Debunked: Tiny 'Alien' Bodies Presented to Congress Are Fake

We said this before, but just to make sure: September 12, 2023, will go down in history either as a watershed moment for offering irrefutable proof of the existence of alien life and the global conspiracy to keep its existence away from public knowledge or as the biggest stunt in TV.

The scientific community has already voted for option number 2, discrediting claims that alien bodies were offered as proof.

Jaime Maussan, the well-known Mexican journalist behind the entire "reveal," is most likely using pseudoscience to deceive the public again, scientists believe. And those "alien" mummies that he unboxed to great fanfare before the Congress are fakes – doll-like creations he put together to make a point.

The spectacular claims: pregnant aliens that lived among humans

During the live public hearing on the topic of UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs) in the Mexican Congress, Jaime Maussan brought out two small cases containing what he claimed were the desiccated remains of non-human beings that had lived among humans over a millennia ago. One of them had been pregnant, while the other had precious metals inside, presumably as some sort of religious ritual.

Maussan had put together an entire team for the presentation, including Avi Loeb, professor of astrophysics at Harvard University, and former U.S. pilot Ryan Graves, who, just two months before, had appeared before the U.S. Congress to give testimony of his own experience with UAPs. Graves has since walked back on the unfortunate association with Maussan.

Alleged scans and extra details about the aliens were provided, painting a picture of beings that, though humanoid, possessed very non-human-like abilities, like a retractable neck. The bodies had been discovered in 2017 in the mines on the Nazca Lines in Peru, where similar discoveries had been made before – coincidence or not, also by Maussan.

Maussan is a local celebrity in this field, as you may have inferred. He runs the Tercer Milenio channel and has spoken before of his findings and even of his own alien encounters. He's also come to blows repeatedly with scientists calling him out for his allegations.

His previous "alien" discoveries were debunked, including one of a similar mummy that turned out to be a child with a deformed head. Two more mummies from the same 2017 batch as the one containing the more recent two were shown to be "dolls."

Maussan claimed the bodies had been carbon-dated by researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and analyzed by independent researchers. Samples and all collected data had been made publicly available, too, he claimed, because the world had the right to know.

Maussan was adamant: this was a historical moment that proved beyond any doubt that "we are not alone in this universe." That may be so, but he's yet to prove it, the scientific community is saying back.

Smoke and mirrors, and outright lies

Perhaps name-dropping UNAM was the biggest flaw in the plan because researchers from the university and the administration itself are quick to distance themselves from the alien story. If these are alien bodies, UNAM was not involved in any kind of research or thorough analysis of samples.

"Of course, it was all made up," Julieta Fierro, researcher at the UNAM Institute of Astronomy, says in a statement.

Maussan never worked with UNAM on this and probably couldn't have, even if he wanted to, because he lacks credit with the community, given his previous lies. She pointed out that a desiccated body like that would require more than an X-ray to determine whether it was human or not and that Maussan couldn't have brought it into Mexico from Peru without leaving a paper trace, which doesn't exist, or without involving the authorities.

Flavio Estrada, a forensic archaeologist who analyzed the other Nazca alien mummies for the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of the Public Ministry in Peru, has also gone on the record on the latest reveal. The aliens are dolls made from animal and human bones "held together with synthetic glue," covered in fake skin and dust, he said. The only real part about Maussan's story is that they're non-human.

Physical anthropologist Guido Lombardi, who also conducted research on the previous (debunked) discoveries, agrees. These tiny "aliens" are fakes, assembled out of parts specifically to back up the misleading story of a groundbreaking discovery.

"What happened yesterday in the Mexican Congress was a spectacle, with information that is not necessarily verifiable, the product of fanaticism that is more about media spectacle and political gain than explaining the phenomenon of possible life beyond our planet," Raúl Trejo Delarbre, researcher at the Institute for Social Research and a doctor in sociology from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM, says.

In a statement, UNAM points out that there is no verifiable data yet to confirm the existence of life beyond Earth and that all theories on this must go through a rigorous scientific process before they're made public. This was not it, they're saying.

Maussan's findings and the subsequent research would have had to be published in peer-reviewed publications. Not only has that not happened, but it doesn't seem like Maussan is keeping his promise that available data will be offered for free analysis.

If aliens do exist and may have even made contact with the human species, these tiny ET-like mummies don't prove it.