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"Aliens" found in Peru are actually dolls made of bones, forensic experts declare (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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Aliens have not been discovered in South America after all. The doll-like figures, photos of which went viral online last year, are just that – dolls, according to scientists.

The controversial artifacts were seized by Peruvian customs agents in October and intended for "a Mexican citizen," the Associated Press reported.

Mexican journalist and self-described "UFOlogist" Jaime Maussan brought similar unidentified fraudulent objects in front of the Mexican congress last September, claiming that they had been recovered near Peru's ancient Nazca Lines and dated over 700 years old.

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"They are not extraterrestrials, they are not intraterrestrials, they are not a new species, they are not hybrids, they are none of those things that this group of pseudo-scientists who for six years have been presenting with these elements," Estrada said.

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[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Rushed to check r/ufos and of course this is nowhere to be seen on in that cess pit lmao

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago

Shocking!

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Jaime Maussan has been a fucking griefter for such a long time. I don't get how he still has so much credibility in the media. Fuck Televisa for giving him a platform for so long.

[+] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean . . . yeah, we figured.

However the timing of them rolling these out to the Mexican Congress while they were hearing the same testimony about the UAP the Pentagon has been seeing, a month after that same information was presented to the US Congress, is kind of tragic.

Here we have several military witnesses following up an unprecedented statement that UFOs are real from the Pentagon (In 2021) and it should have been part of an international collaboration on the phenomena.

Except these jokers rolled out these dolls and spent all that media capital on bullshit. So no one even read about the UAP part of it.

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UFOs have always been real, they've never been alien. It's just an unknown object of phenomenon being detected.

An alien civilization sophisticated enough to travel to earth would be emitting radios waves for hundreds if not thousands of years prior. Earth is covered in a wide array of telescopes pointed at space and we haven't heard anything yet. In fact some suspected cases turned out to be microwaves in the break room and oscillating black holes, none aliens.

It's likely we are the first sophisticated civilisation able to travel to another planet, and we are no where near travelling outside our solar system never mind our galaxy.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You realize humans have only had the ability to search for aliens using electronic equipment for less than 200 years right?

The universe is ~14 billion years old. The earth is only ~4 billion years old. Humanity is only ~200,000 years old.

You need to read about the Fermi paradox. The likelihood of extraterrestrial life existing is a mathematical certainty. We just haven't seen any due to a multitude of factors.

[–] PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You're mixing up the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation.

Assuming you meant the Drake equation, more than half of the variables we have absolutely no statistical basis to decide on a fraction. Obviously they are non-zero, but they could be extremely improbable. We only have one example of intelligent life developing radio communications. Any estimate of a statistical likelihood of that using Earth as an example is meaningless without other examples.

Some pessimistic estimates give solutions as small 9.1 x 10^-13 which indicates we would be alone.

The Fermi Paradox riffs on the optimistic answer to Drake's Equation. If other intelligent life is a certainty, why haven't we found them yet?

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If it existed within our observable limits we are likely to have heard of it.

The Fermi paradox doesn't imply sophisticated alien life exists on earth.

Of all observations we have have only found one species able to leave their planet deliberately. That's humans. There no evidence of any species leaving their solar system. Humans have never went beyond the moon, other than robots. Only one of which has reached the end of the solar system, but not entering another.

We also have no evidence of life on another planet to base any calculations on. The best estimate of life existing anywhere else is zero. You need another observation per planet to make any realistic estimate.

People are biased even physicts by the desire for extraterrestrial life. It adults looking for a father figure, we had god but once we went beyond the clouds and developed the ability to explain most phenomenon people look for a replacement. Someone to explain all our problems and give us solutions.