Mexico’s Congress has been presented with what one man claims are mummified alien corpses, but scientists are not convinced.

“We are not alone,” Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed in front of politicians this week.

Maussan presented two artefacts that he claimed were corpses of extraterrestrials recovered in Peru, near the ancient geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines in 2017.

Just like many Hollywood blockbusters, the tiny figures have elongated heads, three fingers and two bulging eyes.

“This is the first time extraterrestrial life is presented in such a form and I think there is a clear demonstration that we are dealing with non-human specimens that are not related to any other species in our world and that any scientific institution can investigate it,” Maussan proclaimed.

The alleged aliens ceremoniously unveiled in the hearing marked Mexico’s first congressional event on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which officials now prefer to call Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican navy, said X-rays, 3D reconstruction and DNA analysis had been carried out on the remains.

“I can affirm that these bodies have no relation to human beings,” he said.

However, that doesn’t mean they are aliens.

Who is Jaime Maussan?

To understand why people are sceptical, you need to understand who Jamie Maussan is.

In 2015, Maussan headed up an event called Be Witness, where he unveiled what he claimed was a mummified alien corpse.

It was later proven not to be an alien, but instead a human child.

After the corpse was proven to be a human, Maussan was asked about it and refused to concede.

“This could be true,” he said in relation to the revelations, according to The Mirror.

“But there are so many anomalies that [it] is impossible that this is a human being.”

Scientific testing

During the congressional hearing in Mexico, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was dragged into the saga.

Maussan claimed UNAM carried out a scientific method called carbon-14 dating on the corpses. Carbon-14 dating can determine the age of organic materials.

One of the alleged aliens. Photo: Getty

In response to the media buzz surrounding the “aliens” presented in Mexico, UNAM republished a statement it made back in 2017.

In the statement, UNAM confirmed the national Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry with Accelerators (LEMA) carried out carbon-14 dating on a set of samples that were provided by a client.

The samples were skin and brain tissue and the results were delivered in June 2017.

“The carbon-14 dating work carried out at LEMA is only intended to determine the age of the sample brought by each user and in no case do we make conclusions about the origin of said samples,” the statement said.

“The members of LEMA do not carry out any type of sampling, nor do they come into contact with the original source of the sample in situ.

“The LEMA disclaims any subsequent use, interpretation or misrepresentation made with the results it issues.

“In the case of the June 2017 analysis, any information that implies the participation of LEMA in any activity other than carbon-14 dating is completely invalid.”

Many sceptics

Julieta Fierro Gossman, a researcher at UNAM’s Institute of Astronomy, is one of many who are sceptical about the alleged alien corpses.

The details about the figures “made no sense” and she refuted the idea the university endorsed claims about the supposed discovery of extraterrestrial life, Gossman told Associated Press.

She also said scientists would need technology that is more advanced than X-rays to determine if the corpses were something other than human.

“Maussan has done many things. He says he has talked to the Virgin of Guadalupe,” Gossman said.

“He told me extraterrestrials do not talk to me like they talk to him because I don’t believe in them.”

‘Unsubstantiated stunt’

In July the US held a hearing into UFOs and among the former military officials who testified was Ryan Graves, an ex-Navy pilot who is concerned about the stigma that surrounds the reporting of UAPs.

“If UAP are foreign drones, it is an urgent national security problem. If it is something else, it is an issue for science. In either case, unidentified objects are a concern for flight safety,” Graves said.

It wasn’t just Mexican politicians who were there for the unveiling of the alleged extraterrestrials. Graves was there, along with experts from other countries like United States, Japan and Brazil.

However, Graves was not impressed by the congressional hearing.

He said he accepted the invitation to testify before the Mexican Congress in hopes of keeping up “the momentum of government interest in pilot experiences with UAP”.

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“Unfortunately, yesterday’s demonstration was a huge step backwards for this issue,” he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“My testimony centred on sharing my experience and the UAP reports I hear from commercial and military aircrew through ASA’s witness program.

“I will continue to raise awareness of UAP as an urgent matter of aerospace safety, national security, and science, but I am deeply disappointed by this unsubstantiated stunt.”