Longtime UFO huckster Jaime Maussan showed the Mexican Congress two alleged “fossilized” alien bodies whose “DNA” was one-third “unidentified” in a presentation attended by Mexican and U.S. officials. Maussan claimed the bodies had been recovered near Cusco, Peru and had been carbon-dated to at least 700 years ago. They looked very much like crude clay sculptures of Steven Spielberg’s E.T., and an x-ray showed small bones embedded within them. (Previous, similar fakes were made from the bones of human fetuses and/or animals, some looted from graves; experts identified these fakes as sand-covered paper mâché over animal bones.) The bodies were first publicized in 2017. At the time, the World Congress on Mummy Studies declared them a fraud. Avi Loeb, who told the Telegraph this week that his critics are mostly “bloggers” who aren’t fit to judge him, judged Maussan via video link and requested that scientists be allowed to study the alien bodies, something he hasn’t yet allowed for his own alleged extraterrestrial discovery. The Mexican UFO hearing occurred shortly after Jesse Michels released a multi-hour interview with U.S. UFO “whistleblower” David Grusch, who endorsed various Majestic-12-style conspiracy theories and speculated about a number of Ancient Aliens-style ancient astronaut hypotheses.
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Jim
9/13/2023 02:45:44 pm
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/jhll63/this_potato_looks_like_an_alien/
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Brian
9/13/2023 04:17:58 pm
I saw this noted in The Independent, which with The Guardian has been giving a disturbing amount of space to all this nonsense. The claim is evidently that there are "eggs" in one of these obvious childish fabrications. Will we ever be free of fraudsters touting this crap for gain? And when these are once again debunked, will the fraudsters ever see any penalty? Perhaps for defrauding the Pentagon and costing us all millions of dollars in wasteful and pointless investigations?
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The Nose Knows Noses
9/13/2023 05:17:35 pm
This individual must have had the best rhinoplasty surgeon ever. Don't think I've ever seen a nose on mommy before. Tut must be jealous.
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praff !!
9/14/2023 04:56:27 am
It is essential to note that in 2017, Maussan made similar claims in Peru. However, a report from the country's prosecutor's office concluded that the bodies were "recently manufactured dolls" covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate skin. This report unequivocally asserted that these figures were human-made, not the remains of ancestral aliens. Whether these are the same bodies presented in Mexico remains uncertain.
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Kent
9/16/2023 09:31:06 pm
Wow, it's a good thing the Mexis and Perubians straightened this out because I was all ready to believe in tiny space aliens.
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Bob Jase
9/14/2023 07:12:11 pm
Shoulda included Jake the Alligator Man
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Charles Verrastro
9/17/2023 01:46:40 pm
As I kid driving down to Florida each year on vacation we'd stop at the roadside attractions. One was the Ape Farm (still around), where you could wrestle muzzled gorillas and chimps (ironically, the kids got the gorillas, which were gentle as St. Bernards, while the Chimps nearly mauled my dad, who was pretty strong and tough.
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jessy jay
9/20/2023 07:00:11 am
this carnival sideshow was a psyop to distract from the real disclosure - aliens live among us as potatoes. keep watching the vegetable plots
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