According to news on September 15, at a public hearing related to "Unidentified Anomaly Phenomena (UAP)" held by the Mexican Congress this week, two suspected "alien creature remains" were on display. Many scholars, archaeologists and scientists now believe that the remains were a mixture of human and animal bones, glued together and covered with fake skin.
On Tuesday, local time, at the end of a public hearing in the Green Chamber of the Mexican House of Representatives, Jaime Maussan, a ufologist, journalist and host of the Mexican TV show Tercer Milenio, announced a surprise. At this historic conference, the famous researcher drew the audience's attention to "unexplained anomalies", including what are commonly known as "unidentified flying objects (UFOs)".
Before the hearing began, Sergio Gutisamrirez Luna, a representative of Mexico's ruling Morena party, asked the participants to stand up and vowed to tell the truth. Among the audience was retired U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who had earlier testified before the U.S. Congress about his encounter with an unidentified object. Then there's Abraham "Avi" Loeb, an astrophysicist, chairman of the astronomy department at Harvard University and a leading proponent of the theory that alien spacecraft have landed on Earth. When it was Moissan's turn to speak, he motioned to open two small sarcophagi, which contained two "remains of non-human creatures."
But these remains are not from aliens. In fact, they are Nazca mummies, specifically the "Nazca three-toed humanoid mummy". They were once considered a great archaeological discovery, but were later widely questioned by the international scientific community. It is suspected that the mummies were artificially altered, giving them a different appearance. Important organizations such as the World Mummy Research Council have refused to acknowledge the authenticity of the mummies, calling the discovery a hoax and "an irresponsible, organized campaign of misinformation."
Peru is rich in archaeological resources, from the ancient Carr civilization to the Inca civilization, including the legendary Machu Picchu. But the mummies on display in Mexico's Congress were nothing more than elaborate fakes. Scholars, archaeologists, and scientists all agree that some of the mummies are modified pre-Hispanic remains, while the rest, especially the smaller remains, are composed of animal and human bones.
Guido Lombardi, a human anthropologist who studies Peruvian mummies, explained: "Based on the experience of all researchers who study pre-Columbian mummies, especially those from the Nazca region, we know very well that these large mummies are pre-Columbian human remains that have been modified for commercial purposes, while the so-called 'small mummies' are composed of human and animal bones."
Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada analyzed the mummies for the Peruvian Public Ministry's Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences. He said that the so-called "alien remains" are made from animal and human bones, which are then glued together and finally covered with a layer of fake skin.
According to Mosan, the desiccated bodies were discovered in Peru in 2017. He explained: "They are not human and are not part of our terrestrial evolution. According to carbon 14 analysis conducted by the Autonomous University of Mexico, these biological remains are about 1,000 years old. They were not found from the crashed spacecraft, but were buried in diatomaceous earth. Diatomaceous earth is a 17-million-year-old algae fossil that was very abundant at the time."
"Alien remains" detonated the Internet, the scientific community issued a communique, and people after the hearing were divided into two camps: one supported Moissan, and the other questioned him. "It would be nice to have scientists here," said physicist, astronomer and science authority Julieta Fierro.
Fierro added: "Neither those who search for extraterrestrial life, nor those who engage in genetic anthropology and study relics of the past, were not invited to the hearings. Not only that, they should have invited the Peruvian ambassador. You can imagine in which country the 'aliens' were unearthed, And bringing them to Mexico without inviting representatives from Peru? How did they get through customs? Also, if there were alien remains, the first thing you would do is quarantine them because they could bring viruses from elsewhere and cause a terrible pandemic."
Raúl Trejo Delarbre, a researcher at the Institute of Social Research and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the School of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said: “What happened in the Mexican Congress is a spectacle, and the information in it is not necessarily verifiable. It is the product of fanaticism and more of a media spectacle and political interests. Instead of explaining the possibility of life beyond our planet. Most importantly, this matter is beyond the purview of Congress.” After the hearing, retired US Navy pilot Ryan Graves (Ryan Graves), who attended the hearing, expressed his disappointment and described the events as a “huge setback” and “unproven stunts.”
