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The Fraud of the Starchild Head
The enigmatic skull Starchild stops being a mystery.
By George Simpson
Ufologist Magazine
During the numerous instances to Over the past decade I have written about the study of this seemingly extraterrestrial skull, researched by Lloyd Pye. It was a strange and anomalous skull with supposedly unique characteristics that were obvious to anyone who manipulated it.
I ended up doing an electronic epistolary exchange with Lloyd Pye for many years and several of my Australian colleagues and counterparts in the UFO world also corresponded with Lloyd about the DNA tests performed on this anomalous skull.
DNA tests failed several times during the initial stages, yielding results that were very annoying for Lloyd. Everything was very technical, and anyone who followed the saga just received a course in genetics and biology. But Wikipedia received a report on the initial results, which went to the Wiki website.
Given that these results were taught by professional laboratories, they were accepted as final results. It is possible to edit and update deliveries as long as there is compelling evidence coming from a reliable source.
Lloyd lacked biotechnology degrees, and often ended up excluded from the editing process. This caused him such a degree of frustration that he ended up labeling Wikipedia "Whackypedia" from that moment on.
There were certain details about the nature of the skull that seemed to preclude its explanation as anything that was not something of non-human origin.
Lloyd indicated that there was a list of characteristics that were unusual from several perspectives. He said that mathematically, the structure and formation of the skull deviated from normal by more than ten standard deviations. He also made the following statements:
1. The bone was harder than a human bone, but at the same time lighter and thinner. He said that his hardness was the result of having a structure different from that of a normal bone. He claimed that there were about eight layers of thinly laminated bone material, like plywood, with alternating layers of bone and enamel, like tooth enamel. He asserted that this was the reason why the bone resisted the initial treatment used to soften it and allow the next step - the extraction of DNA for analysis.
2. He claimed that sawing the bone had cost him a lot due to the existence of a layer of fiber of undetermined origin, metallic in nature, woven across the width of the skull, as if it were there to provide protection against gamma rays (during travel space) as a Faraday cage would do (see photo, page 196. The Starchild Skull, Lloyd Pye, 2007.)
3. He stated that it was possible to obtain enough mitochondrial DNA to perform the DNA test, but that it was not possible obtain DNA from the cell nucleus to determine the paternal characteristics.
4. He claimed that they had found traces of blood breakdown in the cancer cells of the bone structure, something that was not anticipated in a 900-year-old bone.
5. He stated that the brain volume was much higher than the skull of a normal child of estimated age and size.
6. The zygomatic arch was too small for a human skull. The eye sockets were too shallow to accommodate the eyes, and the inion was missing.
7. Some type of bone expert had suggested that it could not be a child's skull, since the fusion of the bones was complete, as in an adult skull.
8. He told us that the tests were very expensive, but not sophisticated enough to extract the cellular DNA from the nucleus of the cell. So without that 'nuclear' DNA, there was no paternal DNA to analyze. This meant that it was not possible to analyze or test the father and his contribution of DNA to the composition of the skull.
9. The location of the FOXP2 gene and its corresponding analysis was so anomalous, in comparison with a normal human, that it suggested an extra human paternity, and therefore, an extraterrestrial hybrid with human.
Since such a gene is so conservative, any deviation would result in a miscarriage before pregnancy. And since the creature had lived about 900 years ago, its FOXP2 was also abnormal, and it could not be human, as we understand that term. Most likely, it pointed to the existence of an extraterrestrial hybrid with a human.
The combination of these 9 characteristics gave a unique look to the skull.
Unfortunately, Lloyd succumbed to cancer long before analytical protocols were developed to allow the location and reliable analysis of nuclear DNA.
A few years ago, Chase Kloetschke of the MUFON received, on behalf of the owner of the skull, a request to determine the feasibility of carrying out further DNA tests. It would not be easy, and with objective scientific goals aimed at finding the truth. The DNA tests yielded interesting results.
The DNA of the cell nucleus of a tooth without descending, obtained from the upper jaw, produced values coinciding with those of haplogroup Q, a very common group for males in the region where the skull was found, and from the time when He lived in that area, which was not surprising.
These DNA tests mean that the debate has come to an end. Totally and completely. The results can be read on the Internet in a highly detailed report that addresses all the findings, the processes used, the chain of evidence, and so on.
The bone was harder than normal bone, but lacked laminations, and the thickness of bone was consistent with that of a five-year-old child. There was also no evidence of fibers, known or unknown, in the skull. The dimensions of the zygomatic arch were consistent with those of a normal child of that age (five years).
Although the configuration of the skull is uncommon, it effectively has an inion, despite being abnormal and smaller than usual, and can be seen in the photographs. It was discovered that the brain volume was higher than normal, but without suggesting anything more enigmatic than a strange abnormality. The configuration of the head and the positioning of the ears were similar to what is found in cases of Down syndrome.
It was determined that the age was about 5 years, consistent with the size and hardness of the bone. The skull sutures were intact, which is normal for a five-year-old child.
These facts, combined with the discovery of the paternal nuclear DNA, which turned out to be human and typical of the area, mean that there is no mystery here, in addition to finishing the genetic disorder that affected the specimen.
The condition of brachycephaly is adjusted to a great extent by describing the configuration of the skull and the condition that this specimen seems to have suffered.
The following link, or a similar search, will take interested readers to the full report on the most recent DNA results, which effectively seem to be decisive:
Final Results! – Determining if the Starchild Skull is Part Alien
So if we make the following query on Google: "Final results determining if the Starchild skull is part alien ", we will be able to read the entire report.
This puts an end to the history of the Starchild skull.
