The
World's first DNA PCR investigation of Biological Evidence from an Alien
Abduction
by Bill Chalker
Anomaly
Physical Evidence Group (APEG)
Copyright 2001- B.Chalker/APEG Trust
A Sydney, Australia abduction
experience from 1992, with biological evidence, became the subject
of the world's first DNA PCR "alien abduction" related investigation,
yielding intriguing results that have suggested fascinating new lines
of investigation and speculation.
Born in 1964, in
Lebanon, Peter Khoury migrated to Australia in 1973. He met his future
wife, Vivian in 1981, marrying in 1990. They have 2 children. What
might be Peter's first encounter with a UFO occurred in Lebanon in
the summer of 1971 at age 7. He and seven other children had gone
up onto the flat rooftop of his neighbour's house to play. Peter
was the last to walked through a heavy door that leads onto the roof.
He then saw all his friends "frozen" like statues in front
of him, while a silent egg-shaped craft hovered above. All eight children
later found themselves on the ground floor after some time had elapsed,
with no memory of the intervening period.
In Sydney, during February 1988,
Peter and Vivian saw a strange light doing extraordinary movements in
conjunction with a beam of light effect.
Peter & Vivian Khoury
A frightening and life changing
alien abduction experience occurred on July 12, 1988. Khoury had lay on
a bed and was overwhelmed by paralysis. A number of beings became apparent
around him. One of them, a tall thin golden yellow coloured being, with
large black eyes, inserted a long needle like object into the side of
his head. Khoury blackout. He regained consciousness with a start and
rushed into the adjoining room where he found other family members in
a "switched-off" state. Rousing them, Khoury found that while
they thought only some 10 minutes had passed, in reality it seemed between
1 to 2 hours had passed. An injury to his head was verified.
At that time Peter Khoury had no real context to anchor his disturbing
experience. Eventually he became aware of abduction experiences and entered
the UFO field to initially understand what happened to him. Eventually,
frustrated with the problems and politics that plagued his association
with ufology he formed a support group - the UFO Experience Support Association
(UFOESA) during April, 1993.
Despite trying to focus on supporting
others, Peter Khoury found that strange experiences had continued for
him. In retrospect, the most striking one occurred on July 23, 1992, according
to diary entries.
He had been recovering from head injuries received
in a job site assault (he worked in the building industry in his own cement
rendering business). At about 7 am, having returned to his Sydney suburban
home from the train station, after dropping off his wife, Khoury felt
unwell and lay down on the bed to sleep. He awoke with a start sometime
later, becoming aware of something alighting on the bed. He was shocked
to see two strange women kneeling on the end of his bed.
Both were naked. One appeared Nordic and the
other Asian. Aspects of their appearance were quite odd. The Nordic female
had a very elongated face and a sharply point chin. Her eyes appeared
to be blue and 2 to 3 times larger than normal. She had very fine wispy
blonde hair that seemed to be oddly blown up. Her skin colour was quite
light. The dark brown skinned Asian looking woman seemed to have almost
completely black eyes. Her hair was black and set in a firm page-boy style.
Although no normal communication occurred, the Nordic woman seemed to
be in charge and Khoury got the impression she was giving the Asian looking
woman some sort of instruction. What followed was quite disorientating
for Khoury. The Nordic woman, who seemed to be over 6 feet tall and apparently
very strong, reached forward and pulled Khoury's head to her breast. He
resisted, trying to pull away.
She did this 3 times. Finally Khoury, trying
to cope with the shock and disorientating nature of this experience, bit
on her nipple apparently swallowing a piece from it. The Nordic woman,
although seemingly confused, did not react with any pain and nor was there
any sign of blood. She seemed to convey to the other woman that this was
not the way things were supposed to happen. Khoury was overcome with a
coughing fit. Moments later, looking up again, he found that both women
had vanished.
The coughing caused Khoury to go to the bathroom
to get a drink of water. When he went to urinate he found it very painful
to do so, due to, it turned out, some very fine blonde hair wrapped tightly
under his foreskin. Khoury removed the hair and had the foresight to place
it in a plastic sachet bag with a seal. He did that because he felt there
was no way it should have been there.
It was unlike his wife's hair. Khoury concluded
that something extraordinarily bizarre had just occurred and linked the
2 pieces of blonde thin hair (about 10-12 cm & 6-8 cm long) to the
strange tall, blonde haired Nordic looking woman. Even though Vivian had
been very supportive of him about his 1988 abduction experience, Peter
refrained from telling her what occurred for about 2 weeks. She accepted
it far better than Peter did, telling him it was something he has no control
over and they would deal with it as best as they could.
