Lloyd Pye-Starchild Skull Essentials

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LLOYD PYES
STARCHILD SKULL
ESSENTIALS
An eBook by Lloyd Pye
Lloyd Pye 2011
Science in its ideology sees itself as doing a fearless exploration of the

unknown. Most of the time it is a fearful exploration of the almost known.
Rupert Sheldrake
This eBook is intended to counter at least some of the informed nonsense

most scientists throw up as chaff to fool the radars of ordinary people about
UFOs, aliens, bigfoot, and all the other mysteries science prefers to ignore
rather than honestly investigating them to try to provide plausible answers.
Lloyd Pye
A favorite platitude of scientists says that: Extraordinary claims require

extraordinary evidence. This allows them to keep raising the standard of
acceptable proof well beyond the reach of anyone who puts forth ideas
mainstream science doesnt know how to, or wouldnt want to, deal with.
This document details one of the most extraordinary claims being made
anywhere in the world today, and it provides a boatload of the extraordinary
evidence science requires to support such a contentious assertion. It supplies
what scientists demand in exactly the way they demand it, without visual
smoke screens or verbal obfuscationsjust cold, hard, undeniable facts.
PREFACE
The Starchild Skull is a bone skull, not crystal and not fossilized, which has confused many
people. In the past 12 years it has been analyzed by dozens of qualified scientists, none of
whom have challenged its authenticity as a human-like relic. The debate that swirls around it
regards its origins, which is this eBooks crux: clarifying that debate.
Dr. Ted Robinson, quoted above, has worked extensively with the Starchild Skull. A retired
craniofacial plastic surgeon, Ted tried to find a combination of human deformities that could
realistically account for the Starchilds physiological differences from a normal human skull.
(These will be discussed in full later.) He then enticed a dozen colleagues to risk professional
censure to analyze the Starchild with the vigor he knew it deserved. The formal report of their
results can be found at the Starchild Project website (www.starchildproject.com/2004.htm).
Why dont more mainstream scientists accept the same challenge? Because peer pressure is
crushing relative to subjects deemed off limits for serious discussion and analysis. Things
like UFOs, aliens, hominoids (bigfoot, etc.), and cold fusion are forbidden because their
proof would utterly transform reality as it is today. No scientist wants to be on the hot seat
when a paradigm overturns, so they work diligently to keep these various genies corked up in
bottles of ignorance and intimidation fueled by their credentialed ridicule and disdain.
200 years ago religion dictated what ordinary people could and could not think. Heretics
overturned that eras reality and were transformed into scientists. Modern scientists have
taken over as arbiters of what ordinary people can and cannot think, and new heretics like me
are in the process of overturning their current reality. I dont know what we will be called once
we succeed at our task, but I doubt well be called scientists. The irony would be too great.
GETTING OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT:
Please dont take seriously anything about

the Starchild Skull, or Lloyd Pye, found on
Wackypedia. It is a totally corrupt advocate
for mainstream science. If you want to read
what Wacky says about me or the Starchild
Skull, go to www.starchildproject.com or
www.lloydpye.com to find every word in
their individual posts about us, but with the
actual truth supplied beneath each of their
misstatements, distortions, or outright lies.
AS FOR THE STARCHILD SKULL
Its story began in northern Mexico around

1930, in the high desert area about 100
miles southwest of Chihuahua. This is
known as the Copper Canyon region,
which has terrain similar to the USAs
Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Across that remote area were several

isolated villages. Visiting relatives in one
of the villages was a family of Mexican
heritage from El Paso, Texas. In that
family was a young girl, 14 or 15, who
one day left the village to go exploring.
She carried a large basket to hold fruits
and berries shed look for while hiking.
A considerable distance from the village

the girl came across an abandoned mine
tunnel. The villagers had cautioned the
newcomers to avoid the old mines in the
area because they were not safe. This was
a risk almost any teenager would readily
take, and she did. (The similar abandoned
mine at left is used today as a dwelling.)
Inside the mine tunnel the girl discovered a

human skeleton exposed on the topsoil, lying
on its back (supine). Beside it was a shallow
grave uncompressed by weathering, which
she realized she could dig out with her bare
hands. It contained what she would later term
a misshapen skeleton that was noticeably
shorter than the one on the surface, even
though the skulls were the same size. She
decided to try to recover both skeletons to
sneak them back home to El Paso to donate
to her high school. She was able to put all the
bones in the basket she was carrying.
The girl realized she couldnt tell the

villagers she had liberated two ancestor
skeletons, so she decided to take a few
days to devise a plan to sneak them
back home. She hid all the bones under
the exposed roots of a tree growing
beside an arroyo. That night torrential
rains created a flash flood in the arroyo
that washed the bones away. Two days
later she found only the skulls and the
right half of the misshapen skulls
maxilla (upper jaw), snagged in bushes
downstream from the hiding place.
Both skulls were damaged by tumbling in

the torrent of the flash flood. Despite that,
the girl was happy to have them, so she
secretly hid them inside her belongings to
return them to her home in El Paso. For the
rest of her life she saved them as unique
souvenirs of her trip to Mexico, always
assuming the misshapen skull (far left) was
a natural deformity of some kind.
The girl lived a full life and died in the

early 1990s. In late 1998 her souvenirs
came into the possession of Ray and
Melanie Young of El Paso. Melanie had
been a neonatal nurse for 15 years and
knew the odd skull did not look like a
typical human deformity. It was far too
light and too symmetrical, and many
physical features were far from normal.
Because the Youngs were members of
MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network), they
felt it looked most like a skull that would
fit inside the head of a grey alien.
The Youngs asked MUFON colleagues if

anyone in Alternative Knowledge dealt with
skulls. They were told about my work with
hominoids and my views about human origins
(www.lloydpye.com), so in February of 1999
we met in El Paso. They showed me the skulls
and asked me to have the odd one scientifically
tested to determine what it was. I agreed and
began overseeing a series of specific tests, the
first of which provided X-rays of both skulls
and the detached piece of right-side maxilla
(upper jaw). At left the maxilla piece is held in
its approximately correct position.
The maxilla X-ray revealed several

impacted teeth (the five dark globs at
left) above the two exposed teeth (only one
is seen at this angle), indicating death at 5
or 6 years old. Thus, we dubbed the relic
The Starchild Skull. Giving it that name
was a mistake I came to regret. Whenever
most scientists hear it, it triggers deeply
ingrained prejudices against anything
relating to UFOs and/or aliens, so they
summarily dismiss it as worthless.
The human skull (left and center) showed typical frontal sinuses between
the eye sockets. The Starchild had no trace of frontal sinuses, not even
vestigial bumps indicating where its sinuses might have attempted to
grow. This is considered exceptionally unusual in human morphology.
The profile X-ray of the human skull

revealed extreme flattening at its rear
down to its inion, a bump at the lower rear
of anyones head where big neck muscles
attach (red arrow). This is undeniable
proof it was cradleboarded (see next box)
when it was an infant. Also, separate
radiocarbon dating tests (Carbon-14)
revealed that both the Starchild and the
human died 900 years ago, making
cradleboarding even more likely as the
cause of its area of extreme flattening.
Cradleboarding was, and in some places

remains, common in primitive cultures. A
baby is swaddled against a board to be
carried on a working mothers back. The
babys head is strapped down so it wont be
jostled as the mother stoops and stands while
doing her daily work. This process gradually
compresses the babys soft rear skull bones
to complete flatness, every bit as flat as the
board to which the head is strapped.
Although the rear of the Starchilds head is

much flatter than normal, X-rays reveal
natural convolutions in the bone. Thus, it
could never have been cradleboarded.
Despite this convincing evidence against
any technique of manual compression or
deformation, many experts still stubbornly
insist that cradleboarding provides the most
plausible explanation for it because that
conforms to a favorite scientific tenet
known as Occams Razor.
A tenet is any doctrine generally held to be true.

