Several years after the surgical removal of their alleged alien
    implants, five individuals courageously accepted to take part in
    an interview to discuss their "before and after effects". All
    persons, one male and four females, shared one thing in common:
    UFO encounters and contact with non-human alien beings.

    Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatrist from Thousand Oaks, California,
    founder of FIRST (Fund for Interactive Research and Space
    Technology) and Derrel Sims, C.Ht., R.H.A., a certified
    hypnotherapist , co-founder of FIRST and experienced UFO
    Investigator of over 27 year, orchestrated the successful
    surgeries with a team of competent medical professionals and
    volunteers. The first set of "implant" surgeries took place on
    August 19, 1995 at Dr. Roger Leir's podiatry clinic in Thousand
    Oaks, California.

    Pat Parrinellio, a 47 year old male from Houston, Texas, and
    Mary Jones (a pseudonym) 52, also from Texas, had the anomalous
    objects appear in X- rays, although both UFO experiencers had no
    record of previous surgeries. Both individuals were investigated
    by Derrel Sims of HUFON (Chief Investigator for Houston UFO
    Network) and referred to Dr. Roger Leir for surgery, based on
    their past UFO encounters and X-rays which confirmed the
    anomalous objects. Pat's object was removed from the back of his
    left hand, and Mary's objects excised from her left big toe. All
    services were performed free of charge.

    The alleged implants removed from the first set of surgeries
    were studied by two different pathologists, and then sent to
    various independent laboratories for extensive scientific
    analysis. The tests performed on these alleged alien implants
    were: a pathology/tissue evaluation, laser induced breakdown
    spectroscopy (LIBS), extensive metallurgical testing involving a
    density immersion test, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy,
    scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction pattern analysis
    and electron/magnetic and fluorescence property analysis.
    Isotopic range tests are also in progress. Tests were conducted
    by the National Institute of Discovery of Science (NIDS), New
    Mexico Tech, and other independent sources.

    But that is not all. While these unusual objects were being
    evaluated for scientific study, another set of implant surgeries
    took place on May 18, 1996. Two women from this second set of
    surgeries came forward for this interview and follow up study.
    Dorothy O'Hara, a 61 year old female from Palm Springs,
    California, and Alice Leavy , 40, from Newberry Park,
    California, each had similar objects removed from their left
    lower leg. Another woman, Licia Davidson, 37, who has had
    numerous UFO and alien encounters, had a rare, crystalline-like
    object removed from her foot in January of 1997.

    Findings

    "The findings of these implant surgeries are highly unusual,"
    reported Dr. Leir. "In all these cases, there was virtually no
    inflammatory response." This is not the usual finding in foreign
    tissue reactions. Normally, foreign bodies embedded in tissues
    result in some type of acute or chronic inflammatory response,
    and may include fibrosis and cyst formation. Such was not the
    case here. The pathology reports of the first two surgeries
    revealed that the metallic objects were encased in a very dense,
    tough, grey membrane consisting of proteinaceous coagulum,
    hemoseridin and pure keratin. More simply, blood protein and
    skin cells that are usually found in the superficial layer of
    the skin. The tough, biological "cocoons" encasing the implants
    were also found to contain nerve proprioceptors - nerve and
    pressure cells of the wrong tissue type for that part of the
    body. These implant cocoons also fluoresced a bright green color
    in the presence of an ultraviolet light source.

    The implants from the two women from the second set of surgeries
    did not exhibit metallic properties like the implants from the
    first set of surgeries. In fact, the spheroid, whitish objects
    did not contain the tough, biological outer jackets, or
    fluoresce from a UV light source. These types of implants
    (possibly biological) also lacked the expected inflammatory
    response, according to the pathology reports. The
    crystalline-like object excised from the foot in the most recent
    surgery, also lacked the tough, grey, outer membrane and had
    virtually no inflammatory response, as in the other implant
    surgeries. Test results from the first set of implants revealed
    that the lammelar, needle shaped metallic objects in question
    are basically meteoric in origin, containing at least eleven
    different elements.