Like many other abductees Peter Khoury has had
a number of experiences. During November, 1996, while lying in bed with
Vivian beside him asleep, he felt an energy presence intruding into the
room. He opened his eyes. He saw what seemed to be several hooded small
figures (similar to his 1988 experience) appearing to come through the
mirror. As they came closer Peter experienced paralysis and felt he was
being floated horizontally feet first towards the mirror.
Touching the surface of the mirror with his
feet felt like he was going into water, like a change of density, not
something solid. Khoury felt a sense of electrical static buzzing right
through his body. He watched as the reflection of his head approached
his face. As soon as they touched, he blacked out. He did not remember
anything else other than waking up in the bed again.
There were other episodes in about 1994 or
early 1995 involving a light burst or sound of an explosion, this being
witnessed in part by Vivian. On another occasion he felt a "pins
and needles" paralysis developing. He tried to wake Vivian. He was
eventually after great difficulty able to touch her. She woke up and simultaneously
it was "like somebody ripped the sheets off him". Peter likened
it to as if something was sucked out of him. The feeling had been engulfing
him and as soon as he touched Vivian the feeling was gone.
Between 1996 and 1999 Khoury is unaware
of any experiences.
In 1996, Peter was hypnotically regressed by
Pulitzer prize-winning, Harvard psychiatrist John Mack to try to clarify
the 1988 experience. Under Mack's regression Peter described being taken
into an illuminated room. He was on a table with one entity above him,
speaking to him but with a sound like birds chirping. It was one person
- a shadowy tall figure - but the sound seemed like 50 of them. Peter
thought at the time, how was he going to remember what the entity told
him.
The recollection faded and everything went
dark again. That was all that came out in the session. Peter has had a
couple of regression sessions. He is not really satisfied with any of
the hypnotic recollections and feels more comfortable with the consciously
recollected details, such as those of 1988 and 1992.
(left to right) Prof. John Mack, Peter Khoury, Bill Chalker & Dominique
Callimanopulos (Photo: P. Khoury)
Because of the bizarre and controversial nature
of the 1992 episode, Peter was more comfortable describing his 1988 experience.
The strange encounter with the 2 unusual women was discussed and examined
in a limited and fragmentary way. It was not until 1996 that I heard from
Peter Khoury about the hair sample that had been recovered from what may
have been an alien abduction sexual assault case.
By 1998, I began an investigation into the hair
sample, when biochemical colleagues agreed to undertake what was the world's
first PCR (polymerase Chain Reaction) DNA profiling of biological material
implicated in an alien abduction experience. The analysis confirmed the
hair came from someone who was biologically close to normal human genetics,
but of an unusual racial type - a rare Chinese Mongoloid type - one of
the rarest human lineages known, that lies further from the human mainstream
than any other except for African pygmies and aboriginals.
There was the strange anomaly of it being blonde
to clear instead of black, as would be expected from the Asian type mitochondrial
DNA. The study concluded, "The most probable donor of the hair must
therefore be as (Khoury) claims: a tall blonde female who does not need
much colour in her hair or skin, as a form of protection against the sun,
perhaps because she does not require it."
An artist's impression of the blonde haired "nordic" being encountered
by Peter Khoury in Sydney during 1992.
The DNA sequence overlayed was extracted from
the hair sample recovered by Khoury (from the cover of the International
UFO Reporter (IUR), Spring, 1999)
Magnified hair sample showing optical transparency and pronounced mosaic
structure. The circles of light are reflections. Photo taken from video
(B.Chalker/APEG). The DNA sequence on the left is from the hair shaft.
The original DNA work was done on the shaft
of the hair. Fascinating further anomalies were found in the root of the
hair. Two types of DNA were found depending on where the mitochondrial
DNA testing occurs, namely confirming the rare Chinese type DNA in the
hair shaft and indicating a rare possible Basque/Gaelic type DNA in the
root section.
The Hair Root DNA Sequence
This was very puzzling and controversial, until
a 'Nature Biotechnology' paper appeared in 2000. It revealed recent findings
on hair transplanting with previously incompatible hair, using advanced
cloning techniques, developed in a possible cure for baldness. We seem
to be seeing similar combined or "grafted" DNA in the sample
recovered under controversial circumstances by Peter Khoury back in 1992.
Perhaps even more controversial is that we
have findings suggestive of nuclear DNA indicating possible viral resistance.
The hair sample seems to show it contains 2 deleted genes for CCR5 protein
and no intact gene for normal undeleted CCR5 - this CCR5 deletion factor
has been implicated in aids resistance. To keep a very complex story somewhat
uncomplicated, what seems to be suggested by the range of findings is
possible evidence for advanced DNA techniques and DNA anomalies &
findings, for which we are only now discovering or starting to make sense
of in mainstream biotechnology.
