Everyone crowds together to see better. The bodies appear ancient and share characteristics with humans: two eyes, a mouth, two arms, two legs. Maussan claims they were found around 2017 in Peru, near the pre-Columbian Nazca Lines.
Maussan claims he can prove that they are unlike anything known on Earth.
On social media and at the public congressional hearing, he shared scientific analyzes and study results that he said prove the bodies are approximately 1,000 years old and are not related to any known terrestrial species.
One of them, described by Maussan as a female, was found to have eggs inside her, he said.
“It’s the most important thing that’s ever happened to humanity,” Maussan, 70, said of his crusade to raise awareness of the findings, sitting in his office that’s lavishly decorated with colorful artwork and extraterrestrial-themed paraphernalia. .
“I think this phenomenon is the only one that gives us the opportunity to unite,” he added.
Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, a respected Peruvian bioarchaeologist, is concerned that such claims will continue to be publicized, citing alleged similar finds that were considered frauds.
“What we have been saying for a long time remains true, they are presenting the same old rehash and if there are people who continue to believe this, what can we do?” he asked himself by phone. “It is so crude and so simple that there is nothing more to add.”
Previous finds of this type have been dismissed by the scientific community as mutilated mummies of pre-Hispanic children, sometimes combined with pieces of animal parts.
David Spergel, former head of Princeton University’s astrophysics department and director of a NASA report on unidentified anomalous phenomena, questioned Thursday why such samples were not available for the global scientific community to analyze.
THE ENIGMA OF TESTS
Maussan shared on social networks and in his presentation the results of the DNA tests on the beings and carbon dating, which he said he had ordered.
A Mexican scientist, at Reuters’ request, reviewed the results and concluded that they indicated normal life on Earth.
Maussan told Reuters on Friday that the test results were not directly related to the two bodies he showed to Congress this week. In fact, he asserted, they were carried out in a different organization, known as Victoria, which remains in Peru.
“They were found in the same place. They have the same physical appearance, they are the same,” Maussan explained about Victoria and the two bodies she presented in Mexico. No tests were carried out on those two bodies to avoid damaging them, she added.
Maussan is no stranger to controversy.
He has made claims about other remains in the past that have been widely criticized. He participated in a 2017 television documentary about other remains found near the Nazca Lines, which experts such as Tomasto-Cagigao and paleontologist Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi said looked like manipulated mummies.
Now it has angered Peruvian officials.
Peruvian Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga questioned how the specimens, which she said were pre-Hispanic objects, left Peru and said a criminal complaint has been filed.
“I’m not worried. I have done absolutely nothing illegal,” Maussan said.
How the bodies got to Mexico is a question he says he cannot answer. The documents, loaned to Maussan for the hearing, are in the possession of a Mexican who was in Maussan’s office on Friday and who did not want to be identified.
When asked how they came to have the bodies – whom he called Clara and Mauricio – in their possession, the man simply responded that he would reveal everything “in due course.”
José de Jesús Zalce Benítez, director of the Health Sciences Research Institute of the Ministry of the Navy, participated in the congressional hearing, reinforcing Maussan’s claims. Now joining him in his office, she calmly explained her interpretation of the science.
“Based on DNA tests, which were compared with more than a million species (…) they are not related to what is known or described until now by science or by human knowledge,” he said.
Julieta Fierro, a scientist at the Astronomy Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) who reviewed the Maussan test results for Reuters, sees much less mystery in the data.
He explained that the presence of carbon-14 in the studies carried out by UNAM demonstrates that the samples were related to brain and skin tissues from different mummies that died at different times.
The proportion of the radioactive carbon-14 isotope that is absorbed by living organisms into their tissues decays over time, allowing scientists to determine the approximate year of death of the specimen.
On other planets, the amount of carbon-14 in their atmospheres would not necessarily be the same as on Earth, he said.
Ultimately, the results “do not show anything mysterious that could indicate compounds of life that do not exist on Earth,” he said. (Reporting by Cassandra Garrison; With additional reporting by Marco Aquino in Lima; Editing in Spanish by Noé Torres)
Source: Ambito
