The race to produce the first birth of a human clone is reportedly nearing the finish line.
Last month, it was an Italian fertility doctor, Dr Severino Antinori, who promised a cloned baby boy in January.
Now a scientist has confirmed media reports a different organisation expects a cloned baby girl to be born this month.
Clonaid is a group that believes life on earth was created by extraterrestrials.
Brigitte Boisselier, head of a company, says she'll offer proof the baby is a clone of the woman carrying the pregnancy.
Clonaid, which declines to say where its facilities are, was founded in the Bahamas in 1997 by the head of a group called the Raelians.
They contend the truth about the origin of life on earth was revealed to their founder, Rael, by a visitor from another planet. Boisselier, a Raelian bishop, said Clonaid retains "philosophical" but not economic links to the group.
Boisselier says the cloned baby will be delivered by Caesarean section from an American woman in her 30s.
She declined to say where or when the birth will take place, but ruled out Christmas Day, which earlier reports had suggested. She also says four more clone births are due by the end of February.
To prove the baby due this month is a clone, Boisselier says a DNA expert chosen by a documentary maker will take DNA samples from the baby and the mother a few days after the birth and test them for a match.