The Aliens and the Scalpel
An engrossing and compelling account of the research for hard evidence of extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs--and bodies.  If Leir's evidence means what he thinks it does, it has soul-shattering cosmological and religious implications.  In any event,Aliens and the Scalpeldeserves careful consideration from scientists and lay persons alike who, like Leir, are drawn to seek out the physical traces apparently left behind, like so many tantalizing clues, by the elusive phenomenon we all seek to understand--UFOs. --Dr. Kenneth Ring, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of ConnecticutDr. Leir is to be praised for pioneering research into the removal and analysis of suspected alien implants. Only peer review and acceptance separatehis findings from being the proverbial smoking gun of physical evidence for the UFO abduction phenomenon.   --Raymond Fowler, well-known UFO researcher, author of the Andreasson series and the Allagash AbductionsDr. Roger K. Leir is a pioneer in the surgical removal of what seem to be alien implants from humans  report ing alien abduction experiences.  Determining the purpose of these implants hinges upon microscopic analysis of the removed specimens. Medical doctors, surgeons, physicists and chemists who are part of the Mutual UFO Network's Board of Consultants are available to apply their expertise to the challenge of resolving this intriguing enigma.  --Walter H. Andrus, Jr., International Director, Mutual UFO Network, Inc.Dr. Roger Leir has finally and dramatically laid his cards on the table.  His carefully documented surgical removal of possible alien implants from individuals reporting UFO abductions can no longer be ignored.  It may very well turn out to be an event of extraordinary importance.  At the very least, The Aliens and the Scalpel should alert the scientific community to something skeptics have long denied: the existence of testable physical evidence.  Thus it is my hope that the book will have an even wider readership among physical scientists than among those of us already persuaded by the manytypes of evidence supporting the reality of UFO abductions.  --Budd Hopkins, abduction researcher and author ofMissing Time,Intruders, andWitnessedIs it conceivable that aliens are capable of entering our homes, abducting us, and implanting objects into our bodies in a way that is nearly undetectable? The evidence is what appears to be the implants themselves-tiny metallic objects of mysterious composition, surgically removed from the bodies of individuals with alien abduction histories.Eight such persons have undergone meticulously documented surgeries, and the foreign objects removed have been analyzed in double-blind studies by some of the nation's foremost research laboratories.This book is the personal story of the doctor who performed the surgeries, and includes an eight-page section of detailed color photographs and two appendices of biological and metallurgical lab reports.The case as presented is quite convincing, and should generate a good deal of controversy. If its claims are true, it poses far more challenging questions than it answers.   --NAPRA ReView, January 1999.We do not review most books we read favorably. But we reserve the  limited space of the pages of the Meta Research Bulletin for reviews of  those books that contain something paradigm-changing, yet  well-documented and in accord with the principles of scientific method.  Frankly, that such criteria would be met by a book on the subject matter  of "alien implants" was, to put it mildly, unexpected.This book is an easy read because it is done in the anecdotal style of a  personal diary. The author takes us through the events in his life over  the past three years, starting with his professional career as a  friendly neighborhood foot doctor. He describes his evolution to his  present status as the only surgeon to surgically remove implants from  the bodies of individuals who claim to be alien abductees, then to have  those implants analyzed by professional laboratories.The analyzing laboratories were given minimal information, such as  "foreign object from foot lesion" or "soft tissue, adjacent to foreign  body". The actual biopsy reports, pathology reports, and metallurgical  analyses on laboratory letterhead are reproduced as appendices at the  book's end.The surgery and lab reports led to several principal conclusions:Almost all the specimens fluoresced under ultraviolet light.All subjects displayed abnormal reactions to procaine local anesthetics.The exterior skin showed no evidence of an entry wound that could  have allowed the implant to gain entrance.The implants were encased in a hard membrane of unique composition  that could not be cut with a surgical tool.The surrounding tissues were rich in nerve proprioceptors. The  normal purpose of such receptors is to convey pressure, temperature, and  contact information from surface tissues through the spinal cord to the  muscles in the lower extremities. But the implants all came from deep  tissues. No known purpose is served by such receptors in deep tissue.The tissue samples completely lacked visible microscopic  inflammation. This is normally a medical impossibility, because any  foreign body would inflame the surround tissues.The final conclusions concerned the composition of the implants  themselves. Compositions varied, but aluminum, calcium, copper, and iron  were common. One laboratory analyzed four samples, and concluded that  two of them "show some isotopic ratios consistent with an  extraterrestrial origin." What I read in this book is evidence that cannot be dismissed by the criteria of scientific method.  