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Peter Khoury

Peter Khoury is a Sydney man whose reported lifelong series of anomalous encounters, including a 1992 bedroom episode that yielded a hair sample, became the subject of researcher Bill Chalker's 2005 book Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions.

UFO Research New South Wales (1991-1993); UFO Experience Support Association (co-founder, 1993) · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · UAP experiencer

Peter Khoury is a Sydney man whose reported anomalous experiences span from infancy in Lebanon to adulthood in Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, forming the Peter Khoury alien abduction case documented by Bill Chalker in his 2005 book Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions. Khoury’s family migrated from Lebanon to Australia,1 settling there in 1973 following his father, who had already moved to the country.2 His father had worked overseas, and Khoury hardly knew him growing up until around the age of seven.3 The Khoury family are Maronite Christian,4 and Khoury currently works at a church.5 He has known Vivian since 1981, when the two first dated at school,6 and reconnected with her around 1988.7

Khoury has said his mother told him that, while breastfeeding him at three o’clock in the morning when he was 22 days old, she saw a being at the window during the 1964 Peter Khoury infancy alien window sighting,8 which she felt was looking at her infant son rather than at her.9 His earliest personally recollected experience, the 1972 Lebanon rooftop egg-shaped craft encounter, he dates to around late 1971 or early 1972,10 in a neighbourhood where children regularly played on flat rooftops11 and families used them for cubby houses, sometimes sleeping there in summer.12 He was among a group of about seven or eight children, including a boy named George Farduis, invited onto a neighbouring roof,13 and as they ran up the stairwell a heavy door that normally slammed shut under its own weight stayed open the entire time.14 On the roof, Khoury said his cousins and friends froze motionless mid-movement,15 while he alone remained able to move and look up.16 He reported seeing an egg-shaped silver craft hovering approximately 30 metres above the group,17 silver in colour with a large, darkly tinted windscreen18 and no visible landing gear, propeller or doors,19 which he likened in size to a neighbour’s Volkswagen Beetle.20 Inside, he described two very thin, tall figures visible only as silhouettes.21 The craft reportedly dropped in altitude twice, by around five metres each time,22 coming to rest at roughly 20 metres above the children after the second drop,23 after which Khoury’s next memory was of the group at the bottom of the stairs with no recollection of getting there.24 The children were reportedly grounded for one to two weeks afterwards.25

By 1988, Khoury had been back living at his parents’ home for about nine months.26 During the 1988 Peter Khoury bedroom hooded entity encounter, he was sitting on his bed with the television on27 when he said something gripped his ankles just before his head touched the pillow,28 followed by pins and needles spreading from his ankles up through his body to his scalp,29 after which he became paralysed.30 He could not move any part of his body except his eyes, which remained open because he had not been asleep,31 and he has maintained that the paralysis began before he fell asleep, which he says rules out a hypnagogic or sleep-related explanation.32 At the foot of the bed he reported a hooded figure approximately 1.2 metres tall,33 which he found horrific and evil-looking, its head appearing enlarged by a robe and hood,34 and said two further, identical hooded beings stood closer to him on the right side of the bed.35 He also described a female being with large, black, almond-shaped eyes,36 wearing a thin mask over her mouth held by a fishing-line-like band, which he said gave him the impression she did not want to catch or transmit something.37 Khoury said he blacked out for about 15 minutes before regaining movement,38 and that the following night he discovered a burn mark on his shin resembling a bullet hole, with three prong marks in a triangular pattern.39 Years later, Khoury recounted that his brother Sam Khoury had described witnessing him floated through the hallway by three beings during the 1988 Peter Khoury brother’s levitation witnessing event,40 an account Khoury said he only learned of when Sam told Chalker directly.41

