MEXICO CITY. Mexico’s Congress witnessed an unusual spectacle as lawmakers gathered to hear testimonies suggesting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. However, there were no saucer-shaped UFOs hovering over the historic building or little green invaders resembling Hollywood depictions.
The researchers, hailing from Mexico, the United States, Japan, and Brazil, gathered for a session that marked an unprecedented event in the Mexican Congress. This hearing followed a similar session in the U.S. Congress just two months ago, where a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer claimed knowledge of “non-human” activity dating back to the 1930s.
Mexican journalist José Jaime Maussan took center stage, presenting two boxes containing purported mummies discovered in Peru. Maussan and others consider these mummies to be “non-human beings not part of our terrestrial evolution.” The shrunken, desiccated bodies, with their warped heads, left those in the chamber astounded and ignited a social media frenzy.
“It’s the queen of all evidence,” declared Maussan. “If the DNA shows they are non-human beings, unlike anything on Earth, we should acknowledge it.” However, he stopped short of labeling them “extraterrestrials” at this point.
The bodies in question reportedly date back to 2017 and were unearthed deep underground in the sandy Peruvian coastal desert of Nazca. This area is renowned for enormous enigmatic figures etched into the earth, visible only from an aerial perspective. While most attribute the Nazca Lines to ancient indigenous communities, these formations have captivated imaginations worldwide.
In 2017, Maussan made similar claims in Peru, but a report by 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 the presence of skin.” The report further stated that these figures were most likely human-made and “not the remains of ancestral aliens.” Whether these are the same figures presented in Mexico’s congress remains unclear.
On the following day, Julieta Fierro, a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, expressed skepticism, noting that many aspects of the figures “made no sense.” Fierro also clarified that claims of her university endorsing their discovery were false, and she stressed that more advanced technology than the X-rays claimed to be used would be necessary to determine if the calcified bodies were indeed “non-human.”
Fierro commented, “Maussan has claimed many things. He says he’s communicated with the Virgin of Guadalupe. He told me extraterrestrials don’t talk to me like they talk to him because I don’t believe in them.”
The scientist also found it unusual that such a significant discovery, if valid, was extracted from Peru without involving the Peruvian ambassador.
Congressman Sergio Gutiérrez Luna of the ruling Morena party emphasized that Congress had not taken an official position on the claims presented during the three-hour session. He noted that belief in these claims was a matter for each member of the legislative body to decide, but all testifying individuals were required to swear an oath to speak truthfully.
Gutiérrez Luna underscored the importance of listening to “all voices, all opinions,” and considered it positive that there was a transparent dialogue on the topic of extraterrestrial life.
The session in Mexico follows a U.S. congressional hearing in July, during which retired Maj. David Grusch alleged a long-standing U.S. program involving the retrieval and reverse engineering of unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon subsequently denied Grusch’s claims.
This hearing in the U.S. Congress was the latest exploration of unidentified aerial phenomena, known as UAPs, due to concerns about their potential national security implications. Both Democrats and Republicans have called for increased research into these sightings, prompted by fears that pilot observations might be linked to U.S. adversaries.
Gary P Hernal started college at UP Diliman and received his BA in Economics from San Sebastian College, Manila, and Masters in Information Systems Management from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in Oak Brook, IL. He has 25 years of copy editing and management experience at Thomson West, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters.
