Alien Mummies and Jumbo Saucers




You may have heard about the supposed mummified aliens currently residing in Mexico. Peru claims Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan stole them from their country, but I don’t want to go down that rabbit hole. The tale is muddled enough as it is. Long story short, Mexico has some tiny alien corpses. In photos, they look to be two feet tall and, you know, mummified. If they are what they appear to be, they’re ancient mummified alien corpses. That’s the thing, though. They’re probably not what they appear to be. They’ve been examined, and they’re a hodgepodge of offbeat elements. Bones from different places, some reptile eggs (!), and a skull that may or may not have come from an alpaca. So, yeah. Maybe not the civilization-rattling discovery we all might have hoped for. Jaime Maussan may have (allegedly) liberated them from Peru in vain.A recent article on the mummies from The Daily Star begins with the headline “Mexican Mummies Aren’t Aliens — They’re Something Much Worse, UFO Expert Claims”. Spooky, right? Oozing with paranormal promise. There’s just one problem. At no point does the Star tell us what they are and how they might be worse than aliens (assuming, of course, aliens would be a bad thing for them to be). At the end of the brief article, we haven’t learned a damn thing about this UFO’s expert’s theory. Does he think they’re demons? Leprechauns? Super-smart monkeys bent on the destruction of mankind? We’ll never know. To me, this blatantly violates Journalism 101. Your headline shouldn’t set up a premise your story refuses to deliver on. No wonder there’s no serious interest in extraterrestrials. Why would there be when most of the reporting is in low-rent outlets delivering jumbled pseudo-stories?