NOTE: This email describes the UFO implant removal and research to date arranged for by Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatrist and UFO researcher. Dr. Leir's web site is at: http://www.AlienScalpel.com Date sent: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:48:28 -0400 From: UFO UpDates - Toronto Subject: On The Surgical Removal Of Alleged Alien Implants - Bourdais From: Gildas Bourdais To: Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:40:31 +0200 Subject: Re: On The Surgical Removal Of Alleged Alien Implants To EBK and the List, Following my previous messages regarding Dr Leir's surgeries and alleged implants, I thought it would be useful to give a sort of basic summary of the findings, for those interested but lacking information. Dr Roger K. Leir was subjected repeatedly to strong criticisms when he began talking publicly about his surgeries on alleged alien implants. One major criticism was, and still is, that he and his colleagues have not written any scientific article, accepted by a reputed scientific review. While this is a serious shortcoming, it also appears that a significant amount of credible information is available about these operations, objects removed, alleged abductees and their personal stories. Let's try to review briefly some basic information about them. The surgeries Here is the list of surgical extractions of alleged implants, performed either by Dr Roger Leir (in the case of foot implants) or by other surgeons with his assistance. This list is drawn from the book of Dr Leir, 'The Aliens and the Scalpel' published in 1998, and from several articles for later operations (see below). For anyone looking for information on the subject, the first thing to do is to buy his book and read it. It may be ordered from his web site at: http://www.alienscalpel.com/ According to Table 1, page 164 of his book, 8 operations took place from 1995 to 1998. First set of 3 surgeries, before NIDS involvement 1) 8-19-95, Patricia. Two implants in left toe, metallic seed, and metallic T-shape 2) 8-19-95, Paul. Left hand, metallic seed (looks like a 'cantaloup' seed) 3) 1-2-96, Babs (F). Left shoulder, 'elemental solid' ball Second set, sponsored and paid by NIDS 4) 5-18-96, Annie. Left leg, elemental solid ball 5) 5-18-96, Doris. Left leg, elemental solid ball 6) 5-18-96, Don. Left jaw, metallic triangle 7) 1-12-97, Lyla. Left heel, glass sliver (earthly origin, discarded) 8) 8-17-98, Pablo. Left hand, metallic seed (filmed by NBC and aired in February 1999) Other surgeries, after the publication of the book 9) 2-5-2000, Tim Cullen. Left wrist, metallic seed (case presented at the Laughlin UFO Congress of March 2000 with the presence of Tim Cullen. Reported in the MUFON UFO Journal of May 2000, and at the Mufon Symposium of July 2000. (See the Proceedings of the symposium, available at MUFON). 10) 10-29-2001, stewardess for a major airline. Small lump in the right arm, the size of a pea (case presented at the Laughlin UFO Congress, March 2002. Report in the British UFO Magazine of May 2002. Will be presented at the Leeds International UFO Conference, 20-22 September 2002). The implants Two series of tests have been performed in 1998 under the direction of NIDS, more precisely of Colonel John Alexander, at the Los Alamos National Laboratories, and at New Mexico Tech. In his book, his articles and conferences, Roger Leir mentions studies made in other laboratories, but these have not been published yet. We first have the results of the analysis done at New Mexico Tech in 1996, paid by NIDS and published on its web site, at: http://www.nidsci.org/ In addition to this document, we have the 'letter of opinion' of the metallurgic engineer who did the tests, Mr Paul A. Fuierer. It is not on the NIDS site, but it is reproduced by Dr Roger Leir in his book, with his comments, and on his own web site, at: http://alienscalpel.com/NMTech-opinion.htm It is also on the web site of the Abduction Information Centre (AIC) managed by John Velez, on which we have in addition some critical comments on the New Mexico Tech Analysis, at: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/aic/ As for the analyses done at Los Alamos, it seems that they are presented, rather briefly, and only in the book of Dr Leir, which he published on his own initiative. It seems important to repeat here that, in the initial agreement between NIDS and the Leir-Sims team, it was understood that NIDS would publish a scientific article (according to Leir in his book). But instead of that, in 1996 they pushed Leir to publish rapidly an article in the Mufon UFO Journal (see p 175 of the book). Probably, this did not help to achieve the goal of obtaining a scientific publication. Incidentally, Jacques Vallée, who is member of the scientific board of NIDS, could have easily obtained the publication of a properly written article in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. He obtained the publication, in April 2001, of a sharp criticism of the Cometa report, written by the french skeptic Claude Maugé, and translated by Vallee. Why not an article on Dr Leir's implant scientific analyses done in those two laboratories, whatever the conclusion would be? In his book (paperback edition) Leir recalls that Vallée was present at the meeting with Bigelow and the NIDS scientific board in Las