Case file · High strangeness
'Maya alien contact' documentary claim, Calakmul
In September 2011 a Campeche tourism official and film producer Raúl Julia-Levy announced that Mexico would release codices and artefacts showing contact between the ancient Maya and extraterrestrials, for a documentary timed to 2012.
2011 CE · 18.11, -89.81 · status: claim
The account
The government's role was to give the crew access to unexplored rooms in a Calakmul pyramid; Guatemala also cooperated, but said it was offering no information about aliens. The film, 'Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond', never delivered the promised evidence.
The sceptical view
The claim came from a tourism official, not archaeologists, and INAH never endorsed it. Photos later offered as 'proof' were dismissed by Mayanists as modern or misread objects.