The nature of these genetic findings has lead
to some interesting possible connections with ancient cultures, myths
and archaeological finds such as the strange Taklamakan mummies in China
(tall European like peoples (Celtic?), some of whom had blonde hair) and
the stories of the female Basque God Mari and the Gaelic Irish tales of
the Tuatha da Danann.
The Tuatha tales describe powerful gods with
orange or blonde hair and other unusual attributes. While such cultural
and mythic connections are fascinating speculations, they provide for
an interesting perspective on the many stories of Nordic type beings implicated
in UFO abduction and contact cases.
(left to right)"Statuette in the Hood"
- in ivory from the Aurignacian Period, at the Grotte du Pape, Bassempouy
("Stone Age Satuette" by J. Ben, FSR Case Histories (1971)from
the Musee des Antiquites Nationales at Saint-Germain-en Laye); artist's
impression of the female being in the 1957 Antonio Villas Boas event (with
blonde hair, sharp angular chin and blue eyes)(Artist Tony Roberts in
"UFOs - the definitive casebook" by J. Spencer (1991); reconstructed
impression of the face of the "Beauty of Kroran" mummy from
Tarim/Tuklamakan, China, with hair described as "blondish-brown"
in colour ("The Tarim Mummies" by J. Mallory & V. Mair (2000);
artist's impression of the blonde haired, blue eyed and fair skinned female
being encountered by Peter Khoury in 1992.
Mari - the neolithic Goddess of Old Europe and
the primary deity in Basque mythology - has many manifestations, including
"as a tree that looks like a woman or a tree emitting flames",
"a white cloud or rainbow, or a ball of fire in the air", a
"sickle of fire, as which she appears crossing the sky" and
"seen enveloped in fire, lying down horizontally, moving through
the air".
The records from ancient Ireland describe a
whole series of invasions. The "Lebor Gabala Erren" ("The
Book of the Taking of Ireland" or the "Book of Invasions")
, compiled during the 12th century A.D. describes the coming of the mysterious
Tuatha de' Danann or Tribe of Danu. They were apparently tall, blond or
red-haired strangers, "expert in the arts of pagan cunning",
who supposedly interbred with the locals, while teaching them many kinds
of useful skills. The Lebor Gabala records their dramatic entrance to
Ireland as follows:
"In this wise they came, in dark clouds
from northern islands of the world. They landed on the mountains of Conmaicne
Rein in Connachta, and they brought a darkness over the sun for three
days and three nights. Gods were their men of arts, and non-gods their
husbandmen."
A gold ship model from 1st century BC Broighter,
Ireland. There are many stories of aerial ships or "demon ships"
("loinger demnacda") in the Irish annuals.
Extracts from the Lebor Gabala (top & centre)
and an artist's impression of a likeness of the Tuatha people
According to the mythic tales the Tuatha de'
Danann were advanced enough to arrive in western Ireland (near modern
Connacht) by air. They divided into two social classes: "gods"
as teachers of medicine, smithing, communication or druidry, and "non-gods"
as farmers or shepherds. Although no one knows for certain what the Tuatha
looked like, descriptions, such as of their female war-leader Eriu, indicate
tall attractive people with pale skin, high foreheads, long red hair and
large blue eyes.
Other descriptions indicate blonde, golden hair
with blue eyes. The blonde haired woman in the 1957 abduction of Antonio
Villas Boas also had red body hair (pubic hair). She seems remarkably
like Peter's female visitor and the description of Eriu. If the Tuatha
cross-bred with local humans, they would have left hybrid descendants
who look somewhat like themselves.
Further focused DNA analyses of biological samples
implicated in alleged alien abduction experiences will help determine
the reality behind the claims of abductions and the validity of speculations
driven by DNA, historical, cultural and mythic connections.
Some limited funding has permitted the purchase
of specialised equipment to further this fascinating and groundbreaking
work. Funding has permitted a DNA research presence, co-ordinated by the
APEG, in a friendly laboratory facility.
The Equipment and Facility
Photos Here Soon
The heart of the procedure - the PCR Express
system (left).
The imaging and data transfer equipment (right)
Specialised freezer (left) and centrifuge (centre)
plus controlled water bath/gel processing equipment (right)
PCR & DNA consumables (chemicals etc) (left
& right)
'New Directions in
Alleged Alien Abduction Investigation and Research':
A proven focused DNA technique for
assessing claims of alien abduction
By Bill Chalker
Many abduction cases exist where alleged biological
evidence has been reported. Few of these cases have been the subject of
investigations that try to adequately address the question of whether
such evidence supports or refutes the possible alien reality behind such
experiences.
Such events lend themselves to an established
forensic DNA profiling technique, which could help establish the credibility
of such claims. Since most abduction cases imply a measure of unwanted
assault on the victims of such experiences, a forensic approach towards
verification of the alleged perpetrators is desirable. Since DNA is the
only building block of life that we know, biological specimens recovered
in alleged abduction cases would provide researchers with a clear point
of comparison.
