Mexico's Congress and the 'Nazca mummies'
In September 2023 Jaime Maussan showed two small bodies to Mexico's first congressional hearing on UFOs and called them non-human.
2023 CE · 19.43, -99.13 · status: hoax
The account
Maussan said the figures came from a diatom mine near Nazca, Peru, were over 1,000 years old, and that a third of their DNA was of 'unknown origin'. He brought more 'three-fingered' specimens to a follow-up session in November 2023. The televised spectacle overshadowed other testimony at the hearing.
The sceptical view
UNAM said it never endorsed his claims; Peruvian forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada and a 2017 Peruvian prosecutor's report found such figures were recently made dolls of human and animal bones glued together. Maussan has promoted earlier alien-body claims that proved to be a skinned monkey and a human child.
The researched reading
Bodies presented to a legislature that turned out to be crafted from human and animal bones.
| Explanation | Weight | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A hoax or fabrication | 88% | Peruvian forensic examiners found similar figures to be modern assemblies of human and animal bones held with synthetic glue; Maussan earlier promoted a skinned monkey and a child’s body as aliens. |
| Something known, misidentified | 6% | Real pre-Columbian remains were used as raw material and could be misread by enthusiasts. |
| Perception, memory or mind | 2% | Believers saw the hearing as validation, not the evidence. |
| A known natural phenomenon | 1% | Not relevant to assembled bodies. |
| A poorly understood natural phenomenon | 1% | Not relevant. |
| Secret human technology | 1% | Not relevant. |
| Genuinely anomalous | 1% | No genuine anomaly has survived examination. |
Official position: UNAM said it never endorsed the claims; Peruvian prosecutors and forensic scientists called such figures fabricated dolls.
Connections in the atlas
- Paracas elongated skulls
- ? Are the "Nazca mummies" non-human beings?
- 'Sirius' film & the Atacama humanoid
- Nazca Lines