Occams Razor is the tenet that says the simplest
answer is usually the correct one, even for the
most complex problems. Cradleboarding is by
far the simplest explanation for the Starchilds
extreme flattening, even though a cursory view
of it reveals the natural convolutions that make
the claim utterly false. Even so, many scientists
insist that it must be true because it conforms so
well with the useful weapon of Occams Razor.
Another clear proof of the impossibility

of cradleboarding is the angles at which
the heads would have to be placed on the
cradleboard. If, when alive as an infant,
the Starchild had been strapped onto a
cradleboard, it would have suffocated in
a short time due to compression of its
chin against its windpipe.
This illustration is blindingly obvious,

yet many esteemed scientists will provide
a strenuous argument that such evidence
should be ignored rather than to seek a
more believable answer to this mystery
about the Starchild Skulls morphology.
Another notable aspect of the Starchild is the expansion of its

parietal bones (a skulls upper rear lobes seen in the previous
rear view) to outsized proportions relative to normal humans.
Experts explain it as typical hydrocephaly (water on the brain)
caused by excess spinal fluid trapped on or inside its brain.
At left is a typical hydrocephalic infant untreated by modern

shunting techniques. Such individuals remain purely human,
with normal human eye sockets, normal bone thickness in the
non-expanded areas, a neck in the normal position, etc. The
Starchild Skull has none of those morphological features.
Another powerful argument against

hydrocephaly in the Starchild is the
obvious crease or dent in the upper
rear of its cranium. Any skull with
increased internal pressure (which
would push outward uniformly, in all
directions) could not possibly produce
a crease unless the saggital suture (see
next photos) was prematurely fused.
Any open saggital suture (arrows at

left) is healthy. If the Starchilds was
fused shut, it could explain the crease
between its expanded parietal bones
and leave hydrocephaly as a possible
explanation. However, a CAT-scan
(right) shows no such fusion existed.
Most scientists ignore this clear fact.
The latest fad diagnosis to explain

the Starchild is Progeria, a genetic
disorder that ages children prematurely
to wither away before reaching 20. As
with hydrocephaly, they remain human
in all fundamental aspects, especially in
their craniums, which is not so with the
Starchild. Rather than thinning out and
weakening, as with Progeria, all of the
Starchilds bone is extraordinarily hard.
Last and probably least among

routine attempts to explain away
the Starchild Skull is that it might
be some kind of hybrid between a
human and a terrestrial species
such as a chimp. Here is the skull
of a juvenile chimp. You decide if
that idea seems plausible or not.
If the Starchild Skull isnt the

result of a known deformity,
what the heck IS it?
Basically, it is a human-like
skull slightly smaller than an
average adult (me), and more
like a 12-year-old such as actor
Jaden Smith, seen here in his
role as The Karate Kid.
How would the Starchild look with a lower face and jaw?
The detached piece of upper right maxilla, which we will

examine later in detail, was used to create the model of the
Starchilds lower face and jawbone. This model is much too
large, needing to be the size of an infants lower face and
jaws. However, the dental lab where we had it made couldnt
make a denture mold for an infant, so they used the smallest
template they had, which does provide an approximate image.
How is the Starchild Skull unique?
For one thing, normal human eye sockets

are 2" deep and cone-like, with the optic
nerve and foramen openings located deep
inside. The Starchilds sockets are 0.7"
deep, and its optic nerves and foramens
are down and close to the inside of the
nose. That is a wildly different design.
(The dark area on the Starchilds cheek
was from soil staining during burial.)
The surfaces of the Starchilds eye sockets

appear perfectly smooth. No shifts in their
terrain are evident to human eyes. Yet very
subtle shifts are there, and they are exactly
alike in each socket, which can be felt with
a fingertip. Such incredible symmetry can
only come from genetic instructions that
are very different from normal humans.
The upper ledges of human eye sockets are rounded, feeling to the hand like a soda
straw. The Starchilds upper sockets come to an edge, not sharp enough to cut, but
markedly thin. The two are as dissimilar as can be imagined, as apples and oranges.
Using as a link point the nose bridges of the two

skulls, this is an accurate comparison between their
numerous facial realignments in general, and their eye
sockets in particular. Note the shape modifications and
marked repositioning of the optic foramens. Despite
the Starchilds extreme deviations from the human
norms, those differences are stunningly precise and
symmetrical. They must be due to equally precise
changes in its genetic code that dictate how its face
was constructed and how those many changes were
successfully coordinated to create a living being.
Profile view of both skulls.

The nose area, the upper jaw
(maxilla), and left zygomatic
arch (cheekbone) are present
on the human (far left) but
broken off of the Starchild.
The ear holes and the mastoid

bones (behind the ears) are clear
in both skulls, but in the Starchild
are positioned well forward and
downward. Also, the broken base
A CAT-scan of a normal humans

inner ears (left) compared to the
Starchilds, which are twice as
large. Human inner ears are a
major aspect of our balancing
mechanism. It is hard to imagine
why the Starchild would develop
such oversized inner ears, much
less guess how they were used.
Normal humans, left, have brow

ridges that are distinct, while a
normal nose inevitably indents
somewhat where it connects to the
brow. The Starchild has neither a
brow ridge nor an indentation at the
connection with its nose. This is
highly unusual, if not absolutely
unique, among all higher primates.
The lump of bone at the lower rear

middle of every human skull is the
inion. It is a connection point for
neck muscles that anchor on it (feel
your own). Every primate has one.
In the Starchild its inion is entirely
absent from its normal position, and
instead is down quite low where its
reduced neck muscles attach.
At left is the humans inion (red

circle) and fossa (dented areas) that
flank it where its neck muscles
connect. Instead of an inion, the
Starchild has a slightly indented
circular area (red circle). The red
box shows the small fossa where its
neck muscles attach. No human
neck is ever constructed like this.
The red circle at left covers the

humans basilar part, one of the
last bones in a skull to fully fuse,
between the ages of 20 to 25. The
Starchilds is gone, suggesting the
possibility of death before age 25.
However, it also could have been
knocked out in the flood tumble
that took the lower part of its face.
Tumbling inside the flood damaged

both skulls, taking the humans right
zygomatic arch (cheekbonesee the
above photos), both of the Starchilds
cheekbones, and most of its lower face.
This overlay illustrates how reduced
the Starchilds cheekbones would have
been, greatly reducing its lower face to
the size of a very small child or infant.
1" Another indication of the small size of

the Starchilds lower face is the detached
piece of maxilla recovered with the skull.
The view on the right is only 1 inch from
top to bottom (red line), although part of
its bottom is missing. And the roof of its
mouth was flattened rather than arched,
indicating a small tongue or perhaps no
tongue at all, though that seems unlikely.
Returning to the effects of the flash flood, it is important

to understand that a humans lower jaw is completely
detached from its skull. If the cranium in this image
were to be lifted up, the lower jaw would stay on the
surface. Thus, the moment the flash flood struck the
human and the Starchild skulls, their lower jawbones
were separated from the rest of their craniums.
This illustrates the neck areas of the

human and Starchild. The Starchilds
is half the size and volume of the
human, and its foramen magnum, the
hole where the spine enters the skull,
has been moved forward by more
than an inch. This represents a very
significant physical realignment.
Average human brain volume is 1400

cc. The Starchilds companion was
about 5 feet tall with a brain of only
1200 cc. Although the Starchilds
body seemed noticeably shorter to
the girl who found them, the skull is
the same size as the human. It should
have 1200 cc of volume, but it has an
astounding 1600 cubic centimeters!
The Starchilds extra 400 cc of

brain required adjustments to its
balance point over its spindly neck.
A human skull balances behind its
center because the face has hollow
areas like sinuses and two deep eye
sockets. The Starchild has shallow
eye sockets and no sinuses, so it is
balanced over its center point.
A humans cerebrum (green circle)

rests on a cerebellum (red circle) that
is internally braced to prevent it from
being pressed out of the foramen
magnum (neck hole). The Starchilds
unusual shape greatly increases the
downward pressure on its unbraced
cerebellum (if it has one), so its brain
could be made of stronger material.
Attachment points for the

humans chewing muscles
and the Starchilds, which
cover half the area of the
human. Again, we see the
Starchilds lower face was
quite small, perhaps the size
of a child, though our early
belief that it was a child was
subsequently proved wrong.
This Starchild tooth exhibits

crazing, the dark vertical lines
in the enamel (red circles); and
pitting on the crowns (arrows).
No child can generate so much
torque while chewing. This is
strong proof that the Starchild
was an adult when it died.
Another proof of the Starchilds adult age

at death is the fact that when its rear tooth
was removed for analysis, its roots were
found to be robustly formed. The roots of
baby teeth are absorbed by a childs body
as they prepare to come out. Such teeth
have no roots, and this one clearly does.
A palate for the Starchild created by mirror

imaging the piece of maxilla. The palate is
flat, with no discernable arcing curve found
in normal humans. This suggests that the
Starchild had a very small tongue, a very flat
tongue. . . or perhaps no tongue at all, which
seems unlikely but shouldnt be considered
impossible. (The purple material in the front
tooth holes is leftover molding clay.)
Close-ups of the surfaces of the

human bone (at left) and the
Starchild. Pore-like pits, called
lacunae, are a vital part of any
human bones dissolution and
regeneration. The Starchilds
lacunae are inexplicably turned
into closed specks. No known
human deformity causes this.
Perhaps the most amazing fact about the Starchild Skull, the one science should have
been studying for years, is that its bone is half as thick (or less) than normal human
bone, it weighs half as much, yet, astonishingly, it is two to three times as durable!
This is easy to say and to read, but difficult to conceptualize. On five occasions I have
watched the bone being cut by other people and could see their difficulty when cutting
it. Recently I cut it for the first time, using a small hand saw. To cut one inch into the
Starchilds bone in an area as thin as in the area above, I needed between 200 and 300
strokes of the blade. To cut 1.25 inches of the human bone required about 50 strokes.
Only experiencing it at this visceral level can truly illustrate how amazingly hard it is.
This extraordinary added strength comes from three sources explained below.
Source #1A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) analysis of both bone samples.
The human at left is typical. The Starchild at right is very different. Spikes in oxygen
and carbon, and reduced phosphorus and calcium, make the Starchild bone more like
the compacted collagen found in tooth enamel. This difference is absolutely unique.
Source #2Chips of bone from the

