Megillah Gorilla posted:

Vakal posted:

Can you patent something without knowing how to make it?

ThinkTank posted:

I love that they poured sand all over the alien bodies before putting them on display for some reason.

quote:

The mummified specimens were displayed in glass cases as part of an official unveiling at Mexico's Congress in a hearing which has stirred excitement among UFO (unidentified flying object) enthusiasts.

Politicians were told they were found in the city of Cusco, Peru, and were estimated to be 1,000 years old.

The Mexico City event was spearheaded by journalist and UFO researcher Jaime Maussan, who testified under oath that almost a third of their DNA is "unknown" and the specimens were not part of "our terrestrial evolution", Mexican media reported.

"These specimens are not part of our evolutionary history on Earth," he said in his presentation to Mexican government officials and representatives from the US.

"They are not beings recovered from a UFO crash.

"Instead, they were found in diatom (algae) mines and subsequently became fossilised."

However, a 2015 claim by Mr Maussan that a mummified body - purportedly that of an alien - found near Nazca in Peru was later debunked as it was shown to be a human child.

Speaking about the latest discovery, Mr Maussan told the Mexico City delegation the specimens had been examined at the Autonomous National University Of Mexico.
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He said scientists used radiocarbon dating to gather DNA evidence and X-rays had shown one to have "eggs" inside.

Congress representatives said the information had left them with "thoughts" and "concerns" and with the view to "continue talking about this".

Ryan Graves, a former US Navy pilot who in July claimed the number of UFOs or UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) was being "grossly underreported", was also in attendance.

Wee posted:

NoiseAnnoys posted:

aliens subreddit falls for the dumbest poo poo, it’s impressive

naem posted:

how do people have such specific ideas about what an alien is or what interaction with them would be like

it’s like a religion

naem posted:

how do people have such specific ideas about what an alien is or what interaction with them would be like

it’s like a religion

ThinkTank posted:

Aliens will look pretty much like humans except a little weird even though exactly one branch of evolution on earth has resulted in species that look anything like us in 4.5bn years.

My Spirit Otter posted:

because aliens made man, dumbass

ThinkTank posted:

Then who made the aliens?

Megillah Gorilla posted:

We have discovered alien life in Italy

naem posted:

how do people have such specific ideas about what an alien is or what interaction with them would be like

it’s like a religion

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

One of the main "UFO summoners" is a guy called Ron Bingham who gets a fair amount of media attention. He claims that he can telepathically communicate with UFOs, ghosts and even bigfoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaPCCZFsoM

He seems to be a pretty harmless but deeply deluded guy who believes he's got special UFO super powers. He's been doing this for several decades which is pretty sad. You see the exact same thing in bigfoot circles, I've done a few posts ITT about the communities of bigfoot "communicators" who believe they have a special psychic bond with bigfoot.

Here's a video interviewing a few other UFO summoners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvy_K81PbS8

ThinkTank posted:

Why did the aliens give us ears and noses when they don't have em?

Wee posted:

redshirt posted:

Other Aliens

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

There's an excellent book called "Round In Circles" by Jim Schnabel which goes into the history of the crop circles phenomenon and the scientists who spent years and years studying it. They broke into two main camps: scientists who were absolutely adamant that the crop circles were a natural phenomenon caused by localized tornadoes and scientists who were absolutely adamant that they were being caused by alien visitors. They feuded for years and years over their pet theories, writing up papers and published regular "cerealogy' journals and holding seminars and flying in guest lecturers from overseas and doing media interviews and rushing around documenting new crop circles whenever they appeared and holding weeklong "field trips" where they monitored fields and tried to collect footage of crop circles being created.
Spoiler: the entire 'phenomenon' was just a hoax, and always had been. The author of the book should know, he was one of the main offenders and had created dozens and dozens of crop circles over the years which the scientists swore couldn't possibly have been made by humans.

Bigfootology is also broken into similar opposing camps, with one group of 'researchers' being absolutely adamant that bigfoot is a mundane flesh & blood creature which is just really good at hiding, and the other group which is absolutely adamant that bigfoots are dimension-traveling creatures which communicate via telepathy. Each camp holds their own annual conventions and is convinced that the other guys are nuts who have missed the entire point.

