{"it":{"id":"W11A38","kind":"artifact","sub":"Hoax or modern","name":"Nazca mummies (Maria, Wawita, Josefina etc.)","place":"Ica","mat":"human & animal bone, synthetic resin/paper skin, cyanoacrylate","dims":"three-fingered hand ~50 cm (El Comercio)","loc":"Univ. Nacional San Luis Gonzaga, Ica (some); Peruvian state custody (seized pieces)","acc":"n/a","find":"Promoted from 2017 (Gaia/Maussan); Ronceros/Jamin holders; pieces seized Oct 2023 Lima…","flag":"modern hoax-fabrication","src":[123,124,125,126,477],"lat":-14.065,"lon":-75.729,"tags":["Hoax or modern"],"sum":"The figures stand about sixty centimetres tall, with two legs, two arms, three fingers on each hand and a long head. When Peru's forensic specialists examined them, the skulls proved to be from four-legged mammals, the bodies were animal and bird bone, and the parts were joined with modern synthetic glue.\n\nIn October 2023 officers at Lima's Jorge Chávez airport stopped a shipment bound for Mexico. Inside were figures said to come from the Palpa and Nasca area. In January 2024 Peru's Ministry of Culture presented the results. The forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada Moreno said the bodies were animal bones joined with modern synthetic adhesive. A three-fingered hand from Nasca, handed over by Germán Ronceros, was also examined and found to be fake, and one figure said to be pregnant with eggs proved to be a fabricator's trick. A forensic specialist told El Comercio the skull was so badly built that if the alien sneezed, its brain would fall out.\n\nWhat is hard to explain is how far the figures travelled first. Similar bodies had already been shown to Mexico's Congress in September 2023 as non-human.\n\nThe mainstream verdict is firm: these are dolls, assembled from animal bones and modern materials. No promoter has published a study to set beside Peru's.\n\nThe bones used were real. Who built these figures, and for whom?","why":"Peru's forensic team found animal and bird bones joined with synthetic glue.","nfacts":1,"nsrc":5,"yt":"Read the forensic report.","rel":["W11A39","W11A12"],"hook":"Peru's forensic team found the 'alien' mummies were built from bird bones and synthetic glue."},"S":{"123":["Wikipedia Jaime Maussan","https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jaime_Maussan&oldid=1381284530"],"124":["Peru Ministerio de Cultura news 893041 (IML forensic results on seized \"mummies\")","https://www.gob.pe/institucion/cultura/noticias/893041"],"125":["Estrada Moreno 2023, Arqueologicas 32:125-149, Anatomia de un fraude","https://revistas.cultura.gob.pe/index.php/arqueologicas/article/view/448"],"126":["El Comercio Peru (2024) on IML results","https://elcomercio.pe/lima/sucesos/huesos-de-animal-gomas-sinteticas-y-un-fraude-mp-resuelve-nuevo-caso-de-momias-alienigenas-momias-alien-extraterrestres-nasca-ufo-noticia/"],"477":["Wikipedia: Jaime Maussan","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Maussan"]},"rec":{"id":"W11A38","alias":[],"ms":[{"a":"fake_hand_length","v":"~50","u":"cm","unc":"approx","by":"El Comercio","yr":"2024","m":"","b":"S","t":"MEASUREMENT","id":"W11M141","s":["W11S94"],"c":"El Comercio Peru (2024) on IML results","url":"https://elcomercio.pe/lima/sucesos/huesos-de-animal-gomas-sinteticas-y-un-fraude-mp-resuelve-nuevo-caso-de-momias-alienigenas-momias-alien-extraterrestres-nasca-ufo-noticia/"}],"lab":[{"k":"Lab test","mat":"Composition of \"skin\" and joints","v":"plant fibre + modern