José Jaime Maussan Flota (born May 31, 1953) is a Mexican

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, television personality and

ufologist Ufology ( ) is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors). While there are instances of government, private, and f ...

Career

Jaime Maussan studied journalism at

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

and

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. Since 1970 he has been a reporter at various newspapers and broadcasting outlets, among them El Sol de México, XEX Radio and with

Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...

, he worked at 24 Horas newscast. With Televisa he was a correspondent at the United States and a general assignment reporter for the ''Domingo a Domingo'' (Sunday to Sunday) program hosted by

Jacobo Zabludovsky Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the coun ...

. He also produced stories for the Sunday show. In June 1990 he received a Global 500 award from Mostafa Kamal Tolba, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In 1991 Jaime Maussan broke records at Mexican Television next to Nino Canún and his program ''Y usted que opina?'' (So what's your opinion?), since they transmitted for over 11 hours and a half on the subject of UFOs. In June 2017, Maussan was involved in the analysis of 5

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discovered in

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at the region where the UNESCO World Heritage

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site is located. The images of these findings were initially aired in a documentary sponsored by Gaia, Inc. and it allegedly shows a crouched mummified body of a humanoid figure with an elongated skull and three fingers on each hand and foot.)

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reported that Maussan "led an event called Be Witness, at which a mummified body — purportedly that of an alien — was unveiled. Later, though, that 'alien' discovery was debunked. The mummified corpse was shown to be that of a human child.".

Education

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(1972–73) * Graduated from

with a B.A. in Radio and Television (1974–1976).

References

External links

Jaime Maussan - Homepage

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