human (left) and the Starchild (right)
polished with tools used by jewelers
to polish gems. The humans looks
like alabaster, while the Starchilds is
milky due to extraordinary levels of
collagen, which is abundant in teeth.
This is another unique difference.
Source #3At left is a highly magnified view of

the edge of a slice of the Starchild bone. Woven
into its matrix are various kinds of fibers that are
astoundingly durable (able to resist the Dremel
blade that cut the bone). Whatever these fibers
are, they are never found in any other bone on
earth. Scientists should be competing with each
other to try to find out what they are, but thus far
the mainstream has completely ignored them.
Various forms of the fibers. The first shows a fiber clearly woven into the matrix of
the bone, like rebar in concrete, but exposed at the surface. The second is a stray piece
of fiber snagged on a rough stretch of cut. The third is a thinner kind of fiber emerging
from a cancellous hole (where marrow originates and moves through a bone).
[Note: These fibers bear no relation to Morgellons fibers, which are vastly larger.]
These three shots are of the same area with increased magnification. The light specks
on the fibers are pieces of powdered bone created by the cutting process. Mycologists
say these are not bacteria, molds, or fungi. They are genuine fibers woven through the
matrix of the bone itself. Again, this is not found in any other bone on earth (so far).
At left is the fiber from

the shot above and to the
right. It is burrowed into
the bones matrix (arrow).
Beside it is a close-up of
the fiber in the blue circle,
yet another type of them.
All of these fibers were
previously unknown.
This is a close-up of a polished segment of the

humans skull bone. It shows sparkling clean
cancellous holes that have been scoured of all
marrow by bacteria that are carried within the
body. Shortly after death those bacteria become
activated to consume the marrow, and in the
wild they devour it all within several weeks.
The Starchilds polished bone reveals

many cancellous holes with specks of
reddish residue. Oxidized marrow is
black, not red, so what this is or how it
came to be there is unknown. It also is
not found in any other bone on earth.
SUMMARY OF THE STARCHILDS PHYSICAL ANOMALIES
1. Its bone is half as thick as it should be and it weighs half as much.

2. Its bone is two-to-three times more durable than it should be.
3. That durability is due to three absolutely unique physical characteristics.
(a) Its chemical makeup is more like tooth enamel than normal human bone.
(b) It contains much more collagen than is found in normal human bone.
(c) Durable fibers are somehow woven throughout the bones matrix.
(i) These fibers are unknown in any other species on earth.
4. A red residue found in its cancellous holes is not found in any other species.
5. Its eye sockets are utterly unlike the eye sockets of normal humans.
6. It has no trace of frontal sinuses; humans always have at least vestiges of them.
7. It has a crease along its saggital suture that is not found in normal humans.
8. It does not have the brow ridge that is found in all other higher primates.
9. It has no dip downward from its missing brow ridge to form its nose.
10. Its inner ears are at least twice the size of normal human inner ears.
11. It does not have the inion that is found in all other primates on earth.
12. Its neck is oval-shaped and half the size and volume of a normal human neck.
13. Its foramen magnum opening is shifted well forward from normal humans.
14. Its balance point is centered under its physical mass while humans are off-center.
15. Its chewing muscles cover only half of the surface area of a normal human.
16. Its brain is fully 1/3 larger and thus heavier than it should be for its cranial size.
17 Gravity should have squeezed its oversized brain out of the foramen magnum.
(a) A lack of any such squeezing indicates its brain was made of denser material.
18 The lacuna pits scattered across the surface of its bone are completely missing.
19. Its maxilla held worn mature teeth and impacted teeth, which humans do not have.
20. Its mouth was infant sized with a flat roof that indicates a small or missing tongue.
21. Its lower face was extremely small and narrow, perhaps only the size of an infant.
22. It does not conform to any known human deformity or any combination of them.
HOW COULD SO MANY ABERRATIONS COMBINE TO

CREATE A BEING THAT BECAME A LIVING ADULT?
At 900 years ago, one deviation from normal in the head or face of a newborn wasnt
necessarily life threatening. Perhaps even blindness or deafness could be overcome. But
two deviations from the norm in a newborns head would put it at serious risk of being
eliminated from the tribe. Three wrong meant almost certain death because infanticide
was not considered a moral issue in primitive societies. Thus, it seems highly unlikely
that the many aberrations evident in the Starchilds head could appear in a newborn in
any primitive society 900 years ago without that infant being eliminated as unfit.
Apart from the long odds against a freak being allowed to live, it is equally unlikely,
if not impossible, for so many physical differences to appear in a human head and yet
somehow have all those differences be magically coordinated so they came together to
function in a new cascade of ways never seen on Earth before or since. This is the only
way to explain what seems to have happened with the Starchild. Its skull does not have
a single exact corollary with a typical human skull. Not one part of it is exactly the way
it should be. Yet apparently it functionedsomehowat a competent level of ability,
well enough so it could survive to adulthood in an extremely rigorous environment.
(This assumes, of course, that it lived where it died, which is not necessarily the story of
its life. It could have come to that area from somewhere else entirely, from on the Earth
or perhaps off it, and thus arrived where it was found only a short time before its death.)
HOW DOES SCIENCE EXPLAIN SUCH ANOMALIES?
Mainstream science has consistently failed to explainor even explain awayany of

the Starchilds anomalies, much less the complex combination that somehow created a
functioning being. Why? Because science has collectively agreed to set its BS detector
to go off if anything passes by it that is not already understood or does not fit accepted
theories. By tethering themselves so tightly to the limits of present knowledge, they take
only very tiny and very sure steps forward. Thus, they regularly banish a Galileo to the
tower, only to have the light from the tower eventually cast them all into deep shadows.
Take, for example, the fibers in the Starchilds bone. If scientists could speculate free of
reprisal by militant peers, they might suggest that those fibers are made of pure carbon
nanotubes. Right now mainstream researchers are developing ways to cultivate human
bone cells on scaffolds of just such nanotubes. What if that had already been done in the
deep past by minds enormously more brilliant than theirs? What if scientists could take
the Starchilds durable fibers and back-engineer them to determine what makes them so
strong, and then apply that to treating the fragility of aged human bones? What if.?
WHAT DID THE STARCHILD LOOK LIKE IN LIFE?
At left is a magazine cover

in which a graphic artist
morphed a childs face to
appear to be analogous to
the Starchilds cranium.
Interesting but not accurate.
The morphing on the right
was a bit less successful!
Artist Mark Savee applied mathematical

precision to his rendition of it, but the top
of the head is too rounded and the lower
jaw is much too heavy. The eyes are not
bad, nor is the nose, but the neck is a bit
too large. Overall, a solid effort.
A creative juxtaposition by Rob Roy

Menzies, attaching a lower face to the
Starchild Skulls X-ray. Much closer to
reality than any previous version, while
clearly showing that wide variation is
possible due to artistic interpretation.
At left is the portrait on the cover of

Whitley Striebers bestselling book
Communion (1987). This has become
the worlds iconic image of grey
aliens. However, it is merely another
artists rendition and not what they are
actually reported to look like. At right
is a refinement of the Menzies image
that several alien abduction experts
consider to be much closer to reality.
In 2009 the Starchild skull was featured in a segment

of the History Channel TV series UFO Hunters. To
bolster The Grey Conspiracy, they asked if I would
agree to have a 3-D model of the Starchild sculpted. I
did, but I also warned them that no forensic sculptor
would have anything other than human templates to
work from, so the result was bound to be a distinctly
human face under a bulbous head with a flattened rear.
Sure enough, the image seen on that show has a face
that to me strongly resembles Lee Harvey Oswald!
In early 2010 the TV show

Monster Quest decided to
make the Starchild Skull part
of a segment called, of all
things, Lizard Quest. They
hired qualified forensic artist
Bill Munns to try his hand at
it, with much more success. I
feel he made the eyes and the
eyeballs too much like human
eyes, and the neck too large,
but overall a plausible image.
A statistical analysis of Bill

