Alleged bodies of 'non-human beings' shown in Mexican Congress

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="A handout picture released by the press office of the Mexican Congress shows an alleged body of a " being="" exhibited="" at="" the="" Mexican="" Congress="" in="" Mexico="" City="" on="" Sept.="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/09/14/20230914-non-human-afp.jpg"/><figcaption>A handout picture released by the press office of the Mexican Congress shows an alleged body of a &quot;non-human&quot; being exhibited at the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Sept. 12, 2023. <em>Mexico&#x27;s Congress/AFP </em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MEXICO CITY — The alleged bodies of two &quot;non-human beings&quot; were presented during a congressional hearing in Mexico, generating a mixture of surprise, disbelief and ridicule on social media on Wednesday.</p><p>The purported mummified remains were exhibited in two small display cases on Tuesday -- the first time the Mexican Congress has officially addressed the issue of possible extraterrestrial life.</p><p>The alleged corpses, which had a grayish color and facial features similar to humans, were brought by Jaime Maussan, a controversial Mexican journalist and researcher who reported finding them in Peru in 2017.</p><p>&quot;They are non-human beings. We don&#x27;t want to call them extraterrestrials because we don&#x27;t know,&quot; Maussan said during the session called by ruling party lawmaker Sergio Gutierrez, who defended the event as being in the &quot;public interest.&quot;</p><p>Maussan cited carbon dating analysis by the National Autonomous University of Mexico that he said showed &quot;these beings are around 1,000 years old.&quot;</p><p>The university&#x27;s physics institute confirmed in a statement that it had carried out tests but only to determine the age and not the origin of the specimens.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GSu68S6kO4k?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>Its laboratory &quot;distances itself from any subsequent use, interpretation or misrepresentation made with the results it issues,&quot; a statement said.</p><p>During the hearing, Gutierrez asked the speakers to swear to tell the truth.</p><p>He said Maussan requested the session after a US congressional committee in July was told by a former intelligence official that humans were not alone in the universe and American authorities were covering up the evidence.</p><p>In May, the US space agency NASA held its first public meeting on the issue, and urged a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of so-called unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).</p><p>The Mexican hearing generated both astonishment and mockery, including jokes accompanied by photos of the alien creature in the movie &quot;E.T.&quot;</p><p>The event &quot;shows the contempt that this country has for science,&quot; one user wrote on the social media platform X, formerly called Twitter.</p><p>Others shared videos of the event with the words &quot;The Martians have arrived,&quot; while there was a tongue-in-cheek call for Maussan to be named &quot;president of intergalactic relations.&quot;</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/classified-odd/06/10/22/nasa-gets-serious-about-ufos">NASA gets serious about UFOs</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/classified-odd/07/27/23/ex-intel-officer-says-us-hiding-info-on-alien-craft">Ex-intel officer says US hiding info on alien craft</a></li></ul><p>© Agence France-Presse </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2760251" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

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Alleged bodies of 'non-human beings' shown in Mexican Congress

Alleged bodies of 'non-human beings' shown in Mexican Congress

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Published Sep 14, 2023 12:14 PM PHT

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