Dead Drop: September 15

MEXICAN SPACE MUMMY MESS:  Members of Mexico’s Congress heard from some interesting “experts” recently who claimed to have “evidence” of mummified “non-human” life forms found in Peru. Mexican journalist José Jaime Maussan presented the “evidence,” but it turns out it had previously been shown in Peru in 2017 and was determined to be “recently manufactured dolls, which had been covered with a mixture of paper and synthetic glue to simulate the presence of skin.”  AP quoted  Julieta Fierro, a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, expressing skepticism, saying that many details about the figures “made no sense.” She added “Maussan has done many things. He says he has talked to the Virgin of Guadalupe,” she said. “He told me extraterrestrials do not talk to me like they talk to him, because I don’t believe in them.” 

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE – BUT MAYBE NOT IN HERE: We must admit, it never occurred to us to ask the question – do other countries treat UFO sightings as big secrets – the way the U.S. has long done? The question did occur to Terrence McCoy though, who, writing in The Washington Post, says: no, not so much. Apparently, there are lots of UFO sightings in places like Brazil, but that country makes reports of odd airborne phenomena a matter of public record. We have found no record of South American countries insisting on calling UFOs UAPs…but perhaps they do.