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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.
"They're not extraterrestrials. They're dolls made from animal
bones from this planet joined together with modern synthetic
glue," said Flavio Estrada, an archeologist with Peru's
Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.
"It's totally a made-up story," Estrada added.
The two figurines turned up in the Lima airport offices of
courier DHL in a cardboard box, and were made to look like
mummified bodies dressed in traditional Andean attire. Some
media outlets subsequently speculated about possible alien
origin.
Last September, two tiny mummified bodies with elongated heads
and hands with three fingers were featured at a Mexican
congressional hearing, generating widespread media coverage.
Mexican journalist and UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed
those bodies were about 1,000 years old and recovered from Peru
in 2017, but not related to any known species.
Most experts later dismissed them as a fraud, possibly mutilated
ancient human mummies combined with animal parts, but certainly
from Earth.
At the Lima press conference on Friday, which was organized by
Peru's culture ministry, experts did not say that the dolls
found in the DHL office were related to the bodies presented in
Mexico, and they stressed that the remains in Mexico are also
not extraterrestrial.
(Reporting by Marco Aquino; Writing by David Alire Garcia;
Editing by Will Dunham)
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