2026-05-29
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A journalist reached out asking me to comment on the rumors that intelligence agencies are analyzing 23andMe and Ancestry data in search of alien traces in DNA. Below are my answers.
Is there any real scientific basis to these rumors?
The rumors themselves, that secret services pay attention to the alien hybridization program, remain only rumors for now. But if you take into account the research of ufologists and the enormous number of contactee testimonies, then the program itself is beyond doubt. I have interviewed a large number of contactees and over the past 17 years gathered enough evidence of its reality. This information was obtained by a scientific method, just without genetic analysis. The scientific method is the impartial collection of data, with particular attention to testimony that runs against the witness's own interest, and to witnesses who knew nothing at all about the hybridization program. The testimony includes not only sensations, but also physical traces of surgical operations and confirmations from independent people.
The very notion of a “scientific basis” is relative. Scientists cling to funding and reputation, while the subject of aliens is classified, and anyone in academia who touches it gets slapped down. That is why official science lags far behind independent researchers. Nevertheless, ufologists use genuine scientific methods, they interview contactees and conduct independent archaeology. On top of that, the rapid development of artificial intelligence now makes it possible to quickly find and verify facts. Competent independent ufologists exist, they are simply drowned out by the general noise.
That secret services monitor literally everything is clear from Snowden's revelations. No direct evidence has surfaced yet, but from circumstantial signs I am confident that secret services closely watch the results of analyses at commercial companies selling genotyping services. In addition, at a price of 100 dollars per sample, one could also analyze everyone who donates blood, a small fraction of the sample is enough to run a genetic analysis. 23andMe and Ancestry work by genotyping, they read only previously known points in the genome, a few hundred thousand positions out of three billion. With this method it is in principle impossible to see a foreign inserted sequence, the instrument looks only where it already knows to look. Avi Loeb is right on this point. So searching for traces of extraterrestrial intervention in this data is meaningless by the very design of the method.
What might interest the intelligence agencies?
There are many secret services and their interests are varied. In the seventies they feared that alien hybrids (people born on Earth, to Earthly parents, but with alien sequences inserted into their DNA) would stage a coup, and they tried to isolate these hybrids. All of humanity, every human being without exception, are ancient alien hybrids, but in the 20th century a fresh wave of hybridization is underway. By my estimate, at present about 5% of the population are fresh hybrids, and the secret services track them by various means. Now they no longer try to isolate hybrids, but try to use them for their own purposes. Hybrids possess the capacity for telepathy, mind reading, clairvoyance and other extrasensory abilities. In particular, talented hybrids are used to telepathically pilot captured saucers. The main goal of the secret services is to retain control and to make money. They are now aimed not so much at individual hybrids as at managing the masses through computer algorithms. Hybrids are tracked not only by DNA but also by behavior, the school system diligently identifies talented hybrids, and they are gathered into special classes and trained accordingly.
It is important to understand that the discovery of telepathy in nonverbal autistics has already happened. In California one child in 30 is autistic. This is a new phenomenon, even for official science. I am convinced that the majority of nonverbal autistics are fresh alien hybrids. As a reminder, they are children of their own parents, but with alien insertions and replacements in the genome. As Blavatsky wrote in 1881 and the Strugatsky brothers in the 60s, humanity is being reborn, giving rise to a new biological species.
What can such research give us about the origin of humanity?
Comparing the full genomes of humans and other primates reveals changes that are hard to explain by smooth, gradual evolution. There are the so-called human accelerated regions, stretches that were frozen for hundreds of millions of years and identical across all mammals, yet in the human lineage suddenly began to change rapidly. There are recent gene duplications unique to humans, NOTCH2NL, SRGAP2C, ARHGAP11B, linked to the explosive expansion of the cerebral cortex. They are recent, structurally messy, with a large effect, and found only in us. Given the very small genetic difference from chimpanzees, the gap in cognitive ability and language looks discontinuous. Science has mechanisms, but no convincing explanation for the suddenness itself.
Are there genetic data that science cannot yet explain?
Here one has to distinguish two things. One is simply that biology is not yet complete. The huge proportion of noncoding DNA, large introns, the absence of any link between genome size and organism complexity. All of this is real and unexplained, but it only says that theory is behind. The other, and far sharper, is that discontinuity of human changes. That is where, once there is funding, one should look for traces of ancient hybridization.
My own research.
The only new thing is that 7 families were analyzed by 23andMe genotyping and nothing particularly surprising was found. The families have a history of abductions and hybridization, reported by themselves, and they paid for the analysis themselves, 100 dollars per sample. We analyze whole families, both parents and children, and we looked only at the appearance of non-parental genetic variants in the children. Such variants are observed, but at the level of the method's typical error (at the noise level), and no statistically significant common anomalies between families were detected. If there were funding, it would not be hard to find many more volunteers for analysis. For a reliable analysis one needs long-read sequencing by PacBio technology, which costs 6000 dollars for three people. All analyses are done from saliva.
As for the origin of humanity, genetics will most likely lag behind journalistic investigations and public disclosure. I believe society will first realize that we are ancient hybrids, and only then will genetics have to catch up with that general awareness, and then funding will appear. Independent archaeology has already found plenty of undeniable evidence of ancient hybridization, more than 8 thousand years ago. I recently released an interview about this with a demonstration of the finds and an explanation of their dating by radiocarbon analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UgBptLWx9U&t=1970s Even now genetics is making many discoveries about the migrations of peoples and the history of humanity based on the analysis of ancient human remains. Yet anomalous skulls and unexpected migrations are being actively hushed up. As soon as funding is switched on, science will catch up with the ufologists.
So this is the main thing happening on the planet, and hybridization is at the center of this change. The human of the future will be telepathic. And telepathy will change the structure of society, making it less hierarchical and more egalitarian, more brotherly. Matriarchy will return. Friendship will replace competition.