Two doll-like figures and an alleged three-fingered hand that customs authorities in Peru seized last year from a shipment heading to Mexico are not aliens, forensic experts said on Friday.
The forensic experts with the Peruvian National Prosecutor’s Office said the objects were made with paper, glue, metal, and human and animal bones.
The findings quash some people’s belief that the figures come from an “alien center or come from another planet, all of which is totally false,” said forensic archeologist Flavio Estrada, who led the analysis.
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“The conclusion is simple: They are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues. Therefore, they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times,” Estrada told reporters. “They are not extraterrestrials. They are not aliens.”
The prosecutor’s office has not yet determined who owns the objects.
Officials on Friday would only say that a Mexican citizen was the intended recipient of the objects before they were seized by customs agents in October last year.
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Mexican journalist Jose Jaime Maussan and some Mexican lawmakers became the subject of international ridicule in September, when he went before the Mexican Congress to present two boxes with supposed mummies found in Peru.
He along with others claimed they were “non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution.”
In November, Maussan returned to the Congress with a group of Peruvian doctors and spent more than three hours pressing the case for “non-human beings” that he said were found in Peru, where he made similar claims in 2017.
A report by the Peruvian prosecutor’s office that year found that alleged alien bodies were actually “recently manufactured dolls, which have been covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate the presence of skin.”
“They are not the remains of ancestral aliens that they have tried to present,” the 2017 report said.
Experts on Friday showed reporters a couple of 0.6m-long dolls dressed in red, orange and green clothes.
Examinations showed the bones of birds, dogs and other animals were used to create the dolls, they said.
Meanwhile, an alleged three-finger hand was subjected to X-ray examinations.
The “very poorly” built hand was created with human bones, Estrada said.
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