Khoury reported two further bedroom encounters in the early 1990s. During the 1991-10 Peter Khoury bedroom encounter, he said an Asian-looking woman took his hand to her breast repeatedly before cupping his head to her breast, seemingly wanting him to bite it.42 He said he woke about two hours after that encounter, whereas after the 1992-07-23 Peter Khoury bedroom encounter he telephoned Vivian Khoury at work less than an hour after the incident.43 Of the blond woman he described encountering in July 1992, Khoury said she appeared in her mid-thirties, with hair styled as if blown back by wind, protruding high cheeks, and eyes two to three times the size of human eyes,44 and that her face was longer and narrower than a human’s, with a pointed, witch-like chin.45 He said he bit her nipple during the encounter, swallowing a piece that remained lodged in his throat for three days.46 Khoury and Vivian Khoury have said they are certain the episode occurred after his severe 1992-05-13 Peter Khoury job site head injury, at a time when he was still suffering nausea, headaches and vomiting and unable to work.47 Khoury has also said that a needle-like device inserted something into his head during the 1988 encounter, leaving a puncture mark;48 he said that, nearly four years later, the site still bore a doughnut-shaped lump that intermittently grew before shrinking, though it never fully disappeared,49 and that in May 1992 he felt something pop from the site and saw a dark brown, match-head-sized object fall into the carpet, an episode recorded as Peter Khoury’s implant puncture mark episode.50 In Peter Khoury’s diary, he recorded an entry on 26 August 1992 noting a “lack of help from committee”,51 and the following day wrote “do not discuss experience”, reflecting his frustration at the lack of positive feedback.52

Chalker did not learn of Khoury’s hair sample until 1996, initially focusing on more conventional lines of investigation.53 He later brought the case to a group of specialists referred to as an “invisible college”,54 who undertook a forensic investigation of the hair from late 1998 to early 1999,55 in what is catalogued as the mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) hypervariable region I analysis of Peter Khoury’s alien hair sample (Phase One, hair shaft, 1998-1999). Investigators used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequencing on the hair,56 alongside control samples cut from Khoury’s and Vivian Khoury’s own hair in Chalker’s presence.57 The three samples were easily distinguishable both to the naked eye and under a microscope,58 Khoury’s hair being thick and black and Vivian’s of normal thickness and brown.59 The resulting mitochondrial DNA profile from the blond hair showed five substitutions, three considered common among human racial types and two rare;60 although the hair was blond, which would ordinarily suggest Scandinavian racial types, the DNA indicated otherwise.61 Further controlled testing used blood samples from Khoury, Vivian Khoury and a Chinese biochemical analyst,62 who had had no prior contact with either of them or the original hair sample.63 This finding underlies the Chinese Mongoloid mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) substitution found in Peter Khoury’s alien hair shaft: according to Hair of the Alien, the biochemist who analysed the sample considered it not impossible that Khoury had had contact with a fair-skinned, nearly albino woman from the Sydney area, but concluded the DNA evidence ruled this out, fitting instead only a Chinese Mongoloid donor,64 and judged the most probable donor to remain, as Khoury described, a tall, blond woman who did not require much colour in her hair or skin as protection against the sun.65

Khoury’s engagement with the organised UFO research community began in November 1991, when he joined UFO Research New South Wales, then about to hold its inaugural meeting, seeking to understand his 1988 experience.66 He became the group’s de facto abduction coordinator, developing an abductee support subgroup within it.67 After Budd Hopkins delivered a lecture in October 1992, the organisation sought to take over the support group Khoury had nurtured;68 Khoury resigned at the end of March 1993,69 and together with Jamie Leonarder and others formed the UFO Experience Support Association, formalised on 14 April 1993.70 John Mack regressed Khoury under hypnosis during a 1996 visit, seeking to clarify the 1988 encounter beyond the point at which his memory went blank after the needle was inserted into his head;71 under that regression, Khoury described being taken into a brightly lit, white-walled room and placed on a table, with an entity standing over him speaking in a sound like the chirping of birds.72 Khoury has said he was not fully satisfied with the results and felt more comfortable relying on his consciously recollected details.73 Chalker wrote to Moira McGhee and Bryan Dickeson, with Khoury’s written support, requesting a copy of an earlier taped interview with him;74 after listening to the resulting 1992 McGhee/Dickeson taped interview with Peter Khoury, Chalker told Khoury that in it he clearly referred to the two strange women but did not mention the hair sample.75 This prompted 2003 hypnosis session with Peter Khoury Robb Tilley’s November 6, monitored by a psychologist friend and videotaped;76 in it, Khoury recalled driving Vivian Khoury to the station while feeling very sick,77 pulling the car over to vomit before reaching the station,78 and being told by her that he might need to see a doctor.79 Chalker, who has known Khoury since 1993, has described him as a friendly and reliable person,80 who remains open to whatever his experiences may turn out to be but insists on serious and ethical research and support for abductees.81

