Lloyd Anthony Pye Jr. (September 7, 1946 – December 9, 2013) was an American author and paranormal researcher best known for his promotion of the Starchild skull.
[4] He also promoted the ideas that cryptozoological creatures such as Bigfoot are real and that aliens intervened in human development.
[5][6] Pye's first book That Prosser Kid (1977), a fictional account of college football, was said to have "achieved considerable recognition" by the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature,[7] and was called "lively but unoriginal" by The Boston Globe.
American clinical neurologist Steven Novella has said the skull belongs to a child who suffered from hydrocephalus.
[3][4] In 2009, Pye took a replica of the skull on a lecture tour of Europe, including an appearance at the Leeds Exopolitics Expo.