Munns creation done by
famed Canadian hominoid
researcher Chris Murphy. The
left bars show the relative
proportions of its face in
inches. The right columns
give percentages of distance
in humans (i.e., eyes normally
in the middle of a face), with
the Starchilds differences in
its column. Most noticeable is
that the tops of human ears
are normally slightly above
eye level. The Starchilds are
significantly lower, and the
other differences are also
statistically significant.
WHAT MIGHT THE STARCHILD BE?
In 1997 a Seattle artist named David W. Chace

self-published a book of drawings of alien
beings reported by people who claimed to have
seen them. Those drawings produced various
groups: (1) human-like Lyrans, Pleiadians,
Anunnaki, etc.; (2) reptilians (in the red robe);
(3) insectoids (not seen on the cover); (4) blue
fireplug beings (the rarest of all); (5) short
greys; and (6) tall greys. Beside them are two
hybridized types, one between tall greys and a
human type (7), and the other between small
greys and the reptilian type (8). A possible
Starchild likeness is second from the right in
the front row (red arrow at ankle), the hybrid
between human types and small greys.
Many women around the world make the startling

claim that theyve been taken aboard a UFO to be
impregnated by aliens. Soon they have an ultrasound
that confirms the pregnancy. In the fourth month they
have the signs of a miscarriage but no fetus. A few
years later they are again taken aboard a UFO, are
shown a child (male or female), are told it is their
hybrid offspring, and are then allowed to interact with
it. Women who have even partial memories of this
experience consistently describe these hybrids as
looking similar to the film character seen at left.
In mid-1999, Professor Emeritus Dr. Paula Gunn-Allen

(UCLA, deceased in 2008), heard about the Starchild Skull
and informed me that her research into the history of native
peoples in the Americas had revealed what she termed Star
Being legends. These said that for hundreds of years alien
beings would make a barren woman in a village pregnant with
a Star Being. The village would then be tasked with raising it
up to 5 or 6 or 7 or 8, when the aliens would return to collect
the young Star Being. Dr. Gunn-Allen said similar stories
were common in primitive cultures around the world.
Later in 1999, an artist from Taos, New Mexico, named Josi

Galante contacted me to say she had been abducted by a UFO
in 1990, had been made pregnant by grey-type aliens, and lost
the baby in the fourth month. In 1995 she was re-taken on board
a UFO by grey-type aliens who introduced her to a 5-year-old
boy they said was her own hybrid son. She came to believe the
boy was indeed hers, and she retained enough memory of the
events on board the craft to render pencil drawings of him. I
asked her for copies of her drawings, and this is the front view.
Profile drawing of Josi Galantes

hybrid son overlaid on a profile of
the Starchild Skull. The drawing
is from 1995, the photo is from
1999. Several areas match well
(eyes, neck, shape of head), while
others do not (the ears are too
high, the upper nose has a dip).
In 1978 an anonymous lawyer was taken on

board a UFO and dealt with grey-type aliens.
He came out of that experience with enough
memory to commission a bust of a grey to be
sculpted. Here, too, are areas of congruence
with the Starchild (position of ears, shape of
head, eyes set low on face, at mid-nose), and
areas of conflict (cheekbones too large, neck
too large, upper nose has a dip).
Josi Galantes hybrid son, the

Starchild skull, and the bust of the
grey alien. All three are variations
on a deeply archetypal theme that,
according to Paula Gunn-Allen,
extends back in time for centuries
in the Americas, and possibly for
millennia around the world.
HOW CAN GENETIC TESTING PROVE WHAT THE

STARCHILD IS AND WHERE IT CAME FROM?
The genetic code of life on earth (and possibly in other places) is mathematics turned into
biology, or biology turned into math, depending on your point of view. In either case, it is
absolutely definitive because no one can mount a serious argument against it. If a murder
case has 50 eyewitnesses who say a certain person committed the crime, and if 50 police
and legal professionals are convinced by on-scene evidence that the alleged perpetrator
committed the crime, that would be considered overwhelming evidence in any court of
law. Yet if DNA evidence contradicted all of that eyewitness and professional testimony,
the DNA evidence would win. Everyone knows this and understands it to be true because
DNA is considered so precise and unerring. It has been called Gods handwriting.
With the Starchild skull, its case is very similar to the one described above. We are faced
with hundreds and thousands of mainstream scientists and mainstream media types who
over the course of their lives have been convinced to believe that UFOs and aliens dont
exist because so many supposed experts insist those things cant exist. It is the widely
accepted conventional wisdom of our era that because distances between galaxies are so
vast, and because we ourselves dont know how to easily overcome those distances, it is
therefore safe to conclude that no other species could possibly be smarter than we are.
Despite blustering official assurances in every generation, countless prior conventional

wisdoms have been overturned by new evidence. The earth is not flat, nor is it the center
of the universe. This is an exceedingly long list that extends from deep into the past up to
the present day. However, the point here is not about how wrong experts are consistently
proven to be. The point is that even when they gather themselves into enormous numbers
against something, it never makes them correct, it simply makes them intimidating. But
intimidating or not, they are all too often wrong, and such is the case with the Starchild.
The Starchild Skulls two dozen major physiological differences previously outlined are
convincing evidence that it is human-like but not entirely human. Furthermore, DNA
testing performed in 2003 showed conclusively that its mother was human but its father
was something other than 100% human. Unfortunately, in 2003 we had no way to prove
precisely how far away from human the father might be. The technology for that did not
become available until the middle of 2006, but it was absurdly expensive and we could
not take advantage of it. Now, in 2011, were finally in position to get it done.
During the next several pages, I will explain the basics of genetic analysis so anyone can
understand how the process works and how it can prove the Starchild Skull is, beyond any
reasonable doubt, a genetically engineered human-alien hybrid. I realize how volatile that
statement is, and how vigorously certain scientists will dispute it, but they know what you
will know after you read these pages, which is that this battle, for them, is already lost.
Read all parts of the illustration below. Be sure you understand them. They are important.
Now you should understand the basics of the way our cells are put together. However, one
more fundamental unit of material comprises the genes, so imagine there is another image
and explanation positioned to the right of the last one above (Genes).
This is a depiction of Base Pairs, which are made

up of the four nucleotides listed to the right. These
four building blocks comprise the entirety of our
genes, our chromosomes, and ultimately us. . .the
entirety of our cellular structure. That entirety is
called our genome, which is the total amount of
chromosomal package in every cells nucleus.
The key number to keep in mind is that a human

genome contains approximately 3 billion base
pairs. That is billion with a b, not millions.
You also should know that human cells contain two

distinct types of genetic material: (1) in the nucleus
is nuclear DNA (nuDNA), which is the entire
genome (3 billion base pairs) contributed by both
parents; and (2) mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
floating within the cytoplasm in tiny organelles that
contain about 16,000 base pairs in each one. During
procreation, mtDNA is passed along by females
only. Thus, the Starchilds mtDNA would have
come directly from its mother, grandmother, etc.
Soon we will examine genetic engineering as it relates to the Starchild,

so we should note here that the human genome shows clear evidence of
genetic engineering at some point in our distant past (most likely about
200,000 years ago). The clearest sign is our 23 chromosome pairs when
all other higher primates have 24. How can we share a close genetic
relationship with chimps and gorillas (they also have roughly 3 billion
base pairs), yet we have two fewer chromosomes? We cant! For some
reason the 3 billion base pairs in the gorilla & chimps 24 chromosome
package had to be made to fit into 23 spaces in humans. So, incredibly,
the higher primates 2nd and 3rd chromosomes were fused into one!
Left to right, the 2nd chromosome of a human with its clear fusion point (red
circle), beside the separate 2nd and 3rd chromosomes of a chimp, gorilla, and
orangutan. Geneticists insist a functioning fusion of disparate chromosomes
had to occur naturally because peer pressure prevents considering the valid
alternative of genetic engineering. Nonetheless, removing and fusing myriad
microscopic genetic components at this level rivals creating a Swiss watch
for a gnat! In addition to that miraculous fusion, humans have segment
inversions on chromosomes 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, and 18. Inversions are
stretches of DNA nipped top and bottom, flipped upside down, then moved
back into place and reconnected! Thus, it seems likely humans were created
by genetic engineering, so the same could easily be true with the Starchild.
HOW WAS THE STARCHILDS DNA RECOVERED?
When I became caretaker of the Starchild Skull in early 1999, my first task was to understand
all of its physiological differences. As I established those, I also discovered that no amount of
them would impress skeptical scientists. One told me that he didnt care if I collected 10,000
physical differences; hed still feel justified explaining them away by saying, Nature can do
anything! To scientists, Nature is the equivalent of religions God. They can hide behind her
wide skirts to explain any physiological anomaly that is particularly vexing. So it was soon
clear to me that I would never make any headway against the skeptics by appealing to their
sense of reason or logic or even fair play. Only genetic proof would impress them, and that
was true only because it left them with no means of arguing around it or explaining it away.
With that established, I began to seek out genetic labs that could analyze the Starchilds
DNA. Carbon-14 testing had independently dated the Starchild and the human found with it
at 900 years ago, so that qualified it as ancient DNA (past 50 years). To analyze ancient
DNA required extra special handling that forensic labs dealing with fresh DNA could not
match. That was because ancient DNA was usually quite degraded. However, the mine tunnel
where the Starchild was buried was the equivalent of a climate-controlled storage locker, so
we were hopeful its DNA would be minimally degraded and thus fairly easy to recover.
In 1999, six labs in the world could

recover ancient DNA, but none
would test the Starchild Skull because
of the professional stigma involved.
Then in November, 1999, the Bureau
of Legal Dentistry (BOLD), a forensic
teaching lab located on the campus of
the University of British Columbia in
Vancouver, Canada, agreed to attempt
to extract its nuclear DNA despite not
being technically equipped to do so.
Their first step was to cut out the