  1. Khoury's family migrated from Lebanon to Australia
    “it wasn't until we moved, migrated to Australia that I really got to know that he was my dad.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:07:12.3-00:07:16.9
  2. Family migrated to Australia in 1973, following his father who had already moved there
    “in 1973 we followed my dad out here and um yeah we migrated um... my dad was here before us for a few years”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:27:48.0-00:27:54.6
  3. Father worked overseas; Khoury hardly knew him until about age seven
    “my dad was working overseas and, um, I hardly met my dad or knew him when I was growing up till the age of like seven.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:07:04.3-00:07:11.3
  4. Khoury family are Maronite Christian
    “maronite christian but not overly religious”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:31:06.9-00:31:09.5
  5. Khoury currently works at a church
    “i mean i work at a church now”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:31:19.4-00:31:20.5
  6. Known Vivian since 1981, when they dated at school
    “I've known Vivian since 1981, and we separated in December 2016, two weeks before Christmas.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:39:22.5-00:39:31.5
  7. Reconnected with Vivian around 1988
    “I had just moved back home because I reconnected with Vivian, who I dated at school. We were close at school.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:39:09.3-00:39:16.4
  8. Mother breastfeeding him at 3am, aged 22 days, saw an alien in the window
    “she says, yeah, I, I remember, um, uh, Peter was 22 days old... she was sitting down at three o'clock in the morning on the side of the bed, breastfeeding me. And she said she saw an alien in the window.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:32:50.2-00:33:04.8
  9. Mother said the being was looking at her infant son, not at her
    “she said, it wasn't perving at me... He was looking at my son. So his eyes were watching me, not her.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:33:31.0-00:33:35.7
  10. 1972 rooftop encounter dated to late 1971 or early 1972
    “In the early 70s, I'll say, late '71, early '72.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:06:09.6-00:06:13.7
  11. Rooftop in neighbourhood where children regularly played
    “this is just a place that you and your friends used to run to to sort of like play a tag or whatever it was you guys used to uh push through this door on this building and hang out on this roof”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:05:50.4-00:06:01.3
  12. Families used flat rooftops for cubby houses and summer sleeping
    “it was a flat roof. It was on the coast... a lot of people would grow grapevines and, um, they'd use them like cubby houses. And most families would sleep up there in summer, you know, under the stars.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:06:28.5-00:06:42.0
  13. Group of seven or eight children, including George Farduis, invited onto the roof
    “we're playing and one of the kids, um, it was probably about seven or eight of us. And one of the kids just out of the blue just said, let's go and play on the roof. And it was the Amar family.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:08:51.4-00:09:02.5
  14. Heavy stairwell door stayed open the whole time
    “It stayed open as if some force has kept it open... And it was on my mind that any second, it's going to come back and knock someone out.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:10:58.8-00:11:06.7
  15. Other children froze motionless mid-movement
    “they were all frozen like mannequins, as if halfway through their step or movement, they just froze... it was blank it was just honestly like looking at a mannequin just nothing no movement no i couldn't even see them breathing”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:11:16.9-00:11:31.9
  16. Khoury was the only child able to move and look up
    “I was the only one who could move. I was the only one walking around and the only one who could look up.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:14:36.1-00:14:41.4
  17. Egg-shaped silver craft hovering approximately 30 metres above the group
    “as I looked up, I saw about 30... probably 30 meters above us was an object.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:12:48.8-00:12:53.4
  18. Craft was silver with a large, darkly tinted windscreen
    “it was the perfectly, uh, shaped egg, silver. And it had a massive windscreen on the front of it that was darkly, darkly tinted... imagine the egg with the pointed end up and the rounded end down the bottom.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:13:37.9-00:13:51.8
  19. No landing gear, propeller or doors
