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'''Lloyd Anthony Pye Jr.''' (September 7, 1946 – December 9, 2013) was an American author and [[paranormal]] researcher best known for his promotion of the [[Starchild skull]].<ref name= "Regal2009">{{cite book |last= Regal |first= Brian |date= 2009 |title= Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia |publisher= [[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood]] |isbn= 9780313355073 |page= 88}}</ref><ref name="Yorkshire Evening Post">{{cite news |title= Alien skull' star attraction at Leeds extra-terrestrial conference |url= http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/central-leeds/video_alien_skull_star_attraction_at_leeds_extra_terrestrial_conference_1_2216272 |accessdate= 2011-08-13 |newspaper= [[Yorkshire Evening Post]] |date= June 27, 2009}}</ref> He claimed it was the relic of a [[human-alien hybrid]],<ref name=Feder>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xmDnhPNLwYwC&pg=PA246 |chapter= Starchild |title= Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum |accessdate= 2011-03-17 |last= Feder |first= Kenneth L. |authorlink= Kenneth Feder |date= 2010 |publisher= ABC-CLIO |isbn= 9780313379185 |pages= 246–8}}</ref> although [[DNA testing]] showed it to be from a human male.<ref name=NESS/> He also promoted the ideas that [[cryptozoology|cryptozoological]] creatures such as [[sasquatch|Bigfoot]] are real and that aliens intervened in human development.<ref name="KOMO" /><ref>{{cite book |last= Pye |first= Lloyd |title= Everything You Know is Wrong: Book One: Human Origins |date= 2000 |publisher= Authors Choice Press |isbn= 9780595127498 |edition= reprint |page= |ref= {{SfnRef|Pye|2000}}}}{{Full|date=January 2014}}</ref>
'''Lloyd Anthony Pye Jr.''' (September 7, 1946&nbsp;– December 9, 2013) was an American author and [[paranormal]] researcher best known for his promotion of the [[Starchild skull]].<ref name= "Regal2009">{{cite book |last= Regal |first= Brian |date= 2009 |title= Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia |publisher= [[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood]] |isbn= 9780313355073 |page= 88}}</ref><ref name="Yorkshire Evening Post">{{cite news |title= Alien skull' star attraction at Leeds extra-terrestrial conference |url= http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/central-leeds/video_alien_skull_star_attraction_at_leeds_extra_terrestrial_conference_1_2216272 |access-date= 2011-08-13 |newspaper= [[Yorkshire Evening Post]] |date= June 27, 2009}}</ref> He claimed it was the relic of a [[Alien abduction#Child presentation|human-alien hybrid]],<ref name=Feder>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xmDnhPNLwYwC&pg=PA246 |chapter= Starchild |title= Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum |access-date= 2011-03-17 |last= Feder |first= Kenneth L. |author-link= Kenneth Feder |date= 2010 |publisher= [[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn= 9780313379185 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofdu0000fede/page/246 246–8] |url= https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofdu0000fede/page/246 }}</ref> although [[genetic testing]] showed it to be from a human male.<ref name=NESS/> He also promoted the ideas that [[cryptozoology|cryptozoological]] creatures such as [[Bigfoot]] are real and that aliens intervened in human development.<ref name="KOMO" /><ref>{{cite book |last= Pye |first= Lloyd |title= Everything You Know is Wrong: Book One: Human Origins |date= 2000 |publisher= Authors Choice Press |isbn= 9780595127498 |edition= reprint }}{{Full citation needed |date=January 2014}}</ref>


