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Strange Evidence

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GENERAL IMPLICATIONS

Studies of mitochondrial DNA among various human types have led to disturbing conclusions, if one accepts the Darwinian theory which suggests that we evolved gradually from apes, by random mutation followed by natural selection. For example, humans appear to be far less genetically diverse than other species such as chimpanzees, which suggests a recent “bottleneck” in our origin (L. B. Jorde, et al., “Using Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Markers to Reconstruct Human Evolution,” Bioessays 20 (1998): 126– 136).

Also modern Caucasians and Asians differ greatly from the lower primates in terms of genes for Rh factor (a determinant of fertility) and DNA sequences on the Y chromosome (among others). Could these large changes of DNA structure have come about just through random mutation and drift? Or might the modern human population be a recent introduction to Earth from elsewhere, say 30,000 years ago when the Neanderthals went into rapid decline?

This suggestion is grounded on the idea that evolution would proceed more rapidly, on a galactic scale, with transfer of biological material from one solar system to another, rather than having life develop separately. This hypothesis is known as panspermia, or the seeding of life. If such transfer is common, then it would not be inconceivable that we would share a DNA sequence with aliens. We cannot know the answers to these questions without much more open minded, well funded scientific research.

Today most professional scientists deny that there could be any humans elsewhere with greater technical capability than our own; deny that there could exist any humans co-fertile with us from elsewhere; and deny that ancient people could have been superior to ourselves in the late 20th century.

Great progress could be made if both UFO and alien abduction studies were accepted within the scientific community as viable research, so as to deserve open discussion and funding of a high priority. Scientists of all kinds could then work with competent anomaly investigators as we have done here, to obtain samples for research; while the primary providers of such evidence need not be scorned, but could be treated as favorably as say Schliemann who found Troy, or some archaeologist who finds a novel human skeleton.

Why should any science be forbidden?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was conducted on private funds (A$5,000) and in a private laboratory, without outside support. APEG is a professional scientific group with no outside ties. Its members wish to remain anonymous for now.

Copies of a video tape on which the alien hair appears by darkfield microscopy, as well as copies of the alien DNA sequences which were cloned into plasmids, have been made and may be made available to serious researchers on request and where appropriate.

POSTSCRIPT BY BILL CHALKER

Other scientists have considered the issue of “humans” elsewhere. For example, Paul Davies, Allen Hynek’s former friend, has written about this in his books Are We Alone (1995) and The Fifth Miracle (1998). In the former, in an appendix entitled “The Argument for Duplicate Beings,” he states “The general conclusion of the argument is that, in most reasonably spatially infinite cosmological models with conservative assumptions, there are indeed an infinite number of duplicate beings.”

He also writes (p. 23), “if we were to discover extraterrestrial DNA that could be proved to be of independent origin, it would strike at the very heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory and the entire (currently dominant) scientific paradigm in which all teleology is decisively rejected.” When I go bush occasionally, where the sheer immensity and closeness of the night sky is very powerfully present, I have the overwhelming sense that our little portion of the cosmos is far from unique, and that we are far from unique. Life it out there. It may not be all that surprising that one day we might find that some of it is like us in so many ways, even down to its fundamental base, such as DNA itself.