What Ryushikaze said. Now that you mentioned it, I think Hojo was so messed up that he kept lying about so many things, so I wonder if even half of what he says is true. For example, he claims he created Cloud and that he's (SPOILER)Sephiroth's father, but it could be just him taking credit for things he didn't even do. However, Cloud was born 21 years prior to FFVII's events. He wasn't an actual clone or artificially produced. He was just injected with Jenova cells five years prior to the game. It seems everyone with Jenova's cells are called clones, even though they're nowhere near being carbon copies of one another, which is what I usually consider a clone to be.