In the past two days, a hot search about aliens has become popular, and even "Mexico became the first country in the world to admit the existence of aliens" appeared on the hot search. What's going on? Have aliens really been discovered in Mexico?
Mexico “official announcement” of alien discovery?
Actually, Mexico will not admit such a thing.
The real situation is this: On September 12, 2023, the Mexican Congress held a hearing. At the hearing, a "UFO expert" shared his findings. This "UFO expert" is named Jaime Maussan. He was originally a Mexican journalist who called himself a "UFO expert" because he was particularly keen on reporting on aliens and UFO-related events.
Mozambique showed two “alien corpses” discovered in Peru at the congressional hearing.
The two corpses are smaller than normal humans (about 60 cm tall), and both have three fingers and a big head. According to Mosan, scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico have analyzed the samples and believe that the bodies of these "alien" are more than 1,000 years old. And after analyzing the DNA of these corpses, it was found that 1/3 of the DNA test results were "unknown" - so these specimens must be "inhuman".
In addition, forensic doctor José de Jesús Zalce Benítez also stated that he has conducted X-ray scans and body reconstructions of aliens. Based on the reconstruction results, he judged that these corpses had nothing to do with humans.
However, these two alien corpses look so much like "alien", almost exactly the same as the images in early alien movies, that people can't help but doubt the authenticity of the incident.
Is the discovery of the “alien expert” reliable?
On September 13, the second day of the hearing, researcher Julieta Fierro from the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico expressed doubts. She stated that Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México would not support Moissan’s findings.
Moreover, she also pointed out that Many of the data at the hearing did not make sense. For example, it is unreliable for forensic doctors to judge that a corpse is "non-human" through X-ray results. must use more advanced technology to make such a conclusion.
Given that these corpses were found in a diatom mine in Peru, the unknown DNA is likely to come from diatoms or bacteria in the corpses, rather than the corpses themselves.
The true identity of the “alien”
In fact, this is not the first time this "UFO expert" has discovered "alien corpses". In 2015, Moissan announced that he had discovered an "alien mummy" near Nazca. The aforementioned forensic doctor Benitez also vouched for the "alien mummy", saying that it was definitely a "non-human" mummy. In the end, it was discovered that the corpse found by the "good partners" was actually that of a human child.
There are many similarities between the “alien mummy” of 2015 and the “alien” that appeared at this hearing. For example, the mummy has three fingers, and the skull is different from that of ordinary humans. It is elongated. Anthropologists later explained that this strange skull was part of an ancient religious ritual in South America. People would use cloth, rope, wooden boards and other objects to tie the heads of young children to cause the skull to develop abnormally.
In view of previous incident speculations, this mummy may be another hype event.
Do aliens really look like humans?
After the announcement of the "alien corpse", many netizens couldn't hold it in anymore and joked, These aliens are so "alien" that people have to doubt it.
Indeed, the aliens this time are very consistent with the image of "alien" in classic movies. They are all "fine-tuned" based on the basic appearance of humans, such as having eyes that are larger than humans, and slight changes in body shape and number of fingers. If there really are aliens, do they look like humans?
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According to Andrew Simien, director of the SETI Center at the University of California, Berkeley, If we do find aliens, they will probably not look like humans. The appearance of human beings is the result of billions of years of evolution of life in the earth's environment. In an alien environment, as long as there are a few variables that are different from the earth's environment, "aliens" may evolve that are completely different from humans.
So, if we encounter an alien, the probability of it not looking like a human at all is much higher than the probability of looking like a human. After all, the differences between humans and other creatures, even on the same planet, are far greater than imagined.
Although this alien incident is likely to end in farce again, we are probably not the only intelligent creatures in the vast universe. To quote the famous astronomer Carl Sagan: "The universe is such a huge place. If we were alone, it would be such a waste of space."
However, precisely because the universe is so big, we and aliens will probably not face each other directly. We are extremely lucky to be able to receive signals and communicate with each other in the universe.