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He claimed it was the relic of a human-alien hybrid, although deoxyribonucleic acid testing showed it to be from a human male. He also promoted the ideas that cryptozoological creatures such as Bigfoot are real and that aliens intervened in human development. 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.
deoxyribonucleic acid 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. In 2009, Pye took a replica of the skull on a lecture tour of Europe, including an appearance at the Leeds Exopolitics Expo.
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.