Less than one month after Hurricane Otis slammed into Acapulco, Mexico’s congress orbited around a familiar topics – aliens.
Controversial journalist José Jaime Maussan and a group of colleagues spent over three hours on Tuesday lecturing the congress’ lower chamber on what they claimed were photographs and X-rays of a “new species” of a “non-human being.”
Maussan made headlines in September, when he presented the congress with the supposed skeletons of two aliens he claimed to have unearthed in Peru.
The presentation drew ridicule at the time for the skeletons’ bizarre resemblance to E.T..
The supposed new species Maussan and Dr. Daniel Mendoza showed the group on Tuesday did not have lungs or ribs, he alleged.
“They’re real,” anthropologist Roger Zuniga of San Luis Gonzaga National University in Ica Peru said of the specimens.
“There was absolutely no human intervention in the physical and biological formation of these beings,” he added, saying he didn’t know the origin of the beings.”
Zuniga also presented a letter signed by 11 researchers from the university testifying to the same conclusion – though they clarified that they were not implying the bodies were definitely aliens.
Maussan presented similar claims in Peru in 2017 – but a report by the country’s prosecutor’s office found that the alien corpses were actually “recently manufactured dolls, which have been covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate the presence of skin.”
When asked about the previous studies, Zuniga said those specimens were probably fake, but insisted that the most recent ones were real.
Another speaker, Argentine surgeon Celestino Adolfo Piotto said that he believed the specimens were an evolved version of today’s humans, or “our descendents.”
Lawmaker Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s governing party, defended the controversial presenter, saying “all ideas and all proposals will always be welcome to debate them, hear them to agree with or not.”
The session also featured a speech from Mexican rapper Claudio Yarto, who told the crowd that he had personally seen UFOs.
With Post wires