humans occipital condyles (at left),
knobs of bone on either side of the
foramen magnum opening. As we
expected, its nuclear DNA was easy
to recover and showed that the skull
was from a normal human female.
All systems seemed go.
The first test on the Starchild also took

out its condyles, but a contamination
voided the result. The lab next removed
the right mastoid bone (red arrow) and
contaminated it, too. Then, because it
was a forensic dental lab, they began to
insist on taking one of the two teeth
present in the piece of maxilla.
The lab would only run a third test if I agreed to sacrifice

one of the two teeth in the maxilla so they could get at its
pristine pulp. The lab team guaranteed a non-contaminated
result if I would give up the precious tooth. I hated to do
that because I knew how much any tooth could reveal about
its owner, but they had me backed into a corner with few
options. Besides, losing one tooth still left us with one.
The result of the tooth analysis was a profound shock to us. The lab
claimed to recover from it 200 picograms of nuclear DNA that proved
the Starchild was a human male. This was shocking because normally
at least 1000 picograms were required for a dependable result, yet the
lab insisted they could draw a firm conclusion from such a minimal
recovery. I vigorously protested, but they insisted they were correct.
Even though we had paid for only one test, I insisted on a

fourth by arguing that two contaminations and an extremely
weak recovery on the third was due cause for a fourth so we
could be certain of the result. Ultimately, they agreed to cut
out a window from the parietal bone to test that (see light tan
patched-over area near red arrow tip). Lo and behold! Once
again the lab claimed to extract exactly 200 picograms of
viable DNA that definitively proved it was a human male.
1st DNA test, Canada, bottom line: We got screwed, plain and simple. No other way to say it.
We may never know if those wrong results were deliberately calculated by someone intent on
sabotage, or resulted from a series of well-intentioned technical/professional botches. However,
the upshot was that the Starchild and I were no longer welcome at BOLD, and I should return
home to New Orleans and accept that it was nothing more than a bizarrely deformed human.
I knew such a result could not possibly be correct because of so many profound physiological
differences between the Starchild and normal humans, but at that point I was hamstrung. As
soon as the BOLD Lab results were announced to what was by then a worldwide audience of
alternative fans, the disappointment was palpable. The Starchild is human! Damn! So I was
forced into a metaphorical gulag for three years, mostly disappeared from alternative circles.
During those three years I tried desperately to find a way

to secure a proper ancient DNA test for the Starchild, one
I was sure would prove the Vancouver result was wrong.
Naturally, everyone assumed a certified DNA lab would
know a lot more about the situation than me, so I couldnt
get a hearing anywhere. By Christmas of 2002 I was out
of options and facing bankruptcy, so I sent a letter to the
Starchild email list to announce that I could go no further
with doing research into it. In response, a stranger to me
named Belinda McKenzie wrote from London to say she
would finance the required test if I could arrange it.
By early 2003, what used to be only six labs

capable of doing ancient DNA extractions had
ballooned to 24, so now I had leverage. New labs
were opening regularly, and I soon found Ripan
Malhi and Jason Eshleman of Trace Genetics.
Though young, they had sterling credentials, and
they agreed to put the Starchild and its human
companion through bona fide ancient DNA tests.
In July of 2003, Jason cut a window from the Starchilds

left parietal lobe for testing. While doing that, he discovered
that its bone was remarkably harder to cut into than normal
human bone. Its extraordinary durability had been barely
mentioned to me by the BOLD Lab personnel. Nonetheless,
we were at last underway with what I felt would be the
defining resolution to the entire Starchild mystery.
The window of bone was cut into four smaller pieces for testing purposes. One was put into a
test tube filled with EDTA, and that was put into a rocker arm. A similar piece of bone from the
human was put in a rocker arm beside it. In one week the EDTA would entirely dissolve normal
human bone, which it did with the human from the mine tunnel. However, the Starchilds bone
did not dissolve at all, not in one week and not in one month. It had to be dissolved by a very
powerful detergent called 'Tween 20. This was another clear indication that the Starchild was
something other than entirely human because no other human bone required such handling.
Because of the CSI television shows, nearly everyone everywhere knows at least the
fundamentals of how DNA is extracted and squeezed into gel sheet strips to reveal the
specific DNA patterns of victims or suspects of crimes. The same held for the human
and the Starchild. Their DNA was extracted and then primers were applied to those
extractions. Primers are man-made strings of base pairs from a few hundred to a few
thousand long. They can be imagined as genetic keys that fit into extremely specific
locks. If human-based primers find corollaries in an unknown batch of DNA, there can
be absolutely no doubt whatever that the unknown batch came from a human. And,
likewise, if human-only primers do not find corollaries in a batch, it is not human.
One-half of an electrophoresis gel sheet used to analyze the

DNA from the human found with the Starchild. It must be
understood in this form before a fuller rendition will make
sense. When a gel sheet is used, two things can be tracked
to be certain it is live and able to record DNA accurately:
(1) a guideline sample of known DNA is added (red box);
and (2) primer dimers formed by intermolecular interactions
between two primers (the 3 isolated bars to left of red box).
Once the humans DNA and the Starchilds DNA were recovered and ready for testing,
Ripan and Jason would try to isolate their nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA. Using the
long base-pair chains of human-only primers available in 2003, they sought nuDNA in both
samples. If they found it in either one, then a human mother and a human father contributed
their respective 23 chromosomes and we were dealing with a normal human. Unfortunately,
both the mother and the fathers chromosomal package had to be intact for the primers to
activate. With a human-alien hybrid, we might get no recovery if non-responsive alien DNA
was sufficiently present in the genome. This testing would resolve the issue definitively.
The first test was of the humans mtDNA. That was

easily recovered on the first attempt. Primer dimer is
at the far left of the sheet, and the vertical column in
the middle is the guide. The four bright bars verified
my strong suspicion that the humans DNA was not
appreciably degraded after its 900 years in a mine
tunnel. The horizontal pattern of the four brightest
bars meant the human was from Haplogroup A, a
genetic group common in early Mesoamericans.
The Starchilds mtDNA was also easily recovered

on the first attempt, which was very good news for
us because that meant it also suffered little or no
degradation in the mine. At the far left is a guide,
the black line is drawn through one stray primer
dimer, and the four bright bars are the arrangement
for Haplogroup C, another genetic group relatively
common among early Mesoamericans.
The easy recovery of the Starchilds mtDNA meant three important things: (1) its nuclear
DNA was certainly viable and should be easy to recover, so we could anticipate definitively
establishing its genetic heritage; (2) its mother had passed along human mtDNA, so she was
clearly human, which meant my theory that it was entirely a grey alien had to be discarded;
and (3) the human found with it was not related to it genetically, which meant she could not
possibly have been its mother. Id come to believe that if the Starchild was in fact a hybrid,
its mother would be human and she was probably the skeleton found with it, having buried
it and then laid down beside it to commit suicide. That theory, too, had to be discarded. So
now it all came down to the nuclear DNA analysis. What would that show for both skulls?
The glowing column represents the nuclear DNA

result for the humans bone. Its individual DNA
signature revealed that it belonged to a human
with a normal females usual XX chromosomal
arrangement. We expected this answer for her
because the BOLD Lab also easily recovered her
nuclear DNA on their first attempt.
This represents the search for the Starchilds nuclear

DNA. After six full attempts, only stray bits of primer
dimer were recovered. Those six failed attempts made it
clear that the Starchilds nuclear DNA could not be
recovered using any human-only primers. This proved
that the lab in Vancouver never actually found the
Starchilds nuclear DNAit could never be found with
the technology they used! Thus, after the high financial
cost and embarrassment of my exile, I was vindicated.
2nd DNA test, Trace Genetics, bottom line: We

