THIS STEREOLITHOGRAPHIC COPY of the starchild skull shows its irregular shape. Inlet Beach author Lloyd Pye is on a mission to prove his theories are out of this world – literally. Pye is the research coordinator of The Starchild Project, which is investigating possible origins of a strangely-shaped skull referred to as the Starchild Skull. According to Pye the skull was discovered in the 1930s by an American teenager near Mexico’s Copper Canyon. (Photo by Jeffrey Powell)