A discredited “UFO researcher” has presented what he claims are alien remains to the Mexican congress in an attempt to persuade politicians to declare the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Scientists have been unable to identify bodies believed to have been preserved in a mine in Peru for thousands of years, Jaime Maussan said.

The specimens were brought into the House of Representatives in wooden crates, as representatives held the first hearings on UFOs.

Two men opened the lids of makeshift coffins, revealing two tiny corpses with elongated skulls and three fingers on each hand nestled in thick padding inside.

Lawmakers were then shown X-rays of the bodies, which allegedly revealed the implants were made from rare metals. A person is said to have eggs in his stomach.

Speaking under oath, Mr. Maussan said scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico tested the DNA of the bodies and found that nearly a third of them were of “unknown” origin. . The organization has been approached for comment.

However, the TV personality was considered an unreliable character after making similar claims about five “alien” corpses discovered in Peru in 2017.

Experts later said these were human remains that had been “maliciously manipulated and even mutilated… for commercial exploitation”.

Mr. Maussan also emphasized that the allegedly mummy body of a Native American child is that of aliens who crashed on Earth in 1947.

According to Mexican media, Mr. Maussan told parliamentarians: “These specimens are not part of our terrestrial evolution… [they are] about a thousand years old, which means they are not creatures recovered from crashed ships.

“Rather, they are organisms buried in diatom [algae] deposits, which dry out the body, not allowing bacteria or fungi to grow. So it allows these bodies to be preserved.”

There has been a recent increase in interest surrounding the existence of aliens, with the US Congress last year holding the first UFO hearings since the 1970s.

“Mexico will become the first country in the world to accept the presence of non-human beings on the planet,” Mr. Maussan announced at a press conference this month.

The hearing was first announced by Mexican representative Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, a friend of the UFO researcher, who believes it could lead to “legislation on unidentified aerial phenomena.”

“Mexico must put itself first and listen to every voice, every opinion,” he added. I have said many times, this is the people’s house – the House of Representatives. Everyone is welcome here.”

Ryan Graves, a US naval aviator, also spoke to Mexican lawmakers and said there is a stigma against reporting UFO sightings.

In July, he told politicians on Capitol Hill that his squadron encountered UFOs “pretty much every day,” asserting that an object looked like “a dark gray or black cube inside a transparent bridge”.

This week NASA will release the results of a UFO sightings study the agency conducted last year. The Pentagon has received 350 reports of UFOs in the past two years, 171 of which remain unexplained.