==Writing==
==Writing==
Pye's first book ''That Prosser Kid'' (1977), a fictional account of college football, was said to have "achieved considerable recognition" by the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature,<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last= Serafin |editor1-first= Steven R. |editor2-last= Bendixen |editor2-first= Alfred |title= The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature |chapter= Sports and Literature |date= 2005 |publisher= Continuum International Publishing |isbn= 0826417779 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA1073 1073]}}</ref> and was called "lively but unoriginal" by the ''[[Boston Globe]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title= Book review: A somewhat tasty piece of Pye |last= Allen |first= Bruce |date= January 27, 1978 |newspaper= [[Boston Globe]] |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref> It received negative reviews in ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last= Freedman |first= Richard |title= Worlds of men |date= February 5, 1978 |newspaper= [[The New York Times|New York Times]] |department= ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40D1FF93C5413728DDDAC0894DA405B888BF1D3 |subscription= yes}}</ref><ref name= "Paine1977"/> His 1988 book ''Mismatch'' was called a "novel that ought to go on your must read list" by ''[[Deseret News]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title= Novel offers a chilling look at havoc caused by `phreaker' |date= April 2, 1989 |work= [[Deseret News]] |accessdate= 2011-08-27 |location= Salt Lake City, UT}}</ref>
Pye's first book ''That Prosser Kid'' (1977), a fictional account of college football, was said to have "achieved considerable recognition" by the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature,<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last= Serafin |editor1-first= Steven R. |editor2-last= Bendixen |editor2-first= Alfred |title= The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature |chapter= Sports and Literature |date= 2005 |publisher= Continuum International Publishing |isbn= 0826417779 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA1073 1073]}}</ref> and was called "lively but unoriginal" by ''[[The Boston Globe]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title= Book review: A somewhat tasty piece of Pye |last= Allen |first= Bruce |date= January 27, 1978 |newspaper= [[The Boston Globe]] }}</ref> It received negative reviews in ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' and the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last= Freedman |first= Richard |title= Worlds of men |date= February 5, 1978 |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |department= [[The New York Times Book Review]] |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40D1FF93C5413728DDDAC0894DA405B888BF1D3 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name= "Paine1977"/> His 1988 book ''Mismatch'' was called a "novel that ought to go on your must read list" by ''[[Deseret News]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title= Novel offers a chilling look at havoc caused by 'phreaker' |date= April 2, 1989 |work= [[Deseret News]] |location= Salt Lake City, UT}}</ref>


Pye also gave lectures and made television appearances in support of his ideas on [[TLC (TV channel)|The Learning Channel]], [[National Geographic Channel]], ''[[Extra (TV series)|Extra]]'', [[Animal Planet]], and ''[[Richard & Judy]]'' in the United Kingdom.<ref name=imdb>{{IMDb name|1057763}}. Retrieved 2011-08-13.</ref> Pye stated that he believed [[Bigfoot]] to exist,<ref name="KOMO">{{cite news |last= Calvert |first= Brian |title= 'I have no doubt they're out there' |url= http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4153441.html |work= [[KOMO-TV|KOMO News]] |origyear= May 26, 2005 |date= August 31, 2006 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120614033531/http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4153441.html |archivedate= 2012-06-14 |deadurl= no}}</ref> as well as the similar Mongolian cryptid the ''[[Almas (cryptozoology)|Almas]]''.{{sfn|Pye|2000|loc={{Full|date=January 2014}}}}
Pye also gave lectures and made television appearances in support of his ideas on [[TLC (TV network)|The Learning Channel]], [[National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)|National Geographic Channel]], ''[[Extra (U.S. TV program)|Extra]]'', [[Animal Planet]], and ''[[Richard & Judy]]'' in the United Kingdom.<ref name=imdb>{{IMDb name|1057763}}. Retrieved 2011-08-13.</ref> Pye stated that he believed Bigfoot to exist,<ref name="KOMO">{{cite news |last= Calvert |first= Brian |title= 'I have no doubt they're out there' |url= http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4153441.html |work= [[KOMO-TV|KOMO News]] |orig-year= May 26, 2005 |date= August 31, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120614033531/http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4153441.html |archive-date= 2012-06-14 |url-status= live}}</ref> as well as the similar Mongolian [[Cryptozoology|cryptid]] the ''[[Almas (cryptozoology)|Almas]]''.{{sfn|Pye|2000|loc={{Full citation needed |date=January 2014}}}}


