I'm sorry to rain on everyone's parade, but I firmly believe Maussan is a fraud the equivalent of Greer in the US. These 'mummies' have been around for several years and Peruvian archeologists debunked them years ago. Maussan is responsible for the 'Roswell Slides' among other hoaxes, where he's either so naive in wanting to believe he denies everything else, or is complicit in them. These mummies supposedly now run up to 20 and were at 3 several years ago.
Here is an archived column on this:
Pre-Columbian bodies are once again being used as evidence for extraterrestrial life.
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Some quotes:
"In 2015, Maussan tried to promote a photographic slide from the late 1940s that, he hinted, depicted the corpse of an alien child found in the American Southwest. More skeptical ufologists applied de-blurring technology to the "Roswell Slide" when it was released, and found that a previously undecipherable placard next to the body revealed that it was actually the mummy of a two-year-old Puebloan boy removed from the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde in 1894. Returned to a National Park museum in 1938, the boy was repatriated to a local tribe in 2015"
"At some point Ronceros brought that hand and the first "mummy" to a series of museums, including the natural history museum at Lima's University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the hemisphere. According to that museum's head of vertebrate paleontology, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi—who is also an investigator affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York—Ronceros changed his story when challenged on the obvious fabrication, claiming that it instead was a pre-Columbian "representation" of alien life, made of a mixture of animal and human bones. Around this time, Maussan and fellow international UFO "experts" got involved, declaring that the mummies in question—they kept multiplying—were fabrications, possibly ancient, but that others were "genuine, non-human biological remains."
Also I looked at the NHI links they provided here, which classify them as Homo Sapiens and even admitted there was 'heavy contamination' of up to 60% human DNA. Why that's 'contamination' and not what the DNA is actually made up of, I have no idea why that's concluded:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA861322
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA869134
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA865375
For comparison, in just normal forensic science of criminal victims, they could only pull 2% of human DNA from the remains of a tooth:
"For more than two decades, Rodney's remains went unidentified. Ultimately, successful identification of Rodney was established using Forensic-Grade Genome Sequencing®. Detective Jim Scharf and Snohomish County Medical Examiner Lead Investigator, Jane Jorgensen worked with a lab to extract the victim's DNA from a tooth, but the extracted DNA was heavily degraded and contaminated by non-human DNA. Less than 2% of the DNA was human."
Incredible advances in genetic testing have transformed what forensic professionals can learn from DNA left at crime scenes and a growing number of seemingly “unsolvable” cases are now being closed.
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I'm sorry, but I just don't believe this guy. He's shown up time and time again with these presenations and he's very Greer like in he gets presentations together than sometimes may run into credible people, but then makes these crazy declarations with a motive to want to believe this stuff, with Gaia funding him for this so they can make more shows on it.
I'll reserve my right to change my mind if someone like Garry Nolan steps up and takes a look at this, since he debunked a previous case they did a whole documentary on, but right now I'm saying this is a very large leap of assumptions with someone with a history of this and the story has changed over the years since they tried to present this to Peruvian archeologists. This kind of stuff really hurts the field when similar cases have been proven time and time again to be a hoax.
