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The Aliens and the Scalpel

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I rank this book pretty high in importance among UFO literature. Dr. Leir is of course well-known in the field of ufology, having performed many well reported surgeries to remove implants from alledged abductees. These implants, upon analysis at certain topmost university laboratories, reveal certain astounding associated biological and metallurgical characteristics, which cannot be explained by any theories other than that they are from advanced extra-terrestrial civilization. This book tells how Dr. Leir first got involved in this field of endeavor, and traces the history of his involvement and the amazing findings of the research he and his colleagues did. I actually will rate this as a must read for anyone interested in ufology, and a mind-opening introduction to ufology for the less initiated. I met Dr. Leir recently at a UFO conference in Santa Clara, and was luck enough to have him autographed his book

Leir has a very fascinating area of study here... this is definitely worth a read, and coupled with internet research and Leir's web page, this book is quite a source.... I'd like to continue to see the evidence brought forth behind this frightening prospect... This is a book every human should read and form an opinion about...

This important book by Californian podiatric surgeon Dr. Roger Leir, MD, was first published in 1998 by The National Institute for Discovery Science and financed by Bob Bigelow's Foundation. It has seen a couple of updated editions in the current century, so there is more than one version available to read. It chronicles, in the first person, Dr. Leir's involvement in identifying, surgically removing and analyzing implants from the bodies of serial abductees in southern California (the surgeries were performed at more than one clinical location) and may be the nearest thing we have to irrefutable scientific proof that the abductors do place small devices in abductees' bodies, for purposes about which we can only speculate.

The book runs to 230 pages including several detailed appendices. The original 1998 edition has a foreword penned by Whitley Strieber, following which the author introduces himself, his surgical credentials and his history of interest in the subject of UFOs, abductees and implants. Dr. Leir reveals he had a couple of personal NDEs which convinced him there is more to us than just our biological material and he may, in fact, be an abductee himself though this is not made explicit in the book.

The chronological narrative describes how Dr. Leir's original offer in 1995 to surgically remove suspected `alien implants' from serial abductees was taken up by Derrell Sims at a MUFON meeting; how dates were agreed and patients selected; how surgery was planned, financed and organized and how the involvement of a large number of people became necessary, from nursing assistants to anaesthetists to assistant surgeons, to someone to collect abductees from the airport and drive them to the surgery. The surgeries were professionally recorded and filmed, and relayed live to an adjacent room full of invited guests who read like the `Who's Who' of ufology in the 1990s together with interested professional medics and people working in related bio-medical disciplines.

The nature of the objects removed from patients during the first and second waves of surgeries are then described, analyzed and discussed. One of the eight removed objects was found to be mundane (possibly a piece of glass); the other seven were `exotic'. Here's how the objects were lab-tested:

1. Density immersion technique in toluene
2. Mechanical properties analysis including hardness and elastic modulus
3. X-ray energy-dispersive spectroscopy
4. Scanning electron microscopy
5. X-ray diffraction pattern analysis
6. Electromagnetic properties analysis

(All analyses were double-blind tested)

The tissues surrounding these small metallic foreign objects, which looked like `cantaloupe seeds radiating small tendrils', were invariably devoid of any inflammatory reaction and were found, inexplicably, to contain nerve proprioceptors. Now, we can speculate all day about what might be going on here but one thing we can say, with certainty, is that no way do these things exhibit the characteristics normally seen with foreign bodies which find their way, through accident or other means, into the human organism. In `normal' cases, a foreign body would generate substantial and persistent inflammatory tissue response and nerve tissue would never develop around it: it seems these things were somehow designed to be bio-compatible with the abductee and `wired in' to the nervous system. Other interesting characteristics included:

* All objects were recovered from the left side of the body

* All the `exotic' specimens (7 of the 8) emitted a powerful electro-magnetic field easily detectable with a gauss meter

* When removed from the human body, all 7 `exotic' specimens bizarrely and inexplicably fluoresced under UV black light

* During laboratory analysis, the objects were found to be complex and contained a diversity of elements (Al, Ba, Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, Si, Zn) not normally found together in natural objects

* Xeropthalmia (night blindness) was common to 50% of the male patients and 90% of the female; in the general population, the percentage is in single digits (of course this might be just a bizarre coincidence)

Dr. Leir describes how he and Derrell Sims were courted by Dr. John Alexander and Bob Bigelow, invited to NIDS HQ in Nevada and how the NIDS Board eventually offered to finance their research and bankroll future surgeries. They also, eventually, financed this book. He also describes the unlooked-for and unwelcome minor celebrity status he gradually acquired as more and more TV and news media networks, magazines and periodicals wanted to interview him, and how he was invited to conferences all over the world to present his findings.

The appendices run to 36 pages and reproduce all the biopsy reports, biological analysis reports and lab summaries in full.

Leir's writing style is not great, but adequate and literate. If you read this book, do so for the important information it reveals, rather than for entertainment value. Though now in his mid-70s, Roger has not retired from surgical practice: he continues to work in this field and to be a major inspiration to others who now follow the path he has pioneered in this vitally important area.

If you have any interest in this subject, this book is highly recommended.It is a very well written, and very informative.