Roger Leir

“since the mid-1990s a concerted effort has been made to recover these artifacts, largely through the efforts of California podiatric physician and surgeon Dr. Roger Leir, who has facilitated the surgical removal of a number of these strange items and has had them analyzed.”

“The first of his “implant” removals occurred on August 19, 1995, when medically supervised surgical procedures isolated three objects from two abductees known as “Patricia” and “Paul.””

“Since then Roger Leir has described about a dozen such surgical “implant” removals.”

“The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), which supported Leir’s work, was able to conduct physical analyses of the implants through a laboratory at New Mexico Tech, an engineering university located in Socorro, New Mexico, including X-ray energy-dispersive spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction work.”

“A few, namely Leir’s first three implant removals, suggest compositional results and isotopic ratios that lend support to the idea that they may be of extraterrestrial origin. In short, the implant materials seemed to be of meteoritic origin.”

“While provocative, these correlations are tentative and were made on the basis of technical interpretations from meteorite data. This is a long way from intelligent extraterrestrial sources.”

“The New Mexico Tech analysis also offered a more prosaic origin for the implants: a stone, for example, subjected to calcification because of its apparent embedding inside the body of a person.”

“Gary Lowrey’s experiences have been investigated by a number of parties, including Dr. Roger Leir.”

“Kelleher, after consultation with Dr. Roger Leir, who had already made extensive enquiries into the case, felt the “claw” sample could be a good candidate for DNA study.”

“I knew Dr. Leir well, and when he first heard of the case in 2002, he called me and asked me to go to Brazil with him. My schedule, unfortunately, did not permit it.”

“When Dr. Leir was in Brazil in 2002, he attempted to interview the officer’s wife, but she would not give any details beyond the fact that her husband had indeed died in the hospital.”

“When he was in Varginha, he called me again to tell me that he had just conducted what he thought was one of most amazing interviews ever done in the history of UFO research.”

“Actually, it was more than that. It stands as one of the most amazing interviews ever done anywhere, on any subject.”

“I was, too, when he told me. There was never the slightest doubt in my mind about his truthfulness.”

“Roger does remark that he noticed a change in the attitude of the individuals involved as he talked with them. They first claimed to be thirdhand witnesses, but when they talked, it became clear that they were actually firsthand witnesses and participants.”

“Dr. Leir conducted an interview with Valquira, who described seeing a short creature, crouching and motionless. She described it as “horrible looking, brown in color with an oily skin and a large head.””

“One of the medical personnel interviewed by Dr. Leir specifically comments, “For some reason, all of us did not want to look into this creature’s eyes and refrained from doing so.””

“The doctor was reticent to tell Dr. Leir everything that was in the “thought grams,” but he was willing to say what the creature told him about human beings.”

“Like John Mack, his license to practice was challenged. He had to deal with a nuisance suit. His practice declined.”