Mexican UFO expert grants access to 'alien bodies' at the center of international controversy

Record ID: 1741758

  • Title: Mexican UFO expert grants access to 'alien bodies' at the center of international controversy
  • Date: 16th September 2023
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) JOURNALIST AND UFO RESEARCHER, JAIME MAUSSAN, SAYING: "It's the most important thing that has happened to humanity, because it's the opportunity for us to evolve, for us to grow, for us to maybe initiate communication with other intelligences. I think this phenomenon is the only one that gives us the opportunity to come together." VARIOUS OF REMAINS O
  • Embargoed: 30th September 2023 08:00
  • Keywords: Alien Extraterrestrial Jaime Maussan Mexico Non-humans UAP UFO
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: South America / Central America,North America,Science
  • Reuters ID: LVA003245615092023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Jaime Maussan, Mexican journalist and longtime UFO enthusiast, emerges from his office at his expansive television studios on the ground floor of a mall in the busy Santa Fe business district.
    Maussan, 70, gained instant international attention when he stood before Mexican lawmakers on Tuesday (September 12) in a first-of-its-kind hearing on FANI, the Spanish acronym for what is usually now termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and showed them two tiny bodies housed in wooden cases protected by glass lids.
    Elongated heads, three fingers on each hand, and stick-like legs, their appearance captivated the world.
    They were not human, nor related to any species of this world, Maussan claimed, and he said he could prove it. He shared on his social media networks scientific analysis and study results he said proved the bodies were about 1,000 years old and not related to any known Earthly species.
    The backlash from the scientific community came just as swiftly as Maussan's new-found international recognition. Scientists and archaeologists in Peru, where Maussan said the bodies originated, called the bodies a farce, pieced together with animal bones.
    NASA questioned why the specimens hadn't been made available for testing. A Mexican scientist, at the request of Reuters, reviewed a series of test results shared by Maussan and concluded they indicated normal life on Earth.
    How the bodies arrived in Mexico is a question he says he can't answer. According to him, a person brought the remains to the country and he asked permission to present them in Congress.
    (Production: Jose Cortes, Rodolfo Penaroja, Eva Weininger)
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