So Maybe Those Tiny "Alien" Bodies Presented to Congress Are Not Fake

On September 12, 2023, Jaime Maussan, a well-known Mexican ufologist, journalist, and occasional conspirationist, went before the Mexican Congress during a public hearing on UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs by their old name) to reveal two desiccated bodies that he claimed were of non-human origin.

The bodies had been discovered in 2017 in Nazca, Peru, and proved that "we are not alone in the universe," Maussan said. He believed that the aliens lived on earth among humans at one point, like these two bodies he recovered from an algae mine. Clara, the female, was pregnant when she died, and Mauricio had a chest implant made of a very rare metal. Both were at least 1,000 years old.

You can imagine, if you don't already know, how this piece of news dropped and the kind of waves it created. Aware of being called out as a liar, Maussan claimed the bodies had been carbon-tested, X-rayed, and analyzed by scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to confirm that they weren't human.

Blowback was instant, especially from UNAM. Maussan's own reputation was a clear sign that the alien bodies couldn't be real since he'd made similar claims before, and they were all debunked by science. Of the real kind.

This is Maussan fighting fire with fire science with science. A team led by navy forensic specialist and close Maussan associate Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez conducted further testing on Clara and Mauricio (the two aliens). The whole thing streamed live online, and Maussan even got a notary on hand to attest to the findings of the tests.

These tests were three in number: a simple X-ray, a CT scan, and a fluoroscopy study. Benitez says they prove beyond any doubt that each body is a single skeleton not assembled by various parts or manipulated in any way. He also made a point of stressing how the tiny aliens didn't show bolts or other metal supporting structures to hold them together.

Previously, researchers said Maussan had tried a similar stunt before, with doll-like creations made up of real bones, both human and animal, held together with glue and synthetic skin. They believed this was the case as well. Peruvian Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga went on the record to say that the "aliens" were actually pre-Hispanic relics modified to look like ET and even launched a criminal investigation into how Maussan got them out of the country.

Below is a brief video of the latest round of lab tests on the tiny aliens. As far as we know, Maussan has yet to keep his initial promise of making all data available or to provide samples to the scientific community so he can have the findings peer-reviewed, as is customary.