After all, no aliens were discovered in South America. The doll-like figures whose photos went viral on the Internet last year are, according to scientists, just that – dolls.
The controversial artifacts were confiscated by Peruvian customs officials in October and were intended for “a Mexican citizen,” the Associated Press reported.
Mexican journalist and self-proclaimed “UFOlogist” Jaime Maussan brought similar unidentified fake objects to the Mexican Congress last September, claiming they had been recovered near Peru's ancient Nazca Lines and were over 700 years old.
The Mexican Congress heard testimony on UFOs and the prospect of extraterrestrial life on September 12, 2023. Self-proclaimed “UFOlogist” Jaime Massan brought two coffins into the convention halls and revealed what he believed to be extraterrestrial life. Provided to CBS News
Maussan appeared before the Mexican Congress again in November, with a team of doctors confirming that the bodies were once living organisms.
“None of the scientists say that [the study results] “Prove they are aliens, but I will go further,” Maussan said, according to Portal.
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Experts from Peru's public prosecutor's office analyzed the confiscated dolls, and forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada presented the results of their findings at a news conference for Peru's Ministry of Culture on Friday.
Flavio Estrada, a forensic archaeologist at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Peru, speaks while holding a tiny body of a specimen in Lima, Peru. January 12, 2024. SEBASTIAN CASTANEDA / Portal
“They are not aliens, they are not interrestrians, they are not a new species, they are not hybrids, they are none of what this group of pseudoscientists who have been presenting these elements for six years have been presenting,” Estrada said.
The three-fingered humanoid puppets were made from earthbound animal and human bones assembled using modern synthetic glue, Estrada explained. It's not the first time Maussan has exposed an otherworldly corpse – he made similar claims in 2017.
“Our past cultures created Machu Picchu, our past cultures created the Nazca Lines, they didn’t need extraterrestrial help to do that. Those who promoted this have an economic interest, a different kind of interest,” Estrada said. “What we have presented here is science, not pseudoscience.”
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