A documentary from Gaia.com claims that what looks like a mummified corpse is evidence of a new species, possibly of extraterrestrial origin.
Now several red flags pop up. Most immediately that Gaia.com has a history of creating videos promoting the idea of ancient aliens, none of which panned out into actual evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauchilla_Cemetery
Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauchilla_Cemetery#/media/File:Nazca-chauchilla-c07.jpg
And ancient mummies are continuing to be found in Peru:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-inca-mummy-found-in-southern-peru-100783
- A modern fake mummy, created from a combination of human and animal bones, create for the show
- Modern Fake, but created locally, without the show's immediate knowledge
- Older fake, created for tourists
- Very old fake, actually mummified, but made from human and animals.
- A deformed human
- An unknown species of animal
- An extraterrestrial species, like a visiting alien
Jaime Maussan is a UFOologist - a journalist well known in UFO circles as someone who hypes evidence-free claims of aliens, etc. He appears to be the person who led Gaia to the mummy.
Jay Weidner of Gaia has a long history of making esoteric videos like "chemtrails and the sun", and does not seems like a neutral documentary filmmaker. He holds some quite strong unscientific beliefs, like:
Dr Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez has worked with Maussan before, most famously with "Roswell Slides", where he performed extensive analysis of a photo that he said was of a non-human body at Roswell, but which turned out to be a mummified child on a museum shelf in South America. So he does not have a very good track record.
M.K Jessie appears to be a real radiologist but really gives very little information other than saying that based on the small images she has been given she think it's unlikely to be a modified human skeleton.
Natalia Zaloznaja (probably better transliterated as Natalya Zaloznaya, Наталья Залозная) - the supposed "head of image analysis" may well be a real doctor, but does not say anything of note.
So simply based on the track record of the people involved, I would have to put "fake" as the most likely explanation in the absence of additional independent evidence.
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