I, for one, will now be paying close attention to future developments. --Tom van Flandern,The Meta Research Bulletin, Washington, DC January 1999"NBC Special to Air Surgical Removal of Purported Implants" by Jack CarlsonThe problem of possible alien implants has been looked into by researchers Derrel Sims and Roger Leir, the latter of whom, a podiatrist, has helped perform surgeries to remove objects from patients who claim alien abduction. Author Whitley Strieber, who wrote the bestseller Communion and two subsequent books dealing with his own abduction story, was present during the initial series of surgeries performed by Leir/Sims in 1996. In his new book Confirmation, published earlier this year, Strieber discusses the results of these surgeries, including subsequent revelations regarding the implants.Now, a new two-hour NBC special, due to air in February, will broadcast the most recent surgery performed by the Leir/Sims team this past August. Dr. Leir invited over 20 guests to witness the surgery as it transpired, arranging for a TV monitor to be set up in a waiting room located near the surgery room so the guests could get a clear, unobstructed view of the actual operation. There were two video cameras used to record the event; NBC had their own crew and Leir/Sims were also taping the proceedings.The patient was Paul Dering (pseudonymn), a man of 45-plus years who had a foreign object lodged in his left thumb, which was discovered when he had his wrist X-rayed as a result of a skiing accident in 1990. An emergency room doctor showed him the X-ray, which revealed a tiny opaque object in his left thumb. Shocked by the X-ray, Dering had no idea how the object had become embedded into the flesh of his thumb, nor could he recall ever having injured his thumb or cut it to a degree that would have allowed such an object to insert itself. He had never had surgery on his thumb; no scar tissue was present and no unusual experience either from childhood or the military could account for the presence of this object which had now, for the first time, revealed itself on a piece of X-ray film.When Dering consulted his local HMO, they told him they couldn't treat him, since the problem did not represent any kind of life-threatening situation. Dering accepted that explanation and decided not to pursue the matter further: nevertheless he was not able to forget the mysterious foreign object in his thumb.A few years later, Paul attended a MUFON (Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network) meeting to hear a lecture by Dr. Leir, who described his previous work. With the assistance of his partner Sims and their surgical team, Dr. Leir had successfully removed foreign objects from the hands and feet of several patients.About six weeks later, Dering made an appointment with Dr. Leir, who examined the X-rays and arranged to have additional ones taken, to make certain that the object was indeed still there and had not moved. Both sets of X-rays confirmed that some type of foreign object was embedded within the flesh of Dering's left thumb. --Jack CarlsonFrom the Preface: Sometimes the whole world knows when a historical figure makes his history. As often, though, people whose work is little known make history in the quiet of ordinary life. Dr. Roger Leir is such a historical figure. There will come a time when the extraordinary breakthrough that he has made is noted in every textbook, but right now most of the world still has no idea of what he did, or even that such a thing could be possible.   --Whitley Strieber, author ofCommunion,Transformation,ConfirmationThe problem of possible alien implants has been looked into by researchers Derrel Sims and Roger Leir, the latter of whom, a podiatrist, has helped perform surgeries to remove objects from patients who claim alien abduction.Now, a new two-hour NBC special will broadcast the surgery performed by the Leir/Sims team in August, 1998. Dr. Leir invited over 20 guests to witness the surgery as it transpired, arranging for a TV monitor to be set up in a waiting room located near the surgery room so the guests could get a clear, unobstructed view of the actual operation. There were two video cameras used to record the event; NBC had their own crew and Leir/Sims were also taping the proceedings.The patient was Paul Dering (pseudonymn), a