    “This had no landing gear. It didn't have a propeller. It didn't have any doors... it was very shiny, very, very shiny. I could see the sun glistening off it... Chrome.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:15:17.0-00:15:27.6
  20. Craft similar in size to a neighbour's Volkswagen Beetle
    “I looked up and I saw an egg shaped object big as my neighbor, the house that we were playing on their roof, they used to have a, uh, VW, uh, bug, um, Volkswagen. And I'd compare the shape and size to it, the size at least.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:13:22.1-00:13:37.0
  21. Two thin, tall figures visible only as silhouettes inside the craft
    “I could see two creatures inside, like very thin, very tall... Couldn't see any features, just a silhouette of them.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:13:57.1-00:14:03.4
  22. Craft dropped altitude twice, by about five metres each time
    “I see it drop about five meters. And it dropped twice on two different occasions and it got closer and closer... Like just a drop and stop. It wasn't like movement or shaking or moving, flying or anything. It was just there one second and then bang, they're the next.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:17:18.6-00:17:32.9
  23. After the second drop the craft was about 20 metres above the children
    “now it was probably about 20 meters above us where originally it was about 30.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:17:56.5-00:17:59.9
  24. Next memory was the group at the bottom of the stairs, with no recollection of getting there
    “the next memory I have is we're all down on the bottom steps... nobody no one saw it no one all my friends nobody saw anything... how did we get here no one could rationalize how we one second we're on the roof and the next we're sitting down at the bottom of the steps”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:18:09.7-00:18:20.6
  25. Children grounded for one to two weeks afterwards
    “we were grounded, we were separated... you're not allowed to play with each other anymore for about a week or so, maybe, you know, nearly two weeks... We were all punished... For lying. Apparently we were lyin”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:21:10.6-00:21:19.6
  26. Back living at parents' home for about nine months by 1988
    “I was probably home for about nine months at the time, 1988.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:40:33.2-00:40:35.8
  27. Sat on the bed with the television on before the 1988 encounter
    “I sat down and I sat on the side of the bed... i crossed my legs my right leg over my left leg just crossed it over and as i went to lay down on the bed i put my hands cut crossed them like that put at the back of my head.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:00:54.0-00:00:59.0
  28. Something gripped his ankles just before his head touched the pillow
    “before my head even hit the pillow my hands didn't touch the pillow i just felt something grab me around my ankles... i felt like it was this part of the hand, the index finger and the thumb and the webbing and just grabbed me, but it could have been a device.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:43:31.8-00:43:48.5
  29. Pins-and-needles sensation spread from ankles to scalp
    “i just felt pins and needles crawling up through my ankles, through my calves, through my legs, all the way up through my body and right through to my head... it felt like thousands of ants crawling through my scalp but it was then i later learned it's like static electricity.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:43:51.1-00:44:11.8
  30. Became paralysed and unable to move
    “as soon as that happened i couldn't move i was paralyzed and i'm lying in bed”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:44:14.9-00:44:19.6
  31. Could not move except his eyes, which stayed open because he had not been asleep
    “I don't think I would have been able to open my eyes because I couldn't move any other part of my body. But luckily for me, my eyes were open and I hadn't slept.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:44:46.8-00:44:54.2
  32. Khoury maintains the paralysis began before he fell asleep, ruling out a sleep-related explanation
    “Chris Ramsay: this is by the way before you fall asleep... you're not even hit the bed yet... so this isn't like for people thinking this is like oh some hypnotic sort of state. Peter Khoury: No chance. I was still upright. Hadn't closed my eyes.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:01:70.0-00:01:07.0
  33. Hooded figure approximately 1.2 metres tall at the foot of the bed
    “i look at the foot of the bed and i see a hooded figure about four foot in height just sit standing there and i assumed that's the one that grabbed my ankle”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:45:49.3-00:45:58.5
  34. Figure described as horrific and evil-looking, robe and hood enlarging its head