I keep comparing UFOlogy to bigfootery because both fields work exactly the same way and have people forming similar theories based off pretty much the same type of evidence and jumping to similar conspiracy theories to explain why "the real evidence" has been withheld from the public. Many Bigfootologists believe that the forestry department has been systematically hiding evidence of bigfoot for decades and the Smithsonian has been collecting giant skeletons and hiding them away because they'd disprove current scientific theories on evolution n' poo poo. They're also usually pretty darn sure they know what will happen when they inevitably interact with the thingie and they're sure it'll happen real soon.

There's also always a fringe element who believe they're already in regular communication with the thingies: there's a whole lot of people who believe that bigfoots talk to them telepathically, a whole lot of spiritualists who believe that specific dead people talk to them, and UFO dudes who believe that aliens are talking to them telepathically or that they have special UFO summoning skills:

Actual Satan posted:

1/3 unknown DNA and eggs? I'm as skeptical as the next guy but at some point you have to accept that mexican aliens are real.

redshirt posted:

So these aliens are only like 33 Centimeters tall?

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

There's an excellent book called "Round In Circles" by Jim Schnabel which goes into the history of the crop circles phenomenon and the scientists who spent years and years studying it. They broke into two main camps: scientists who were absolutely adamant that the crop circles were a natural phenomenon caused by localized tornadoes and scientists who were absolutely adamant that they were being caused by alien visitors. They feuded for years and years over their pet theories, writing up papers and published regular "cerealogy' journals and holding seminars and flying in guest lecturers from overseas and doing media interviews and rushing around documenting new crop circles whenever they appeared and holding weeklong "field trips" where they monitored fields and tried to collect footage of crop circles being created.
Spoiler: the entire 'phenomenon' was just a hoax, and always had been. The author of the book should know, he was one of the main offenders and had created dozens and dozens of crop circles over the years which the scientists swore couldn't possibly have been made by humans.

mediaphage posted:

that’s iberico my friend

ThinkTank posted:

DiomedesGodshill posted:

I remember in the late 90s wanting to get a group of friends together and make a crop circle, but then again the local farmers would've probably shot at us.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

There's an excellent book called "Round In Circles" by Jim Schnabel which goes into the history of the crop circles phenomenon and the scientists who spent years and years studying it. They broke into two main camps: scientists who were absolutely adamant that the crop circles were a natural phenomenon caused by localized tornadoes and scientists who were absolutely adamant that they were being caused by alien visitors. They feuded for years and years over their pet theories, writing up papers and published regular "cerealogy' journals and holding seminars and flying in guest lecturers from overseas and doing media interviews and rushing around documenting new crop circles whenever they appeared and holding weeklong "field trips" where they monitored fields and tried to collect footage of crop circles being created.
Spoiler: the entire 'phenomenon' was just a hoax, and always had been. The author of the book should know, he was one of the main offenders and had created dozens and dozens of crop circles over the years which the scientists swore couldn't possibly have been made by humans.

Bigfootology is also broken into similar opposing camps, with one group of 'researchers' being absolutely adamant that bigfoot is a mundane flesh & blood creature which is just really good at hiding, and the other group which is absolutely adamant that bigfoots are dimension-traveling creatures which communicate via telepathy. Each camp holds their own annual conventions and is convinced that the other guys are nuts who have missed the entire point.

I keep comparing UFOlogy to bigfootery because both fields work exactly the same way and have people forming similar theories based off pretty much the same type of evidence and jumping to similar conspiracy theories to explain why "the real evidence" has been withheld from the public. Many Bigfootologists believe that the forestry department has been systematically hiding evidence of bigfoot for decades and the Smithsonian has been collecting giant skeletons and hiding them away because they'd disprove current scientific theories on evolution n' poo poo. They're also usually pretty darn sure they know what will happen when they inevitably interact with the thingie and they're sure it'll happen real soon.

There's also always a fringe element who believe they're already in regular communication with the thingies: there's a whole lot of people who believe that bigfoots talk to them telepathically, a whole lot of spiritualists who believe that specific dead people talk to them, and UFO dudes who believe that aliens are talking to them telepathically or that they have special UFO summoning skills: