MEXICO CITY, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Mexican lawmakers heard testimony that “we are not alone” within the universe and noticed the alleged stays of non-human beings in a rare hearing marking the Latin American nation’s first congressional occasion on UFOs.
In the hearing on Tuesday on FANI, the Spanish acronym for what are often now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), politicians had been proven two artifacts that Mexican journalist and long-time UFO fanatic Jaime Maussan claimed had been the corpses of extraterrestrials.
The specimens weren’t associated to any life on Earth, Maussan stated.
The two tiny “bodies,” displayed in instances, have three fingers on every hand and elongated heads. Maussan stated they had been recovered in Peru close to the traditional Nazca Lines in 2017. He stated that they had been about 1,000 years outdated, analyzed by a carbon relationship course of by Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM).
Similar such finds previously have turned out to be the stays of mummified youngsters.
Maussan stated it was the primary time such proof had been introduced.
“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 all possibilities are open for any scientific institution… to investigate it,” Maussan stated.
“We are not alone,” he added.
Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, Director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican navy, stated X-rays, 3-D reconstruction and DNA evaluation had been carried out on the stays.
“I can affirm that these bodies have no relation to human beings,” he stated.
UNAM on Thursday republished a press release first issued in 2017, saying the work by its National Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry with Accelerators (LEMA) was solely meant to find out the age of the samples.
“In no case do we make conclusions about the origin of said samples,” the assertion stated.
Lawmakers additionally heard from former U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who has participated in U.S. Congressional hearings about his private expertise with UAP and the stigma round reporting such sightings.
Congressman Sergio Gutierrez, from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s ruling Morena get together, stated he hoped the hearing could be the primary of different comparable occasions in Mexico.
“We are left with reflections, with concerns and with the path to continue talking about this,” Gutierrez stated.
In current years, the U.S. authorities has performed an about-face on public data on UAP after many years of stonewalling and deflecting. The Pentagon has been actively investigating reported sightings in recent times by army aviators, whereas an unbiased NASA panel finding out UFOs is the primary of its variety by the house company.
NASA is about to debate findings from the research on Thursday.
Maussan confronted swift backlash and criticism from skeptics on Wednesday who questioned the authenticity of his presentation.
“This could really hurt efforts to take the issue seriously,” stated a person of X social media platform, previously generally known as Twitter. “Why didn’t they wait until a scientific paper was ready to publish it?”
Reporting by Cassandra Garrison and Reuters TV, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien
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