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Welcome to the ISCNI*Flash. This edition is in two parts. If you don't
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part. Highlights in this edition are:
PART ONE
o THE SANTILLI FILM: THE PLOT THICKENS (AGAIN)
Researcher Kent Jeffrey to Publish Detailed Report
Cameraman Challenged to Submit to Authentication
o CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS NOVA'S "KIDNAPPED BY UFOs?"
o NEW RASH OF BIZARRE MUTILATIONS REPORTED IN ALABAMA
o DUTCH ABDUCTION REPORTS MATCH U.S. PATTERN
PART TWO
o SURGEON TELLS FIRST RESULTS OF IMPLANT ANALYSIS
Sims, Leir Say They Might Have Hard Evidence of Abduction
o ANOTHER PLANET FOUND AROUND DISTANT STAR
Astronomers' Hopes Rise For Evidence of Intelligent Life
o SCIENTISTS MAKE ELEMENT 112
o UFOs ACTIVE OVER SCOTLAND
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ISCNI*Flash -- Vol. 1, No. 24, Part 2 -- March 1, 1996
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SURGEON TELLS FIRST RESULTS OF IMPLANT ANALYSIS
Sims, Leir Say They Might
Have Hard Evidence of Abduction
[This story summarizes information presented by hypnotherapist Derrel Sims
and physician Roger Leir at a public meeting in Thousand Oaks, California on
February 23, 1996, sponsored by the local chapter of MUFON (the Mutual UFO
Network). ISCNI*Flash thanks Debra Lindemann for writing this story.]
by Debra L. Lindemann
Dr. Roger Leir is a California surgeon who has removed what may be actual
alien implants from two people brought to him by hypno-anesthesia therapist
and abduction researcher Derrel Sims of Houston, Texas. Sims was the main
speaker at a MUFON meeting on Feb 23 but turned the podium over to Dr. Leir
for the medical part of the presentation.
On August 19, 1995, several alleged "implants" were surgically removed from
two abductees who have been working with Sims. If preliminary findings are
confirmed by further laboratory testing, these implants might provide hard
evidence that the abduction phenomenon is a reality.
Dr. Leir removed a total of three objects, two from one patient and one from
a second patient. Both specimens in the first patient, a woman, were located
in her large toe, one on each side of the toe. The third object was removed
from the back of the left hand of the second patient, a man, slightly above
the web area between the thumb and the index finger.
According to Sims, these people were originally unaware that they had the
implants. The objects were accidently discovered on x-rays taken for
unrelated reasons. At the time, these individuals were seeing Derrel, as
there were indications that they had a history of abduction. After extensive
interviews were taken by Derrel, he ordered copies of their medical records
and these objects came under scrutiny. There was no pain associated with
these implants, and neither patient had any prior sensation of foreign
objects in the body. Another peculiar fact is that these implants also left
no sign of entry into the body; if there was an initial incision, it healed
so perfectly that there was no outward scar.
To help locate the implants more specifically prior to surgery, Dr. Leir used
a stud finder and a gauss meter. A gauss meter measures electromagnetic
fields. When the gauss meter was put near the object in the man's hand, the
meter "went crazy." Dr. Leir first tested the man with the gauss meter
indoors, then took him outdoors away from all other magnetic influences. The
results were the same. Similarly, when he used the stud finder, it lit up
brightly over the man's hand, so they knew there was something there.
Prior to the surgery, both individuals received a type of local anesthetic
which would normally anesthetize the area of surgery for up to six hours.
While Dr. Leir was searching within the woman's toe for the first implant, he
accidently touched the object and the patient "almost jumped off the table."
Dr. Leir explained that the only time a surgeon gets this type of pain
reaction under anesthesia is when something, in this case the object, is in
close proximity to a nerve fiber. This is because the nerve fiber arouses the
sensation of pain directly in the patient's brain, outside of the field of
anesthesia. This happened in all three spots with both patients. When the
objects were extracted, both patients had the same painful response. Dr. Leir
concluded that these objects were somehow attached to nerves.
The first object removed was flat and approximately triangular in shape,
about half a centimeter on each side. Though metallic inside, it was covered
with a thick, dense gray membrane. Dr. Leir tried to cut into the membrane
with a scalpel, but couldn't.
