(I am a jelly donut)

Btw, I know of the 1960′s ufo incident of which you speak… I was waving at you from inside the craft!

@Alamo: “it gladdens the heart to think that perhaps… somewhere out there… are space ships being piloted very fast (after much fiddling, some banging and a lot of screaming) by large, hairy humanoids.”

One of those ships is called the Millennium Falcon and the pilot is called Chewbacca.

Wookies… I knew it!

Naw, we’re not ignoring you… I’ll do you one better…

I have a pet theory that what we know as flying saucers are piloted, not by space aliens… but by humans, from a time when technology far surpassed what we have today (I won’t go into it, but there’s significant support for this: ancient artifacts, writings and depictions, etc…). These survivors of an extinction level event (natural or man-made, take your pick) kept a high level of technology while the remaining few went back to the stone age… an event corresponding to our own mitochondrial Eve some 200,000 years ago. This population would be the original relict hominids. Like all the other tribes we’ve discussed here, even more so… they would need to abduct subjects for reproductive purposes.

The unanswered question to the whole DNA fiasco… fittingly enough, we are talking about DNA testing here after all… is, “Who’s your daddy?”. If mama’s human… who’s the daddy? I have a flight of fancy on top of a daydream (please don’t Sasoon me Kellie)… what if the source is the original relict hominid population I mentioned above? I never really considered what form this ancient race would take… but it gladdens the heart to think that perhaps… somewhere out there… are space ships being piloted very fast (after much fiddling, some banging and a lot of screaming) by large, hairy humanoids.

No silent treatment from me. I’ll listen to or read any comments you care to make.

I feel they might be a little fanciful and your writing style implies tongue-in-cheek but humor is a wonderful thing…it allows people to exchange thoughts more easily.

Please remember, I saw a very well witnessed and documented UFO back in the early 1960′s which started my life-long interest in the unexplained.

Do we really need to commit murder in the name of science? (not like we haven’t before) … but do we even need to in this case? We certainly don’t need to produce a body in order to prove murder. I submit that biological samples which are multiple and varied (hair, skin, flesh, scat, blood, etc…) yet are also congruent, constitute a de facto body. DNA is fractal in nature, the entire blueprint for the whole creature is contained in each minute part. We can already extrapolate basic morphology based on DNA. Our understanding is not quite there yet, but it is not out of the realm of possibility to be able to reconstruct an animal physically (a computer model not Jurassic Park) based on a sample of its DNA.

One little mention of space aliens and the 12th planet and all of a sudden I’m the wierd guy that gets kicked out of the conversation.

We must learn to tolerate one another, fellow lizard people decendants! (I’m talking to you too sasquatch… maybe.)

“The hybridization event could not have occurred more than 15,000 years ago according to the mitochondrial data in some samples.” This seems to indicate that the mitochondrial “Eve” was 15,000 years old only for some samples… I think it entirely possible for a single branch of the Bigfoot tribe (for lack of a better word – a catch all for similar creatures: Alma, Yeti, Skunk Ape, Yowie, etc…) to be crossbreeds originating from a single antecedent 15,000 years ago… though the vast geographical distribution of the entire tribe would necessitate a common ancestor much farther back than that.

Here’s a interesting thought: what if we too are members of the Bigfoot tribe, what if we are all human? We know (due to fossil records) that there were several branches of the human tree all existing together at one time and that these branches were able to interbreed to a certain extent.

Other posters here have spoken of the “Uncanny Valley” as it relates to Bigfoot. Think of it like this: There is a great range of physical and behavioral differences in dogs. A Chihuahua and a St Bernard do not even look like the same animal, yet they can (theoretically) interbreed. It’s as if German Shepherds were the most successful canine… and not only that… decided that only they were true dogs and proceeded to wipe out any doggy creatures that weren’t exactly like them. The current human morphology is only the most dominant one, the one that killed off all the rest. There may well have been dozens of different “breeds” of humans existing together at some time in the distant past.