MEXICO CITY – A UFO listening to in Mexico’s congress that featured the presentation of alleged stays of non-human beings confronted swift worldwide backlash on Thursday, with critics labeling it a “stunt,” and questions from officers in Peru, the place the obvious specimens first emerged.
Mexican journalist and long-time UFO fanatic Jaime Maussan confirmed politicians on the listening to on Tuesday two tiny “bodies” displayed in instances, with three fingers on every hand and elongated heads. He claimed they have been present in Peru in 2017 and weren’t associated to any life on Earth.
The photos from the congressional listening to, the primary of its form in Mexico, sparked worldwide curiosity in addition to substantial scorn.
Former U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who additionally attended the listening to to share his private expertise with sightings of “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP, heaped criticism on the presentation.
“Yesterday’s demonstration was a huge step backwards for this issue,” Graves mentioned on the X social media platform, previously often called Twitter. “I am deeply disappointed by this unsubstantiated stunt.”
Graves participated in U.S. Congressional hearings on UAP in July, when he mentioned that airspace sightings of unexplained phenomena have been “grossly under-reported.”
Maussan mentioned within the presentation that the specimens have been recovered close to Peru’s historic Nazca Lines and had been carbon-dated by Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) and concluded to be about 1,000 years outdated. He claimed they weren’t associated to any species on Earth.
Similar such finds up to now have turned out to be the stays of mummified youngsters.
Peru’s Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga mentioned no scientific establishment within the South American nation had recognized the stays as non-human and questioned how the specimens had left Peru.
“There is a criminal complaint from the Ministry of Culture against some people who had a relationship with these gentlemen,” Urteaga advised journalists late on Wednesday in reference to Maussan and his associates.
“I am going to ask for information to see what has happened … about the removal of pre-Hispanic objects, because I understand they are part of pre-Hispanic bone remains,” she added.
Maussan didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
UNAM, in an announcement republished Wednesday which it first issued in 2017, mentioned the work by its National Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry with Accelerators (LEMA) was solely meant to find out the age of the samples. UNAM declined a request by Reuters to see the total research outcomes or interview researchers who participated. It additionally declined to say how outdated its research had discovered the samples to be.
In a press convention on Thursday, NASA officers fielded questions concerning the Mexican presentation as they launched their very own report on suggestions for serving to the Pentagon detect and look at UAP.
David Spergel, former head of Princeton University’s astrophysics division and chair of the report, mentioned he didn’t know the character of the samples however urged transparency.
“If you have something strange, make samples available to the world’s scientific community, and we’ll see what’s there,” he mentioned. — Reuters
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