In the 1980s, Pye wrote for television shows including ''[[Scarecrow and Mrs King]]'' and ''[[Magnum, PI]]''.<ref name= "Pye obit"/>
In the 1980s, Pye wrote for television shows, including ''[[Scarecrow and Mrs. King]]'' and ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''.<ref name= "Pye obit"/>


==The Starchild skull==
==The Starchild skull==
{{Main|Starchild skull}}
{{Main|Starchild skull}}
In the late 1990s, Pye obtained a curiously shaped [[skull]] from a couple in [[El Paso, Texas]] that he believed was an alien-human hybrid. DNA tests show that the skull is from a human male. American clinical neurologist [[Steven Novella]] has said the skull belongs to a child who suffered from [[hydrocephalus]].<ref name=Feder/><ref name=NESS>{{cite web|last=Novella|first=Steven|title=The Starchild Project|url=http://www.theness.com/index.php/the-starchild-project/|publisher=The New England Skeptical Society|accessdate=March 17, 2011}}</ref>
In the late 1990s, Pye obtained a curiously shaped [[skull]] from a couple in [[El Paso, Texas]], that he believed was an alien-human hybrid. DNA tests show that the skull is from a human male. American clinical neurologist [[Steven Novella]] has said the skull belongs to a child who suffered from [[hydrocephalus]].<ref name=Feder/><ref name=NESS>{{cite web|last=Novella|first=Steven|title=The Starchild Project|url=http://www.theness.com/index.php/the-starchild-project/|publisher=The New England Skeptical Society|access-date=March 17, 2011|date=July 20, 2009}}</ref>


