Peter Khoury and "Hair of the Alien" 25th anniversary

[mike]

theozfiles

"Hair of the Alien" is "the single most convincing fact ever found in support of the physical reality of aliens" - Whitley Strieber author of the best selling book “Communion” - in "Whitley's Journal", Sunday August 7th, 2005

“In his remarkable book (“Hair of the Alien”) leading Australian researcher Bill Chalker, who has a background in chemistry and mathematics, describes his exemplary investigations into what has turned out to be arguably the most convincing case for alien abduction (the Peter Khoury case)” - Timothy Good “Earth – an alien Enterprise” (2013)

UFO Historian Richard Dolan has included a limited summary of the breakthrough Khoury “Hair of the Alien” DNA research story in his book “UFOs for the 21st century mind – a fresh guide to an ancient mystery” (2014) as a good example of “Encounters with “Them” that “are difficult to dismiss out of hand.”
"Hair of the Alien" brings us closer than ever before to understanding our past, our origins, and our place in the universe" - from the back cover of the book.

The following discussion took place on Clueless Wonder's UFO trail site:
(Susan Brownie had raised Peter Khoury's 1992 experience with Dr. Tyler Kokjohn, a professor of microbiology at the Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has been a sceptical player in this area but has advocated the application of DNA technology to assess the credibility of alien abduction and “hybrid” claims.

 

[marduk]

I love how all these guys weighed in on absolute nonsense and somehow came out unscathed.

 

[mike]

Ive seen one of Bills lectures on this case, His ideas have evolved since the book was titled.
The idea has shifted focus from "alien" DNA to human DNA thats been selectivly manipulated.
There is something odd about the results even if they are human DNA, they are rare and unusual.

 

[marduk]

Ive seen one of Bills lectures on this case, His ideas have evolved since the book was titled.
The idea has shifted focus from "alien" DNA to human DNA thats been selectivly manipulated.
There is something odd about the results even if they are human DNA, they are rare and unusual.

DNA can be damaged.

I wonder if you just grab a random hair on the ground and had it sequenced, if it would also show damage.

 

[Randall]

DNA can be damaged.

I wonder if you just grab a random hair on the ground and had it sequenced, if it would also show damage.

It depends on how much processing has been done to it ( bleaching, hot styling, Sun exposure, etc ). DNA analysis is a good idea but the samples do need to be high quality, or of sufficient quantity that data from numerous samples can be combined to form the complete chain. If only a few are missing they could be the ones that make the difference between us and trees, not that trees have hairs, but you get the idea. There's also a bit of a logic problem in that we really don't have any verifiable alien DNA from which a baseline has been established. We don't even know if they have DNA at all. That sort of makes me suspect that anything DNA based is probably of terrestrial origin, but then again we can't be sure of that either. Amino acid chains have been discovered in meteorites. So who knows? Maybe that's where all life in the universe begins.