    “looking at this creature and it looked horrific it looked scary like it looked to me evil... it was wearing a hood the robe with the hood and the hood made its head look a lot bigger.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:46:15.2-00:46:27.8
  35. Two further identical hooded beings on the right side of the bed
    “Now I could move my eyes... I look and I see two more, exactly the same, identical. I couldn't, no features, no difference whatsoever. It was like they were clones of a production line.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:01:196.0-00:01:206.0
  36. Female being had large, black, almond-shaped eyes
    “Then I saw the big almond shape eyes. Like I'm talking bigger than a horse's or a cow's eyes... Massive. Black.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:01:08.3-00:01:14.5
  37. Female being wore a thin mask held by a fishing-line-like band
    “on her mouth, I didn't see her mouth because she had... these were probably wide as two fingers... it was just across her mouth just like a band-aid... it did have a very very thin like a almost like a fishing line thing... So I got the impression she didn't want to catch anything or more so give me anything.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:03:355.0-00:03:375.0
  38. Blacked out for about 15 minutes before regaining movement
    “here I am, about 15 minutes, what I thought was 15 minutes later... I blacked out, right? I jump out of bed, I got my movement, I got my feelings back, and I just sprung out of bed so quick, opened the door to my room, went into the TV room.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:02:53.0-00:03:20.0
  39. Burn mark on shin resembling a bullet hole, with three prong marks
    “I felt this mark on my leg... it was like a bullet hole, you know?... it was like a five millimeter diameter, about two mil deep, but with three prong marks, like distinct in a triangular, like three points.”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:02:325.0-00:02:331.0
  40. Sam Khoury described witnessing Peter floated through the hallway by three beings
    “he saw things cause my brother saw me being floated out the hallway... he's seeing me get floated out by three beings”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:30:23.7-00:30:27.5
  41. Khoury only learned of the account when Sam told Chalker directly
    “I didn't know about that. He didn't tell me. He's telling Bill this and I'm listening to this”
    UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 00:30:51.5-00:30:55.4
  42. October 1991: Asian woman took his hand to her breast, then cupped his head to it
    “In the 1991 event Peter describes much more activity with the Asian woman. She takes Peter's hand to her breast, taking it back and forth three or four times, then some eight to ten times she cups Peter's head to her breast, back and forth, seemingly wanting him to bite her breast area.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:10220-10502
  43. Woke two hours after Oct 1991 event; called Vivian under an hour after July 1992 event
    “Peter then wakes up two hours after the encounter; in the July 1992 event he calls Vivian at work just after she arrives there, which is less than an hour after the incident occurred.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:10035-10209
  44. Blond woman described as mid-thirties, hair blown back, protruding cheeks, large eyes
    “She was… in her mid-thirties; she had good skin; the hair was pretty weird... it was curled something like Farrah Fawcett, but to an extreme… It was blond. Her facial features … she had protruding cheeks, very high cheeks. The nose was long... Her eyes were two to three times bigger than our eyes.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions 106
  45. Face longer and narrower than human, with a pointed, witch-like chin
    “The shape of the face was longer than usual... The chin was pointier… like a witch’s long chin in movies…. The hair covered the ears…. Her hair came down to about halfway down her back... The hair looked really exotic…. it looked frail in a way… it wasn’t very strong hair.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions 110
  46. Bit her nipple, swallowing a piece stuck in his throat for three days
    “She pulled me over and my mouth was… on her nipple and I bit... I did that, and I took a chunk, a little bit off, because I swallowed it and it was stuck in my throat for three days.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions 144
  47. Khoury and Vivian certain the episode occurred after the May 1992 head injury
    “Both Peter and Vivian were certain that the incident had occurred after his severe job site head injury of May 13, 1992. Both recalled that the incident with the women and the hair had occurred at a time when Peter was still affected by the injury, particularly with nausea, headaches, and vomiting. It was a very difficult time for them, as Peter could not work.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:11053-11411