In 2009, Pye took a replica of the skull on a lecture tour of Europe, including an appearance at the Leeds Exopolitics Expo.<ref name="Yorkshire Evening Post"/>
In 2009, Pye took a replica of the skull on a lecture tour of Europe, including an appearance at the Leeds Exopolitics Expo.<ref name="Yorkshire Evening Post"/>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Pye was born in [[Houma, Louisiana]], to Lloyd A. Pye Sr., an [[optometrist]] ({{circa}}1922 - 2007), and Nina Jo Pye (née Boyles); Lloyd Pye had two brothers and a sister.<ref>http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070919/OBITUARIES/709190326</ref><ref name=senior>{{cite news |url= http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070919/OBITUARIES/709190326 |title= Dr. Lloyd Pye Sr., O.D. |date= September 19, 2007 |work= [[The Houma Courier|Houma Today]] |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= [[Contemporary Authors|Contemporary Authors Online]] |chapter= Lloyd (Anthony) Pye, (Jr.) |publisher= [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |date= 2001 |accessdate= 2014-01-26 |subscription= yes}}</ref> He earned a [[American football|football]] [[Athletic scholarship|scholarship]] to [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans as a [[Running back]]/[[Punt (gridiron football)|Punter]] from 1964–1968.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TMBOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SUgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4638,1527667 |title= Miami tops Tulane |date= October 6, 1967 |work= [[Deseret News]] |page= 6A |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/msfitz/committee.html |title= Ms. Fitz Football Endowment Fund – Committee |work= Tulane Green Wave |type= website |publisher= [[Tulane University]], [[CBSSports.com]] |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref> He was the [[Tulane Green Wave football]] team's leading punter 1967-1968.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/081710aac.html |title= Punting Year-By-Year Leaders |work= Tulane Green Wave |type= website |accessdate= 2011-08-27 |publisher= [[Tulane University]], [[CBSSports.com]] }}</ref> He graduated in 1968 with a B.S. in [[psychology]] and joined the [[U.S. Army]] as a [[military intelligence]] specialist. He later lived in [[Pensacola]].<ref name=senior/><ref>{{cite news |title= South Alabama considers possibility of football program |last= Vilona |first= Bill |date= November 11, 2007 |newspaper= [[Pensacola News Journal]] |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/msfitz/fitz-article-5.html |title= Ms. Fitz's Boys |last= Lind |first= Angus |date= November 26, 2008 |work= Tulane Green Wave |type= website |publisher= [[Tulane University]], [[CBSSports.com]] |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=January 2014}}
Pye was born in [[Houma, Louisiana]], to Lloyd A. Pye Sr., an [[Optometry|optometrist]] ({{circa}}1922–2007), and Nina Jo Pye (née Boyles); Lloyd Pye had two brothers and a sister.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070919/OBITUARIES/709190326|title=Article 404 - Houma Today - Houma, LA|access-date=August 27, 2011|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202730/http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070919/OBITUARIES/709190326|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=senior>{{cite news |url= http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070919/OBITUARIES/709190326 |title= Dr. Lloyd Pye Sr., O.D. |date= September 19, 2007 |work= [[The Houma Courier|Houma Today]] |access-date= 2011-08-27 |archive-date= March 4, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202730/http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070919/OBITUARIES/709190326 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Contemporary Authors Online |chapter= Lloyd (Anthony) Pye, (Jr.) |publisher= [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |date= 2001 |title-link= Contemporary Authors }}</ref> He earned a [[American football|football]] [[Athletic scholarship|scholarship]] to [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans as a [[Running back]]/[[Punt (gridiron football)|Punter]] from 1964 to 1968.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TMBOAAAAIBAJ&pg=4638,1527667 |title= Miami tops Tulane |date= October 6, 1967 |work= [[Deseret News]] |page= 6A |access-date= 2011-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/msfitz/committee.html |title= Ms. Fitz Football Endowment Fund – Committee |work= Tulane Green Wave |type= website |publisher= [[Tulane University]], [[CBSSports.com]] |access-date= 2011-08-27 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120317081025/http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/msfitz/committee.html |archive-date= March 17, 2012 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> He was the [[Tulane Green Wave football]] team's leading punter 1967–1968.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/081710aac.html |title= Punting Year-By-Year Leaders |work= Tulane Green Wave |type= website |access-date= 2011-08-27 |publisher= [[Tulane University]], [[CBSSports.com]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120317081044/http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/081710aac.html |archive-date= March 17, 2012 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> He later lived in [[Pensacola, Florida]].<ref name=senior/><ref>{{cite news |title= South Alabama considers possibility of football program |last= Vilona |first= Bill |date= November 11, 2007 |newspaper= [[Pensacola News Journal]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/msfitz/fitz-article-5.html |title= Ms. Fitz's Boys |last= Lind |first= Angus |date= November 26, 2008 |work= Tulane Green Wave |type= website |publisher= [[Tulane University]], [[CBSSports.com]] |access-date= 2011-08-27 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120317081137/http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/msfitz/fitz-article-5.html |archive-date= March 17, 2012 |df= mdy-all }}</ref>


