A pair of “alien mummies” that mysteriously appeared at Peru’s capital airport last October have entirely earthly origins, according to a scientific analysis released on Friday.
Experts described the two small specimens as humanoid dolls during a press conference in Lima, and they were most likely made of both human and animal parts. A separate three-fingered hand thought to be from Peru’s Nazca region was also examined, with experts ruling out any link to extraterrestrial life.
Peru’s alien mummies: “It’s a made-up story”
“They are not extraterrestrials”. Flavio Estrada, an archeologist with Peru’s Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, described the dolls as being made of animal bones from this planet and joined together with modern synthetic glue.
“It’s totally a made-up story,” Estrada added.
The two figurines appeared in the Lima airport offices of courier DHL in a cardboard box and were designed to resemble mummified bodies dressed in traditional Andean attire. Some media outlets then speculated about an alien origin.
Last September, two tiny mummified bodies with elongated heads and hands with three fingers were shown at a Mexican congressional hearing, generating widespread media attention. Jaime Maussan, a Mexican journalist and UFO enthusiast, claimed that the bodies were approximately 1,000 years old and recovered from Peru in 2017, but were unrelated to any known species.
Most experts later dismissed them as a hoax, possibly mutilated ancient human mummies mixed with animal parts, but undoubtedly from Earth.
At a press conference in Lima on Friday organized by Peru’s culture ministry, experts denied that the dolls discovered in the DHL office were related to the bodies presented in Mexico, and they emphasized that the remains in Mexico are not extraterrestrial.
