NOTE: The word “**real**” means the mummies **were once living organisms**. Neither I nor Maussan nor McDowell use the word to suggest anything about their origin, whether aliens or new species that evolved on Earth.
Dr John McDowell visited Peru with Drs Caruso and Rodriguez in April 2024 to examine the Nazca mummies for Jaime Maussan’s team. Maussan has tweeted several times about the visit, [including a 20-minute interview](https://twitter.com/jaimemaussan1/status/1781771353290395813) with McDowell where he names him lead of the investigation going forward, snippets of the press conference, and the following comments (emphasis mine):
>***It’s done #ufotwitter*** *”****Specimens are real, some are clearly not human****”; Nazca tridactyls (Monserrat, Sebastian, Santiago, Maria,* ***Victoria****); By John Mcdowell from the top specialists in forensic medicine on the Planet.*
>*Dr. John McDowell:* ***Nazca mummies are real specimens and some are clearly not*** ***human***
What Maussan is doing is grouping together the small (eg. Victoria) and large (eg. Maria) mummies (although – if real – they are obviously two *very* different species) in order to make it look like McDowell is pronouncing them *all* real (i.e. once-living organisms).
I wrote to Dr McDowell to ask his opinion of the smaller mummies (such as Josefina, Alberto, Victoria, and Clara). What I didn’t realize, and what Maussan has obfuscated, is that the US team **did not examine the smaller mummies** and that Maussan is grossly misrepresenting McDowell by implying his comments refer to both types of mummy – even naming Victoria. Because of this, I’d assumed McDowell examined both types and I wanted clarification. I sent him the hi-res x-ray of Josefina, which is not available on the official website The Alien Project and which I suspected McDowell had not seen.
His response in full (May 7, 2024) (I added para breaks as it came without any; emphasis mine):
>Thank you for the information you have provided. I am especially grateful for the attached images. Please give me a little more information about yourself and why you have an interest in these “Nazca Mummies.”
>None of us (Dr. Caruso, Dr. Rodriguez or I) who traveled to Peru to examine some of the “Nazca Mummies” have ever claimed or stated in any way what these specimens (specifically the images you have attached to this email) actually are. We were more interested in the “humanoid”, larger bodies and **did not spend much—if any time–with the smaller, “doll-like” entities.** To my knowledge, none of us have stated anything in the public domain about these specific entities as shown in your email attachments. In fact, I do not believe that any of us said anything about the specimens represented in the images you have provided.
>**Please understand that we know the “Nazca Mummies” you have sent images of were never living entities composed of the hard tissues of one and only one “species.” It would be foolish to state that these “bodies” could represent individuals that could have been alive let alone capable of walking, flying or swimming. Please do not infer that we said otherwise.**
>As I have said publicly, Jaime Maussan never at any point tried to influence our opinions nor would we allow him, or his associates to influence in any way our very limited evaluations of the entities that we examined during our short time in Peru. As I have clearly stated in multiple forums, we want to work with any reputable organization or individual(s) to determine what any and all of the “Nazca Mummies” actually are. Further know that we are all aware of hoaxes that have been perpetrated on well-meaning “scientists” in the past.
>As any reputable, competent scientist would do, **we maintain a high level of skepticism regarding the “Nazca Mummies.”**
>John McDowell
This is McDowell’s actual quote in the video attached to [Maussan’s tweet](https://twitter.com/jaimemaussan1/status/1783911138398232759), where he distinguishes between the two types and his contrasting observations about them:
>The specimens that we’ve examined – some people are calling them bodies, mummies, I’m going to call them specimens, the specimens are real \[lists the analyses that were done previously on the large mummies\]… These are human or human-like, the ones that I’ve evaluated. There are some that are \[pauses, shakes head\] clearly not human, just let me put it that way.
McDowell’s lawyer son was also [interviewed by Maussan](https://twitter.com/jaimemaussan1/status/1781768214495572262) – he’s had a longstanding interest in the mummies and has been writing about them on his blog. He organized this trip and says he’s exchanged ideas with his father. While he mostly talks about the larger mummies, he briefly mentions the small ones and that he has “different hypotheses” for the two types (he names Alberto): “It doesn’t make sense to me how it could walk, move… how it would work.”
I am banned from posting to r/AlienBodies so I’d appreciate it if someone with fortitude reposts this over there.
by SoCalledLife
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See this is the shit that really bothers me and thankfully I’m not the only one that noticed it.
How many people trumpeted that this guy said the specimens are “real” but will completely gloss over this?
I watched his interview, the press conference and read several unbiased articles where he very plainly stated that no conclusions could be made without being allowed to examine and run proper tests under proper forensic conditions and that would involve physically examining the insides of the specimens.
At no point did he say the specimens were authentic and Maussan totally cut and pasted the clips and sound bytes together to make it sound like he totally did.
It’s such dishonest bullcrap and people still defend the charlatan and it makes me sick
Its sideshow theatrics like this that make unbiased scientific examination of unusual phenomena impossible, it all gets lumped together with the obvious garbage because of hucksters like Maussan hawking his discount Fiji mermaid bullshit
… OH YOU DON’T FUCKING SAY??!
The little dolls made out of plaster turned out to be FUCKING DOLLS MADE OUT OF PLASTER??? Shocker.