==Death==
==Death==
In 2013, Pye was diagnosed with [[lymphoma cancer]] and retired from active research and promotion of the starchild skull. Lloyd Pye died December 9, 2013 at his home in Destin, Florida.<ref name= "Pye obit">{{cite news |title= Lloyd A. Pye Jr. (1946 - 2013) |url= http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nwfdailynews/obituary.aspx?n=lloyd-a-pye&pid=168609601&fhid=24307 |date= December 18, 2013 |newspaper= [[Northwest Florida Daily News]] |via= Legacy.com |accessdate= 2014-05-23}}</ref>
In 2013, Pye was diagnosed with [[lymphoma]] and retired from active research and promotion of the starchild skull. Lloyd Pye died December 9, 2013, at his home in Destin, Florida.<ref name= "Pye obit">{{cite news |title= Lloyd A. Pye Jr. (1946–2013) |url= http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nwfdailynews/obituary.aspx?n=lloyd-a-pye&pid=168609601&fhid=24307 |date= December 18, 2013 |newspaper= [[Northwest Florida Daily News]] |via= Legacy.com |access-date= 2014-05-23}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* ''That Prosser Kid'' (fiction, [[Arbor House]], 1977, ISBN 0877951659) about a [[Redshirt (college sports)|redshirted]] college football player,<ref name= "Paine1977">{{cite news |title= Small-time football is his game plan |last= Paine |first= Jocelyn |date= November 20, 1977 |work= [[Los Angeles Times]] |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref> republished as ''A Darker Shade of Red'' (2007, [[Bell Lap Books]])<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1189 |title= ''A Darker Shade of Red'' — A tale twice told |last= Pye |first= Lloyd |date= October 2007 |magazine= Independent Publisher Online |publisher= Jenkins Group |accessdate= 2011-08-27}}</ref>
* ''That Prosser Kid'' (fiction, [[Arbor House]], 1977, {{ISBN|0877951659}}) about a [[Redshirt (college sports)|redshirted]] college football player,<ref name= "Paine1977">{{cite news |title= Small-time football is his game plan |last= Paine |first= Jocelyn |date= November 20, 1977 |work= [[Los Angeles Times]] }}</ref> republished as ''A Darker Shade of Red'' (2007, [[Bell Lap Books]])<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1189 |title= ''A Darker Shade of Red'' — A tale twice told |last= Pye |first= Lloyd |date= October 2007 |magazine= Independent Publisher Online |publisher= Jenkins Group |access-date= 2011-08-27}}</ref>
* ''Mismatch'', (fiction, Dell, 1988), about computer hacking and warfare.<ref>{{cite news |magazine= West Coast Review of Books |title= Mismatch |volume= 14 |date= 1988 |publisher= Rapport |page= 23}}</ref> ISBN 9780595126149
* ''Mismatch'', (fiction, Dell, 1988), about computer hacking and warfare.<ref>{{cite news |magazine= West Coast Review of Books |title= Mismatch |volume= 14 |date= 1988 |publisher= Rapport |page= 23}}</ref> {{ISBN|9780595126149}}
* ''Everything You Know is Wrong – Book One: Human Evolution'' (Adamu, 1998) ISBN 9780966013412
* ''Everything You Know is Wrong – Book One: Human Evolution'' (Adamu, 1998) {{ISBN|9780966013412}}
* ''The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid?'' (Bell Lap Books, 2007) ISBN 0979388147
* ''The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid?'' (Bell Lap Books, 2007) {{ISBN|0979388147}}
* ''Starchild Skull Essentials'' (ebook, 2011)
* ''Starchild Skull Essentials'' (ebook, 2011)
* ''Intervention Theory Essentials'' (ebook, 2011)
* ''Intervention Theory Essentials'' (ebook, 2011)

==DNA==
Pye believed, due to strong evidence in the field, that the human DNA was no more than 200.000 to 250.000 years old. This believe was primarily based on 1980'ies research on mitochondrial DNA from human females' eggs.



==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* http://theviralpost.com/lloyd-pye-starchild-skull-interview/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140227063642/http://theviralpost.com/lloyd-pye-starchild-skull-interview/
* {{Official website|http://www.lloydpye.com}}
* {{Official website|http://www.lloydpye.com}}
* [http://isbndb.com/d/person/pye_lloyd/books.html Bibliography of Pye, Lloyd, isbndb.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121020145053/http://isbndb.com/d/person/pye_lloyd/books.html Bibliography of Pye, Lloyd, isbndb.com]


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Latest revision as of 05:57, 10 December 2023

Lloyd Pye
Born(1946-09-07)September 7, 1946
Houma, Louisiana
DiedDecember 9, 2013(2013-12-09) (aged 67)
Destin, Florida
OccupationAuthor and paranormal researcher
NationalityAmerican
EducationTulane University
SubjectPromotion of the Starchild skull
Notable worksThat Prosser Kid, Mismatch