obtained a confirmed result that the Starchilds
mother was human and its father was not entirely
human. But what was he? More to the point, how
far was he from being a normal human? Was he a
mere fraction different, something so close that
mainstream geneticists would proclaim him some
kind of aberrant human? Or far enough away to
make it obvious to anyone that he was an alien?
This is discussed in detail in the next text box.
WHAT WAS PROVED BY THE 2003 DNA TEST?
Despite providing personal vindication for me relative to the flawed BOLD Lab results, the
2003 DNA test result was disheartening in many ways. After four years of struggle to have
a reliable ancient DNA test, we finally secured it and then it could not definitively resolve
our primary questions. Despite that, we learned several things important to know:
(1) The DNA in both samples was exceptionally well preserved after 900 years.
(2) The mtDNA recovery proved the Starchilds mother was undoubtedly human.
(3) The Starchilds nuDNA was viable, but not recoverable by human-only primers.
Combining the last two of those left only one stark and startling conclusion: By knowing
the Starchilds mother was human, and by knowing its nuclear DNA was viable but not
responding to human-only primers, that could only mean that the father was causing the
primer keys to fail to find their specific human locks. The father wasnt entirely human!!!
Unfortunately, as Jason and Ripan pointed out, mainstream science would only accept their
result as a simple failure to recover the Starchilds nuclear DNA. It was Occams Razor at
work. Scientists inevitably seek the simplest answer to vexing conundrums they dont want
to deal with, regardless of how absurd the simple answer might be. And by far the simplest
answer to this vexing conundrum was that 900-year-old nuDNA had hopelessly degraded.
Never, ever could it be that the DNA was viable but human-only primers couldnt find it.
Keep in mind that mainstream science stays permanently engaged in a pitched battle against
any information that in any way casts doubt on certain essential truths theyve established
to keep Creationists at bay. This has been their reality since Darwins Origin of Species in
1859, which tossed religious leaders out of their catbird seat. Now science clings with equal
desperation to their own position of dominance, and threats like the Starchild terrify them.
The threat the second DNA tests present is all but proving the Starchild was a hybrid with a
human mother and a non-human father. Not quite definitive proof, but the handwriting was
on the wall. Any scientist who took the time to study what we had done and what we were
doing would understand that. But few if any bothered because the Starchilds nuDNA could
have been degraded by 900 years in a mine tunnel. However, the very easy recovery of the
humans mtDNA and its nuDNA, and the Starchilds mtDNA, defeated that argument.
Its nuclear DNA was viable, waiting to be recovered, but never by human primers. That was
equally clear to us. So now we had to find a different way to recover it, a way that did not
require the use of primers. But how? How could we utilize technology that didnt exist?
In 2003 only base-pair strings of primers could be utilized to recover either mitochondrial
or nuclear DNA. Imagine a primer to be like one-half of the DNA segment above, looking
for its precise match in a sample of unknown DNA segments. When a match is made, they
bind together and become similar to the entire image above. This is it in a nutshell.
In 2003 it was impossible to recover a DNA sample from an unknown genome because at
least parts of its genome had to be known to create the primers to seek out those parts. So
Jason Eshleman and Ripan Malhi informed me Id have to wait anywhere from three to
five more years for a new technology to become available, one able to recover a genome
base pair by base pair, all 3 billion in the case of humans and higher primates and, most
important of all, the Neanderthals. Concerned scientists were desperate to sequence the
Neanderthal genome because they wanted to know where that primitive hominid species
would line up relative to humans and chimps and gorillas.
99.95 99.99 %
Human
97%
H - A Hybrid
97%
Neanderthal
97%
Chimpanzee
95%
Gorilla
Humans are 99.95% to 99.99% alike. Gorillas share 95% of our 3 billion base pair genomic
package. Only 5% of our base pairs (150 million) account for the vast differences between
us. Chimps are 97% alike with only 3% differences (90 million base pairs). So where would
Neanderthals fall in the 3% between chimps and humans? In that same vein, where would a
sexually reproduced human-alien (H A) hybrid fall? Closer to chimps or closer to humans?
[Note: By 2003, Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA strongly indicated humans did not evolve
from them, nor were they our kissin cousins, as was believed for decades. Nonetheless,
scientists needed Neanderthals to be much more man-like than chimp-like in order to lend
support to their standard evolutionary model. Now, today, they are claiming that 4% to 5%
of human DNA seems to have come from interbreeding with Neanderthals. Since 1997 I
have been predicting it would be that much, but not for the reasons science stipulates.]
True to what Jason and Ripan told me in July of 2003, exactly

three years later, in July of 2006, a company called 454 Life
Sciences in Branford, Connecticut, announced that they were
unveiling a new DNA sequencing technology that completely
did away with primers, allowing recovery of an entire genome,
known or unknown, base pair by base pair. (For those who can
understand it, the new process is shown pictorially at left.)
This meant the precious Neanderthal genome could now be

sequenced, and mainstream scientists promptly set to work on
it. Now, in 2011, they have sequenced over 3 billion base pairs,
with several hundred million more to go. It is now scheduled to
be completed by the end of 2011, and the cost of sequencing it
for the past five-plus years is pushing toward $30 million.
This is now roughly the cost of analyzing Otzi, the Neolithic

Iceman found frozen in the Austrian Alps in 1991. Such costs
are always relative to the desire for the information that might
be produced. When science wants answers, they have unlimited
grant money available. When they dont want an answer, every
imaginable roadblock will be placed in front of those trying to
secure it. Such is the case with the Starchild Skulls nuDNA.
Science does not want to have to deal with the reality of alien
life on planet earth, not now or 900 years in the past. This is an
obvious truth that no one but scientists would challengeon
principle rather than fact. So this is the problem we have had to
work around, even though the 454 Life Science test has been
available to us since July of 2006. We simply have not had the
enormous amount of money required to do the sequencing, nor
could we secure access to any kind of official source of money
such as the grant system that keeps scientists so well funded.
With official funding sources closed to us, we could only wait

until the 454 testing costs fell within our meager reach. Then, in
early 2010, the head of a topnotch genetics lab contacted me.
He said if Id keep his and his labs names secret, hed attempt
to sequence the Starchilds missing nuclear DNA using a new
shotgunning technique that could recover much smaller base
pair strings than ever before, in the 200-500 base pair range.
He said if only bits of its nuDNA existed, he could find them. I

gratefully supplied him with a sample of the Starchilds bone.
In this eBooks first version, in 2009, at this point in the narrative I wrote:
Everything boils down to one question: How far from a normal humans 100% will the
Starchilds DNA fall? Will it be between Neanderthals and humans? Will it be beyond
Neanderthals but not beyond chimps? Will it be beyond chimps but not gorillas? Or could
it shock the world and be somewhere beyond the 5% of gorillas?
Based on 12 years of studying the Starchilds unique aspects, Im convinced it will be

well beyond gorillas. I base this on logical reasoning. In the Starchild Skull at least two
dozen major physiological variations are found. Each variation results from multiple
groups of genetic instructions that are very different from a normal human. Add all of
those millions of differences in base pair alignments with the additional millions that
appear if we assume similar differences throughout the Starchilds body, head to toe.
Those physical variations in the Starchild Skull are facts, and by using 454s specialized
recovery techniques, those facts will produce results that cannot be dismissed, ignored,
ridiculed, or disputed by anyone. Such results will be immutable, so scientists willlike
it or nothave to accept them and deal with them, as will religion and government.
****
This knowledge formed the basis of my hopes as the new geneticist attempted to recover
the Starchilds long-sought nuclear DNA. I hoped he would succeed enough to tell us at
least something more than what we already knew about its obviously nonhuman father.
Where would it fall in a comparison with gorillas, chimps, Neanderthals, and humans?
I also hoped the geneticist would firmly establish the Starchild as a human-alien hybrid.
To do that he would have to secure evidence powerful enough, or overwhelming enough,
to silence all criticism from mainstream scientists. Lets face it, millions of them insist
alien life is impossible, yet one irrefutable DNA recovery could easily demolish all of
their bluff and bluster. In the court of public and media opinion, DNA is invincible.
Again, it is Gods handwriting, and we hoped He had left us a note we could read.
An important part of that genetic note would be, hopefully, an

explanation for how a human and an alien could biologically
mate. If they were as different as I assumed they must be, how
could they have sex and create offspring? Was that possible?
Remember when I said genetic engineering seemed to make

humans so startlingly different from other higher primates?
That comes into play with the Starchild. It seems far more
likely to have resulted from genetic engineering than from
natural sexual union between its parents. And remember,
genetic engineering can produce enormous skews in the
expression of any physiological traits in any offspring.
Once again, in 2009 I wrote what is below:
At left are a Liger and a Tigon, hybrids created by a

sexual union between lions and tigers. Half of their
genomes come from each parent, but their genes will
express a unique ratio that is never exactly 50%. It
can be 60% Mom and 40% Dad, or even 70% Dad
and 30% Mom, but always in a natural bracket.
However, if a being like the Starchild were to be

genetically engineered, then the percentage ratio of
its expressed genes could be anything the geneticists
creating it decided it should have. It could be 80%
and 20%, 90% and 10%, or even 95% and 5%!
[Note: Recall my recent comment re: Neanderthals.]
Any such ratio is possible, and the Starchilds wildly

anomalous physiology says to me that the role of its
human mother was minimal, although she would, of
course, have supplied all of its mitochondrial DNA.
This is the crucial point to grasp: the Starchild is far

