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I wonder if Shell has contacted Lloyd Pye to see if some of the people he has worked with have had the Opitz hypothesis come up, and what the response was?
How the hell has Bob Shell managed to get a 3-D effect with the texts on his front page?!
Mac -- I just also read Bob Shell's response to your questions about Alien Autopsy on UFO Updates and I have to say it made me rethink the whole issue again. Based on his convincing-sounding expertise, it strikes me as though we can almost certainly eliminate (but see table below) the possibility that we're looking at a plastic dummy. This leaves the possibilities of either a malformed human being or a real alien. I was particularly impressed by Bob Shell's remarks on the musculature of the body and how it differs from standard human muscle structure. I'm not totally convinced that's it's not human, but I'm less certain than I was.
And ya know, the corpse DOES look like a "Gray" without the insectoid black goggle-eyepiece thingies or whatever they are! Sorry if I sound like I'm continuing to beat a dead horse (or alien) but this is definitely a dead horse of a different color!
Re the Starchild skull, I found the human malformation theory a bit less convincing. Frankly the Starchild skull doesn't seem to me to resemble very closely the malformation examples in the reference. But who knows at this point? I think it's good just to keep all the possibilities in mind without necessarily coming down with absolute positivity for any one. Carrying out this idea, I've created the following "plausibility table" for the body in AA, assigning the plausibility of each explanation a % rating 1-100:
Plastic dummy - 10%
Real alien - 25%
Malformed human being - 65%
Sound about right?
BTW, a couple of implications of both the Starchild skull and the body in AA:
1) If they're BOTH truly aliens, then they likely come from different SPECIES of alien, since the skull shape, nasal placement, etc., seem quite distinct.
2) If even one of them is truly alien, this implies that this alien species is remarkably similar to human beings. This would, in turn, mean that whatever evolutionary path the alien species followed, it lead to a strong "convergence" with human evolution. This in itself would be a stunning discovery and would actually lend credence even to the cheesy "Star Trek" notion of mostly humanoid aliens.
WM Bear,
in re:
"2)...it lead to a strong "convergence" with human evolution".
Perhaps the alien species is an evolutionary "divergence" from a common root or source millenia ago. We would then logically be the primitive or younger branch, what with our "fur", small craniums, and low level ot technological development.
This would suggest that we are all in fact aliens biologically. The question then becomes...where did the original "humanoids" come from?
I must agree with your percentages table. While I feel more strongly for the "dummy" explanation, I fully recognize that many out there are convinced that it is at least an organic being, wherever it may come from.
I'll add that when Bob Shell posted to Updates that he could find no photos of Opitz or C Syndrome on the web, I located two links and passed them on to him, both of which he cited in his post. The clinical one with the skull x-rays seemed a very close match to Pye's star child, and I mentioned that in passing.
On further examination of Opitz literature however, I'm not convinced of a link between Opitz and the star child skull...but it sure seemed odd that out of a search for data to assist a discussion of Roswell, a potential revelation sprang forth on a completely different subject.
Perhaps there is much more to be discovered about our government's history of human experimentation...perhaps going back much longer than anyone thought, and perhaps involving many other controversial topics.
At any rate, your analogy with Star Trek is most apt. Of course, Star Treks Roddenberry & co. created the "common root" idea to hide the fact that a small budget does not fund a "creature of the week" for long. Fortunately, it WILL buy plenty of blue pancake and crepe hair. The result was an imaginative and memorable "melting pot", indeed.
Kyle
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As I recall the preliminary lab work on the Starchild had indicated that at least the mother's line was homo sapiens.
WMB--
I think your percentages are in the ballpark. I still suspect Shell is overlooking some characteristics of progeria. I hope to share my findings with him shortly. Fortunately he's being a good sport about this, which can't be said about a lot of "experts." We may just learn something...