  48. Needle-like device inserted something into his head during the 1988 encounter
    “Peter Khoury clearly remembered that a needle-like device had inserted something into his head during his 1988 encounter and had left behind a "puncture mark."”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:2702-2855
  49. Doughnut-shaped lump persisted for nearly four years
    “Nearly four years later there was still a noticeable lump at the site of the puncture mark. The doughnut-shaped lump seemed to grow intermittently to about half the size of a marble, and then shrink, but it would never entirely disappear.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:2923-3151
  50. Dark brown, match-head-sized object popped from the site and fell into the carpet
    “Then suddenly he felt something pop out of the spot and he caught a glimpse of something fall between him and Vivian. She didn't see it, but both heard it hit the coffee table and apparently bounce into the fibers of the shag carpet. Peter thought it looked dark brown and was about the size of a match head.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:3661-3964
  51. Diary entry, 26 August 1992: 'lack of help from committee'
    “An entry on August 26, almost two weeks after he had told Vivian about it, notes a "lack of help from committee."”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:4662-4764
  52. Diary entry, 27 August 1992: 'do not discuss experience'
    “The very next day Peter records, "do not discuss experience/' referring to the July 1992 event, because of the lack of positive feedback or interest.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:4776-4916
  53. Chalker first heard of the hair sample in 1996
    “initially my focus was on more conventional investigations, and there was little I could do when I first heard about the sample in 1996”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:3129-3260
  54. Chalker worked with a group of specialists referred to as an 'invisible college'
    “I have been working with this group of invisible college specialists to bring hard science to the controversial field of alien abductions. The bizarre events that focused on Peter Khoury provided an extraordinary opportunity to assess the reality of abduction experiences.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch11:35032-35292
  55. Forensic investigation of the hair conducted late 1998 to early 1999
    “The biochemists undertook a standard forensic investigation of the shed hair over several months, from late 1998 to early 1999.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:6066-6188
  56. PCR amplification and sequencing used on the hair sample
    “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”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:4689-4915
  57. Control hair samples cut from Khoury and Vivian in Chalker's presence
    “Similar pieces of hair shaft were cut from the hair samples that had been taken from Peter and his wife Vivian in my presence and would act as controls.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:7669-7812
  58. Three hair samples easily distinguishable to the eye and under a microscope
    “The three hair samples were easily distinguishable both to the naked eye and under a microscope.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:7823-7908
  59. Khoury's hair thick and black; Vivian's normal thickness and brown
    “In sharp contrast, Peter Khoury’s hair was thick and black, while hair from Vivian was of normal thickness and brown.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:8051-8162
  60. DNA profile showed five substitutions, three common, two rare
    “The DNA profile from the blond hair sample consistently showed five of these changes, or “substitutions.” Three of them seemed fairly common among human racial types, but two appeared to be quite rare”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:10896-11092
  61. Blond hair would suggest Scandinavian racial types, but DNA indicated otherwise
    “we would expect the DNA to match racial types from Scandinavian countries in northern Europe. But the DNA revealed otherwise.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:12015-12130
  62. Further blood samples taken from Khoury, Vivian and a Chinese biochemical analyst
    “further controlled DNA testing was undertaken with blood samples obtained from Peter Khoury, his wife, and a male Chinese biochemical analyst”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:13614-13748
  63. Chinese analyst had no prior contact with the Khourys or the hair sample
    “Like Peter’s wife, this man had never touched the sample, and indeed had never had any contact with Peter or Vivian Khoury.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:13758-13874
  64. Biochemist: DNA rules out a fair-skinned donor, fits only a Chinese Mongoloid donor
    “While it would not be impossible for him to have had sexual contact with some fair-skinned, 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.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:12677-12920
