HALLMARKS of a HOAX |
Why so coy?
When confronted with an extraordinary claim, what is not said is sometimes more telling than what is said.
The Alien Project and Maussan's team are avoiding certain topics that would prove these mummies are hoaxes, while diverting your attention to flashy animated 3D scans and generalized claims that "all the experts" or "fifty scientists" have verified their authenticity.
Some of the indications that they are hiding and avoiding important pieces of evidence:
Expert evidence of the hoax is hidden
The Alien Project and Maussan's team are avoiding certain topics that would prove these mummies are hoaxes, while diverting your attention to flashy animated 3D scans and generalized claims that "all the experts" or "fifty scientists" have verified their authenticity.
Some of the indications that they are hiding and avoiding important pieces of evidence:
Expert evidence of the hoax is hidden
- Prior to their relaunch in Mexico in 2023, scientists around the world had already examined the evidence from the mummies and determined they were fake. Luca provides a chronology of statements from the scientific community. You won't find any of this information on The Alien Project website.
- Hi-res x-rays of M-type's feet and hands are vital for comparing against normal human x-rays to determine if they have been manipulated - i.e. digits amputated, bones moved around. These x-rays are exactly what The Alien Project does not supply.
- The 2021 llama skull paper by de la Cruz et al is not on The Alien Project and is not even mentioned or linked. While de la Cruz has gone back on its conclusions, he has not explained how any of its findings are wrong. And his co-authors both told me their conclusions stand.
- Josefina's and Alberto's hi-res scans are not available on The Alien Project. Josefina's scan shows some of her fingerbones are upside-down. While the 3D animated CT scans on the website confirm this, it requires tedious scrubbing through the animations, and some anatomical knowledge, to see.
- On the page dedicated to the J-type "humanoid reptile species" on The Alien Project, there is not one clear x-ray of their hands.
- Similarly, at the Mexican hearing, a slide of Josefina's scan was shown but the lower part was blacked out to hide her mangled hands. My short film Look Ma, No Hands! gives yet another example where her hands were carefully obscured.
Experts are being misquoted and misrepresented, and denied the data they need
- Dr Mary Jesse told me she was not given the hi-res scans she asked for, and therefore could not make a scientific assessment. Yet she was quoted on GaiaTV and edited to make it look like she was saying the mummies were real.
- Dr Florides asked for the CT scans of other bodies to compare with Josefina, but didn't receive them.
- Dr McDowell told me, based on their scans, that the J-types were never living beings, but Maussan keeps tweeting that he said all the mummies are real: [source 1] [source 2]
Link to McDowell's full response to me. Since visiting Peru in May 2024 with his son Josh (a lawyer with a longstanding interest in the mummies, and who presumably persuaded his father to take an interest), McDowell has not publicly made any further statements about the mummies. "[W]e are all aware of hoaxes that have been perpetrated on well-meaning 'scientists' in the past," McDowell told me. "As any reputable, competent scientist would do, we maintain a high level of skepticism regarding the 'Nazca Mummies.'"
More research needed! The constant refrain
Sometimes there's a smoking gun that destroys a case in one fell swoop. For example, Josefina's upside-down fingerbones. While DNA and C-14 and CT scans can provide more information about this constructed "doll", none of that data will ever contradict those misplaced bones or what they mean - that she was never a living being.
The Alien Project hides her hands because those bones are a smoking gun. Her skull will never get a DNA test because it would come back llama - another smoking gun. Instead, they deflect and distract with pretty CT scan animations you probably don't understand, to make you think they've been thorough, and they constantly insist "More research is needed! The results are inconclusive! We can't rule out alien!"
But we can. Josefina's bones are mixed up (not to mention the stupidly nonfunctional joints in all the J-types), therefore she was constructed. The only remaining question of interest (and it's orders of magnitude less interesting than whether or not she's alien) is: was she constructed recently, or in ancient times? Either way, she is not a new species.
