In the early 1930s, a teenage girl of Mexican heritage was exploring a long-abandoned mine tunnel in the Copper Canyon region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Buried beneath the dirt floor in a shallow, unremarkable grave, she discovered two skeletons: one of a normal adult female and another that would eventually ignite a firestorm of controversy within the fields of archaeology, biology, and ufology. This second set of remains belonged to what the world would come to know as the Starchild Skull. For nearly a century, this artifact has served as a battlefield between those who believe in extraterrestrial visitation and the scientific community that seeks a terrestrial, medical explanation. While proponents of the "alien" theory point to the skull’s bizarre physiological
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