It resembles the stereotypical image of extraterrestrials and had UFO enthusiasts around the world going into conspiracy-theory overdrive.
But the 6-inch skeleton found in theAtacama Desert in Chile in 2003 by a treasure hunter - dubbed the 'AtacamaHumanoid' or 'Ata' for short - has been declared human. It puts paid to claims that the figure was a monkey, or as some suggested an alien that crash-landed on Earth.
In a documentary called 'Sirius', which premiered on Monday in Hollywood, Stanford scientists conclude that the odd looking figure is in fact human and lived for up to eight years before death.
Stanford scientists conclude that the odd looking figure is not a monkey, but human
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"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 sixto eight. Obviously, itwas breathing, it waseating, it was metabolizing. It calls into question how big the thing might have been when it was born,"said Garry Nolan, director of stem cell biology at Stanford University's School of Medicine in California.
According to a Chilean local newspaper, a treasure hunter OscarMunoz found the remains on October 19, 2003 when he was looking for objects of historical value in La Noria, an abandoned town in the Atacama Desert.
UFO experts hoped that the discovery would reveal the firstconfirmed visitation to Earth by extraterrestrial life.
However, the Stanford team concluded that it wasan 'interesting mutation' of a male human that had survived post-birth for between six and eight years.
The team of scientists also refuted that the specimen was a hoax, citing clear signs of the existenceof organs and bone marrow material.
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Thanks for the information.
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that thing cant be HUMAN. it is not any bit close to human, even the bony structure can tell u that if u are really human.
Once again thanks.

Well, that seems to place it with all the 'mini-humans' whose remains are still being found buried on the rock islands in the South Pacific.Pygmy human remains found on rock islands | Science | The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk › Science › Fossils‎ and on Wiki: Pigmy humans.

I suspect one day it will be clear that 'aliens' are only humans who got carried away with the technology of cloning and bending time,,,,,,

Ahhhh, the old 'them is us!' and the 'We is them!" theories...
Bending Time sounds interesting as many of the most ancient civilizations spoke of Time as analogous to a river wherein one could conceivably 'jump-in' anywhere and 'go with the flow...Today we have the 'Worm Hole Theories'. Some experiments have been done with that as regarding lab research on UFO performances observed over decades. Some are detailed, including the successful experiments that produced both faster and slower than light travel, in the book "Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility and Transgenic Beings" by Bud Hopkins and Carol Rainey, 2003. Absolutely fascinating; fully documented.