ミイラ化した「非人類の遺体」公開　メキシコ議会

【メキシコ市ＡＦＰ＝時事】メキシコ議会の１２日の公聴会で、「人類ではない」生物の遺体とされるもの２体が公開された。同議会が地球外生命の可能性について公式に取り上げたのは今回が初めて。（写真はメキシコ議会の公聴会で公開された、ミイラ化した「非人類の遺体」。同議会提供）
　ミイラ化した「非人類の遺体」は、それぞれ小さな展示用ケースに入れられて公開された。メキシコのジャーナリスト、ハイメ・マウサン氏が２０１７年にペルーで発見したとして持ち込んだもので、灰色がかり、人類に似た体形をしている。
　マウサン氏は「彼らは非人類だ。正体が分からないので、地球外生命体とは呼びたくない」と語った。さらに、メキシコ国立自治大学で行われた炭素年代測定から「約１０００年前のもの」であることが示されたと述べた。
　公聴会は与党のセルヒオ・グティレス議員が「公共の利益にかなう」として開催を求めた。
　同氏によると、マウサン氏は、７月に元米情報局員のデービッド・グラッシュ氏が米下院委員会で米当局が未確認航空現象（ＵＡＰ）の証拠を隠ぺいしていると証言したことを受け、メキシコ議会での公聴会を要請した。
　だが、ソーシャルメディア上では映画『Ｅ．Ｔ．』の宇宙人の写真を使ったジョークが飛び交うなど、驚きと不信と嘲笑が入り交じった声が上がっている。
　Ｘ（旧ツイッター）のあるユーザーは「この国が科学をないがしろにしていることを示す」出来事だと書き込んだ。
　また「火星人がやってきた」というフレーズを添えて、公聴会の動画を投稿するユーザーもいた。さらに、マウサン氏を「銀河系間外交長官」に任命してほしいという皮肉交じりの投稿もあった。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/09/14-17:26）

The alleged bodies of two non-human beings were presented during a congressional hearing in Mexico, generating a mixture of surprise, disbelief and ridicule on social media on Wednesday.
The purported mummified remains were exhibited in two small display cases on Tuesday -- the first time the Mexican Congress has officially addressed the issue of possible extraterrestrial life.
The alleged corpses, which had a grayish color and facial features similar to humans, were brought by Jaime Maussan, a controversial Mexican journalist and researcher who reported finding them in Peru in 2017.
They are non-human beings. We don't want to call them extraterrestrials because we don't know, Maussan said during the session called by ruling party lawmaker Sergio Gutierrez, who defended the event as being in the public interest.
Maussan cited carbon dating analysis by the National Autonomous University of Mexico that he said showed these beings are around 1,000 years old.
The university's physics institute confirmed in a statement that it had carried out tests but only to determine the age and not the origin of the specimens.
Its laboratory distances itself from any subsequent use, interpretation or misrepresentation made with the results it issues, a statement said.
During the hearing, Gutierrez asked the speakers to swear to tell the truth.
He said Maussan requested the session after a US congressional committee in July was told by a former intelligence official that humans were not alone in the universe and American authorities were covering up the evidence.
In May, the US space agency NASA held its first public meeting on the issue, and urged a more rigorous scientific approach to clarify the origin of so-called unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
The Mexican hearing generated both astonishment and mockery, including jokes accompanied by photos of the alien creature in the movie E.T.
The event shows the contempt that this country has for science, one user wrote on the social media platform X, formerly called Twitter.
Others shared videos of the event with the words The Martians have arrived, while there was a tongue-in-cheek call for Maussan to be named president of intergalactic relations.