Lloyd Pye (1946-) is an American author. Pye is known for advocating an ancient astronaut hypothesis on the origin of human life by deliberate intervention by extraterrestrial life and for his work with the Starchild skull, which Pye claims is a relic skull of a human-alien hybrid.
He is the author of four books, including Everything You Know Is Wrong - Book One: Human Origins and The Starchild Skull: Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid?.
He also gives lectures and has 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. Pye's ideas have been criticized for contradicting the evolutionary model of human origins currently accepted by the mainstream scientific community.
The "Starchild skull"
Main article: Starchild skull
In the late 1990s, Pye obtained a curiously shaped human child's skull from a couple in El Paso, Texas. The skull was reportedly found in a mine tunnel in northern Mexico, buried beside a skeleton of a morphologically typical human female adult lying exposed on the floor of the mine tunnel. The unusual skull has an enlarged though symmetrical cranium, and while it contains most of the complement of normal human bones, they are greatly distorted in shape, e.g. lacking an external occipital protuberance. Carbon 14 dating shows that the skull is 900 years old + or - 40 years. Pye proposes that the abnormal skull is the product of a human/alien crossbreeding program. He refers to this being as a "Starchild" and the skull as the "Starchild skull". Pye has subsequently arranged for funding and scientific testing in an attempt to demonstrate that the skull's genetic heritage is extraterrestrial, but no evidence to support Pye's conjecture has been found to date.