  65. Biochemist: most probable donor remains a tall, blond woman needing little pigmentation
    “The most probable donor of the hair must therefore be as [Peter Khoury] claims: a tall blond 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.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch12:13341-13569
  66. Joined UFO Research New South Wales in November 1991
    “Then in November 1991, he heard about a local UFO group called UFO Research New South Wales, which was about to have its inaugural meeting. Peter was seeking to understand what had happened to him in 1988 and joined the group.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:417-637
  67. Became UFO Research New South Wales's de facto abduction coordinator
    “Driven by the need to understand his own experiences, Peter found himself the group's de facto "abduction coordinator" and tentatively developing their abductee support subgroup.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:1355-1524
  68. After Hopkins's October 1992 lecture, the group sought to take over Khoury's support group
    “The group now wanted to take over the abduction support group that had been nurtured principally by Peter Khoury.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:5229-5335
  69. Resigned from UFO Research New South Wales at the end of March 1993
    “Peter Khoury resigned from UFOR (NSW) at the end of March 1993.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:7003-7061
  70. Co-founded the UFO Experience Support Association, formalised 14 April 1993
    “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.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:7067-7254
  71. John Mack regressed Khoury under hypnosis during a 1996 visit
    “he took the opportunity to regress Peter to try to clarify the 1988 experience beyond the moment of blankness after the needle was inserted in his head.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:13649-13796
  72. Under regression, described a lit white room, a table, and an entity speaking in bird-like chirps
    “Under Mack's regression Peter described being taken into a room that was lit up. The walls were white, as if the surface was the light source. He was on a table, with one entity standing above him and speaking to him with a sound like the chirping of birds.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:13803-14054
  73. Khoury not fully satisfied with the 1996 regression results
    “That was all that came out in the session. Ultimately Peter was not really satisfied with the hypnotic recollections and feels more comfortable with the consciously recollected details.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:14288-14465
  74. Chalker wrote to Moira McGhee and Bryan Dickeson requesting the taped interview
    “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.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:1207-1352
  75. Chalker told Khoury the tape omits any mention of the hair sample
    “I contacted Peter Khoury after I had listened to the tape and advised him that in the interview he clearly refers to the two strange women but doesn't mention the hair sample.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:11041-11209
  76. Hypnosis session monitored by a psychologist friend and videotaped, 6 November 2003
    “Dick Warburton, a friend and psychologist, consented to monitor the sessions, which were carried out and videotaped on November 6, 2003.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:12454-12585
  77. Recalled driving Vivian to the station while feeling very sick
    “RT: You are very sick… . We want you to see yourself in the car with Vivian. Were you driving her there? PK: Yeah. RT: Okay. You are driving off towards the station.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:15081-15236
  78. Recalled pulling the car over to vomit before reaching the station
    “PK: It's really cold. RT: What time is it? PK: It's seven. Five past seven. I've got to get her to the station before the train leaves I pull over and get sick, just vomiting.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:15642-15806
  79. Recalled Vivian telling him he might need to see a doctor
    “PK: She's telling me that I may need to see a doctor just to watch myself basically. I'm on my way back. I pull over twice. On the way there I pull over about five times.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch14:16004-16164
  80. Chalker: found Khoury a friendly and reliable person
    “I should note that since getting to know Peter Khoury since 1993, I have found him to be a friendly and reliable person.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:10052-10165
  81. Chalker: Khoury remains open but insists on serious, ethical research and support for abductees
    “He remains open to whatever these experiences may turn out to be, but insists on the serious and ethical research and support of abductees.”
    Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch10:10368-10497

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