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

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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.

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

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!

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.

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!

Lloyd Pye has not only been on an amazing journey with the Starchild Skull - but he's taken the reader along for the ride too! His courage and determination to reach the final truth are an inspiration - and this book is just the beginning -

Lloyd Pye is doing a heroic job, with this book and with all his activities related to the Starchild Skull, getting the matter settled by way of good, hard science and getting it before the public to consider. It should be interesting, when the complete recovery of the genome demonstrates that the Starchild was a human-alien hybrid, to see how the hidebound mainstream scientific community tries to wiggle out of it. But you know what? Good science is good science, and DNA is DNA. Here we will finally have the proof we need that this planet has been visited by nonhumans. Lloyd Pye's book splendidly chronicles the story of how the truth about the Starchild skull (discovered in northern Mexico) is proving out to be anomalous in a big way. Explainable as human deformity? No-- read the book, and you will understand how improbable that is. It's time for a larger view of the universe, and by way of such work as this, we're getting there as a species. A must-read!

The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? explores amazing possible evidence that humans are not alone in the universe. Author Lloyd Pye chronicles his eight-year-long quest to discern the truth behind an alleged "starchild" skull - from an examination of its bone structure to microscopic scrutiny revealing durable fibers and red residue in its bone, to the results of DNA testing. Could the Starchild have been a human-alien hybrid? Black-and-white photographs and a handful of color plates illustrate this amazing report, enthusiastically recommended for anyone curious about the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life on earth.

While I have not held the skull in my hands, I know the author. Lloyd's writing and presentations are compelling because they are based upon solid science expressed in layman's terms in an easy-going and matter-of-fact manner.
Lloyd follows the truth wherever it may lead, and that is the primary reason he was singled out as the "go-to-guy" by the owners of the Starchild Skull.
The skull is the primary focus, but the book also reveals some of the human factor of how scientific "experts" react in very unscientific manner to facts and logic which run counter to their "conventional knowledge".
This book and its subject material are certain to be discussed in many varied circles in the future (especially if the skull is proven by DNA to be of both human and non-human origin as seems to be the case by prior tests and observation).
This book should be on virtually everyone's "must-read" list.

If you are looking for a book that will challenge your cherished beliefs and dogma, this is it. Ever wondered if we are alone in the universe, or wondered if there may be other life forms on other planets that may be visiting this earth? IF so, then this book may be instrumental in bringing this possibility to the forefront and provide you with solid scientific evidence that such may be the case. I have seen and touched the starchild skull and can vouch for its authenticity, insofar as it is what the author claims it to be, a rellc from the past that demands our attention. Read this book, and come to your own conclusions. It is one more nail in the coffin of the scoffer who refuses to acknowledge that other life forms just may be out there.
Lloyd Pye is a talented author, who writes in such a way that you feel he is right next to you telling you his story. Riviting.