Study Of Chilean ‘Alien’ Mummy Causing Minor International Incident

Weird things happen in the scientific community all the time but a recent study that involves the so-called alien mummy called “Ata” is threatening to cause a bit of an international incident. Basically, the scientists examining the remains proved that regardless of its unusual appearance, it’s completely human. This has since caused the Chilean government to call for the return of the body.

“Ata” has been something of a curiosity within the scientific community following its discovery in 2003 by Oscar Munoz, Futurism reports. Found to be roughly six years of age and a female, the body of the little girl was found in a leather pouch in a ghost town located close to the Atacama Desert.

The body itself is only six inches in length. However, examination of the bones found that it was that of a little girl who is supposed to be much taller than the mummified remains suggest. Rumors of its alien origins were fueled by the fact that “Ata” had a conical head and rather large eye sockets relative to its size, though that last part can be attributed to the fact that the body is supposed to be much bigger than it is.

So, where does the controversy come in? It actually started with Stanford immunologist Garry Nolan was given permission to example the mummy’s bone marrow and discovered that it was entirely human back in 2013. More details about the remains were published in a study on March 22nd of this year, which looked into the reasons for the deformity that the body displayed.

This was when the Chilean scientists and government stepped in. Basically, they want to put a stop to Nolan’s work and are demanding that the body is returned to the country to be given proper burial rites. The scientists are making the case that since the remains were proven to be human and have been dated to only be 40 years old, the parents could still be alive.