more than half alien. It is dominantly an alien that
was, in my opinion, probably fathered by a grey,
which can and will be proved by a 454 DNA test.
That was what I believed in 2009. Then, in early 2010, when the new geneticist asked to try
for the Starchilds nuclear DNA, I once again shoved all my chips to the middle of the table
and said, Let em roll! It would be make-or-break because if he couldnt find any nuDNA
with his shotgun technique, then no matter how the situation appeared, Id be, as one Deep
South saying goes, a blowed-up peckerwood, and the Starchild Project would have to end.
It was a loooong few weeks until I heard from him in a cryptic email that said: Hang on,
Dorothy . . . Kansas is going bye-bye! I quickly called him and he explained that he had
indeed recovered the Starchilds nuclear DNA. It was a relatively easy recovery, meaning it
had been there all along but was beyond the reach of the long-chain, human-only primers
that were the primary recovery protocol available before the 454 machines appeared in
2006, and well before the highly refined shotgunning technique he was currently using.
His success was clear and unambiguous, dozens of sequences, 200 to 2000 base pairs long!
The graphic above is one of many gel sheets that were recovered showing the Starchilds
nuclear DNA. This group is among the few in the 1000 to 2000 base pair length, which is
quite substantial. What mattered is that in addition to the few like these, many more of the
shorter lengths were also found, lengths in the range of 200 to 500 base pairs long. The key
discovery, though, was that the Starchilds nuclear DNA was there, intact, and it was viable.
A 454 machine could recover the entire 3 billion base pair genome in only 3 to 4 months!
In 2003, the Starchilds mitochondrial DNA

was isolated, which proved it had a human
mother. Also, since the majority of DNA in
chimps, gorillas, and Neanderthals was like
the DNA in humans, the majority of DNA in
the Starchild should be human as well. The
trick would be trying to tease out something
that, when analyzed, would be different
enough to clearly stand apart. So it came
down to this critical question: How different
could the Starchilds nuclear DNA be?
To answer that with scientific certainty, the

result had to be go through the massive DNA
database at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
It has 27 different Institutes located in 75
buildings spread over 300 acres. Its yearly
budget is over $30 billion dollars.
In the USA, the scientific buck stops with the

NIH. They have the power and resources to
control basic scientific research in America,
and that is precisely what they do. They are
the chokepoint for most DNA research.
In the U.S., whenever a geneticist decides

to recover a new entire genome, he or she
must use one of the 454 machines, or other
emerging techniques for recovering entire
genomes. The cost of acquiring or using
one of the genome-recovery machines is so
prohibitive that usually it is paid for with a
grant from the NIH. Because NIH funds all
research with taxpayer money, that legally
puts the results of each recovery into the
public domain, a gazillion-bit computer
database with virtually limitless capacity.
Over time, that database has accumulated thousands of entire genomes. It contains over 150
different species types found on our planet. Naturally, the millions of species that exist now
cant all be individually sequencedyet. However, nearly every species type is represented
in it, from viruses to bacteria to crustaceans to mollusks to reptiles to primates to humans. It
is remarkably inclusive, containing literally trillions of coherent strings of base pairs, which
are recognizable in and of themselves regardless of their lengths, short or long.
When our geneticist sent the Starchild samples through the database, he hoped to find some
differences that would be noticeable as distinctive. With enough markers distinctive from
humans, he would be able to calculate an approximate range of difference from normal
humans. Remember, our hope was for something in the 3% - 5% range because if it would
prove to be as different as chimps or gorillas, nobody could possibly argue that it was some
kind of freakazoid human deformity. Then the first reports from NIH started coming in.
The preceding illustration is one of many similar results from the NIH database. It
shows that this particular string was 265 base pairs long. In the very last line of this
report we see the result. The string has a perfect corollary on human chromosome 1.
This meant there could be no doubt about the Trace Genetics findings in 2003. At least
part of the Starchild was human, which was fully expected because its mitochondrial
DNAalways from the female linewas typically human from Haplogroup C.
But then came other reports, the ones that sent Dorothy and Kansas going bye-bye.
The screen shot above displays the NIH analysis of a string of 342 base pairs, a
significant length in the 200-500 base pair bracket at the lower end of what has been
recovered. Again, more than this one were recovered, but it is representative of all.
No significant similarity found means some of the Starchilds nuclear DNA

cannot be found in the NIH database containing trillions of base pair segments from
thousands of species on Earth. Feel free to draw your own conclusions. . . .
For reasons why, click here: This refers to a list of possible errors in the submission
process. Our geneticist obtained the same results with multiple samples, so he has no
doubt he did them correctly. As he and many others say, Its not brain surgery.
A different form of BLAST

report shows there can be no
doubt that at least some parts
of the Starchilds DNA are
not present in the massively
comprehensive NIH genomic
database. For all intents and
purposes, this can be taken to
mean not found on Earth.
Spectraphotometer readings for pure human DNA (at left) and Starchild DNA (right).
How this works is not important to know. Its importance is that it shows unmistakable
evidence of innate humanity within the Starchilds nuDNA. Not nearly perfect in the
ideal sense at left, something is considerably different about it; but it is well inside the
ballpark of the graph, and further evidence for the Starchilds partially human nature.
Electropherogram analysis of human DNA (at left) and Starchild DNA (right).
How this works is also not important to know. Its value is that it shows the
Starchilds nuclear DNA being forced through a much finer filter, where its
human qualities were quickly and thoroughly weeded out.
In the graph at left, the first vertical spike and the last one are the parameter
brackets, seen in isolation in the second graph. These are the boundaries for
the measurements being taken. At left are all the spikes that denote a normal
human. With the Starchilds nuDNA none of the internal spikes register. This
surprising result again makes clear that part of the Starchild is not human, and
that part, whatever it is, will be a significantly large percent of its genome.
When I asked our geneticist what he felt the difference might be, he said that
based on the percentages he was getting at this very early juncture, using an
extremely small sample of roughly 30,000 base pairs, the percentage would
probably fall in the range of 10% to 50% different from normal humans!
99.95 99.99 %
Human
97%
H - A Hybrid
97%
Neanderthal
97%
Chimpanzee
95%
Gorilla
50% 90%
Starchild !!!
If such a wildly improbable amount

of the Starchild genome is not from
humans, how could it have a human
mother? Our geneticist explained
that when a human female suffers
from badly diseased mitochondria,
standard in vitro fertilization can
make her pregnant with a child of
her own and her mates, using a
healthy egg donated by another
woman. Thus, her offspring will
have her and her mates nuclear
DNA, but its mitochondrial DNA
will be from the donor female and it
will have DNA from three parents.
Thus, the Starchild could have been

created in a similar manner.
Two alien parents could form a zygote that is then put into the egg of a human female, after
which she gives birth to a genetically pure alien carrying human mitochondrial DNA. Dont
ask why this might have been done 900 years ago because we have no idea. We are simply
trying to be real scientists who follow evidence regardless of where it leads. If mainstream
scientists didnt have to contend with the rebukes of conservative peers and Occams Razor
applied by self-serving leaders, many more could join us in solving this unique mystery.
SO, WHERE IS THE STARCHILD PROJECT NOW,

12 YEARS INTO IT, AT THE BEGINNING OF 2011?
Like Neil Armstrongs famous first step onto the surface of the Moon, which he rightly
called a giant leap for mankind, we have taken a step of equal dimension with this first
tentative foray into the genome of the Starchild Skull. We still have many more steps to
take on the historic journey it promises for us all, but the outcome is no longer in doubt.
This fantastic first step will lead us all into an entirely new concept of reality. Naturally, it
will be resisted and fought outright by every vested interest in the world that stands to lose
position or power by being forced to accept the idea of highly intelligent aliens interacting
with our planet on an ongoing basis. Nonetheless, that acceptance will happen, inevitably,
and all of us will have to find our individual ways of coping with its profound meaning.
However, before we go racing into our near future, we should be certain we understand
exactly what has been accomplished thus far. Only a very tiny portion of the Starchilds
nuclear DNA (remember, from both parents) has been recovered and analyzed. We are
talking roughly 30,000 base pairs of 3 billion, but more base pairs are being added all the
time. Our short-term goal is extracting several hundred thousand to a few million using a
recovery technique that employs a machine rather than the laborious shotgun technique.
Mainstream scientists will protest that even a much larger sample is not enough to be
conclusive, and they will be correct. However, what they wont say in anything above a
muted whisper is that it is sufficiently representative of the Starchilds entire genome.
To be conclusive we must recover the entire genome using the 454 technology, or the still
newer Illumina technology, as other geneticists do with other unknown genomes. However,
all of them are recovering the genomes of known terrestrial creatures, while our team will
be recovering the incredible genome of what can only be called an extraterrestrial!
AFTER THAT FIRST BIG STEP INTO A NEW REALITY,

