‘Non-Human’ Corpses Return to Congress as Experts Claim They're Authentic

Eight weeks after they made headlines and divided spectator opinion, the “non-human” three-fingered Peruvian mummies returned to Mexico’s congress earlier this week. Per Reuters, a bevy of researchers appeared to testify that the remains were authentic, but they stopped short of saying they were extraterrestrials. Controversial journalist Jaime Maussan, who spearheaded both congressional appearances, is still holding out hope that the corpses are not of this world.

Back in September, Maussan brought Mexico City’s congress two body’s he’d exhumed in Cusco, Peru. “Maussan claimed in his testimony that the mummified remains were over 1,000 years old; that at least one-third of the DNA remains of ‘unknown’ origin; and that the beings are definitely not from ‘our terrestrial evolution,’” Men’s Journal reported at the time.

Anthropologist Roger Zuniga, who works with Peru’s San Luis Gonzaga National University, arrived at Tuesday’s hearing with a letter signed by 11 researchers declaring that the remains are natural specimens, not a man-made hoax.

“They’re real,” Zuniga told Reuters. “There was absolutely no human intervention in the physical and biological formation of these beings."

The letter specifies that the researchers are in no way implying the remains are “extraterrestrial.” However, it notably doesn’t negate the possibility that the mummies could be alien in nature.

Dr. Daniel Mendoza also appeared at the proceedings, presenting photographs and X-rays of the corpses, which he referred to as “non-human beings,” according to The Associated Press. Maussan floated the idea that the specimens could be a “new species” due to their lack of lungs or ribs.

Celestino Adolfo Piotto, a surgeon in Argentina, testified that he believed the corpses to be an evolved version of modern day humans. At one point he referred to the three-fingered mummies as “our decendents.”

“These aren’t beings that were found after a UFO wreckage,” Maussan said in September. “They were found in diatom (algae) mines, and were later fossilized.”

Many decreed the initial announcement as a stunt, especially because Maussan made a similar claim in 2017. That incident was debunked, however, when the photos he presented were determined to be the mummified remains of a human on display in a museum.

This time, though, it seems Maussan could be on to something.