In a hearing on Tuesday, the Mexican Congress held the country’s first hearing on the topic of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs.
Journalist and self-proclaimed “ufologist” Jaime Maussan presented two “alien corpses” to the representatives.
The two alleged alien bodies were scrawny, cartoon-like and bore a noticeable resemblance to E.T., one of pop culture’s most famous aliens. The corpses were pasty white, with big heads and three fingers per hand.
The bodies were recovered in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017, where they were dug up from the ground wrapped in algae; the National Autonomous University of Mexico speculated that the bodies were likely 1,000 years old.
Maussan insisted that the bodies are not mummies. He said that they are complete, un-manipulated and share no relation to human beings. Maussan declared under oath: “This is the first time [extraterrestrial life] is presented in such a form and I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with nonhuman specimens that are not related to any other species in our world. We are not alone.”
Forensic expert and military doctor José de Jesús Zilch Benítez presented the congress with scans of the aliens. He claimed that the beings had once possessed large brains and eyes. X-rays of the specimen showed eggs with embryos inside the bodies, along with implants of cadmium and osmium metals.
With Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s reputation for eccentricity, many social media users have been quick to ridicule Tuesday’s presentation, suggesting that the investigation was a joke. Earlier this year, López Obrador claimed to possess photo evidence of an elf-like creature, with the statement “everything is mystical.”
Navy Lt. Ryan Graves, a past participant in U.S. congressional hearings about UFOs, posted to X that the presentation was a “huge step backwards.” He assured the public, “I will continue to raise awareness of UAP as an urgent matter of aerospace safety, national security, and science, but I am deeply disappointed by this unsubstantiated stunt.”
Maussan and Benitez were disappointed in the concluding comments, and Benitiz even challenged the scientists to take samples from the bodies and conduct their own studies. While many are skeptical of the investigation, U.S. officials have recently begun to dedicate more time to UFO and alien life studies, partially due to concerns related to foreign surveillance.