A key claim by many abduction researchers is
that abductions involve some form of genetic agenda. This scenario would
require compatibility between aliens and humans. The claims of sexual
encounters are alleged to add further support to this scenario. This very
element amongst the extraordinary range of fantastic claims made about
abductions is one of major stumbling blocks to the credibility of abduction
claims.
Mainstream science argues that if alien life
exists it is unlikely to be compatible with human life. Hence any claims
to the contrary, such as alien abductions, are regarded as absurd. Therefore
this limited and focused DNA profiling technique goes to the very heart
of one of key claims behind the alleged alien abduction agenda. It provides
an opportunity for testing the credibility of such claims.
If such claims are true then there should be
some compatibility in the DNA of alleged alien specimens, but some possible
anomalies may be evident that would perhaps not be readily reconciled
with measures of human DNA variability. One established way of undertaking
this is to undertake such analysis with the goal to establish a precise
DNA base sequence of mitochondrial hypervariable region I, spanning nucleotides
16,000 to 16,400 of mitochondrial DNA.
Such DNA is present in hundreds of copies within
each human cell, and therefore acts as an easily amplified genetic marker
for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), even in moderately degraded samples,
i.e. measuring the DNA variability beyond the documented "human consensus"
of the region of DNA hypervariability.
This technique has been tested in one abduction
case to date, in an investigation undertaken by this writer of a biological
sample - a blonde hair - implicated in the abduction milieu of a Sydney
man, Peter Khoury, during 1992:
"Strange Evidence", International
UFO Reporter (IUR), Spring, 1999 issue, Volume 24, No 1, pgs. 3-16, 31.
"UFO ABDUCTIONS & SCIENCE - A CASE
STUDY OF STRANGE EVIDENCE", Australasian Ufologist, Vol.3, No.3,
3rd, 1999, pgs. 43-56.
The original analysis confirmed the hair came
from someone who was biologically close to normal human genetics, but
of an unusual racial type - a rare Chinese Mongoloid type - one of the
rarest human lineages known, that lies further from the human mainstream
than any other except for African pygmies and aboriginals.
There was the strange anomaly of it being blonde
to clear instead of black, as would be expected from the Asian type mitochondrial
DNA. The original DNA work was done on the shaft of the hair. Fascinating
further anomalies were found in the root of the hair. Two types of DNA
were found depending on where the mitochondrial DNA testing occurs, namely
confirming the rare Chinese type DNA in the hair shaft and indicating
a rare possible Basque/Gaelic type DNA in the root section.
This case confirms the utility of the DNA forensic
approach, however the real challenge ahead for researchers is to determine
if these anomalies are both valid and significant. To do this, researchers
in the controversial area of abductions should cooperate with a testing
programme focused on this specific area of DNA profiling. Testing of a
significant number of legitimate samples would provide an opportunity
for validation of the unusual anomalies found to date. The further results
would add to the database of biological evidence of alleged alien specimens.
Such a strategy could help to determine if
aliens are a biological reality and if indeed any are visiting our planet
and abducting humans. Perhaps such information could also provide for
an interesting perspective on the many stories of Nordic type beings implicated
in UFO abduction and contact cases.
The Anomaly Physical Evidence Group (APEG) has
been formed to focus attention on biological strategies in abduction investigations.
Preliminary funding has facilitated a small laboratory presence addressing
this exciting area.
The APEG can be contacted through this writer
at P.O. Box 42, West Pennant Hills, NSW, 2125, Australia or via bill_c@bigpond.com
Further funding of this research is encouraged.
Please contact Bill Chalker for further details.
Anyone who believes they have legitimate biological
evidence implicated in UFO and abduction experiences are encouraged to
contact the APEG through Bill Chalker. Any such evidence will need to
be assessed for its potential as credible evidence warranting the cost,
resources and time involved in this DNA focused study.
CONTACT: BILL CHALKER/APEG
The
author can be contacted at:
P.O. Box 42
West Pennant Hills,
NSW, 2125,
AUSTRALIA.
Phone: Sydney, Australia + 9484 4680
or by email: bill_c@bigpond.com
About Bill Chalker:
· Born in Grafton, New South Wales (NSW),
Australia, and educated at the University of New England, graduating with
an Honours Science Degree (B.Sc. Hons.) with majors in Chemistry and Mathematics.
He lives in Sydney, Australia.
· More than 2 decades experience in industry
as a chemist, laboratory manager and quality manager.
· One of Australia's leading UFO researchers,
having written extensively on the subject.
· A contributing editor for the International
UFO Reporter.
· His book on the Australia UFO experience,
"The OZ Files: the Australian UFO story", was published in Australia
by Duffy & Snellgrove in 1996.
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