In the Mexican Congress, the words "Man is not alone in the universe" echoed through the chamber. Pilots and air traffic controllers who believe they can serve as UAP witnesses, astronomers from institutions such as Harvard, and experts and politicians from Japan, Argentina, France, Brazil, and Peru testified that they are facing "frustration, harassment, and threats" when they dare to report unexplained phenomena found in the sky or deep in the ocean.
Delabre said: "Congress exists to legislate. What law is the Mexican Congress going to enact in this regard? This is absolutely ridiculous. I believe that this hearing was misled by the majority party in the Mexican Congress (Morena Party and its allies). Congressman Luna behaved in an extremely irresponsible manner, using his seat in Congress to pursue his personal whims. Also benefiting from this is Moissan, who has been profiting from a personal business built around alleged UFOs for decades."
Mozambique's path to the Mexican Congress began in the United States, when the U.S. Congress held hearings on UFOs, prompting the Mexican Congress to hold the same event. Moissan also had many friends, including Luna. At the hearing, Luna said viewers would "hear evidence of great public interest."
Luna said the hearing's origins can be traced to Mosan's explanation to lawmakers that in other countries, UFOs were already being discussed in legislative bodies. "Mossan is a renowned journalist and researcher who came to us," he said. "If you swear to tell the truth in the exercise of your legislative power, you promise to tell the truth everything discussed here today," he said, as he led the hearing participants in an oath to tell the truth.
"The Mexican Congress has the power to deal with anything, with the purpose of enlightening and guiding society, but its most important duty is to legislate. Legislators oversee other powers, manage society's needs, but above all make laws. This meeting was held as a public hearing on the regulation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) in Mexico, which is nonsense. How do people regulate something anomalous and unknown? The subject matter of the hearing has shown that it should not be taken seriously," De La Bray said.
This is not the first time that Mozambique has appeared at a hearing before the Mexican Congress. In 2016, the House of Representatives invited him to a hearing on geometric figures, including crop circles, at the invitation of a representative of another political party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
During the hearing, Mariano Tello, director of the Center for Social Concern, which is affiliated with a Mexican government agency, said that the agency received an email on March 29, 2022, in which a citizen requested information about UFOs. The request culminated in the release of an air traffic control record of a pilot reporting an unidentified object in May 1975. "You can see the pilot reporting to the control tower that there was a strange object flying over his plane," Taylor said. Since 2003, the department has received 1,011 UFO-related information requests, 93 of which requested review, 58 involving Mexican airspace, 19 of which specifically involved UFOs, 15 involving navigation services and one involving aliens.
After Mozán’s visit to the House of Representatives, the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico issued a statement saying that despite many studies and continued monitoring of space activities, “so far, no observations or experimental reports have provided any evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life.” It added that it was important that any work in this field be supported by scientific research institutions and adhere to strict ethical standards. The National Autonomous University of Mexico also emphasized: "Scientists are the main driving force in the search for extraterrestrial life, and they will continue to explore this field with the diligence required by science."
On Tuesday, the Institute of Physics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico also reissued a statement first published in 2017 regarding tests conducted on mummies found in Peru that had been submitted to the Mexican Congress. The statement read: "In May 2017, the National Laboratory for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (Spanish abbreviation LEMA) conducted a carbon 14 dating study on a set of samples, which according to information provided by the customer, were approximately 0.5 grams of skin and brain tissue. The results were released and delivered to users in June of the same year. Since this is a Under commercial agreement, these results are required to be kept confidential and no member of LEMA can disseminate them. LEMA rejects any subsequent use, interpretation or distortion of the results published in the June 2017 analysis and any information suggesting that LEMA was involved in any activity other than carbon 14 dating is invalid."
"Science has its own processes and laws, and is eager to question its own conclusions. No one denies that life may exist on other planets, and I am concerned about this waste of attention and waste of resources in the public discussion. This spectacle casts a shadow on the seriousness and commitment to science in the Mexican Congress, as it is consistent with the anti-science attitude of the current Mexican government."