Lloyd Anthony Pye Jr. (September 7, 1946 – December 9, 2013) was an American author and paranormal researcher best known for his promotion of the Starchild skull.[1][2] He claimed it was the relic of a human-alien hybrid,[3] although genetic testing showed it to be from a human male.[4] He also promoted the ideas that cryptozoological creatures such as Bigfoot are real and that aliens intervened in human development.[5][6]

Writing

[edit]

Pye's first book That Prosser Kid (1977), a fictional account of college football, was said to have "achieved considerable recognition" by the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature,[7] and was called "lively but unoriginal" by The Boston Globe.[8] It received negative reviews in The New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times.[9][10] His 1988 book Mismatch was called a "novel that ought to go on your must read list" by Deseret News.[11]

Pye also gave lectures and made television appearances in support of his ideas on The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, Extra, Animal Planet, and Richard & Judy in the United Kingdom.[12] Pye stated that he believed Bigfoot to exist,[5] as well as the similar Mongolian cryptid the Almas.[13]

In the 1980s, Pye wrote for television shows, including Scarecrow and Mrs. King and Magnum, P.I..[14]

The Starchild skull

[edit]
Main article: Starchild skull

In the late 1990s, Pye obtained a curiously shaped skull from a couple in El Paso, Texas, that he believed was an alien-human hybrid. DNA tests show that the skull is from a human male. American clinical neurologist Steven Novella has said the skull belongs to a child who suffered from hydrocephalus.[3][4]

In 2009, Pye took a replica of the skull on a lecture tour of Europe, including an appearance at the Leeds Exopolitics Expo.[2]

Personal life

[edit]

Pye was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Lloyd A. Pye Sr., an optometrist (c.1922–2007), and Nina Jo Pye (née Boyles); Lloyd Pye had two brothers and a sister.[15][16][17] He earned a football scholarship to Tulane University in New Orleans as a Running back/Punter from 1964 to 1968.[18][19] He was the Tulane Green Wave football team's leading punter 1967–1968.[20] He later lived in Pensacola, Florida.[16][21][22]

Death

[edit]

In 2013, Pye was diagnosed with lymphoma and retired from active research and promotion of the starchild skull. Lloyd Pye died December 9, 2013, at his home in Destin, Florida.[14]

Bibliography

[edit]
  • That Prosser Kid (fiction, Arbor House, 1977, ISBN 0877951659) about a redshirted college football player,[10] republished as A Darker Shade of Red (2007, Bell Lap Books)[23]
  • Mismatch, (fiction, Dell, 1988), about computer hacking and warfare.[24] ISBN 9780595126149
  • Everything You Know is Wrong – Book One: Human Evolution (Adamu, 1998) ISBN 9780966013412
  • The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? (Bell Lap Books, 2007) ISBN 0979388147
  • Starchild Skull Essentials (ebook, 2011)
  • Intervention Theory Essentials (ebook, 2011)

References

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  1. ^ Regal, Brian (2009). Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia. Greenwood. p. 88. ISBN 9780313355073.
  2. ^ a b "Alien skull' star attraction at Leeds extra-terrestrial conference". Yorkshire Evening Post. June 27, 2009. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Feder, Kenneth L. (2010). "Starchild". Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum. ABC-CLIO. pp. 246–8. ISBN 9780313379185. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Novella, Steven (July 20, 2009). "The Starchild Project". The New England Skeptical Society. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
  5. ^ a b Calvert, Brian (August 31, 2006) [May 26, 2005]. "'I have no doubt they're out there'". KOMO News. Archived from the original on June 14, 2012.
  6. ^ Pye, Lloyd (2000). Everything You Know is Wrong: Book One: Human Origins (reprint ed.). Authors Choice Press. ISBN 9780595127498.[full citation needed]
  7. ^ Serafin, Steven R.; Bendixen, Alfred, eds. (2005). "Sports and Literature". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing. p. 1073. ISBN 0826417779.
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