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By Antonio Huneeus
In late September the producers of the documentary “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond,” currently in production, made sensational claims that the film will reveal evidence in the possession of the Mexican government that the ancient Maya civilization had contact with extraterrestrials. The story was fed by one of the producers, Raul Julia-Levy, son of the late film actor Raul Julia, to Steve Pond at TheWrap, an online entertainment media outlet which covers Hollywood.
The story was picked up by the Reuters news agency and spread around the world. This followed similar releases in August mentioning the Mexican government would cooperate with the producers and allow them to film in previously restricted archaeological sites, but stopped short of mentioning alien contact. The film is said to start shooting next November 15 at the Mayan site of Calakmul in Campeche.
TheWrap’s main source for the ET revelations was Luis Augusto García Rosado, the minister of tourism in the Mexican state of Campeche in Yucatan’s Mayan Riviera. Rosado was quoted saying that new evidence has emerged “of contact between the Mayans and extraterrestrials, supported by translations of certain codices, which the government has kept secure in underground vaults for some time.” He added there were also “landing pads that are 3,000 years old.” TheWrap also quoted Guillermo Novielli Quezada, Guatemala’s minister of tourism, stating that, “Guatemala, like Mexico, home to the ancient yet advanced Mayan civilization … has also kept certain provocative archeological discoveries classified, and now believes that it is time to bring forth this information in the new documentary.” Novielli’s exact title is Director of Inguat, the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism. Guatemala is a major site of Mayan ruins, which are also spread throughout Yucatan, Honduras and Belize....continues
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