Lima, Jan 12 (EFE). – “This is, simply put, a fraud,” experts from Peru’s Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Culture said during a press conference on Friday about two alleged extraterrestrial mummies seized in the Lima airport. Flavio Estrada, a forensic archaeologist at the Public Ministry’s Institute of Legal Medicine, warned that “pseudoscience …
Aliens they are not. That’s what forensic experts in Peru have to say about two doll-like figures and an alleged three-fingered hand that customs authorities in the South American country seized last year from a shipment heading to Mexico. The forensic experts with Peru’s prosecutor’s office say the objects were made with paper, glue, metal and human and animal bones. Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada led the analysis. He says the findings quash some people’s belief that the figures come from an “alien center or come from another planet." The prosecutor’s office has not yet determined who owns the objects. But they say they were being sent to someone in Mexico.
A pair of "alien mummies" that mysteriously turned up at the airport in Peru's capital last October have entirely Earthly origins, according to a scientific analysis revealed on Friday. The two small specimens were described as humanoid dolls by experts at a press conference in Lima, and likely fashioned from both human and animal parts. A separate three-fingered hand believed to be from Peru's Nazca region was also analyzed, with experts ruling out any connection to alien life.