Mexico unveils alien bodies

MEXICAN LEGISLATORS heard testimony regarding the possibility that extraterrestrials might exist and were presented with the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the country’s first congressional event on aliens and UFOs.

In the recent hearing, Mexican politicians were shown two artefacts that a Mexican journalist and longtime UFO enthusiast, Jaime Maussan, claimed were the remains of extra-terrestrials.

Two calcified bodies of non-human origin unveiled in Mexico by Mexican journalist and longtime UFO enthusiast, Jaime Maussan. (Photos from the Facebook page of Jaime Maussan.)

The two tiny “bodies”, displayed in cases, had three fingers on each hand and elongated heads.

Maussan said they were recovered in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017. He said that they were about 1,000 years old, according to carbon dating analysis by Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM).

The remains were not related to any life on Earth, Maussan said.

“I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with non-human specimens that are not related to any other species in our world and that all possibilities are open for any scientific institution … to investigate it,” Maussan said.

Similar finds in the past have turned out to be the remains of mummified children.

UNAM also republished a statement first issued in 2017, saying the work by its National Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry with Accelerators (LEMA) was only intended to determine the age of the samples.

“In no case do we make conclusions about the origin of said samples,” the statement said.

The apparently desiccated bodies date back to 2017 and were found deep underground in the sandy Peruvian coastal desert of Nazca. The area is known for gigantic enigmatic figures scraped into the earth and seen only from a birds-eye-view. Most attribute the Nazca Lines to ancient Indigenous communities, but the formations have captured the imaginations of many.

In 2017, Maussan made similar claims about non-human remains in Peru, and a report by the country’s prosecutor’s office found that the bodies were actually “recently manufactured dolls, which have been covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate the presence of skin”.

The report added that the figures were almost certainly human-made and that “they are not the remains of ancestral aliens that they have tried to present”.

The bodies were not publicly unveiled in Peru at the time, so it is unclear if they were the same as those presented to Mexico’s Congress.

The session, unprecedented in the Mexican Congress, comes two months after a similar one before the US Congress in which a former US Air Force intelligence officer claimed his country has probably been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s.

The Mexican congressman Sergio Gutierrez, from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s ruling Morena party, said he hoped the hearing would be the first of other similar events in Mexico.

“We are left with reflections, with concerns and with the path to continue talking about this,” Gutierrez said.

But Maussan faced swift backlash and criticism from sceptics on Wednesday who questioned the authenticity of his presentation.

Julieta Fierro, researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, was among those to express scepticism, saying that many details about the figures “made no sense”.

Fierro added that the researchers’ claims that her university endorsed their supposed discovery were false, and noted that scientists would need more advanced technology than the X-rays they claimed to use to determine if the allegedly calcified bodies were “non-human”.

“Maussan has done many things. He says he has talked to the Virgin of Guadalupe,” she said.

“He told me extraterrestrials do not talk to me like they talk to him because I don’t believe in them.”

The scientist added that it seemed strange that they extracted what would surely be a “treasure of the nation” from Peru without inviting the Peruvian ambassador.

U.S. holds ‘non-human biologics, crashed UFOs 

In July, David Grusch, a former National Reconnaissance Officer for the Pentagon’s task force who led analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) – formerly known as UFOs – until 2023, testified that he “absolutely” believes the government is in possession of UAPs as well as remains of their non-human operators.

“I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program to which I was denied access,” Mr Grusch told the House oversight committee in Washington. “I made the decision, based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple inspectors general, and in effect become a whistleblower.”

He was one of three witnesses that testified before a House Subcommittee on National Security Border and Foreign Affairs hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety and Government Transparency”.

Grusch said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force’s mission. He said his role in the government was to investigate what military, defence and other agencies knew about aliens and alien craft, but he was prevented from accessing secret government UAP programs.

In 2022, Grusch filed a whistleblower complaint and told the hearing he had “suffered retaliation” as a result of doing so, saying his allegations hurt him “professionally and personally”. 

He confirmed to the committee that he had knowledge of “people who had been harmed or injured” in the government’s efforts to conceal UAP information. When pressed for details over the course of the hearing, Grusch repeatedly said he could not comment in a public setting because the information is classified.

He refused to comment whether the US government had “made contact with intelligent extraterrestrials”, or that the Pentagon had obtained bodies of crashed UAP pilots. But Grusch did tell the congressional hearing that the US possessed a “very, very large” spacecraft of unknown origin and that he had personally witnessed “very disturbing activity” forms of alien technology or beings on humans.

He said the US government is hiding information on UAPs not only from the public but from Congress, and that he personally interviewed people with direct knowledge of non-human craft. “My testimony is based on information I’ve been given by individuals with a longstanding track record of legitimacy and service to this country – many of whom also shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation and classified oral testimony,” Grusch said.

US Representative Tim Burchett supported the idea that the government was concealing information, saying at the opening of the hearing – which also featured testimony from two former Navy officers who said they witnessed UAPs – that “we’re going to uncover the cover-up.”

“This is an issue of government transparency. We can’t trust a government that does not trust its people,” he said.

Asked if there may be life beyond Earth, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he does not have a position on the issue one way or another. “What we believe is that there are unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by pilots – Navy and Air Force,” he said, adding: “We don’t have the answers about what these phenomena are.”

The Pentagon has denied Grusch’s claims of a cover-up. As Grusch made the allegations of alien contact under oath, he risks facing five years in prison if he is found guilty of perjury.

The head of the Pentagon office that was set up to identify UAPs that pose a potential threat Sean Kirkpatrick also told politicians earlier this year that it had not identified signs of alien activity. He said the he All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office “has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics”.

The US government has, however begun taking the issue of UAPs more seriously in recent years. 

NASA held its first public meeting on UAPs in May, calling for a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of hundreds of mysterious sightings. The Pentagon also began paying closer attention to the subject after a slew of inexplicable sightings from US Navy and Air Force pilots.

The central worry was that the sightings could be of unknown aerial surveillance technology used by China to collect intelligence on US defenses. (Al Jazeera, News.com.au, Reuters and AFP)