In the decidedly offbeat category, Dr. Roger Leir, M.D., a surgeon, claims to have performed multiple surgical removals of alien objects over the past 12 years
This article is intended as an offbeat news story; the sources are suspect and many, if not all, of the claims mentioned are likely ficticious.
Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatric surgeon of 40 years, is holding a September 29-30th press conference, where he will be discuss his controversial claims of surgical removal of alien objects.
Dr. Roger Leir has performed 13 supposed surgical removals of alien objects, since 1995. The objects removed include "T-shaped objects", "elemental balls," and small seed-shaped objects.
Supposedly, his first patient was on August 19, 1995; an adult female named "Patricia." Leir was allegedly skeptical at claims of a UFO researcher who claimed that the woman had been implanted by visitors from another planet -- he had removed many objects of similar nature before and they had always turned out to be splinters, nails, etc. Leir offered to perform surgery, to convince the "researcher" that there was nothing abnormal going on.
Supposedly, he first was surprised to see that there was no scar to indicate the possible entry into the body. Foreign objects can migrate around the body, so this revelation should probably not have brought as much surprise to Leir as he claims. However, during the procedure the woman leapt with pain, when he touched the object, despite being anesthetized. Troubling, but this phenomenon could easily be attributable to incomplete anesthesia, though this would usually yield swelling, in response to the irritation.
The object supposedly had strange magnetic properties and an unusual chemical composition.
Over the next 12 years, Dr. Robert Leir kept busy, complementing his usual medical workload with another 12 surgical investigations of possible "alien" implants.
Leir claims most of the objects "confirmed" as implants were encased in an unusual tissue membrane from the patients' body, which enclosed the foreign object. The membrane was not consistent with standard scar tissue. They also supposedly had strange chemical properties and compositions and were typically metallic.
Dr. Robert Leir carefully documented the procedures. However, the greatest criticism of his claims is due to the fact that he has never published any of the results in a peer-reviewed journal.
Still, despite skepticism, his removed "alien" objects have been examined by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
New Mexico Tech and the University of California in San
Diego. These investigations did not conclusively confirm or deny that the objects were of extraterrestrial origin, but did confirm some odd properties of the objects. Some of the surgeries and testing were funded by the National
Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a private UFO research group created by
Robert Bigelow in Las Vegas.
Dr. Robert Leir's claims are certainly out of this world, and may be nothing but air. But like anything else, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
After Dr. Robert Leir's press conference, hopefully, he claims his results will be analyzed by more credible sources, and at least attempt to publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal. Until then his claims remain interesting stories, but certainly far from proven science.
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