Plan 9 From Outer House – by Mike Leavy

It looks as if this final week, there have been two tales that just about dominated the Mexico information cycle: one among them is definitely fascinating, the opposite is simply plain bizarre. Right now, I’ve determined to jot down concerning the bizarre one. Fortunate you.

Final Tuesday (September 12, 2023), Mexico’s federal congress held it is first ever public hearings on the subject of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAPs, previously generally known as UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects; however that phrase has been deemed not geeky sounding sufficient, so now we’ve UAP). Anyway, the place was I? Oh yeah, Mexico’s congress and creatures from outer house. So sure, the congress is holding these hearings so as to formalize language that may go into its new Aerial House Safety Legislation – a regulation that, if permitted by Mexico’s congress, would be the first federal regulation on the earth (our world, a.okay.a. “earth”) to formally acknowledge the existence of alien life.

However that is not even the bizarre half.

However earlier than attending to the bizarre half, I simply wish to state for the file that I don’t presume to consider that life does not exist past our planet. Perhaps it does, perhaps it does not. I am nice both manner (though I kinda hope that there’s alien intelligence past earth; I might hate to suppose that people are the one clever life within the universe – though I am fairly certain that dolphins and octopi are orders of magnitude extra clever than us).

Now, getting again to the bizarre half. As a part of these hearings, Mexico’s congress really entertained a gentleman by the title of Jamie Maussan. Maussan is a considerably well-known journalist and researcher within the discipline of unidentified phenomena. He continuously seems in Mexican media to current his findings on account of the “analysis” he’s doing into alien artifacts he claims to have noticed and/or be in possession of. So, within the midst of the pomp and circumstance of Mexico’s congressional hearings, in walks Maussan with a two packing containers containing the mummified stays of two alien our bodies that have been “recovered” in Peru. He claims to have carbon-dated the mummies at Mexico’s prestigious Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and that the outcomes reveal the mummified our bodies to be 700 and 1,800 years previous. Under is {a photograph} of one among these mummified stays:

I do not wish to dedicate a bunch of digital ink to Jamie Maussan, so lengthy story brief: Maussan has a protracted and wealthy historical past of getting his assertions and artifacts fairly summarily debunked by precise scientists, and final week’s odd presentation isn’t any exception. The alien trying stays are nearly definitely pre-Columbian human stays which have been altered by eradicating numerous bones and by introducing the stays of animals as properly. It is a tactic that Maussan is kind of (in)well-known for. Even YouTubers have gotten into the act of debunking Maussan’s claims, taking pictures movies demonstrating how the mummified “aliens” are made.

Jamie Maussan wasn’t the one star of the congressional present. Different specialists and witnesses have been introduced in, together with Ryan Graves, who’s the chief director of the Individuals for Secure Aerospace group. After Maussan’s stunt, Graves expressed dismay over your entire proceedings, calling the inclusion of Maussan’s mummies “shameful”.

Numerous workers and professors at UNAM additionally denounced Maussan’s claims; UNAM, for its half, has been defending themselves in opposition to Maussan’s persistent refrain of “gosh, even UNAM has examined and concurs with my theories” since at the least 2017.

In the meantime, mainstream press from Vox Media to Common Mechanics to NPR to the Smithsonian Journal has been in a flurry of exercise submitting tales about Maussan’s look at Mexico’s congressional hearings. And now right here I’m doing the identical 🙄.

On the finish of the day, we’re left with only one thriller: who the heck even let Maussan into the room?