UFOs and aliens are in the news again this week.
Unfortunately, this is not because a mothership landed on the White House lawn, but because NASA released a long-awaited report published by the independent research team tasked to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). UAP is the new term for UFOs and includes not only unexplained things in the sky, but also in space, underwater and everything in between.
However, the release of NASA’s first UFO report wasn’t the only story about possible non-human life forms to make headlines this week. According to ReutersLawmakers in Mexico heard testimony this week about the presence of alien life on Earth, including two “alien corpses.” These alleged alien corpses looked ‘white and resembled stereotypical images of aliens – big head, small body, three fingers’, NPR reported.
The so-called alien mummies (well, the creepy ones… whatever they are) were shown by Jaime Maussan, a longtime UFO personality with a history of hoaxing alleged non-human remains. Despite Maussan’s history of replicating alien corpses and mummiesthe story is now widespread – so widespread, in fact, that it came up during NASA’s briefing on the new UAP report that took place on Thursday (September 14).
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During Thursday’s briefing, BBC News Digital journalist Sam Cabral asked whether or not NASA has been in contact with Mexican authorities about “the rather sensational revelations” about the alleged alien mummies. In response, the chairman of NASA’s UAP study team, David Spergel, responded that if there is any evidence of alien remains, those in possession of the material should make it publicly available for research.
“If you have unusual things, you want to make data public,” Spergel said. “I see this as: NASA has one of the most valuable samples from space – moon rocks – what should we do? We’re making them available to any scientists who want to work on this.
“We do not know the nature of the samples that were displayed before them,” Spergel added. “If I were the Mexican government, if I were to make a recommendation to the Mexican government – that is not our job here, we are doing this for NASA – my recommendation [would be]: If you have something strange, make samples available to the world’s scientific community and we’ll see what’s there.”
Dan Evans, principal deputy associate administrator for research at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, added that the entire goal of NASA’s UAP study team is to dispel the kind of sensationalism and pseudoscience that Mexican lawmakers are seeing this week .
“I’ll add one of the main goals of what we’re trying to do here today: moving from conjecture and conspiracy to science and common sense,” Evans said. “And you do that with data, as David says, and that’s the whole purpose of this study.”
It turns out that Maussan has a history of throwing out fake alien remains. Micah Hanks, editor of The debriefing and a veteran UAP researcher, says Maussan’s latest hoax about alien bodies is “unfortunately not the first time this kind of thing has happened.”
In 2015 Mausan organized an event in Mexico City to mark the release of a blurry photo showing what appeared to be the remains of a small mummified humanoid alien. “However, when clear copies of the image were distributed online several hours after its unveiling at the event, it was quickly determined that the image actually depicted historical remains of a Native American child that had been on display at the prison for a time decades ago. a museum,” Hanks told Space.com. “Some of the people involved publicly apologized at the time because the child’s remains were misrepresented in such a way.”
It remains unclear what these latest ‘alien mummies’ might be, but an analysis of their physiology has been posted on social media suggests they are composed of parts of different mammals, such as llamas.
As Reuters reported, some of the other alleged alien corpses Maussan has presented over the years turned out to have been cobbled together from the remains of mummified children.
