The next morning, the owner consented to the statue being examined in a laboratory in the city. The statue was placed in a computerized axial tomographic scanner, or CAT scan as it is more commonly known. The sectional cuts enable every component of the statue to be identified and closely examined.  In this way they would be able to tell if the statue had any holes or mechanisms that would cause it to cry or bleed.

The finding was that the statue was externally solid plaster with a void only of air inside. They could not see any liquids or mechanisms within the statue, and if there was a perforation in the plaster at any point, even down to the thickness of a human hair, they say their equipment would have detected it.

To gain another opinion about the blood as the U.S. Gentest Laboratory suggested, samples were given to an Australian state government forensic testing laboratory. In the video Dr. Goetz from the Australian laboratory said that the preliminary results indicated there was blood in the samples. After the Australian laboratory finished their tests they reported the results:

"We have a presumptive test for blood and we've been able to show that the stain contains very small quantities of human DNA."

"The results I've obtained and the results I've seen from the photograph I've seen from the American lab, are consistent with what has occurred."

A theological commission of the local Church carried out its investigation and Archbishop Fernández pronounced the weeping statue as authentic and worthy of veneration. He has sought from the Vatican the conditions for it to be declared as a Signum Dei -  Sign of God.

The Christ statue continues to shed tears in a way that science cannot explain.  The meaning perhaps is to be seen in its poetry, a sign of Christ's living presence among these people.