Vegas. We can also note that the biological findings have not been published at NIDS, although there are biologists on the board. Articles For the record, here are the main articles, to be found easily in the UFO litterature. In the Mufon UFO Journal: April 1996 (No 336): 'In Seach Of Hard Evidence' by Dr Roger Leir June 1998 (No 362): 'Alien Implants - A 1998 Update' by Dr Leir November 1998 (No 367): 'The effects of 'implant' removal discussed by five individuals', by Eve Frances Lorgen December 1998 (No 368): 'NBC Films Implant Removal', by Dr Leir May 2000 'implant' Removals Yield Interesting Results', by Dr Leir Mufon July 2001 Symposium Proceedings: 'Alien abduction - Alien implants. Why ?' by Dr Leir UFO magazine (US), January 1999: 'NBC Special to air surgical removal of purported implant, by Jack Carlson. UFO Magazine (GB), May 2002: in the account of the Laughlin UFO Congress, by Graham Birdsall. Some videos are also available on the surgeries and conferences of Dr Leir. The summary of the scientific findings For those who don't want to read any of these articles and documents, let's try to make a very brief summary of the most interesting findings. As seen in the list above, two main kinds of implants were found , metallic, and non-metallic (little balls). In his book, Roger Leir gives his summary of the biological and metallurgical findings (pp 162 to 171). 1) Biological findings About the metallic objects: Four produced metallic objects covered by dark, grey, shiny membranes that could not be opened with a surgical blade. This membrane was shown to consist of protein coagulum, hemosiderin, and keratin. All three of these substances are naturally occurring in the body, but our investigation has shown no record of this combination in the medical litterature. The soft tissues adjacent to the metallic objects underwent analysis, and the findings demonstrated conglomerations of nerve cells and a total lack of inflammatory response'. About the non-metallic objects: 'Three of the surgeries consisted of the removal of a skin lesion with an attached small BB-sized, greyish-white round ball in the underlying soft tissue. We found solar elastosis, clusters of nerve cells, and either minimal or no inflammation present'. The skin lesion were of the 'scoop-mark' kind. Dr Leir then lists a series of biological findings, among which: - All objects were obtained from the left sides of the bodies. - Almost all of the specimens fluoresced under ultraviolet black light. - All subjects showed abnormal reactions to procaine local anesthetics (no reactions, or allergic reactions). - All had a compulsion to absorbe a lot of salt. In addition to that, it is to be noted that all appeared 'normal' according to a PhD psychologist. 2) Metallurgical findings The main findings being on the internet (see links above, and my previous messages on this List, of September 1 and 5), I will just quote Dr Leir's book, about an interesting description of the T-shaped object (in Patricia's foot): 'The T-shaped object is composed of two small metallic rods. The horizontal portion contains a magnetic iron core that is harder than the finest carbide steel. A complex layer of elements covers the core, forming a cladding. One portion of this cladding has a cristalline band, which circles the rod. When viewing this rod, as seen in the electronphotomicrograph, it appears to be structured. One end is in the shape of a barb while the opposite end is flat. In the center is a small depression. The shape of this depression conforms exactly to the shape of one end of the vertical rod. The vertical rod contains a similar cladding, but the core is composed of carbon instead or iron and it is magnetoconductive, but not magnetic'. There are other interesting findings, but it would be too long to list them all. At least should be mentioned electromagnetic properties, notably on Tim Cullen's implant, when the object was still in place in the body. Dr Leir was assisted in this area by electronic engineer Bob Beckwith, and Greg Avery, Mufon state director for Mouisiana. First, with a simple Gaussmeter, they found a 6 milligauss reading. Then, in spite of some difficulties, they were able to detect 'a pulse reading', which 'showed there was a signal being generated and one being received by the object' (see Mufon 2001 Proceedings, p. 194). According to Dr Leir, further studies were done "by another world-class laboratory in Texas", which revealed that the main elemental component was iron, and, although it was amorphous, they were amazed to find that it was highly magnetic. They explained to Leir that "we have no such process for accomplishing this feat". The UFO connection Eve Frances Lorgen has interviewed five of the persons subjected to surgeries, and she found that "All persons, one male and four females, shared one thing in common: UFO encounters And Contact With Non-Human Alien Beings (MUFON Journal, Nov. 1998). The two more recent cases fall in that category as well. Tim Cullen had a close encounter in 1978, when travelling in his car with his wife. He talked about it only twenty years later when he felt his children were old enough to hear about it. I met him and found him very credible. To conclude this short summary, I suggest that all readers of this List should not to reject this research without serious study. Gildas Bourdais