Usually all these stories about mummies of aliens and unseen creatures end with one thing - falsification, manipulation and dummy.
But here everything is different …
In October 2003, a collector of Native American history artifacts named Oscar Muñoz explored the abandoned Chilean town of La Noria, located about 56 km from the town of Iquique in the Atacama desert (desierto de Atacama). He found a package with a small humanoid mummy. Its length was about 15 centimeters and outwardly had a good preservation. Even hard teeth were present.
He was even called "an alien from the desert."
Two unusual features were striking. First, there are only nine pairs of ribs, in contrast to the twelve usual for humans. Second, and more noticeably, the mummy's highly elongated skull. The egghead gave it a similarity to the classic alien movie. For this reason, the find was named "Atacama Humanoid".
This creature is 15 centimeters tall, the head is large in proportion to the body, and the ribs of this creature are 2 less than that of a person. This humanoid was named after the place of discovery - "Atacama Humanoid". This find gave ufologists more confidence in the existence of an alien mind.
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After the grandiose discovery, rumors about the appearance of an alien intelligence on Earth were quickly dispelled. But 10 years later, a big screening "Sirius" was released on the cranes, in which scientists share their views on the existence of aliens and provide reliable information from specialists who have studied the humanoid body.
But in spite of everything, skeptics claim that this is a dummy and all this is a falsification of facts, although the tomography showed that this is the real body of a real creature. Opinions were also divided among researchers, but that the body may be a small monkey or the body of a human embryo in late pregnancy.
However, studies carried out with the help of modern equipment - X-rays, tomography, DNA analysis - reveal the most interesting information about the humanoid from Atacama:
First, it cannot be a monkey. “I can say with 100% certainty that the find is not a monkey skeleton. This is something closer to humans than chimpanzees,”said Harry Nolan, the professor who performed the genetic analysis.
Secondly, “the skeleton is not an aborted human fetus, it is excluded,” the specialist said.
It took about six months to study the Atacam humanoid in detail at California's Stanford University. The results were released at a special press conference by research team leader Harry Nolan.
DNA analysis taken from the bone marrow of the ribs showed that the mummy is a rare human female mutation. Moreover, her mother was definitely from the west coast of South America, that is, most likely, Chilean.
Studies have revealed a previously unknown skeletal anomaly. The study of X-rays and tomography results showed that the density of the epiphase plates of the knees (cartilaginous growth plates in children at the ends of long bones) corresponds to that of a child about seven years of age.
The age of the find was also objectively assessed. It turned out that the mummy is relatively young. She is only more than four decades old, although initially it was not excluded an age comparable to a millennium. The reason is that the Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on earth, contributing to the incorruptibility of organic matter.
In 2018, Harry Nolan's group of researchers published a scientific article in the journal Genome Research on the results of research on the mummy's DNA. Scientists have determined that this is "a girl-child who was either not full-term, or was born much later than the term and died almost immediately after birth." The unusual appearance is due to negative mutations in about 60 genes that led to scoliosis, premature aging, impaired synthesis of collagen and bone tissue, abnormal number of ribs, etc. Sian Halcrow from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and her colleagues from universities in the USA, Sweden and Chile has questioned the findings of researchers at Stanford University, since they found no signs of fetal skeletal anomalies in the Atacama mummy.
“Understanding the discovered mutations that cause bone aging, as in the case of Ata, may allow us to develop drugs that can help the development and repair of bones in people who have been victims of accidents, car accidents or other tragedies …
Although the whole story began and spread around the world as an alien, in reality it is nothing more than the tragedy of a woman giving birth to a premature baby that was sold as a bizarre artifact.
The Atacama humanoid is an incredible genetic case from which we must extract the most important and help all of humanity in the fight against this problem. Rest in peace "Ata"! " - excerpt from Professor Nolan's interview for The Guardian.