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are supposed to look would make the same staggering The bottom line is that at every turn, after every valid connection. They'd have no choice. test, the results kept shifting my initial percentage of It was all I could do to hold it steady in my hands as! doubt away from "human deformity" toward an "alien" looked at Melanie and Ray and told them what! __ interpretation. thought, which in so many words was that it could In 1999 there were only half a dozen labs that could possibly be the skull of a Grey. It was so incredibly far analyse "ancient" DNA, which was defined as older from normal that such a wild speculation was than 50 years. At 900 years since death, the Starchild conceivable. Nonetheless, | couldn't initially make more than qualified. However, among those half a myself believe it was, in fact, such a stupendous dozen labs, none would touch the Starchild with the discovery. | urged them to assume it was a bizarre proverbial 10-foot pole. They wanted nothing to do deformity and to maintain that view until they secured with a skull that was being touted as potentially alien. solid proof to the contrary. To emphasise my doubt, I! "Doing that," one wrote to me, “would be bad for pegged the chances at 80 per cent deformity and 20 business." Facing such a stonewall, | decided to take a per cent alien, but that 20 per cen chance on a much-less-controlled would remain huge until they could forensic test designed for DNA less prove it belonged on the 80 per cen than 50 years old. It was a complete side of the ledger. On hearing that, botch that left us in the lurch unti they asked if | would undertake to 2003. establish scientifically their weird . By 2003, when we were finally able skull's heritage, whether human or The bottom line is to arrange a comprehensive and srersametaemen my cues ts" that atevery tum, | [a0 ot fr the orci Now, however, I can assure all fans after every valid we were almost certainly looking a fast closing in on a conclusive | teSt, the results | Srapetely around and now believed determination of its genetic origin. | kept shifting my it was a percentage split of 80 per all goes as scheduled, in 2009 the initial f cent alien and 20 per cent deformity, skull's DNA will be analysed with a initia percentage 0) which probably was _ being new technique that was doubt away from conservative. | realised that an unavailable in 2003 when its " oon alien skull's falling into my DNA was recovered and human deformity hands was comparable to the analysed. This new test will ge toward an "alien" Dead Sea Scrolls being found by to the heart of what makes the Starchild skull so special, and i will comprise the scientific core of what should prove beyond doubt that the skull is no entirely human. Before | discuss the a goatherd. Nonetheless, he did what he did and ! was doing what | was doing, finding ou what | was finding out, and knew what the results meant. Nothing was testing out as typically human. The bone itsel revolutionary test that will be was too light and much too conducted this year, let's revisi durable to be purely human. [ what happened in 2003; this is necessary to was more like tooth enamel than bone. The brain's understand why the Starchild stands on the threshold volume was entirely too large for the skull encasing it. interpretation. of making history as big as history can be made. Inside the Starchild's cranium was a brain one-third larger than normal. Where did all that extra brain go? The First Five Years How did it all fit in there? Better yet, with such a high Anyone interested in following the ins and outs and _ and steep rear angle canted toward the spinal opening, ups and downs of the various scientific tests the how had the brain's matter not been squeezed out to Starchild was put through in its early years can acquire distend the foramen magnum? This list of my book The Starchild Skull (2007). It recounts the major — physiological differences was extensive, with over two events that occurred during those years—from the dozen major points. It skewed as far from a normal surprising radiographic X-rays, the reassuring CAT-scan human skull as did that of a chimp or gorilla. eanilin and tha anchan 14 Anting Af AAA nt ANN Anes that at every turn, after every valid test, the results kept shifting my initial percentage of doubt away from "human deformity" toward an "alien" new The First Five Years Anyone interested in following the ins and outs and ups and downs of the various scientific tests the Starchild was put through in its early years can acquire my book The Starchild Skull (2007). It recounts the major events that occurred during those years—from the surprising radiographic X-rays, the reassuring CAT-scan results and the carbon-14 dating of death at 900 years ago, to the disaster of an initial forensic DNA test and the stunning results of a clandestine analysis with a scanning electron microscope...they're all there in full detail and don't need to be reviewed here. DNA 101 No matter how many physiological differences we came up with, experts from mainstream science could thwart us at every turn simply by quoting their 58 * NEXUS The bottom line is interpretation. APRIL - MAY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com