The «alien corpses» shown to Mexico’s congress. (Cámara de Diputados via YouTube)
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This week, the possibility of extraterrestrial life captured the imagination of the world. The James Webb Space Telescope detected signatures of carbon dioxide, methane, and other potential “life signatures” on a distant exoplanet. Also, a “UFOlogist” presented what he claimed were 1,800-year-old alien corpses to Mexico’s Congress in testimony. NASA, meanwhile, announced results from its UFO study.
Alien corpses in Mexico
Self-proclaimed UFOlogist and journalist Jaime Maussan on Tuesday testified to Mexican lawmakers, presenting what he claimed were two ancient “non-human” alien corpses. He told Mexico’s congress that they were retrieved from Cusco in Peru and that radiocarbon dating chalks them to be 1,800 years old.
“These specimens are not part of the evolution of our world. They were not recovered from a UFO scrap. They were found fossilised in a diatom moss mine. We are not alone in the vast universe, we need to accept this reality” said Maussan while testifying under oath, according to Euro News. Maussan was reportedly accompanied at the session by former US Armed Forces pilot Ryan Graves and Avi Loeb, professor of astrophysics at Harvard University.
Interestingly, Graves accompanied David Grusch when the latter testified to the United States Congress that the country was concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers UFOs and was in possession of “non-human” biological material. Loeb, meanwhile, recently put up dubious claims that he had found materials of interstellar origin in the ocean.
The “corpses” that Maussan showed seemed to feature tiny bodies, elongated heads and three fingers.
What is important to note is that Maussan has a track history of making outrageous claims about aliens that were later debunked by scientists. There is a fair chance that his new “revelations” are just another poorly-verified attempt at showing signs of alien life.
NASA’s UFO team report and new director
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday released the findings from an independent study on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the word that it now uses for UFOs and other unexplainable events. While announcing the results, the space agency’s administrator, Bill Nelson, added that it is appointing a new director for UAP research.
The study itself found no evidence to suggest that any of the UAP data could be attributed to extraterrestrial life. But it marks an important step for the space agency, which is now trying to destigmatise UAPs and crowdsource more data from the general public as well as commercial and military pilots. After sourcing more high quality data, NASA and other US government agencies will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to process footage and other data concerning UAP events.
Apart from the distant possibility of identifying signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life, studying UAP is also essential for the country’s national security and air safety.
Artist’s impression of what the exoplanet K2-18b will look like. (NASA)
Webb finds methane, carbon dioxide, other compounds
Interestingly, the most convincing possibility for signs of alien life came from elsewhere—the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists used Webb to look into the exoplanet K2-18b and confirmed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules like methane and carbon dioxide on the planet that could be an ocean world.
The study also hinted at the possible detection of a molecule called dimethyl sulphide on the planet. On Earth, this compound is only produced by life. The majority of the dimethyl sulphide on our planet is emitted by phytoplankton in the oceans.
But that observation is still yet to be fully confirmed. Scientists behind the study say that they will need more Webb observations to understand whether the compound is present on K2-18b at significant levels.
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