WHAT COMES NEXT? WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
First, we have to secure the investment funding needed to complete the recovery and
analysis of the Starchilds entire genome. Focus on the word investment. The enormous
historic potential of this unique research has turned it into a prime business deal. If it ever
was a candidate for grant funding, it no longer is. Now it can return a great deal of money
to the investor who decides to fund it. And that investment amounts to several million $.
Once the investment funds are in place, events will unfold on two tracks. First, the lab
where our geneticist is employed will be contracted to first recover the Starchilds entire
genome, which they feel will require 3 to 4 months, a relatively short period of time. This
should provide a clear idea of how far away from human the Starchild will be, probably
within a range of 5% in either direction. At this point we will formally announce to the
world in a press conference that we have definitive proof of alien reality.
[Note: For those who demand the name of our geneticist and his lab, both will be made
public only after the funds are in place and the contracts have been signed. To announce
them beforehand would subject them to the furious rebukes of less open-minded peers
who much prefer that the alien controversy remain out of sight and out of mind.]
While the DNA recovery unfolds, we will shoot the first of two different documentary
films. It will of course record the recovery process, which will be interspersed with the
Starchilds back story, the numerous events that took it from being discovered in Mexico,
all the way up to the announcement of recovering its entire genome. That film will be in
theaters about a year after we receive the investment funding that will be required.
The second film will debut approximately one year after the first. It will follow the
sequencing of the unknown parts of the Starchilds genome, which can take from eight
months to a year depending on how much of it is new and unique. Interspersed with that
process will be a wide array of interviews with peoplesome famous and some not
discussing how they feel about the profound shift of humanitys place in the universe.
Finally, it is crucial for everyone to realize that our geneticist and the team he will lead
will be trekking off into unknown biological terrain, places no other geneticists have ever
gone before. They understand the challenge they face, and they know full well that their
work will be making history. So do I. And now, after completing this eBook, so do you.
Please take what youve learned here and share it with others who can tolerate such
astounding information. I realize many people are too insecure about their fundamental
beliefs to have them challenged in any way. However, those who can confront progress
head-on will want to know a quantum leap is coming. When this news erupts worldwide,
in a few weeks or a few months from now (December 2010), they will thank you for it.
ADDENDUM
For those who might be interested, here are some recent quotes sent to me in various
emails from our geneticist as he tries to wend his way through the maze of never-before-
seen data that he keeps discovering. I find it fascinating and maybe some of you will, too.
Early November, 2010: Yesterday I completed DNA extractions from 1.8 g of SCSC (the human) and 0.45
g SC (the Starchild) bone pieces. I recovered about 8 ng from SC and about 25 ng from SCSC. Not enough
to see by electrophoresis. SCSC DNA is somewhat colored, which does not look good. The SC DNA is not
colored, which is good, but there is 3 times less of it. 454 protocols recommend beginning with at least 500
ng of top quality DNA to make a good library that can be used for dozens of sequencing runs. As you see, I
have about 60 times less of that for SC and 20 times less for SCSC. Despite that, I went one step further and
made libraries using all I obtained from SC and SCSC. Also, I have remaining only about 2.5 g of SCSC
and about 1 g of SC bone pieces, but I actually need at least 10 times that amount.
[Note: The last comment eventually led to me personally cutting more bone from the human skull and the
Starchild skull for the first time since they came into my care, in February of 1999. It was an amazing
experience that I have chronicled elsewhere, but take it at this: the Starchilds bone is very hard!!!]
More early November, 2010: Here is the latest. Attached are two documents illustrating that things look
good so far. Libraries.pdf shows my electrophoretic analysis of the libraries I made from SC and SCSC
DNA. I used a very sensitive electrophoretic analysis here. A library should show a smear between 500 and
1000 nucleotides. As you see, both libraries show this smear, which means their preparation was successful.
The SC DNA is somewhat less visible than SCSC, but it is visible, which is the most important aspect.
Having seen that, I decided to quantify the libraries by measuring concentrations of their DNA in molecules
per microliter (1/1,000,000 of a liter). It came out beautifully, meaning I have measurable amounts of DNA!
The export.pdf shows an Excel worksheet with calculations. A calibration curve came out beautifully linear,
and both libraries are measurable within the curve range. The SC library calculations are in red. Note the
amount of DNA isolated from the SCSC sample was roughly three times the SCs, based on yesterday's
measurements, and SC and SCSC library concentrations came out near the same ratio. Good correlation.
Early December, 2010: I did get many thousands of more raw sequences, which I could not accomplish in
a year using the classic Sanger sequencing I did before. The problem is that these reads are spread all over
the genome as small pieces, so it remains a helluva lot of straws scattered around. I can filter out bacterial
sequences, which comprise more than 50% of those reads, and still I have dozens and dozens of either
human-like sequences, or unmatched at NIH, but which are still too short to draw dramatic conclusions.
A programmer who works for me is writing a special program to compare SC sequences to the human
genome, so this will also be interesting to see. Ive been doing a lot of bioinformatics work, but my new
dedicated workstation quickly ran out of its 8GB memory, so I cant move further. I have ordered more
memory to fill its 96GB capacity. This will be sufficient, but it will not come earlier than mid-January.
Mid-December, 2010: You might remember I mentioned a drawback specific to the 454 method which
makes comparisons more difficult when sequences include stretches of the same nucleotides. There are a
great many such differences that are possible, such as a human sequence might contain TTTTTT and the
matching SC sequence has TTTTT. This could be discarded as a read-out error, but it could also be treated
as a difference and interpreted on the protein level, which could create confusion. Using this modality, it
might be difficult to distinguish which is right. This is why Im thinking the Illumina machine and its
advanced technology might, in the long run, be better for our purposes.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Lloyd Pye was born in 1946 and raised in Louisiana, USA. He attended Tulane Univ. in
New Orleans, graduating in 1968 with a B.S. degree in Psychology. After graduation he
joined the U.S. Army and completed a tour of duty as a background investigator.
In his 20s he worked at a few jobs before deciding to try to write. He sold his first novel
at 30, then spent the 1980s as a screenwriter in Hollywood, achieving moderate success.
During his 20s, 30s, and 40s he developed an alternate theory of human origins based on
the idea that bipedal hair-covered hominoids (bigfoot, yeti, etc.) were living descendants
of ancient prehumans, and that modern humans have no place in the fossil record, or on
the flowchart, of natural life on earth until the Cro-Magnons appeared 200,000 years ago.
In late 1997, Lloyd published Everything You Know Is Wrong, a nonfiction book that
outlined his ideas and became a bestseller in the world of Alternative Knowledge. He has
since published The Starchild Skull, about his decade as the research coordinator for The
Starchild Project. He also has two novels available through Amazon: Mismatch, a techno-
thriller about phone phreaking, computer hacking, and submarine warfare; and A Darker
Shade of Red, a roman-a-clef novel based on his experiences playing football in college.
Lloyd Pyes Starchild Skull Essentials is his first eBook. He plans to write more.
At left is The Starchild Skull, 280 page paperback, available

worldwide through Amazon outlets, but not in bookstores.
Planned future eBook titles are:

(1) Lloyd Pyes Hominoids Essentials
(2) Lloyd Pyes Human Origins Essentials
(3) Lloyd Pyes Origins of Life Essentials
(4) Lloyd Pyes Megaliths Essentials
(5) Lloyd Pyes Worldwide Mysteries Essentials
To contact Lloyd Pye: [email protected]

For more information about the Starchild skull: www.starchildproject.com
To purchase The Starchild Skull book: www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk

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Starchild Skull Essentials 2

Science in its ideology sees itself as doing a fearless exploration of the

This eBook is intended to counter at least some of the informed nonsense

A favorite platitude of scientists says that: Extraordinary claims require

GETTING OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT:

Please dont take seriously anything about

AS FOR THE STARCHILD SKULL

Its story began in northern Mexico around

Across that remote area were several

A considerable distance from the village

Inside the mine tunnel the girl discovered a

The girl realized she couldnt tell the

Both skulls were damaged by tumbling in

The girl lived a full life and died in the

The Youngs asked MUFON colleagues if

The maxilla X-ray revealed several

The profile X-ray of the human skull

Cradleboarding was, and in some places

Although the rear of the Starchilds head is

A tenet is any doctrine generally held to be true.

Another clear proof of the impossibility

This illustration is blindingly obvious,

Another notable aspect of the Starchild is the expansion of its

At left is a typical hydrocephalic infant untreated by modern

Another powerful argument against

Any open saggital suture (arrows at

The latest fad diagnosis to explain

Last and probably least among

If the Starchild Skull isnt the

The detached piece of upper right maxilla, which we will

How is the Starchild Skull unique?

For one thing, normal human eye sockets

The surfaces of the Starchilds eye sockets

Using as a link point the nose bridges of the two

Profile view of both skulls.

The ear holes and the mastoid

A CAT-scan of a normal humans

Normal humans, left, have brow

The lump of bone at the lower rear

At left is the humans inion (red

The red circle at left covers the

Tumbling inside the flood damaged

1" Another indication of the small size of

Returning to the effects of the flash flood, it is important

This illustrates the neck areas of the

Average human brain volume is 1400

The Starchilds extra 400 cc of

A humans cerebrum (green circle)

Attachment points for the

This Starchild tooth exhibits

Another proof of the Starchilds adult age

A palate for the Starchild created by mirror

Close-ups of the surfaces of the

Source #2Chips of bone from the

Source #3At left is a highly magnified view of

At left is the fiber from

This is a close-up of a polished segment of the

The Starchilds polished bone reveals

SUMMARY OF THE STARCHILDS PHYSICAL ANOMALIES

1. Its bone is half as thick as it should be and it weighs half as much.