Clonaid, founded by a religious sect that believes life on Earth was created by aliens, says that it has cloned a third baby. The group claims a male born in Japan Wednesday was cloned from the cells of a brother who died at age two.

Clonaid CEO Brigitte Boisselier told a news conference in Toronto Thursday that the male baby is doing well and was born to a couple in their 40s. She said DNA was collected from the boy before he died and preserved, adding that a donor egg was used.

Boisselier promised that a picture of the baby would be posted on the company's website tonight or tomorrow. She said details and photos about the company's laboratory will also be posted online.

Clonaid first hit the headlines in December, 2002, when it announced it had cloned the world's first human. Baby Eve was reportedly born to U.S. parents and has been the subject of a heated court case in Florida.

Boisselier said Baby Eve is doing fine but that she would have no more contact with the baby's parents.

"They are moving from their home and I will not know where they are," Boisselier said, adding the move meant she could not reveal their whereabouts to a court.

Clonaid has never offered proof of her existence or her genetic makeup despite promises to do so. Boisselier said the parents refused a DNA test out of fear, believing that the baby would be taken away from them.

"I couldn't believe that were mean people trying to take that baby from the parents," Boisselier said, adding that she would not disclose any more information about Eve.

Clonaid has also said it has successfully cloned a baby girl for a Dutch lesbian couple who was born on Jan. 3. Boisselier told reporters the couple may come forward over the next couple of days.

Clonaid was founded by the leader of the Quebec-based Raelian cult, Rael, otherwise known as Claude Vorilhon. The former journalist and race car driver lives at the group's headquarters in Quebec, called UFO land.

The sect, which boasts 55,000 members worldwide, believe that aliens created human beings 25,000 years ago in laboratories. They believe that for humans to clone themselves is the ultimate destiny.

Rael founded Clonaid in 1997 to do just that. Among some of the people it says it has contacted as possible cloning participants is a descendent of Dracula.

A leading cloning researcher says Clonaid's unsubstantiated claims are hurting science. Dr. Steve Stice, who has cloned 30 cows in a program at the University of Georgia, told CNN that he believes human cloning should be banned.

"I am hopeful there will be an international ban on cloning humans, but there are many other uses, good uses of cloning technology," Stice told CNN.

With a report from The Canadian Press