Recently, the Mexican journalist and long-time UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed before the Mexican Congress that he had discovered two small “mummified alien corpses” in Peru, near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017. The alien’s body displayed has three fingers on each hand and an elongated head.
Against the same backdrop, a video of the same alien has gone viral on social media claiming that the alien corpse presented before the Mexican Congress was actually a cake and the Mexican government had fooled the entire world.
A Facebook user shared this video with a caption: “The Mexican Alien was revealed to be a cake. The Mexican government has fooled the world.”
This Facebook post can be seen here.
It is being widely shared on Facebook and X with a similar claim.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be false.
Running the keyframes of the video through Reverse Image Search, our team found the same video on an Instagram page, the_bakeking, uploaded on September 15, with a caption: “You won’t believe this! The truth is out there #cake #alien #aliens”. According to it, the cake was created by Ben Cullen, a tattoo artist and baker from Birmingham.
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On observing his Instagram profile, we found many videos in which Ben Cullen uses his artistic talents to create ultra-realistic cakes. Below you can see one such example.
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Ben shared the video on his social media handles three days after a video of an alien body revealed in Mexico. He has also uploaded the same video on his X handle. In the comment section, many people have praised his crafts.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral video of the knife cutting the alien corpse is actually a cake made by Birmingham baker Ben Cullen.
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