The skull of the "star child", characterized by unusual bone density, abnormal structure of the frontal lobes and large brain volume, has long been the cause of controversy between traditional scientists and ufologists: the former characterize the find as another case of hydrocephalus, while the latter see it as evidence existence of extraterrestrial life forms
Apparently, the last word in this dispute will belong to geneticists.
The bones of two people were discovered in an abandoned mine by fifteen-year-old Mexican Maria back in the 30s of the last century. Since one of the skulls was very unusual, the girl took the bones home and later took both skulls to the United States. Maria secretly kept the strange find all her life, and, getting old and feeling the approach of death, she gave it to her friend. After lying about five years in a box in his garage, the skulls by chance caught the eye of two biologists Ray and Melanie Jung. The couple were fond of UFOs and the strange remains could not but interest them.
In 1999, they showed the skulls to scientist Lloyd Pye, who initiated a study involving experts in anatomy, paleontology and anthropology. As a result of this study, it was found that the skulls belonged to a mother and child who died about 900 years ago.
Scientists' attention was attracted by the fact that in the son's skull there were not two, but three frontal lobes, and, moreover, it obviously lacked the cerebellum, which would be fatal for an ordinary person. In addition, it turned out that the brain section in the child's skull was 200 cubic centimeters larger than in a normal human skull - it is noteworthy that this is how much the volume of the human brain increased at each subsequent stage of evolution.
The fact of a kinship between two people, whose remains were found in a Mexican mine almost eighty years ago, was sufficiently confirmed by genetics - in 2003 they managed to isolate mitochondrial DNA, which makes it possible to determine the relationship between mother and child. At the same time, since it was not possible to recover the nuclear DNA that stores information about both the mother and the father, the question of who was the second parent of the "star child", a human or an alien, remained open.
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Lloyd Pye himself was a supporter of the latest version. Having heard about the stories of unions between earthly women and messengers from another world dating back to the beginning of the last millennium, he was sure that the "star child" was born just as a result of such contact. However, until recently, he and his supporters remained unfounded.
In 2010, as a result of several significant breakthroughs in the field of genetic analysis, it became possible to isolate nuclear DNA from the star child's skull.
The following two images represent information drawn from the National Institute of Health (NIH) Genetic Research Database. The materials stored in this database are open for access and represent a very wide range of studies of many living organisms on planet Earth: plants, viruses, bacteria, crustaceans, fish and animals, including primates and, in fact, humans.
With information about the nucleotide sequences that cover the genomes of a wide variety of living things, scientists will be able to compare the DNA of the "star child" with the samples presented in their database. One of these comparisons is shown in the table below (blue line at the bottom of the table; unfortunately, the quality is poor). According to the presented indicators, 265 complementary nucleic acid base pairs recovered from the Star Child tissue samples coincide with the genes of the first human chromosome. This proves that the nuclear DNA sample taken from the Star Child is partially human.
On the other hand, when analyzing the next 342 complementary pairs, scientists did not reveal significant similarities with human DNA, moreover, at the moment, there are also no matches with other DNA samples available in the NIH database.
The research results were verified several times; in addition, analysis of two other cranial DNA samples also revealed genetic material that did not match any of the samples in the NIH database. Despite this, many skeptics still insist that the scientists who examined the skull made a mistake in the analysis and received distorted results.
Nevertheless, their denials are likely to lose their last grounds in a few months, when a series of repeated analyzes will be carried out, already at the official level. Until then, the names of the geneticists involved in the study will not be made public. The reason for this decision is the reluctance of scientists themselves to prematurely attract the interest of the media.