man of 45-plus years who had a foreign object lodged in his left thumb, which was discovered when he had his wrist X-rayed as a result of a skiing accident in 1990. An emergency room doctor showed him the X-ray, which revealed a tiny opaque object in his left thumb. Shocked by the X-ray, Dering had no idea how the object had become embedded into the flesh of his thumb, nor could he recall ever having injured his thumb or cut it to a degree that would have allowed such an object to insert itself. He had never had surgery on his thumb; no scar tissue was present and no unusual experience either from childhood or the military could account for the presence of this object which had now, for the first time, revealed itself on a piece of X-ray film.A few years later, Paul attended a MUFON (Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network) meeting to hear a lecture by Dr. Leir, who described his previous work. With the assistance of his partner Sims and their surgical team, Dr. Leir had successfully removed foreign objects from the hands and feet of several patients.About six weeks later, Dering made an appointment with Dr. Leir, who examined the X-rays and arranged to have additional ones taken, to make certain that the object was indeed still there and had not moved. Both sets of X-rays confirmed that some type of foreign object was embedded within the flesh of Dering's left thumb.At Dr. Leir's suggestion, Dering met with Sims several weeks later. Sims confirmed that the "object" appeared similar to others the team had previously removed, and possibly had been implanted by an encounter with some type of alien. Both Sims and Dr. Leir recommended surgery to remove the object.Details were worked out during the ensuing weeks. The surgery was to take place at a Simi Valley surgical center. A Dr. Ablemeiser (pseudonymn), a general surgeon and friend of Dr. Leir, would perform the operation. An NBC crew attended to get the event on tape.The patient was brought into the surgery room. Sims, a hypnoanaesthesiologist, began his hypnotic procedure which would insure that Dering would feel no pain during any phase of the operation. A medical anesthetist, also present, administered a local anesthetic. A special X-ray machine called a "C" Arm was used during the procedure to pin-point the position of the object before its extraction. once the foreign object was located on the screen of the X-ray, Dr. Ablemeiser made an incision with his scalpel. The object was quickly located and extracted. Dr. Leir examined the object and informed his audience that it was "strikingly similar in appearance and size to several other objects" they had previously removed.Resembling a cantaloupe seed, the tiny object was covered with a dark, grey shiny membranous tissue. It was placed in a vial containing the patient's own blood serum, sealed and dated. Several days later, a member of the NBC team arranged to have the vial transported by bonded courier to the University of Texas' division of Earth and Physical Sciences in San Antonio, Texas, where it was initially analyzed. According to Dr. Leir, the security precautions were necessary to prevent any contamination of the specimen and to protect the integrity of the entire procedure. All of these steps were recorded by the network TV cameras."The object will eventually be subjected to a variety of tests," Dr. Leir comments. "The results of first analysis reveal that the implant bears close resemblance to the other implants removed in the 1995 and 1996 surgeries."Seven additional surgeries had been performed prior to the August 17 surgical removal on Dering. Three out of the eight patients turned out to have nearly identical, highly anomalous iron-alloy objects involved. Dr. Leir comments, "In all cases, ultra-hard, metallic, highly magnetic 'cores' were surrounded by an ultra-dense dark grey membrane which could not be cut with a brand new scalpel. We know this had a magnetic iron core that was polar, since we used a magnet to spin the object 360 degrees without touching it. This was recorded by the NBC camera. The membrane somehow prevented any sign of inflammation or rejection."The team believes the objects are of "alien" origin. As Leir explains, "The two main reasons for considering the elements in these objects to be non-terrestrial in origin has to do with the comparison by the metallurgical scientists to meteorite fragments, and that the isotopic ratios of some of the elements are [too] far out of the...range [for them ]to be terrestrial in occurrence."A complete accounting of all previous surgeries, including histories of some of the patients is available in a new book, The Aliens and the Scalpel, authored by Dr. Roger Leir and published by Granite Publishing, with sponsorship from The National Institute for Discovery Science and the Bigelow Foundation.  --Jack Carlson,UFO Magazine and Phenomena Report, Vol. 14, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 22-25--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.