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18 Aliens and the dead
feel it in his throat. The woman only looked at
him in puzzlement. She did not act as if she
we re in pain, and there was no blood. At that
point the two va n i s h e d .
The nipple was caught in his throat, causing
him to cough persistently for hours. Eventually,
he was able to swallow it. In the meantime,
feeling pain in his genital region, he
examined his penis. There he found two hairs
wrapped tightly around it. He had no idea
how they had gotten there, unless they had
been placed on his penis as he was sleeping.
As he untangled them, he felt enormous pain.
He preserved the strands—one about twelve
centimeters long, the other about six—in a
plastic bag.
Though many abductees have reported sexual
experiences with aliens (or, as some researchers
think, alien/human hybrids), none
have come out of the experience with a supposed
part of an alien body.
In 1999 Chalker, a chemist by profession
and a well-regarded UFO investigator by avocation,
brought the strands to a group of biochemists
for analysis. The analysis reads in
part:
The blonde hair provides for a strange and unusual
DNA sequence, showing five consistent
substitutions from a human consensus . . .
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. . . .
While it may not be impossible for him to
h a ve had sexual contact with some fairskinned,
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. Fu rt h e rm
o re, 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. Fi n a l l y, that thin
blonde hair could not plausibly re p resent a
chemically-bleached Chinese (including the
root) because then its DNA could not easily
h a ve 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? (Chalker, 1999).
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Hybrid beings;
Strieber, Whitley
Further Reading
Chalker, Bill, 1999. “Strange Evidence.” Interna -
tional UFO Reporter 24, 1 (Spring): 3–16, 31.
Strieber, Whitley, 1987. Communion: A True Story.
New York: Beach Tree/William Morrow.
Aliens and the dead
In the view of UFO-abduction investigator
David M. Jacobs, aliens sometimes take on
the form of deceased relatives in the interest of
keeping their activities secret.
He recounts the experience of a woman to
whom he gives the pseudonym Lily Ma rt i nson.
Vacationing with her mother in the Vi rgin
Islands in 1987, Ma rtinson woke up in
her hotel room to observe the apparition of
her dead brother watching her from the foot
of the bed. The experience comforted her.
L a t e r, howe ve r, when Jacobs put her under
hypnosis, Ma rtinson saw the individual she
had thought was her brother as, in Ja c o b s’s
w o rds, “a person without clothes, small, thin,
no hair, and large eyes.” He calls such individuals
as Ma rtinson “u n a w a re abductees.”
Un a w a re abductees “explain their strange experiences
in ways acceptable to society, interp
reting the entities they see as ghosts, angels,
demons, or even animals.”
See Also: Abductions by UFOs
Further Reading
Jacobs, David M., 1998. The Threat. New York:
Simon and Schuster.