Two specimens alleged to be the remains of “aliens” were presented before the Mexican Congress on Wednesday by a self-proclaimed “ufologist” who has previously engaged in pseudoscience and false claims regarding extraterrestrials.
UFO scientist, writer and TV host Jaime Maussan testified under oath that the two shriveled gray bodies with three fingers on each hand are “non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution,” per the Guardian’s Thomas Graham. But experts were quick to cast doubt on Maussan’s claims.
“These conclusions are simply not backed up by evidence,” Antígona Segura, one of Mexico’s top astrobiologists, tells Simon Romero of the New York Times. “The whole thing is very shameful.”
Maussan said researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico used carbon dating to determine the remains are about 1,000 years old. Scientists with the university have distanced themselves from Maussan’s testimony, saying they were not involved in collecting the sample, nor did they come in contact with the full specimens.
“In no case do we make conclusions about the origin of these samples,” the university’s National Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry With Accelerators said in a statement first released in 2017, per the Times.
In 2015, Maussan similarly revealed a body that he claimed belonged to an alien, but it was later shown to be the remains of a human child. And two years later, he participated in a video project claiming that specimens uncovered in...
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