Strange Evidence Part 2

Indeed, if these bizarre events occur at some physical level (at least as we understand it), then potential physical DNA evidence should be available. We have been studying some specimens, in particular a controversial hair sample. As the following report will show, we have undertaken a mitochondrial DNA Sequence analysis of a hair follicle from an apparent alien abduction case. This method has allowed us to provide a measure of reality to an experience that would otherwise be deemed just too bizarre.

Without this level of scientific validation, the incident would be no less unbelievable than most other abduction episodes. But now the case has the benefit of scientific evidence that lends it credibility and hints at unusual and hitherto unsuspected connections. ALIENS AND HAIR? Most aliens in abduction episodes, particularly the so called “grays,” are described as hairless, but in a significant number of cases hair is mentioned. Tall, Nordic-like beings have been reported, as in the Travis Walton case of 1975. Separate from his initial encounter with small, fetuslike aliens, Walton reported seeing three tall humanoids, two men and a woman, each similar in appearance and with the same coarse, brownish blonde hair.

The woman’s hair was longer, past her shoulders. There are many other cases like this. The apparently bald grays have only dominated abduction reports in the last two decades, especially since Whitley Strieber’s Communion (1987). Budd Hopkins in Intruders (1987) described “hybrid children” with thin, wispy hair. David Jacobs in The Threat (1998) records extensive abductee interactions with human looking hybrids. The concept of hybrids in abduction accounts is difficult to reconcile with our current understanding of the limitations of interspecies breeding.

Indeed, given the possibility that we may be dealing with a vastly technologically superior species that is very likely biologically different from us, alien human hybrids seem both scientifically improbable and logically implausible. We might reason that if aliens have visited us through advanced space travel or some space time wormhole, the barriers to combining different biochemical building blocks might have also been solved. But, even then, why create such hybrids? Maybe David Jacobs’s scenario should be turned on its head: Perhaps alien human hybrids are a cover for a much simpler agenda—the preservation of our stock, not theirs.

But this is wild, unsubstantiated speculation. Michael Swords has presented some excellent reviews of this problem in “Extraterrestrial Hybridization Unlikely,” MUFON UFO Journal, November 1988, and “Modern Biology and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis” in the MUFON 1991 International UFO Symposium Proceedings. An entertaining discussion of the problems can also be found in Jeanne Cavelos’s book The Science of the X-Files (see the chapter on “Grays, Hybrids, and UFOs”).

PETER KHOURY: I now turn to Peter Khoury, the individual whose abduction experience was the focus of the DNA sequence PCR study. In order to give an accurate and complete account of the affair, I need to paint a picture of the abduction milieu that has focused on him. Many people are searching for answers for a profound mystery—an abduction experience that has intruded into their lives. Some will be well served by ethical and professional UFO researchers.

Others may encounter extreme elements within the UFO community or the skeptical contingent. Fortunately, if difficulties occur there are alternatives. Support groups, for example, have sprung up in many Australian states; if properly run, they serve an important function. One of the most notable examples of the support group concept in Australia has been the UFO Experience Support Association (UFOESA) based in Sydney.

It emerged out of frustrations with the formal UFO group structure. It describes itself as “a nonprofit, voluntary organization dedicated to helping witnesses and experiencers of UFO events cope with and understand their encounters.” UFOESA’s coordinator, Peter Khoury, was born in Lebanon in 1964 and migrated to Australia in 1973 where he met his future wife Vivian at school in 1981.

They married in 1990 and have two children, Stephen (born in 1995) and Georgia (1998). Peter works in the building industry, and has had his own business in cement rendering. Peter’s introduction to UFOs was modest to begin with. In February 1988 he and Vivian had seen a strange light making extraordinary movements in conjunction with a beam of light. Vivian had also gotten him to read Shirley MacLaine’s Out on a Limb (1986).

These were hardly momentous entrées, but all that changed with a shattering and life changing experience in July 1988. This is how Peter described it: On the 12th July 1988, I had an experience which changed my life. While . . . lying on my bed, I felt something grab my ankles. As I felt this, a strange numbness, tingling and churning sensation crawled up through my body and right up to my head. I was paralyzed, I could not move any part of my body but for the exception of my eyes which I could move, open, or close.

My brain was functioning but I could not do anything physically. I tried to call out to family members but I could not force the words out. At this stage I started to panic, thinking I would not walk again. I thought I was truly paralyzed. All of a sudden I looked to my right side and I could see three or four figures wearing dark robes with hoods on their heads. Their faces were very wrinkled and shiny dark black in color. They were only about three to four feet in height. It was then that communication was made telepathically.

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