Foud it, the DNA test was carried out by Anomaly Physical Evidence Group (APEG).
Did a google search and couldnt find this group but i did find Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG)
www.apeg.org.au/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspxI wonder if its the same company but with a different name ?
Below are the findings of the DNA Test:
THE DNA ANALYSIS
The analysis by the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group
(APEG) was perfomed on mitochondrial DNA. As explained
in The Gene Letter, Vol. 1, No. 2 (www.geneletter.
org/0996/adameve.htm), “Mitochondria are small energyengines
that live outside the nucleus of the cell and have
their own DNA, which is distinct from chromosomal DNA.
. . . Although both sexes have them, mitochondria are
transmitted only by women.” (For those who want to read
more about PCR, I suggest Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology,
by Paul Rabinow (1996), or Kary Mullis’s
article, “The Unusual Origin of the Polymerase Chain
Reaction,” in Scientific American, April 1990.)
The mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis utilizing
PCR has found some intriguing results. It is important for
the integrity of the research that the full report be printed
below, but some of the key results are listed here.
. . . mitochondrial DNA analysis of the hair shaft from a reportedly tall, blonde alien female shows that she is biologically close to normal human genetics, but of an unusual racial type. . . . One might predict further that her DNA should match closely that of racial types in Finland, Iceland, or Scandinavia, given the long, thin blonde hair as direct evidence, plus her tall stature and fair skin from eyewitness testimony, but . . . that seems not to be the case.
. . . The blonde hair provides for a strange and unusual DNA sequence, showing five consistent substitutions from a human consensus (present in all cloned sequences), which could not easily have come from anyone else in the Sydney area except by the rarest of chances; is not apparently due to any sort of laboratory contamination; and is found only in a few other people throughout the whole world.
What implications might these comparisons have for possible authenticity of the alien hair sample as collected by the young man in Sydney in 1992? While it would not be impossible for him to have had sexual contact with some fair-skinned, nearly albino female from the Sydney area, such an explanation is ruled out by the DNA evidence, which fits only a Chinese Mongoloid as a donor of the hair. Furthermore, while it might be possible to find a few Chinese in Sydney with the same DNA as seen in just 4% of Taiwanese women, it would not be plausible to find a Chinese woman here with thin, almost clear hair, having the same rare DNA. Finally, that thin blonde hair could not plausibly represent a chemically-bleached Chinese (including the root), because then it’s DNA could not easily have been extracted.
The most probable donor of the hair must therefore be as the young man claims: a tall blonde female who does not need much color in her hair or skin as a form of protection against the sun, perhaps because she does not require it. Could this young man really have provided, by chance, a hair sample which contains DNA from one of the rarest human lineages known . . . that lies further from the mainstream than any other except for African Pygmies and aboriginals? |
While we have made some advances in understanding
abduction cases, I think we are still far from knowing
exactly what is involved. Other UFO researchers are not so
hesitant. They feel they already have answers and that we
are dealing with apparent extraterrestrials.
Many researchers argue that the richness of the human
mind and dynamic interplay with researchers is spawning
these accounts, not aliens. The UFO abduction mystery is
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not simply the product of one investigator or an artifact of
regressive hypnosis. Many cases involve witnesses with
conscious recall of their abduction experiences—as with
Peter Khoury—and some include odd physical evidence,
but none perhaps as well-documented as this report.
I am an advocate of careful, serious, and thorough
inquiry into such experiences. Until such investigations and
support become the norm rather than the exception, abduction
experiences will continue to be a marginalized fringe
controversy. Peter Khoury, Kelly Cahill, and others like
them deserve better than the polarized extremes we have
now of uncritical belief and ignorant skepticism. Science
can be a powerful tool in trying to determine what is
happening in the bizarre phenomenon of alien abductions.
Mitochondrial DNA sequence from the blonde woman’s hair strand.
Magnified hair sample showing optical transparency and pronounced mosaic structure of anomalous hair. The circles of lights are reflections. Photo taken from video. B. Chalker/APEG.