Maussan’s Juárez Creature Images Remain Unverified

Jaime Maussan and his research team have publicized camera-trap photographs they say show an unidentified animal near Ciudad Juárez, but the images have not been independently authenticated as evidence of an unknown species. Reports of attacks on farm animals in the Valley of Juárez also remain unverified, and local authorities say they have received no official reports confirming them. Maussan, a Mexican UFO investigator, has suggested the animal could be interdimensional while stopping short of saying it is extraterrestrial. The suggestion is speculative; the reports provide no scientific evidence for an interdimensional explanation. Maussan has described the supposed creature as a predator with unusual agility and intelligence, and said he believes it does not attack people. His team presented photographs it attributed to camera traps, describing a pale, long-tailed figure with unusually large limbs. Researchers estimated it was nearly six feet long, including a tail of about three feet, by comparing it with bricks in a wall. Those estimates were not measurements of a captured animal. The images do not show the figure walking upright, although Maussan has suggested it may...