WORLD EXCLUSIVE DNA PHOTOGRAPHS

It is difficult to prove that the Starchild (SC) IS alien, but there is already significant evidence that it is NOT entirely human. No expert, no scientist, and no doctor has ever been able to prove that the SC is 100% human. The following images present compelling evidence that the SC may very well prove to be a human-alien hybrid, with a human mother and an alien father.

There are two types of DNA: mitochondrial (mtDNA) from the mother only, and the more difficult to recover nuclear DNA (nuDNA) from both mother and father. The following images show the actual gel sheets used to test the mtDNA and nuDNA from the Starchild and the Adult Female (AF) found with it.

Above: The long row of lines is the nuclear DNA of the geneticist doing the analysis. This is always done as a control. The mtDNA is the four bright lines to the right, which show that the mother of the Adult Female (AF) was from what is called haplogroup A, a common type of Mesoamerican. This is a good, clear result that presented on the first sample, showing that there are substantial amounts of good-quality DNA remaining in the bone.

Above: This image shows a similar result for the Starchild skull's mitochondrial DNA, which came down to it from its mother. The control line of the geneticist's nuDNA is at the far left, and the two double-bands and the two single bright bands represent that mtDNA. (The faint one with the line through it is called "primer dimer," used to make sure the gel sheet itself is in good working order.) Again, this is a clear result that shows there are substantial amounts of high-quality DNA remaining in the bone.

Above: The nuclear DNA results from the Adult Female found with the Starchild. The lines to the left are the control, the series of bright lines to the right are the Adult Female's nuDNA. This shows that, not only is DNA present, there is a great deal of it that is easy to recover. No degradation to speak of.

Above: Six attempts to extract nuclear DNA from the Starchild. None of the attempts produced a result. The visible lines are the control to the far left and more primer dimer lines to indicate the gel sheet is active. Since we have already established, through mtDNA, that the Starchild's mother was a human, it is obviously the Starchild's father that is keeping the human-only primers from recording a result. Thus, he cannot be entirely human or there would be a clear and easy recovery, as there was with the Adult Female buried with it.

To summarize, Carbon 14 dating tells us that the remains of the Starchild and the Adult Female are both 900 years old +/- 40 years. Bone chemistry scans tell us they lived in the same general area of high desert where their bodies were allegedly found. After death, their remains lay together in the same mine tunnel, corroborated by identical mineral encrustation on the surface of the bones. It would logically follow that both skulls would have experienced the same level of natural DNA degradation, and DNA should have been equally easy to extract from both. The Adult Female's maternal and paternal DNA was easily recovered, yet only the Starchild's maternal DNA was recoverable using the human-only primers that seek out human DNA. The incredible--but logical--conclusion is that the Starchild paternal DNA is simply not responsive to HUMAN primers, meaning that the Starchild's father is not entirely human.

The left image is a reproduction by of the famous "Communion" cover, held to be a prototypical depiction of a Grey alien. The right image shows a forensically accurate depiction of the Starchild skull if it had similar eyes and eyelids. (We have no way of knowing how its eyes or eyelids looked, but the skull would accommodate this shape and size.) The key issue here is that abductees seldom describe the "Communion" cover as the way Grey aliens look. More often their depictions are that Greys have large heads and small lower faces, which is how the Starchild would have looked in life. In fact, the "Communion" cover is used by researchers like Budd Hopkins as a litmus test for those who claim abduction. If they are shown the "Communion" cover and say it resembles the aliens who abducted them, their story is very likely a fabrication. If they challenge the "Communion" cover as being wrong in its depiction, then researchers know the story they are about to hear is likely based in truth.

[Thanks to Rob Roy Menzies, an Alaska-based graphic artist, for these excellent renditions.]