This was the scene when a UFO investigator stunned congress members by presenting two purportedly "non-human" bodies.
A 'watershed' event, according to Jaime Maussan, was held in front of the Mexican Congress on Tuesday when he stood with scientists to display two corpses, as reported by The Daily Mail. Jaime Maussan has been leading investigations into extraterrestrial occurrences for decades.
According to Mexican media, the experts claimed incredulously that the bodies, which were displayed in windowed cages and purportedly found in Cusco, Peru, were not a product of "our terrestrial evolution" and that 30 percent of their genetic make-up was still "unknown."
The remains, which were depicted as having three-fingered hands, no teeth, and stereoscopic vision, were proven to be more than 1,000 years old, according to carbon dating results from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Conspiracy theorists online have been excited by the strange presentation, but there has also been skepticism. The specimens were covered in what seemed to be sand, which is unusual for fossils that have undergone study.
Not UFO?
But under oath on Tuesday, Maussan-who has previously been linked to refuted alien theories, "These specimens are not part of our terrestrial evolution [...] These aren't beings that were found after a UFO wreckage." They were discovered in diatom [algae] mines and eventually turned into fossils.
The bodies displayed during the congress resembled a human being in shape. However, El Pas noted that a retractable neck and a large skull display "characteristics" more "typical of birds."
The presenters noted that it was also discovered that they lacked teeth and had strong, light bones. Deputies were informed by experts in Congress who displayed purported X-rays of the specimens that one of the creatures was carrying 'eggs' with embryos inside of them. They claimed to have cadmium and osmium metal implants. Osmium is regarded as the rarest valuable metal and one of the most rare metals in the Earth's crust.
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A Watershed Moment
Maussan called the occasion a "watershed" moment since it marked the beginning of an official discourse in Mexico to acknowledge the epidemic.
He claimed that specialists at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) recently conducted radiocarbon dating on the bodies.
Several US and Mexican officials appeared to present on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena at the gathering on Tuesday.
The director of the Harvard Astronomy Department, Abraham Avi Loeb, attended via video link and urged the Mexican government to permit researchers from other countries to continue studying the samples.
Ryan Graves was also present, a former Navy pilot and retired director of the US Navy.
