A journalist presented a shocking discovery to Mexico's Congress on Tuesday and has been met with skepticism over his findings.
On Tuesday, self-proclaimed "ufologist" and journalist José Jaime Maussan and Peruvian Dr. Daniel Mendoza approached Mexico's Chamber of Deputies to share alleged photographs and X-rays from a "non-human being" found in Peru, the Associated Press reported. The presentation turned into a three-hour discussion with the lawmakers.
The presentation came two months after the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs heard from three witnesses who claimed they had repeated inexplicable encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The U.S. congressional hearing reignited national interest in the presence of UAP and extraterrestrial life.
At the meeting, Maussan stressed to the Mexican Congress that he had discovered a "new species" that was missing two important human body parts—lungs and ribs.
Newsweek reached out to Maussan through Facebook for comment.
Maussan's claims were met with skepticism, primarily after previous presentations regarding his extraterrestrial findings have been disproven.
In September, he presented two allegedly mummified non-human bodies to Mexico's Congress and expressed the possibility that extraterrestrial life might exist. The alleged corpses had humanoid faces with eyes, a nose and mouth, and they were roughly the size of a newborn baby. Maussan claimed they were 1,000 years old.
Maussan's presentation to the Mexican Congress in September sparked skepticism after he showed lawmakers alleged mummified remains of "non-human beings" that were discovered in a Peruvian coastal desert.
It was a similar presentation to one Maussan gave in Peru in 2017, just before a report by the Peruvian prosecutor's office revealed that the alleged remains were actually human made, consisting of "recently manufactured dolls" covered by paper and glue to resemble mummified skin.
Maussan's presentation in September frustrated former U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves, one of the witnesses who testified before the House Oversight Committee. Graves testified before the Mexican Congress during Maussan's presentation in September to "keep up the momentum of government interest in pilot experiences with UAP" but that the demonstration by Maussan "was a huge step backwards for this issue."
"I will continue to raise awareness of UAP as an urgent matter of aerospace safety, national security, and science, but I am deeply disappointed by this unsubstantiated stunt," Graves wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after his testimony.
Some Mexican lawmakers expressed that the congressional floor should remain open to even unsubstantiated claims like Maussan's.
"All ideas and all proposals will always be welcome to debate them, hear them to agree with or not," lawmaker Sergio Gutiérrez Luna said, according to AP.
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