synthetic resin/paper; cyanoacrylate adhesive","m":"biological/chemical analysis + radiography","by":"IML Peru (Estrada Moreno) 2023","b":"V","s":["W11S93","W11S92"],"url":"https://revistas.cultura.gob.pe/index.php/arqueologicas/article/view/448"},{"k":"Lab test","mat":"Skeleton","v":"bird bones + small quadruped mammal skull (seized dolls); hand = human phalanges in disorder","m":"radiography","by":"IML Peru 2024","b":"V","s":["W11S92","W11S94"],"url":"https://www.gob.pe/institucion/cultura/noticias/893041"}],"eng":[],"ori":[],"gaps":[{"a":"museum_accession","r":"not in staged/legacy artifact record (free sources)"}],"dat":[],"aa":[{"id":"AA191","a":"Three-fingered non-human/hybrid beings","who":"Jaime Maussan; Thierry Jamin; Gaia Inc.","main":"Peru IML (Estrada Moreno): dolls assembled from looted human/animal bone with modern synthetic glue; 2017 prosecutor report: \"recently manufactured dolls\"","ms":"W11S85;W11S92;W11S93;W11S94","st":"contradicted","n":"","nl":"1"}],"ac":[],"me":[],"ci":[{"who":"Jaime Maussan; Thierry Jamin","med":"web/TV","ep":"Gaia / Maussan Nazca presentations, 2017","v":"Three-fingered non-human beings","b":"V","s":["W11S85","W11S93"]}],"cq":[],"sd":[],"art":{"claimed_anomaly":"Three-fingered non-human/hybrid beings","mainstream_reading":"Peru IML (Estrada Moreno): dolls assembled from looted human/animal bone with modern synthetic glue; 2017 prosecutor report: \"recently manufactured dolls\"","provenance_flag":"modern hoax-fabrication","current_location":"Univ. Nacional San Luis Gonzaga, Ica (some); Peruvian state custody (seized pieces)","find_circumstances":"Promoted from 2017 (Gaia/Maussan); Ronceros/Jamin holders; pieces seized Oct 2023 Lima airport and Sep 2023 Callao","claimant":"Jaime Maussan; Thierry Jamin; Gaia Inc.","status":"contradicted","dimensions":"three-fingered hand ~50 cm (El Comercio)","material":"human & animal bone, synthetic resin/paper skin, cyanoacrylate","date":"","culture":"","museum_accession":"n/a","b":"V","s":["W11S85","W11S92","W11S93","W11S94"]},"sub":[],"src":[{"id":"W11S94","t":"El Comercio Peru (2024) on IML results","u":"https://elcomercio.pe/lima/sucesos/huesos-de-animal-gomas-sinteticas-y-un-fraude-mp-resuelve-nuevo-caso-de-momias-alienigenas-momias-alien-extraterrestres-nasca-ufo-noticia/"},{"id":"W11S93","t":"IML Peru (Estrada Moreno) 2023","u":"https://revistas.cultura.gob.pe/index.php/arqueologicas/article/view/448"},{"id":"W11S92","t":"IML Peru 2024","u":"https://www.gob.pe/institucion/cultura/noticias/893041"},{"id":"W11S85","t":"Wikipedia Jaime Maussan","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jaime_Maussan&oldid=1381284530"},{"id":null,"t":"Wikipedia: Jaime Maussan","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Maussan"}],"qs":["These \"mummies\" reached Mexico's Congress despite forensic reports calling them dolls. How do hoaxes get such official stages?","The figures were built partly from looted human bones. What do we owe the ancient dead whose remains end up in hoaxes?"]},"img":null,"md":{"h":"img/m/W11A38-16x9.webp","w":1600,"hh":900,"alt":"Illustration: setting associated with Nazca mummies (Maria, Wawita, Josefina etc.), Ica","by":"Illustration made for The Nommo","lic":"","lu":"","p":"","g":true,"ct":false,"cap":"","sec":[]},"hh":[{"v":"Promoted from 2017","h":"Where it was found","s":[227]}],"hs":{"227":["Wikipedia Jaime Maussan","https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jaime_Maussan&oldid=1381284530"]}}