By Matthew Phelan, Senior Science Reporter for Dailymail. Web
Since x-ray and sonar information on the body was unveiled this past March, two newly discovered “alien” corpses from Peru have sparked waves of discussion, with archeologists fearing that they may be old people dug up by tomb raiders.  ,
Journalist and reputed UFO scholar Jaime Maussan confirmed to Daily Mail.com that more in-depth “analyses are being conducted,” and he is suing Peru’s state for the right to transport the body to more sophisticated laboratories in the US.
Maussan, whose research has courted controversy for almost a decade, has floated the idea that the mummies might be mysterious- people’ hybrids,’ with his scientist colleagues declaring that the fresh specimens , contain’ 30 percent mysterious’ DNA.
However, his statements are still doubted by critics.  ,
‘ Physically, I am never convinced that they are human. I think they’re people,’ Latin American writer Christopher Heaney told Daily Mail.com.
!['So far we have tomographies [CT scans] and fluoroscopy analysis,' Maussan told DailyMail.com describing the x-ray and ultrasound data he unveiled at West Hollywood's Mondrian Hotel at the March 12 press event (pictured above)](https://i0.wp.com/alancmoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/82703647-13193251-image-a-36_1710966434697.jpg?resize=634%2C458&ssl=1)


A controversial display made before the Mexican Congress and clashes with Peru’s Ministry of Culture have been the highlights of a year of work by Maussan and his colleagues, who have spearheaded efforts to increase academic attention in the seemingly mysterious bodies.
The body ‘ drama came as a result of an irrational public policy debate on UFOs , as officials in the US follow government whistleblowers and Ivy League scientists ‘ calls for more transparent research into the unknown.  ,
Maussan’s fight with his detractors reached its most cooked time this past April when , a press conference that he held in Peru was raided by police , intent on seizing one of the new preserved bodies on screen, dubbed ‘ Montserrat. ‘ ,
Unabated, Maussan is now suing Peru’s government for both the right to send these lady specimens to American university researchers and other scientists for more comprehensive, independent third-party testing.  ,  ,
‘ The lawsuit is already in for$ 300 million,’ Maussan told Daily Mail.com.  ,
‘ We are going to deal with Peru,’ Maussan said,’ to be allowed to trade the tests to get done in America. ‘ ,
In an upgrade this Sunday, Maussan stated that an update on this legal battle would take eight months, citing that he would not benefit individually from the fact that he would have to transmit to his program” No Humano.”
In the meantime, tests continues in Mexico, where one of Maussan’s study collaborators, Dr MartÃn Achirica Ramos of the other health clinic SPES , in Mexico City, who has working on the team’s other’ mysterious’ mummies.
These earlier specimens were those presented to Mexico’s Congress last September, spurring attention from a NASA contractor in the US, Maussan told Daily Mail.com ,
We are not going to say the name, so we can accomplish more DNA analysis, Maussan and Dr.  , Achirica announced Sunday that professional specialists from Europe may soon conduct DNA testing on these mummies:” We are not going to say the name. They have offered to examine each of the body.


Dr. Achirica added that additional details will be disclosed on June 15th as part of the release of his new book,” Expediente abierto” (‘Open file ‘ ), which promises” the entire truth about the non-human bodies of Nazca.
However, archeologists and scholars who have devoted their occupations to studying the world of ancient Peru continue to criticize the work.  ,
The body’s appearance as “alien” as it appears to be supported by two significant historic facts, according to Heaney, a Spanish British historian at Penn State.  ,
First, Spanish colonists and native peoples had a thorough understanding of the practice of “head binding” by some ethnicities living in the Andes mountains of Peru.  ,
And no information ties the process, nor the enlarged,’ alien’- like heads produced, to aboriginal myths or legends about beings from the horizon, the stars or anywhere else.
Second, according to Heaney, centuries of international tomb raiding, theft, recovery, haphazard reburials, and black market trafficking in both real and fake Peruvian’ antiquities ‘ has sown deep confusion over the nation’s historical artifacts.
‘ But, in a general sense, this part of a larger problem,’ Heaney added,’ feeling like we need to dig up the dead to know more about them.’



