The case of Peru’s mysterious ‘alien

Recorded by the cadre of anonymous Peruvian ‘huaqueros’ (tomb raiders) who are alleged to have unearthed most of the now roughly dozen or so eerie specimens, the video documents two ‘corpses’ each about five-foot tall and apparently not human.

Like the seemingly large and elongated ‘alien skull,’ both ‘mummies’ are coated in a white powder of fossilized algae, consistent with prior examples over the past year.

This shaky, handheld phone video comes as lawmakers on Capitol Hill have finally vowed to investigate these Peruvian oddities, in an effort to determine their origins.

And forensic medical examiners from the United States — who inspected a trove of these ‘alien mummies’ this past April — are now also pleading with the government of Peru to authorize the bodies’ shipment to America for study in US labs.

Criminal defense lawyer Josh McDowell — the former prosecutor who obtained the new video — helped organize this team of senior forensic experts to get to the ground truth behind what have come to be known as the ‘Nazca mummies’ of Peru.

One member of that team, Josh’s father Dr John McDowell, described a gauntlet of diplomatic, legal and scientific hurdles to DailyMail.com, which must be cleared to analyze these mummified enтιтies in the US ‘the right way from start to finish.’

In an exclusive interview, Dr McDowell also detailed exactly what key procedures would ultimately confirm or deny whether the bodies are ‘part of an elaborate hoax.’

But Dr McDowell also marveled at the sheer number of these Nazca ‘Tridactyls’ — so named for their three-toed feet and three-fingered hands, as seen in the new video.

‘I’ve seen bodies with extra fingers or toes, or a finger or toe, or a finger or toe that’s missing, genetically,’ he told DailyMail.com, ‘but never a big group like this.’

‘To see these tridactyl organisms,’ Dr McDowell continued, ‘all of them tridactyl, I have never seen that.’

The forensic odontologist has long consulted with law enforcement on dental record identifications, including the identification of victims after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center.

But the ‘dental detective’ said he had never seen anything like the Nazca mummies, which numbered between six and 10 during his April trip to Peru, plus the new ‘beings’ documented in this recent video, two with claw-like, long and slender toes.