The enigmatic skull Starchild stops being a mystery.
By George Simpson
Ufologist Magazine
During the numerous instances to Over the past decade I have written about the study of this seemingly extraterrestrial skull, researched by Lloyd Pye. It was a strange and anomalous skull with supposedly unique characteristics that were obvious to anyone who manipulated it.
I ended up doing an electronic epistolary exchange with Lloyd Pye for many years and several of my Australian colleagues and counterparts in the UFO world also corresponded with Lloyd about the DNA tests performed on this anomalous skull.
DNA tests failed several times during the initial stages, yielding results that were very annoying for Lloyd. Everything was very technical, and anyone who followed the saga just received a course in genetics and biology. But Wikipedia received a report on the initial results, which went to the Wiki website.
Given that these results were taught by professional laboratories, they were accepted as final results. It is possible to edit and update deliveries as long as there is compelling evidence coming from a reliable source.
Lloyd lacked biotechnology degrees, and often ended up excluded from the editing process. This caused him such a degree of frustration that he ended up labeling Wikipedia "Whackypedia" from that moment on.
There were certain details about the nature of the skull that seemed to preclude its explanation as anything that was not something of non-human origin.
Lloyd indicated that there was a list of characteristics that were unusual from several perspectives. He said that mathematically, the structure and formation of the skull deviated from normal by more than ten standard deviations. He also made the following statements:
1. The bone was harder than a human bone, but at the same time lighter and thinner. He said that his hardness was the result of having a structure different from that of a normal bone. He claimed that there were about eight layers of thinly laminated bone material, like plywood, with alternating layers of bone and enamel, like tooth enamel. He asserted that this was the reason why the bone resisted the initial treatment used to soften it and allow the next step - the extraction of DNA for analysis.
2. He claimed that sawing the bone had cost him a lot due to the existence of a layer of fiber of undetermined origin, metallic in nature, woven across the width of the skull, as if it were there to provide protection against gamma rays (during travel space) as a Faraday cage would do (see photo, page 196. The Starchild Skull, Lloyd Pye, 2007.)
3. He stated that it was possible to obtain enough mitochondrial DNA to perform the DNA test, but that it was not possible obtain DNA from the cell nucleus to determine the paternal characteristics.
4. He claimed that they had found traces of blood breakdown in the cancer cells of the bone structure, something that was not anticipated in a 900-year-old bone.
5. He stated that the brain volume was much higher than the skull of a normal child of estimated age and size.
6. The zygomatic arch was too small for a human skull. The eye sockets were too shallow to accommodate the eyes, and the inion was missing.
7. Some type of bone expert had suggested that it could not be a child's skull, since the fusion of the bones was complete, as in an adult skull.
8. He told us that the tests were very expensive, but not sophisticated enough to extract the cellular DNA from the nucleus of the cell. So without that 'nuclear' DNA, there was no paternal DNA to analyze. This meant that it was not possible to analyze or test the father and his contribution of DNA to the composition of the skull.
9. The location of the FOXP2 gene and its corresponding analysis was so anomalous, in comparison with a normal human, that it suggested an extra human paternity, and therefore, an extraterrestrial hybrid with human.
Since such a gene is so conservative, any deviation would result in a miscarriage before pregnancy. And since the creature had lived about 900 years ago, its FOXP2 was also abnormal, and it could not be human, as we understand that term. Most likely, it pointed to the existence of an extraterrestrial hybrid with a human.
The combination of these 9 characteristics gave a unique look to the skull.
Unfortunately, Lloyd succumbed to cancer long before analytical protocols were developed to allow the location and reliable analysis of nuclear DNA.
A few years ago, Chase Kloetschke of the MUFON received, on behalf of the owner of the skull, a request to determine the feasibility of carrying out further DNA tests. It would not be easy, and with objective scientific goals aimed at finding the truth. The DNA tests yielded interesting results.
The DNA of the cell nucleus of a tooth without descending, obtained from the upper jaw, produced values coinciding with those of haplogroup Q, a very common group for males in the region where the skull was found, and from the time when He lived in that area, which was not surprising.
These DNA tests mean that the debate has come to an end. Totally and completely. The results can be read on the Internet in a highly detailed report that addresses all the findings, the processes used, the chain of evidence, and so on.
The bone was harder than normal bone, but lacked laminations, and the thickness of bone was consistent with that of a five-year-old child. There was also no evidence of fibers, known or unknown, in the skull. The dimensions of the zygomatic arch were consistent with those of a normal child of that age (five years).
Although the configuration of the skull is uncommon, it effectively has an inion, despite being abnormal and smaller than usual, and can be seen in the photographs. It was discovered that the brain volume was higher than normal, but without suggesting anything more enigmatic than a strange abnormality. The configuration of the head and the positioning of the ears were similar to what is found in cases of Down syndrome.
It was determined that the age was about 5 years, consistent with the size and hardness of the bone. The skull sutures were intact, which is normal for a five-year-old child.
These facts, combined with the discovery of the paternal nuclear DNA, which turned out to be human and typical of the area, mean that there is no mystery here, in addition to finishing the genetic disorder that affected the specimen.
The condition of brachycephaly is adjusted to a great extent by describing the configuration of the skull and the condition that this specimen seems to have suffered.
The following link, or a similar search, will take interested readers to the full report on the most recent DNA results, which effectively seem to be decisive:
Final Results! – Determining if the Starchild Skull is Part Alien
So if we make the following query on Google: "Final results determining if the Starchild skull is part alien ", we will be able to read the entire report.
This puts an end to the history of the Starchild skull.
