bodies were not publicly released at the time, so it is unclear whether they are the same as those presented to Mexico’s congress.
University denies
During his presentation, the ufologist and communicator from Mexico stated that the two bodies found in Peru were more than a thousand years old according to research carried out by the National M Spectrometry Laboratory with the National Autonomous University of Mexico. However, the laboratory later said in a statement that carbon-14 dating work at that laboratory “it only aims to determine the age of the sample that each user brings and in no case do we draw conclusions about the origin of said samples”.
The university laboratory that carried out the tests “disociates itself from any use, interpretation or subsequent misrepresentation of the results it provides”, the institute said. “In no case do we draw conclusions about the origin of these samples.”
On Wednesday the 13th, Julieta Fierro, a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, was among those who expressed skepticism, saying that many details about the figures “don’t make sense”.
Likewise, like the university laboratory, she added that the researchers’ claims that their university endorsed their supposed discovery were false, and noted that scientists would need more advanced technology than the X-rays they claimed to use to determine whether the allegedly calcified bodies were “non-human”.
“Maussan did many things. He says he talked to the Virgin of Guadalupe,” she said. “He told me that aliens don’t talk to me like they talk to him, because I don’t believe them.” The scientist added that it seemed strange that they extracted what would certainly be a “treasure of a nation” from Peru without inviting the Peruvian ambador.
In the same sense, Antígona Segura, one of Mexico’s leading astrobiologists, questioned Maussan’s statements. “These conclusions are simply not supported by evidence,” said Dr. Segura, who collaborates with Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, a NASA initiative to search for life on distant worlds. “The whole thing is very shameful.”
(With international agencies)