The Starchild Skull -- Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid?

by Lloyd Pye

Book Overview

"The Starchild Skull" chronicles eight years of scientific testing of a highly unusual human-like skull. Collectively, that testing strongly indicates the skull is not entirely human. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979388147
• ISBN13: 9780979388149
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Bell Lap Books Inc.
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

as revolutionary as Darwin's "Origin of the Species"

It's a great book. Imagine yourself in Europe 1,000 years ago and you found photos of the Earth with the Moon in the background as taken from the space shuttle and you had the wisdom and open-mindedness to realize what they were. Now imagine trying to get anyone to accept what we all know now as the simple truth. Since those times certainly many things have changed, but a great many have stayed the same. This book chronicles Lloyd Pye's near decade of struggles to solve the mystery of this strange skull that he has become convinced is of an extraterrestial/human hybrid and the incredible difficulty he has had even getting simple tests done and trying to get out the truth without getting heckled and ridiculed. If nothing else, this story is a lesson in how the scientific community circles its wagons in the face of something that could contradict accepted dogma. But it's much more than that. I didn't think there was anything to this business prior to reading the book, but I must admit I am now, like Lloyd Pye, very anxious to find out all there is to know about this skull. This book shoud end to be continued... The final, and no doubt most important test involves the nuclear DNA and won't likely be done for several years. In case you're wondering why it will take so long, the technique for sequencing human DNA didn't work! The mitochondrial DNA showed the mother to be human; the nuclear DNA (includes the father's), however is not! A new process has been developed to read Neanderthal DNA (it's not specie specific) but it is only done at one lab and there is a waiting list. Read the book and I think you too will see why this could be one ot the greatest scientific discoveries ever.

Done deal!

Lloyd Pye's six-year saga with the skull that was handed to him almost on a fluke resembles a Joe Campbell Hero's Journey more than anything else. He writes masterfully his story of hanging in there against big odds without false modesty yet with no trace of phony self-importance. IMHO, the story of the skull is complete: evidence in; jury gone home. Lloyd did the job, and the mainstream science gatekeepers still demanding a nuclear DNA test as the only valid criterion of the skull's true anomalous standing is just more evidence of their boring brickishness. These wonks won't budge even when a nuclear DNA test confirms the rest of the highly extraordinary features of this skull. So Potential Readers Whom Only the Smoking Gun Will Satisfy: Don't pick this one up by the barrel, or you'll burn your fingers.

Pye in the sky (sorry!)

Can't say I'm not biased either because I had more than a finger in this particular `pye' (ouch) but the book is all Lloyd's and only he could produce a work that is at once a serious work of science, a romantic human story and a literary feast all rolled into one - is there anything not covered here that people might want in a book?? When I suggested to Lloyd he should write up what he's been doing for the best part of a decade, since he first took on the job of researching the world's wierdest biological relic he cast me a somewhat weary look. I knew exactly what he was thinking - when was he ever going to get back to his real work on human evolution, since happening upon this fascinating but at the same time damnably time-consuming and awkward diversion, the Starchild Skull. Why, oh why did he take it on, and how will he ever be taken seriously again, now he's got himself labelled permanently as the Alien Skull man? "Well that's your problem," I said, "I hugely respect your earlier work ('Everything You Know Is Wrong'/Human Origins Part 1), in fact it's a classic. But we've got awful problems at the beginning of the 3rd millenium, we've got the War on Terror and Global Warming and God knows what-all going on right now; somehow or other we've just got to start looking upwards and outwards, away from all this mayhem to wider reality, and at some point we've got to begin connecting up with other intelligent beings in the universe, who knows, they may even be able to help us with our problems! And you, Lloyd are the one to make the initial, provable connection." Well, Lloyd is never grandiose for one minute but he got the message and he's knuckled under and produced this amazing book, which speaks simultaneously to scientist and to layman. In fact it speaks to Everyman, and it will be Everyman who writes the final chapter, since YOU will fund the remaining research that still needs to be done - so for starters, please buy this book and give it to all your friends this Christmas. Then sit back and watch the action!

Starchild Review by a contributor

As a medical doctor who conducted research on the Starchild skull for two years in 2000-2001, I can assure the reader that this skull is not only real, but that it is perhaps the most fascinating enigma that I have ever had the opportunity to conduct research upon. Lloyd's enthusiasm despite personal financial difficulties has been outstanding, and he has written a very readable, accurate, truthful and entertaining account of this most mysterious relic. I can only hope that, one day in the not too distant future, LLoyd will be writing a second edition when further research gives us the definitive answer to what the skull really is. Dr.T.Robinson

A Weird Relic - a Real Challenge to Science

I am not normally moved to write book reviews, but occasionally a book comes along that catches the attention and demands support. With The Starchild Skull, Lloyd Pye has not only produced a riveting page-turner (I consumed every word in just two sittings) but also a serious case study of one of the weirdest relics ever known to science. I will confess immediately that I know Lloyd personally and can vouchsafe his integrity. But more important perhaps, I have actually met the so-called Starchild - and can speak for its authenticity! So don't let anyone kid you - and I'm sure they'll try - that Lloyd is in this for the money or the Starchild is a hoax. The author is genuine and the Skull is for real. And if you think that Mr Pye must be a bit weird for sacrificing eight years of his life and pushing himself to the edge of bankruptcy to find out whether this thing is human or alien, or a combination of both, then know this - the Skull itself is infinitely weirder than you can possibly imagine. In fact, the more one studies it, with all the cutting edge tools of modern laboratories, the more and more weird it gets. But the triumph of this book, and what makes it a potential bestseller, is the way Lloyd deftly handles the complex science so that it never comes between the reader and the reading experience. So the Starchild Skull becomes a beautiful, engrossing, warm, and often humorous, account of Lloyd's up hill and down dale encounters with alternative researchers whose colourful lives are a wonder to behold and mainstream scientists who defend at all costs their cosy world view of human evolution. Which brings us to the nub of the story - is the Skull a unique human mutation, or is it evidence that a higher intelligence once visited the Earth and perhaps interbred with man? Well the only way to know for sure - and there are enough anomalies here to make it worthwhile - is to subject the Skull to one more round of tests using an expensive dna recovery technique recently developed for the Neandertals. Which could be possible during the next few years IF we spread the word wide enough so that the right people put their weight and willpower behind it, to make it so. In summary, the Starchild Skull is one of the weirdest relics ever known to science, but more scientists need to find out about it. And if that doesn't happen, now that Lloyd has written this highly readable and engaging account of it, that would indeed be... Weird!