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november2009_june_july_2009.qxd 23/11/2009 4:37 PM Page 4 4 Loyd Pyes’ “Starchild” 4 Loyd Pyes’ “Starchild” IS THIS STRANGE IS THIS STRANGE AND DEFORMED AND DEFORMED SKULL PROOF THAT SKULL PROOF THAT ALIENS REALLY DO ALIENS REALLY DO EXIST? EXIST? crease, something familiar to everyone in the was put through a series of scientific tests that field of UFO and alien research. The so-called are recounted in detail in The Starchild Skull, a “grey” aliens are reputed to have such a dent in book published in 2007 (available on the top rear of their heads, giving them a Amazon.com). Recently, the most salient facts distinctive “heart” shape. Dented crown and a became available in a highly compacted eBook, bulbous cranium above a small upper face that Starchild Skull Essentials (available at narrowed to a very small lower face. StarchildProject.com). Starting with surprising I held in my hand the detached piece of radiographic X-rays, to the reassuring CAT-scan upper right jaw (maxilla) found separate from results, to the Carbon-14 dating of death at 900 the cranium (which was also minus its entire years ago, to the disaster of an initial forensic lower jaw). It was the size of an infant, if that DNA test, to the stunning results of a large. This being clearly had an extra small clandestine analysis with a scanning electron lower face, and the attachment points for its microscope . . . it’s all there in full detail that chewing muscles bore that out, being greatly need not be reviewed here. The bottom line is reduced from where they normally were on a that at every turn, after every valid test, the by Loyd Pye human. I realized I might possibly be holding results kept shifting my initial percentage of by Loyd Pye the preserved skull of a grey alien. Anyone with doubt away from “human deformity” and I remember the the day I first laid eyes an understanding of basic human anatomy and toward an “alien” interpretation on the Starchild skull over a decade ago. I will of how greys were supposed to look would In 1999 there were only a half-dozen never forget the breathtaking moment when I make the same staggering connection. They’d labs that could analyze “ancient” DNA, which first held it in my hands and immediately knew have no choice. was older than 50 years. At 900 years since something was seriously “wrong” with it. It was It was all I could do to hold it steady in death, the Starchild more than qualified. too light, much too light for a typical human my hands as I looked at Ray and Melanie and However, among those half-dozen labs none skull, even one with the slightly reduced size of told them what I thought, which in so many would touch the Starchild with the proverbial an average twelve-year-old. It felt more like a words was that it could possibly be the skull of ten-foot-pole. They wanted nothing to do with a dried gourd than a skull, and at first glance I a grey. It was so incredibly far from normal, skull that was being touted as potentially alien. couldn’t see anything normal about it. It was such a wild speculation was conceivable. “Doing that,” one wrote to me, “would be bad just plain weird. Nonetheless, I couldn’t initially make myself for business.” Facing such a stonewall, I Its owners, Ray and Melanie Young of believe it was, in fact, such a stupendous decided to take a chance on a much less El Paso, Texas, had invited me to come to El discovery. I urged them to assume it was a controlled forensic test designed for DNA less Paso specifically to examine it and tell them bizarre deformity, and to maintain that view than 50 years old. It was a complete botch that what I thought. I had some expertise regarding until they secured solid proof to the contrary. To left us in the lurch until 2003. skulls due to my extensive research into the emphasize my doubt, I pegged the chances at By 2003, when we were finally able to truth about human origins and UFO related 80% deformity and 20% alien, but that 20% arrange a comprehensive and reliable test for issues, much of which I based on contrasting the would remain huge until they could prove it the Starchild’s ancient DNA, my thinking was many differences between humans and so- belonged on the 80% side of the ledger that we were almost certainly looking at an alien called “pre” human skulls. But I soon realized On hearing that, they asked if I would skull. I had swung completely around and now Melanie knew even more than me. For many undertake to scientifically establish their weird believed it was a percentage split of 80% alien years she had been a neonatal nurse, seeing a skull’s heritage, whether human or alien, which and 20% deformity, which probably was being wide range of human skull deformities and began a decade-long quest that continues to this conservative. I realized that an alien skull keenly aware of the technical aspects of what day. Now, however, I can assure all fans of this falling into my hands was comparable to the went into creating such aberrations. amazing relic that we are at last closing in on a Dead Sea Scrolls being found by a goat herder. The word that came to mind was conclusive determination of its genetic origin. If Nonetheless, he did what he did and I was doing “impossible,” yet there it was, cradled in my all goes as scheduled, in 2010 the skull’s DNA what I was doing, finding out what I was finding hands, so I had to settle for “incredible.” The will be analyzed with a new technique that was out, and I knew what the results meant. eye sockets were wildly different from normal. unavailable when its DNA was recovered and Nothing was testing out as typically My father was an optometrist, so I knew about analyzed in 2003. This new test result lies at the human. The bone itself was too light and much eyes. The neck opening, the foramen magnum, heart of what makes the Starchild skull so too durable to be purely human. It was more like was well out of place. The lower rear area was special, and it will comprise the scientific core tooth enamel than bone. The brain’s volume was without the small bump on every human’s head of what should prove beyond doubt that the entirely too large for the skull encasing it. Inside (or chimp’s or gorilla’s, for that matter); it had skull is not entirely human. the Starchild’s cranium was a brain 1/3 larger no inion. The entire rear area of its head was than normal. Where did all that extra brain go? flat, but there was no evidence of manipulated Before I discuss the revolutionary test that will How did it all fit in there? Better yet, with such flattening. No cradleboarding caused that occur this year, let’s revisit what happened in a high and steep rear angle canted toward the flatness, it had grown that way, as had the eyes, 2003. This is necessary to understand why the spinal opening, how had the brain’s matter not neck, and inion. Starchild stands on the threshold of making been squeezed out to distend the foramen A crease-like dent in the upper rear of history as big as history can be made. magnum? This list of physiological differences the head clinched it for me, just as it did for was extensive, with over two dozen major Melanie and Ray. Humans do not exhibit that, The First Five Years points. It skewed as far from a normal human no question. Humans are rounded in that area. skull as did a chimp or gorilla.(Continued on However, something else does have such a From 1999 through 2004 the Starchild Page 6)