Life, work and revelations of Jaime Maussan, the famous Mexican ufologist who showed the controversial 'tamaliens' in Congress

Can you imagine Iker Jiménez giving a talk about “his mysteries” in a commission of the Congress of Deputies? Something like this has happened in Mexico. On the 12th, a ufologist presented allegedly “non-human” bodies in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico City. It was during the so-called Public Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (FANI), with the aim of establishing legislation in this regard.

“We are going to show non-human bodies, which are part of our evolution.”

That ufologist is Jaime Maussan. That day, before some deputies, he presumed that the two bodies shown were more than 1,000 years old, according to research carried out by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).. “We are going to show non-human bodies, which are part of our evolution, according to the test carried out by the UNAM, these beings are more than a thousand years old,” said the journalist.

Hours later, the Physics Institute of the UNAM itself denied him. Those responsible rejected that based on their studies it can be asserted that the two dissected bodies that Maussan showed belong to extraterrestrials.

Later, it was learned that the mummies were assembled in 2017 with remains of mummies from ancient Peru, to be sold on the black market.. In his defense, Maussan told Peru's Canal N that a person who obtained the bodies “requested anonymity” and preferred not to reveal the details of the discovery.

According to the Peruvian authorities, these are bodies that, in reality, were already discovered in the country in 2017 and that after analysis it was determined that they were “dolls” that had been manufactured. Maussan would have taken these “pre-Hispanic” objects without knowing it, sending them to a laboratory in Mexico. This has led to the initiation of a criminal investigation against him.

Cakes, memes and piñatas

In Mexico, the matter has been taken with humor. Cakes in the shape of extraterrestrial mummies have appeared and the “tamaliens” have gone viral. Maussan himself already has his own piñata, one of the most typical elements of celebrations in Mexico. Hand in hand with some and other things, the slogan “I do believe you” has also spread, applied to the ufologist.

And Jaime Maussan is very famous in the country; what has been said, something like our Iker Jiménez. Precisely, Maussan was at the start of the 'Horizonte' season, on Cuatro. The presenter and director of Cuarto Milenio interviewed Maussan live:

'Horizonte' experts explained the “fraud” of the alien mummies from Mexico. As we saw before, they are actually made from children's remains.

A television personality

Born in Mexico City in 1953, he is a journalist, ufologist and, as his Wikipedia profile says, television personality. And it is, because his program “Tercer Milenio” is a classic of Mexican television. It has been broadcast since 1997 and is still on the air.

His program “Tercer Milenio” has been broadcast in Mexico since 1997 and is still on the air

Before, he studied journalism at UNAM and at the University of Miami in Ohio (USA).. He began working as a journalist in the 70s. He went through El Sol de México, La Afificación, Telesistemamexicano or the radio channel 24 Horas W Radio.

In 1973 he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky's program “Today Saturday” as a reporter.. The following year and until 1976 he was a correspondent for Televisa in the United States.. He returned to Mexico and worked with Zabludovsky on “Domingo a Domingo.”

At that time Maussan was still a journalist fond of facts. He even won an Ondas Award. It was in 1979 for one of his works on nature and the environment.. It was titled, 'Monarch, Queen of Butterflies'.

The alien who was a child

In the 80s and until the 90s he became a reporter for the Televisa program “60 minutes”, of which he later became head of information and general director.. It was then that he began to deal with the UFO phenomenon.. And so comes, in 1997, Tercer Milenio, of which he has been director and producer and presenter.

From that time his “research” of the Nazca mummies is famous.. In June 2017, he showed the mummified body in a crouching position of a humanoid figure with an elongated skull and three fingers on each hand and foot.. He was supposedly an alien.. However, later, the mummified corpse was proven to be that of a human child.

In reality, Maussan's record is full of “traps”. In 1996 he presented the bearer of a supposedly extraterrestrial object. It was a strange bracelet capable of teleporting whoever wore it.. The ufologist interviewed Jonathan Reed, the person who said he found a being from another world during a walk in the forest, beat him and took him home. The supposed evidence was the bracelet. Years later, a Maussan collaborator recognized that everything was a fraud.

And the Virgin spoke to him

Maussan believes in extraterrestrials and also in the Virgin of Guadalupe. During a recent interview, in the program 'The minute that changed my destiny', he explained that in the past he received a message from this Virgin. He said that his family adopted Catholicism after facing a difficult situation with his father and that this had a great influence on him.

He hit me in the back of my head. She told me 'what do you want from me?', as if vigorous and a little angry.”

The ufologist stated that in 1991 the Virgin spoke to him. “There was a very profound moment. A very intense voice that hit me in the back of my head. It said 'what do you want from me?', as if vigorous and a little angry. I was very scared. I didn't imagine it. “I know it was real,” Maussan said.

In 2019, after 46 years at Televisa, the journalist left for his main competition, TV Azteca. Already this 2023 he announced his return to Televisa, with “Jaime Maussan Presenta”.