A smoking gun for the M-type mummies is evidence left behind of their amputated digits, such as the five tendons in Maria's hand. This means she is not tridactyl. CT scans show her insides are human. Her skull is typical of ancient Peruvians. Her DNA is human. There's nothing of interest left, when it comes to "alien/hybrid or not?" She is a mutilated human. She's not a hybrid or a new species or a future human.
Sometimes there's a smoking gun that destroys a case in one fell swoop. For example, Josefina's upside-down fingerbones. While DNA and C-14 and CT scans can provide more information about this constructed "doll", none of that data will ever contradict those misplaced bones or what they mean - that she was never a living being.
The Alien Project hides her hands because those bones are a smoking gun. Her skull will never get a DNA test because it would come back llama - another smoking gun. Instead, they deflect and distract with pretty CT scan animations you probably don't understand, to make you think they've been thorough, and they constantly insist "More research is needed! The results are inconclusive! We can't rule out alien!"
But we can. Josefina's bones are mixed up (not to mention the stupidly nonfunctional joints in all the J-types), therefore she was constructed. The only remaining question of interest (and it's orders of magnitude less interesting than whether or not she's alien) is: was she constructed recently, or in ancient times? Either way, she is not a new species.
A smoking gun for the M-type mummies is evidence left behind of their amputated digits, such as the five tendons in Maria's hand. This means she is not tridactyl. CT scans show her insides are human. Her skull is typical of ancient Peruvians. Her DNA is human. There's nothing of interest left, when it comes to "alien/hybrid or not?" She is a mutilated human. She's not a hybrid or a new species or a future human.
But dozens of scientists have verified the mummies are real!
Have they?
Who are these scientists? Where is the list? What are their qualifications and what exactly did they say?
José de la Cruz Ríos López
De la Cruz is a “Biologist at State Public Health Laboratory” (Yucatan, Mexico). He does not state his specialties and despite being styled as "Dr" on The Alien Project website, he does not have a PhD. He has written on a wide range of topics relating to the mummies, from the detailed morphology of Josefina's llama skull to the histology of Victoria's reptile skin to the anatomy of Maria's foot. In a Jan 2020 interview with UFOs SPAIN he said one of Josefina's eggs would be extracted for analysis but he has reported no results.
Both de la Cruz and Dr Jalce Benitez (who misrepresented the experts at Clara's livestreamed scan) were involved in Maussan's Roswell alien side hoax in 2015. De la Cruz continues to promote this Egyptian boy mummy as an alien.
I could find only one biology-related published paper for de la Cruz on imbiomed: Records of Mosquitoes (Diptera; Culicidae) of the State of Campeche, 1996-2006.
11 scientists signed that statement!
The statement they signed shows no indication they personally examined either the mummies or the evidence. Checking these names on imbiomed, I found published papers for only one of them, dental surgeon Dr. Edgar Martin Hernandez Huaripaucar.
Who are these scientists? Where is the list? What are their qualifications and what exactly did they say?
José de la Cruz Ríos López
De la Cruz is a “Biologist at State Public Health Laboratory” (Yucatan, Mexico). He does not state his specialties and despite being styled as "Dr" on The Alien Project website, he does not have a PhD. He has written on a wide range of topics relating to the mummies, from the detailed morphology of Josefina's llama skull to the histology of Victoria's reptile skin to the anatomy of Maria's foot. In a Jan 2020 interview with UFOs SPAIN he said one of Josefina's eggs would be extracted for analysis but he has reported no results.
Both de la Cruz and Dr Jalce Benitez (who misrepresented the experts at Clara's livestreamed scan) were involved in Maussan's Roswell alien side hoax in 2015. De la Cruz continues to promote this Egyptian boy mummy as an alien.
I could find only one biology-related published paper for de la Cruz on imbiomed: Records of Mosquitoes (Diptera; Culicidae) of the State of Campeche, 1996-2006.
11 scientists signed that statement!
The statement they signed shows no indication they personally examined either the mummies or the evidence. Checking these names on imbiomed, I found published papers for only one of them, dental surgeon Dr. Edgar Martin Hernandez Huaripaucar.
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