UFO 'clone' baby: first pictures

UFO 'clone' baby: first pictures
by RICHARD ALLEN, Evening Standard


Website photo: a hospital incubator in Japan containing what is said to be Clonaid's third cloned baby

This is the first picture of one of the babies alleged to have been cloned by a UFO cult.

Clonaid, which is linked to the Raelian sect and claims to have cloned five babies, said the photograph on its website was that of the third baby, a boy, born in Japan in January.

The baby is shown in a hospital incubator in a nappy with what appears to be a bandage over its eyes. Clonaid president, Dr Brigitte Boisselier, claimed in December that the world's first cloned baby, Eve, was born to American parents on Boxing Day. A second cloned baby girl was said to have been born to a Dutch lesbian on 3 January.

Dr Boisselier later claimed a fourth cloned baby was born to Saudi Arabian parents on 27 January, and a fifth on 4 February. All five babies are "in excellent healthî, according to Clonaid's website.

The website says: "The next implantations have now started and will proceed for a few months. Twenty couples are involved in this second generation.

"The five happy couples of the first generation are now building an association in defence of their rights once they decide to go public.

"Clonaid wishes to thank the thousands of individuals who volunteered to help and hopes they will continue to voice their opinion in support of reproductive human cloning."

The company, the scientific wing of the Raelian movement that believes extra-terrestrials created mankind, said the parents of the baby born in Japan would soon prove that it had the same DNA as its dead, older sibling.

Previously Clonaid has failed to live up to such pledges to give evidence of its cloning claims.

The group initially promised to conduct independent DNA tests to prove that baby Eve was a clone, but no evidence has been produced. The photograph's presentation is the latest episode in what many scientists say is a hoax to publicise the Raelians.

In January Dr Michael Guillen, who had been appointed by Clonaid to oversee DNA testing, resigned after revealing that the cult had consistently held up the process. A Miami lawyer applied to the Florida authorities to become Eve's legal guardian, saying that a cloned child could face serious health problems. Dr Boisselier told a Florida court that the baby was in Israel but she did not know where.

She said the parents had cut off all contact with the cult. The case was thrown out after a judge ruled that the baby - if it existed - would be outside his jurisdiction.

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