When foreign objects have been in the human body for a long time, they get
covered with a dense fibrous coating, but usually such material can be
scraped off with a blade. In this case, however, the membrane was nearly
impossible to remove. A similar coating was found on all three objects.
Derrel Sims took the implants back to Houston for further analysis, while Dr.
Leir sent samples of surrounding tissue to a local pathologist. When the
objects were taken out, Dr. Leir had noticed that the tissue around them was
a discolored gray tone, not the color normally seen in tissue inflammation
surrounding a foreign object. He received three reports back from the
pathologist, one for each of the tissue samples. He was excited to see that
none of the samples showed any signs of inflammation.
Normally there is an inflammation response to any foreign object in the body.
This results from white blood cell activity in the area, attempting to rid
the body of what it considers garbage that doesn't belong there. If the
object is something soft, like a sliver, the body is able to disintegrate it
and take it away one piece at a time. If the body can't remove the foreign
object, it does the next best thing. Thousands of cells join together in a
process called differentiation, changing form and surrounding the object to
wall it off and separate it from the rest of the body. Any type of foreign
object placed in the body -- whether by accident, such as a splinter, or
something surgically inserted by a doctor -- will show this type of
inflammation. So it was extremely strange that the pathology reports on these
objects showed no inflammatory cells at all.
Similary strange was the discovery that in the tissue around each implant,
there were numerous nerve endings that didn't belong there. None of the
investigators could say why these nerve endings were there, but it suggests
the possibility that the implants act as some kind of monitoring device
through attachment to the nervous system.
When Derrel Sims got the objects back to Houston, his first test was to
expose them to ultraviolet light. He found that they all glowed brilliant
fluorescent green. Derrel has found in his research with abductees that
patches of some substance, invisible to the naked eye but fluorescent under
black light, sometimes show up on the abductee's body following an abduction.
He suspects that whatever this substance is, it could result from direct
physical contact with the body of the abductor. With this in mind, he said he
was not surprised to see that the three removed objects were fluorescent.
Later, Derrel dried out the three objects, and the membranes surrounding them
became brittle. He was then able to scrape some of the membrane material off
and send it back to Dr. Leir for analysis. After scraping off the brittle
membrane, he found a highly magnetic, metallic, shiny black material inside.
When Dr. Leir received the three different scrapings of the membrane coatings
from Derrel Sims, he sent them out to three separate pathologists. When the
reports came back, it turned out that the main ingredient in this very tough
membrane was something simply made from blood. In this bloody mass were some
brown granules. The pathologists did an iron stain test and found that these
brown granules were made of oxygen-carrying pigment from human red blood
cells. Besides this, they also found a material called keratin, which
comprises the outer layers of human skin, hair and fingernails.
Dr. Leir pointed out that if medical science could figure out how to
duplicate this membrane, we would solve one of the biggest problems in
medicine, that of transplant rejection. The membrane around the objects was
apparently composed of material from the patients' own bodies BEFORE the
objects were inserted. If we knew how to do this, we could put almost
anything into the human body and have absolutely no rejection.
Leir and Sims illustrated the structure of one of the implants taken from the
woman's toe. When first removed, it was flat and triangular. When the outer
membrane was removed, inside were two separate pieces of shiny black metal,
tightly joined together in the shape of a "T". Apparently only the membrane
itself held these two metal pieces in alignment.
On February 22, the first preliminary lab reports came back on the metal
itself. Leir and Sims both said they would await the final reports before
announcing any details. They stressed that they had sent the samples for
testing to highly specialized labs and had not indicated anything about where
the samples came from. Dr. Leir told the Thousand Oaks audience that the
preliminary findings are "mind-boggling," and that the first metallurgist
simply said: "Wow, you guys really found something here." Dr. Leir stated
that as soon as they get final reports from all three labs, they will make
their findings public. "I think you're watching history," he said in
conclusion.
Prior to working with Derrel Sims on this project, Dr. Leir had been an
occasional consultant for MUFON, but had not been deeply involved. Now, he
says, this project "has literally changed my life."
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