‘Something Scary’: White Creature Filmed Near US–Mexico Border Fuels Claims of an Unknown Predator — and a Wave of Skepticism

CHIHUAHUA, Oct 21: Photographs of a pale, long-tailed animal taken in a rural farming region along the Rio Grande have turned a quiet stretch of the Mexican border into the latest front in a familiar argument: what happens when a photograph outruns the evidence behind it.

The images, published on October 17 by a team working with controversial unidentified-phenomena researcher Jaime Maussan, show a large-bodied white animal with long limbs and an elongated tail moving through the Juárez Valley, a patchwork of agricultural communities in the state of Chihuahua across the river from El Paso, Texas.

Maussan says the creature is an unknown predator that has been taking chickens, turkeys and rabbits from local farms — an animal, he argues, with abilities and a build unlike anything that normally lives in the region. He has floated the idea that it may not belong to this world at all.

Authorities are not convinced that there is anything to investigate. Civil Defense representatives in Juárez said they have received no reports of a dangerous creature in the area, and no official complaints of livestock being taken by an unidentified predator. Police on the U.S. side of the border in Texas told the El Paso Times that they had logged no unusual incidents or mysterious livestock deaths since October 5, when Maussan began publishing his claims.

According to Maussan's associates, the team placed surveillance cameras in the area where the animal was said to appear. The published photographs show a quadrupedal animal, white in color, with a heavy body, long limbs and a long tail.

The team says the animal did not match the appearance of rodents, raccoons, mice, rabbits or other mammals common to the region. No clearer images, measurements or physical samples have been released.

Maussan has described the creature as extremely agile and intelligent, and has suggested it is capable of moving on two legs in a way that resembles a human gait. None of the footage published so far shows the animal standing or walking upright.

At a press conference, four of Maussan's collaborators presented their estimate of the animal's dimensions. They said cameras had recorded the creature climbing a large brick wall, and by comparing its body to the size of the bricks they concluded that the animal could measure nearly 1.8 meters — about six feet — from the tip of its snout to the end of its tail.

The tail alone, they estimated, could be roughly 90 centimeters long.

Those figures are extrapolations from photographs, not direct measurements of a captured or clearly scaled animal. The team also says it consulted animal specialists who could not identify the creature as any common regional mammal, and that some suggested it might be an animal with unusual physical changes. No scientific analysis supporting that suggestion has been published.

In an interview with the Mexican outlet NetNoticias.Mx, Maussan described the animal as unsettling primarily because of how it moves and hunts.

“It’s a predator. I’m not saying it’s extraterrestrial, but it’s something scary,” he said.

“Its intelligence and agility are truly frightening. I don’t believe it attacks people, but it is affecting the interests of the residents of the so-called Juárez Valley,” he added.

Maussan says the investigation began after a boy — whose identity has not been made public — reported seeing a creature seize a chicken by the head and then climb a tree. The account has not been independently verified.

He also said some residents may have left their homes out of fear. That, too, has not been confirmed by authorities.

The most unusual of Maussan's assertions concerns where the animal might have come from. He has suggested it may not be extraterrestrial but rather a form of intelligence arriving from another dimension — a speculative idea in which other realms coexist with ordinary physical space.

“Why did they appear there? It’s a mystery. Are they interdimensional beings? Are they beings who came with other beings? Did they come by ship?” Maussan asked in comments to Mexican media.

There is no scientific evidence connecting the photographed animal to other dimensions or to extraterrestrial life. The claims are speculation, and nothing in the material released so far supports them.

Maussan has compared the Juárez Valley sightings to a case he investigated in 2007, known in Mexican media as “El Ser de Metepec.” At the time, a farmer near Mexico City claimed to have found an unusual hairless creature that resembled an extraterrestrial, reportedly caught in a mousetrap. Maussan presented the case as possible evidence of an extraterrestrial organism.

He now says the animal photographed in Juárez could be an adult version of that creature.

The Metepec case, however, was later exposed as a hoax. The specimen presented as an alien was found to be a squirrel monkey altered by a local taxidermist.

Maussan is a well-known figure in Mexican media, and several cases he has promoted have been challenged by experts or exposed as frauds.

In 2023, he presented two mummified bodies to the Mexican Congress, describing them as the remains of non-human beings allegedly found in Peru and offering them as evidence of extraterrestrial life. Forensic specialists who examined the specimens rejected that conclusion, identifying them as artificial constructions assembled from animal and human bones and materials, held together with glue and paper.

Those episodes have raised persistent questions about the reliability of Maussan's claims — questions that apply directly to the Juárez Valley photographs.

The U.S. government has investigated numerous reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena — UAPs, the military's term for what are popularly called UFOs — over the years. No verified physical evidence has been produced showing that any of them are linked to extraterrestrial life.

Some U.S. lawmakers, former military personnel and religious figures have offered personal views that unexplained phenomena may be connected to other forms of existence, sometimes comparing such beings to ghosts, spirits or figures described in religious texts, including angels. Those are personal or religious interpretations, not scientific findings, and they do not constitute evidence for interdimensional beings.

For now, the identity of the animal photographed in the Juárez Valley remains undetermined on the public record. The available footage is not sufficient to establish whether it is an unknown species, a known animal with an unusual appearance, an animal with a physical anomaly, or something else entirely.

A credible identification would require sharper images, verifiable records of when and where they were taken, biological traces such as hair, scat or tracks, and independent examination by zoologists with expertise in the mammals of northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.

Until that evidence exists, the claims that the creature walks like a human, possesses extraordinary intelligence, or comes from another dimension remain unconfirmed.