Is this really human? DNA tests on six-inch 'alien-looking' skeleton
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Ten years after the remains of a six-inch alien were first discovered, they have been confirmed as human by Stanford scientists in a new documentary film “Sirius.”
Since the remains of the small humanoid _ known as the “Atacama Humanoid” and nicknamed Ata _ were discovered in Chile's Atacama Desert 10 years ago, there has been much speculation about their origin.
Among the theories were that the bones were those of an aborted fetus, or a monkey, or even an alien that had crash-landed on Earth.
In the weeks leading up to Monday’s premier of Sirius, UFO enthusiasts had grown increasingly excited that the film could announce a major breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial life forms.
Experts say the small skeleton certainly bears many of the hallmarks of what we have come to believe aliens look like, in particular a large head overshadowing a small body.
According to Chilean local newspaper, a man called Oscar Munoz found the remains on Oct. 19, 2003 in the Atacama Desert.
Near an abandoned church, Munoz found a white cloth containing, according to the newspaper, “a strange skeleton no bigger than 15 centimeters.
” It was a creature with hard teeth, a bulging head with an additional odd bulge on top. Its body was scaly and of dark color. Unlike humans, it had nine ribs.
“After six months of research by leading scientists at Stanford University, the Atacama Humanoid remains a profound mystery,” said physician and Disclosure Project founder Steven Greer.
In the new documentary, a DNA sample from bone marrow extracted from the specimen was analyzed by scientists at the prestigious American university.
They concluded that it was an interesting mutation of a male human that had survived post-birth for between six and eight years.
“I can say with absolute certainty that it is not a monkey. It is human _ closer to human than chimpanzees. It lived to the age of six to eight,” said Garry Nolan, director of stem cell biology at Stanford University's School of Medicine in California.
“Obviously, it was breathing, it was eating, it was metabolizing. The DNA tells the story and we have the computational techniques that allow us to determine, in very short order, whether, in fact, this is human,” Nolan, who performed the DNA tests, explains in the film.