There is renewed interest in extraterrestrial beings. The United States space agency NASA issued last week a report on its investigation into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena sightings, and it designated a director of UAP to lead in creating a database to be used in further studying the existence of ETs.

The 36-page report, however, lacked any dramatic findings, saying there was no evidence that aliens were behind UAPs. The new director was also unidentified, like a UAP, to protect him from expected harassment.

A day before the release of the NASA report, a journalist and a lawmaker presented to Mexico's legislature "evidence" that purportedly proved the existence of ETs.

Ruling party lawmaker Sergio Gutierrez called the session to hear about controversial journalist Jaime Maussan's "aliens."

"They are non-human beings. We don't want to call them extraterrestrials because we don't know," Maussan told colleagues, referring to two remains found in Peru in 2017 that he borrowed from a man he did not identify, according to Agence France-Presse.

Maussan cited a carbon-dating analysis by the National Autonomous University of Mexico that showed "these beings are around 1,000 years old."

Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, director of the Health Sciences Research Institute of the Secretary of the Navy, was also at the hearing.

"Based on the DNA tests, which were compared with more than one million species… they are not related to what is known or described up to this moment by science or by human knowledge," Benitez said, Reuters reported.

The Mexican hearing generated both astonishment and mockery on the microblogging platform X, as people shared videos of the event with the words "The Martians have arrived." They also called for Maussan to be named "president of intergalactic relations."

Tampering with and taking the two mummies from Peru also backfired on Benitez and Maussan.

Peruvian Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga questioned how the specimens, which she said were pre-Hispanic objects, were spirited out of Peru, saying that a criminal complaint has been filed, Reuters reported.