Bill Chalker

“Bill Chalker, an Australian scientist and UAP researcher trained in mathematics and chemistry, was the first civilian researcher to gain access to the Royal Australian Air Force’s UAP files in the early 1980s.”

“another very striking case came to my notice the same year I began researching Peter’s alien experiences”

“Since I heard about Peter's 1992 encounter many months after its occurrence, I wanted to know if what Peter had told other people about this experience was consistent in every detail with what he told me.”

“Given Peter's experiences with his own group, it hardly seems surprising that he initially chose not to share details of his startling 1992 experience with me.”

“After he revealed the story of the women to me in 1996, he said that he had made mention of the experience in his diaries, but because of renovations and building at his house at the time, he was unable to find them for several years. He finally found them in April 1999.”

“Because of the significance of the hair evidence, I needed to establish with some degree of certainty that the hair was indeed procured in the way Peter described during his July 1992 experience.”

“our group, which called itself the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group (APEG),27 decided that I would be the public face of this biochemical variant of the UFO “invisible college.””

“by early 1998 my circle of “invisible college” colleagues had expanded to include some scientists from the biochemical field”

“They were cautiously interested in UFOs, but mindful of the subject’s stature as “forbidden science,” they insisted that their involvement would need to be conducted strictly on an anonymous basis.”

“Our discussions then focused on the fact that techniques like polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequencing of mitochondrial DNA on the hair sample might provide a real challenge to the credibility of abduction stories”

“Together, the two distinct phases of DNA analyses undertaken on the "alien hair" sample recovered from Peter Khoury's bizarre 1992 experience provide a very striking array of genetic findings.”

“And indeed our original analysis confirmed the “alien hair” in the Peter Khoury case came from someone who was genetically close to normal humans, but of a very unusual racial type.”

“But for now we have only this anomalous sample, which has provided us with a strange DNA profile.”

“So we have no coherent evidence that supports a scenario that Peter Khoury fabricated his story of encountering two strange women and recovering a strange hair sample at the same time during July 1992.”

“Kelly Cahill first contacted me back on October 4, 1993, seeking assistance in understanding a bizarre experience she had near the outer Melbourne suburban housing development of Narre Warren North, in the foothills of the Dandenongs, Victoria, between Belgrave and Fountain Gate, during the early hours of August 8, 1993.”

“Given my own inability to gain full access to their data on the case, particularly to what seemed provocative physical data, I grew to regret my decision to involve PRA in the first place.”

“The difficulties and frustrations in gaining full disclosure to the research conducted in Kelly Cahill's case made me more determined than ever to try to extract the full potential of the physical evidence in Peter Khoury's extraordinary abduction encounter.”

“To try to clarify this situation, I wrote to both Moira McGhee and Bryan Dickeson, with Peter Khoury's written support, requesting a copy of the tape.”

“It took a few years before Moira was able to find, copy, and give me the tape of their interview with Peter.”

“The evidence for two separate encounters with strange women is compelling. When this interpretation is embraced, the nature of the interactions becomes clearer, and in a way a kind of alien logic or behavior gets laid out for our contemplation.”

“Peter Khoury’s account of the July 1992 experience under hypnosis was largely consistent with his conscious recollections. There are some elaborations of detail and some elements that are new”

“That night I played the whole interview for Peter and Vivian Khoury together, particularly in an effort to see if it triggered any recollections in either, but also to see if any aspect could shed light on the whole dilemma of the tape.”

“Over the years I have been fortunate to work with other scientists on this controversial problem in a sort of "invisible college," an informal network of scientists who view the UFO phenomenon as worthy of serious attention.”

“One of the few compelling exceptions to the ambiguity and uncertainty that pervade the alien abduction experience is the 1993 Kelly Cahill case.”

“Compelling evidence for the physical reality of UFOs comes from physical traces in UFO landing events, so-called EM (electromagnetic) effects in close encounter incidents, particularly car stalling type cases, radar sightings, physical effects on witnesses, and to a lesser extent photographic evidence.”

“I found the majority of abduction cases conspicuously devoid of compelling physical evidence.”

“The group now wanted to take over the abduction support group that had been nurtured principally by Peter Khoury.”

“Many in the support group left with him, including Leonarder, and together they formed their own group, the UFO Experience Support Association (UFOESA), which was formalized on April 14, 1993.”

“I talked to a number of these group professionals, and most had some recollection of Peter's telling them about the experience.”

“Though a rift would eventually develop between them, I was surprised how much Jamie supported the validity of Peter's July 1992 episode.”

“there's something interesting that happened when, when Bill Chalker was researching the book, he went and spoke to my family... he was speaking to my brother, my oldest brother, Sam, and him and my dad were present.”

“we, Bill recorded an audio and took notes, but we didn't get a video of it”

“Look, I took on, Bill was present at the time. Um, it was at the powerhouse museum.”

“That's why Bill Chalker works alone. He works for the Invisible College, but that's why they call it the invisible because...”

“He asked me to investigate the experience detailed in the letter, since it had come from Australia.”

“Therefore, the focused DNA profiling technique we used in the Peter Khoury case goes to the very heart of one of the key claims behind the alleged alien abduction agenda.”

“It should be noted that the “alien hair” sample obtained in the Peter Khoury case is not the only one we subjected to DNA analysis. There was another alleged “alien hair” sample, but it did not show the kind of anomalies we obtained in Peter’s case.”

“Ultimately we did the preliminary step of undertaking a mitochondrial DNA PCR profiling comparison against the “human consensus” on both the “alien hair” and Mike’s daughter’s sample. While different, both were within the normal “human consensus” DNA range.”

“Researcher Bill Chalker also interviewed former student Victor Zakry, who claimed to have seen the object at ground level, close enough to touch it.”

“He befriended Harry Turner late in his life”