Is Mexico in possession of the world’s first alien specimens?

Mexico has captivated the world after unveiling the alleged corpses of two alien specimens first presented in front of the country’s Congress.

The unveiling on Sept. 12 by ufologist Jaime Maussan made global headlines. The 2-foot-tall shriveled-up specimens, looking like aliens as they have been imagined in popular culture for decades, were met with memes and mockery from many. However, a definite dismissal has remained evasive. The two corpses have been the subject of analysis in Mexico, but no one has been able to disprove the current theory that the corpses are alien.

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Maussan claimed that the bodies were found in Peru, near the ancient Nazca lines. He claimed carbon dating tests through Mexico’s National Autonomous University, or UNAM, found they were about 1,000 years old.

The supposed alien corpses were recently put under an X-ray and CT scan, which allegedly revealed they had not been manipulated or assembled.

Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, the director of the Health Sciences Research Institute of the Secretary of the Navy, announced that the bodies “belong to a single skeleton that has not been joined to other pieces,” according to the Telegraph.

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However, Benitez’s credibility has come under question, as he appeared next to Maussan in Mexico’s Congress to present the findings.

Furthermore, UNAM, which performed the carbon tests, has distanced itself from “any subsequent use, interpretation, or misrepresentation of the results.” It stressed that the search for alien life should be conducted “with the support of scientific research institutions, and following the rigorous ethical standards inherent to research.”

Additionally, some researchers who reviewed the results of the tests reached entirely different conclusions.

Julieta Fierro, a scientist at UNAM’s Institute of Astronomy, reviewed the university’s carbon dating tests for Reuters. She said that the test proved that the samples were related to brain and skin tissues from several different mummies who died at several different times.

Scientists aren’t entertaining the possibility that the aliens could be real. Immediately after the reveal, Mexico’s scientific community came out to bash the unveiling, warning that it could turn the country’s scientific community into a laughing stock.

“Let me tell you that all this is complete nonsense,” the Metropolitan Autonomous University’s research reinforcement director, Rafael Bojalil-Parra, told Live Science in an email soon after the unveiling. “That our Congress gives a forum to this self-proclaimed UFOlogist is a reflection of the anti-scientific mood that prevails in our country today.”

The scientific community quickly responded to the Sept. 12 unveiling with a Sept. 19 conference, during which they debated what the remains were, Wired reported. The actual title of the conference began by dismissing the claims: “Extraterrestrials or Llama Skeletons? Science responds to the charlatans and the gullible.”

Alejandro Frank, a professor of mathematical physics at UNAM, which hosted the event, lamented that their attention had to be diverted to the episode.

“Faced with the serious problems we are experiencing in Mexico and the entire planet, starting with climate change, war, and pandemics, it is sad to gather to talk about the misdeeds of a professional charlatan,” he said.

The professor summated human efforts to find extraterrestrial life, ending with a swipe at Mexico’s Congress.

“No life has been found anywhere, and neither has intelligence been found in Congress,” he joked.

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Maussan also may have legal problems on his hands over the affair. The Peruvian government is outraged that the specimens were taken out of the country, and Peruvian Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga announced that a criminal complaint against Maussan has been filed.

Maussan has refused to say how he even came into possession of the specimens, telling Reuters that he would reveal it “at the appropriate time.”