Heaney, who published a book on Peru’s Inca mummies last year ‘ Empires of the Dead,’ told Daily Mail.com that the region’s vast history of black market tomb- raiding magnifies his doubts about this case.
Heaney stated in a telephone interview that” tomb raiding and looting is as old as the Spanish invasion of Peru in 1532.”
‘ One of the first things that the Conquistadors noted was that Andeans lords, Inca emperors and empresses were interred]buried ] with tremendous wealth,’ he said.
‘ Looting a tomb, as long as you declared it to the colonial government and as long as the Spanish crown got a share of the wealth that was found, the gold, silver and other objects that turned up,’ Heaney explained,’ was totally legal.’
The result of nearly 500 years of aggressive meddling in Peru’s ancient archeological record has been a flimsy squabbling of priceless, authentic, ancient artifacts with hodge-podge handicrafts that might appeal to foreigners on the antiquities market.
Nearly 200 instances where the scattered disturbed remains of Peruvian mummies, including their spinal vertebrae, had been recovered by locals and threaded onto reed-like posts as fresh memorials were discovered in 2022, according to archeologists.  ,
Carbon- dating showed that these make- shift spinal memorials where, in their own way, now historic artifacts, as they were assembled between , 1450 and 1650 AD, during the conquest and crumbling of the Inca Empire.  ,


‘ The fact that there’s 192 of these and that they’re widespread, ‘ , archeologist Jacob Bongers , told Live Science at the time,’ means [ …] that this interesting practice was deemed the appropriate way of dealing with disturbed bodies of the dead. ‘ ,
Heaney from Penn State added that this method of reconstruction of the remains of seized tombs continues to this day.
Heaney said,” Sometimes you see on sale in markets in Peru and even the United States these dolls, which are essentially made of the fragments of pre-Hispanic textiles left over from looted graves, and were taken and woven to make a quote-unquote “old doll.” ‘
For instance, archaeologists working with Peruvian customs seized seven postal shipments in 2013 that included replicas of pre-Columbian dolls made of old cloth and old coins that had been taken from archaeological sites.
One archeologist, Gladiz Collatupa, told the New York Times,” I’ve been learning to identify these pre-Hispanic textiles slowly, not just by their patterns and weaving but also by how they felt.”
The ancient fabrics, she said, had become unusually smooth and soft with age.

One type of artifact frequently recreated with these authentically ancient fabric scraps is the Chancay burial dolls, which were originally produced by people living along the central coast of Peru around 1000 AD.  ,
‘ I think it’s an example of how, when a market is created, it’s going to find a new way to get what it wants,’ Heaney said.
Heaney argued that many of the “alien”-like mummies discovered with long, oblong heads are the result of a head-binding custom that has existed for thousands of years before the Spanish and Portuguese arrived in the Americas.
‘ There’s no mystery to it, if we believe, 16th Century Spaniard and Andean people who wrote that this was a regular practice,’ Heaney told Daily Mail.com.
For more than two millennia, various groups in the Andes have engaged in a practice where the skulls of their children were bound with bandages or other types of compressive devices to reshape the head to create a form that appealed to them, he said.
![Maussan has pushed for wider scientific interest in the apparently alien bodies, including a presentation before Mexico's Congress (pictured). 'Would you consider I would take the bodies to the Mexican Congress putting in danger 50 years of [my journalism] career to present fake bodies?' he asked at a recent press event this March](https://i0.wp.com/alancmoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/86128561-13193251-image-a-10_1718380461023.jpg?resize=634%2C423&ssl=1)
This shape is arguably intended to resemble the mountains of the area, whose peaks are tens of thousands of feet high and are revered by locals as having a religious significance according to accounts by Spanish colonists and indigenous people.  ,  ,
According to Heaney,” the Spanish, when they arrived in the 16th century, observed and commented on people walking around with very precisely shaped skulls,” and they saw them using these bandages.
Because no tales of such things existed in the area’s folklore, the historian argued that it was unlikely that the local population had adopted this practice, which was inspired by visits to long-headed extraterrestrials.
Heaney claimed that the Andean peoples who have lived through time have not heard of stories about flying objects in the sky.
They do n’t have accounts of beings with heads like these. What they do have are narratives about their mountains,’ he added,’ water, natural landscapes, lightning and the sun in a way that is very consistent from the archaeological record.’
Matthew Velasco, an anthropologist at Cornell University, conducted one of the most thorough studies of the practice for a study that was published in 2018.  ,
However, Maussan and his collaborators insist that the information they released remains of remains that have been examined using medical CT scans and other tools proves that they are not from this planet.
‘ If I were faking this, I would n’t put it available to everyone,’ as Maussan put it at his March press conference this year.’ It’s open to everyone. ‘
‘ Would you consider I would take the bodies to the Mexican Congress putting in danger 50 years of]my journalism ] career to present fake bodies?’ he said. ‘ Think about that.’