Major breakthrough with Peru ‘alien mummies’ as fingerprints are ‘not human’ | World | News
Unusual diagonal fingerprint and footprint grooves on one of Peruâs bizarre and hotly debated âalien mummiesâ have been attributed to non-human origins.
A former Colorado prosecutor and current defence attorney, Joshua McDowell, examined one of the over half-a-dozen specimens along with three independent US forensic medical examiners.
Speaking to MailOnline, he said: âThese were not traditional human fingerprint patterns.” He added that they did not see âany loops or whorlsâ – two of the three broad types of fingerprint – on the fingers or toes.
According to the US Department of Justiceâs Fingerprint Sourcebook, the use of fingerprints – also known as friction ridge skin impressions – date back to around 300 BC in China.
âMariaâ, the so-called âalienâ mummy that McDowell examined, appeared to have fingerprints that do not match any known human pattern. Maria first debuted in November 2019, alongside three others, âWawitaâ, âAlbertâ and âVictoriaâ.
âMuch of her body is covered in diatomaceous earthâ, McDowell explained – white powdery aquatic fossils left behind by diatom plankton – âhowever on the fingers that were exposed, the epidermal ridges I saw appeared to be in mostly straight linesâ.
He warned, however, that it was too soon to make any definitive statements and there may be a terrestrial explanation for the unusual skin pattern, including âthe way her skin was preservedâ. McDowell did admit though that the situation was âvery oddâ.
He emphasised that his teamsâ efforts to identify the true nature of the specimens was very much still active, spending several hours a day on the case.
In September, the prolific UFO researcher Jaime Maussan first presented two alleged âalienâ corpses to Mexicoâs congress. The collection has been dubbed âthe Nazca mummiesâ, after the province in southwestern Peru where the bodies were allegedly found.
They gained worldwide fame due to their extraterrestrial-looking elongated heads and three-fingered hands. One of his latest ideas is that the mummies may be alien-human âhybridsâ, with his colleagues declaring that some specimens contain 30 percent unknown DNA.
Peruvian archaeologists also claimed that one of the mummies appears to be pregnant. Maussan carried out initial X-ray and ultrasound scans on the bodies in March this year.
Since their discovery, Maussan and his team have been embroiled in bitter clashes with Peruâs Ministry of Culture, who described the mummies as man-made hoaxes.
In January, Flavio Estrada, a forensic archaeologist of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Lima of the Public Ministry, told a press conference that two of the alien bodies seized by Peruvian customs were âdollsâ, assembled with animal bones with âmodern synthetic gluesâ.
Similarly, Latin American historian Christopher Heaney noted that several Latin American regions, including Peru, have a rich tradition of head-binding and head-shaping practices on infantsâ developing skulls.