BY THE ARCHAEOLOGIST EDITOR GROUP

Science denounces the alleged extraterrestrials that were shown to the Mexican Congress as fraudulent.

While lawmakers heard testimony on the potential of alien life on Tuesday, the ghost of the tiny green men descended upon Mexico City. The researchers were from Brazil, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.

The session, which was the first of its kind in the Mexican Congress, came two months after a related hearing before the U.S. Congress, during which a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer asserted that his nation had likely been aware of "non-human" activities since the 1930s.

José Jaime Maussan, a journalist from Mexico, displayed two boxes containing purported mummies that he and others saw as "non-human beings that are not part of our earthly evolution."

The withered bodies with distorted, shrunken skulls horrified everyone in the room and instantly sparked a social media frenzy.

Maussan proclaimed, "It's the queen of all evidence." That is, "we should take it as such" if the DNA indicates that they are not humans and that nothing else in the world resembles them.

But he cautioned that it was too early to call them "extraterrestrials."

The bodies, which appeared to have been dried up, were discovered in 2017 and were buried deep beneath the Nazca sand dunes in the coastal desert of Peru. The region is renowned for the enormous, enigmatic figures that can only be seen from the air. Although many believe that ancient indigenous communities created the Nazca Lines, many others find the formations fascinating.

Similar claims were made by Maussan in Peru in 2017, and a prosecutor's report revealed that the bodies were actually "recently created dolls, which have been covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to resemble the presence of skin."

The figurines "are not the remains of ancestral aliens that they have tried to convey," the report continued, adding that they were almost certainly created by humans. It's unknown if the bodies are the same as those delivered to Mexico's Congress because they weren't made public at the time.

Julieta Fierro, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Institute of Astrophysics, was one of several to voice doubt on Wednesday, claiming that numerous facts in the data "made no sense."

Fierro went on to deny the researchers' assertions that her university approved of their purported discovery and point out that scientists would require more sophisticated equipment than X-rays to assess whether the purportedly calcified remains were "non-human."

"Maussan has accomplished a lot. She replied, "He claims to have spoken to Mary of Guadalupe. He claimed that because I don't believe in extraterrestrial life, they don't communicate with me the same way they do with him.

The researcher continued that it looked odd that they had taken what would undoubtedly be a "prize of the nation" from Peru without first inviting the ambassador of that country.

Congress has not taken a position on the theses advanced during the more than three-hour debate, according to Congressman Sergio Gutiérrez Luna of the dominant Morena party.

Each legislator was free to believe what they wanted, but witnesses were required to take an oath to be truthful.

Gutiérrez Luna emphasized the value of hearing "all voices, all viewpoints" and thought it was good that there was an open discussion about extraterrestrials.

Retired Maj. David Grusch said in the U.S. in July that the country is hiding a long-running program that retrieves and decodes unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon refuted his allegations.

The U.S. Congress' most recent journey into the world of UAPs, or "unidentified aerial phenomena," as the U.S. government officially refers to them, was Grusch's much-awaited testimony before a House Oversight panel.

In recent years, both Democrats and Republicans have pushed for more research as a national security issue due to worries that sightings reported by pilots may be connected to enemies of the United States.