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Topics: World News, Weird
Joshua Nair
There's been a big development in the case of the peculiar 'non-human' corpses found in Peru - with some folks claiming it's evidence they're aliens after all.
María is the latest humanoid that was dug up in 2017, sending the world into a frenzy as the alien-looking creatures piqued the interest of many.
Though people believed that the case of these corpses was solved earlier this year, it turns out that there have been recent developments in the case.
UFO researchers believe that they're aliens that have been hidden for over 1,000 years, while scientists, government officials and archaeologists have written them off as standard human mummies.
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It's up to you on who you believe.
However, María is special in that when American experts analysed her fingerprints, they discovered something interesting.
They weren't really, well, 'human'.
The humanoid was unearth in the remote Nazca desert, and was covered in a powdery material called diatomaceous earth, which is made of the fossilised remains of plankton.
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Joshua McDowell, a former Colorado prosecutor, noticed something amazing in his team's preliminary findings.
He told MailOnline: "These were not traditional human fingerprint patterns,
"María’s fingerprints weren’t consistent with human prints."
Of course, no two fingerprints are identical, but they follow three basic patterns; loops, whorls and arches.
But María’s fingerprints have diagonal groove patterns, which McDowell, a criminal defence attorney, says that it isn't conclusive evidence just yet.
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"It could possibly have something to do with the way her skin was preserved,’ he revealed.
"It’s very odd."
McDowell's team that analysed the remains in Peru in April 2023 consisted of a Denver coroner, a forensic anthropologist from Maryland's State Medical Examiner and his father, a forensic odontologist called John.
They are still carrying out their investigation.
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María is the biggest of six figures known as ‘Nazca tridactyls’, three-fingered, mummified specimens found in Peru in 2017, that have left ufologists and officials baffled.
She was presented alongside three other specimens, Waita, Albert and Vicotisa, at Peru’s San Luis Gonzaga National University of Ica in 2019.
A Mexico-based journalist named Jaime Maussan has speculated on aliens for years, and presented two of these figures to Mexico's Congress last year, though these looked doll-like.
He explained that they were 1,000 years old, according to researchers at the Institute of Physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, though they stressed that they never properly examined the specimens, instead only testing skin samples that were given by a 'client'.
Under oath, Maussan also explained: "They were not recovered in ships that crashed, but they were buried in diatomaceous earth, a fossilized algae that is 17 million years old and was abundant at that time,
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"Whether they are aliens or not, we don’t know, but they were intelligent and they lived with us. They should rewrite history," he claimed.
Maussan didn't explain how he acquired the tridactyls, or if the ones he presented were replicas or not.
However, analysis by the Peruvian Attorney General’s Office resulted in the thought that the corpses were 'recently manufactured' using human and animal bones, with vegetable fibres and synthetic glue.
Government forensic experts even shrugged them off as 'dolls'.
Flavio Estrada, an archaeologist with Peru’s Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences said: "It’s totally a made-up story."
Maussan acknowledged that it will be hard to crack the mystery, as Peruvian officials said that they can only analyse human DNA thoroughly.
In a long statement on X, Maussan detailed that scientists from UNICA found that 29 percent of its DNA 'does not belong to the evolutionary chain of the Earth’.
More testing is needed ‘due to the unknown nature of said organisms’, he stated.