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This article first appeared in the September 2001 issue of "FATE Magazine" 


That irrefutable physical evidence of the UFO and alien abduction phenomena may result from the efforts of a Southern California podiatrist named Roger Leir is already a generally acknowledged fact within the UFO community. When Leir headed the surgical team that removed a group of small foreign bodies from a pair of people who claimed to be abductees, and those same foreign bodies later showed numerous anomalous characteristics under subsequent rigid laboratory analysis, it seemed as if the Holy Grail of proof might be within reach. 

Leir's history-making surgeries have been featured on numerous television programs, including the 1999 NBC special "Confirmation," as well as in Leir's own books about the surgeries, "The Aliens and The Scalpel" and "Casebook-Alien Implants." 

As is often the case, Leir's interest in the subject of UFOs began in childhood. 

"When I was about seven years old," Leir said, "I have a clear recollection of my father bringing 'The San Francisco Examiner' into our kitchen and reading the headline to my mother that the United States Air Force had captured a flying saucer. He made a big to-do about it. He said, 'I told you, we can't be the only intelligent things in this vast universe.' He was extremely mad and very adamant about the Air Force not telling the truth when they said it was a weather balloon after a couple of days. I remember he said to my mother, 'How stupid do they think we are? Are you trying to tell me that the United States Air Force can't tell the difference between a saucer and a balloon?'"

It wasn't until about ten years ago, however, that Leir attended his first meeting of the local Ventura/Santa Barbara Counties branch of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) at the urging of a friend. Leir quickly became caught up in the subject and joined the venerated international research organization. He also began to write a series of investigative articles for the local group's newsletter, "The Vortex," and to attend various UFO conferences. 

"At one of these conferences," Leir said, "I met someone who had X-rays of a foot, which certainly interested me. They showed some objects that were apparently in the great toe, saying they were implants. I thought this was utter nonsense. So I suggested [the objects] be removed if they really wanted to see what they were. He said this patient didn't have any insurance and couldn't afford it. I offered to do it for free. So that's how I got started." 

Leir would initially perform eight surgeries, removing a total of nine foreign bodies, all of which are assumed to be alien implants. Three of the implants were described as "little grayish-white balls that were about the size of a BB."

"These were usually attached to an abnormality in the skin," Leir explained, "which we find in abductees, called a 'scoop mark'-a mark that appears overnight and doesn't fall within any recognized dermatological category. Dermatology looks at skin lesions and says they are either papules or vesicles or macules. But a scoop mark has its own particular characteristics."

Four of the objects were shaped like cantaloupe seeds and covered with a strange biological coating or membrane that was dark gray in color and very shiny. 

"It fit whatever it was holding like a glove," Leir said. "We also have one that was t-shaped and measured about a centimeter in either direction. And then we had one that was triangle shaped." 

A ninth surgery was conducted recently that produced even stranger results. A variety of instruments that measure electromagnetic fields were used, and it was discovered that the implants were radiating measurable levels of energy while still in the abductee's body. 

Working with equipment designed by a Florida electrical engineer named Bob Beckwith, a pulse emission began to cross the monitor screen. 

"When I described this to him," Leir said, "he told me that was an indication that the object was both transmitting and receiving. Again, this was before the implants were removed, when they were still in the body. After they're removed, they don't do anything. There's a possibility that some of the surface technology between the biological tissue and the metal itself is responsible for generating some kind of a controllable electromagnetic field."

Still further high-tech instruments were brought into the investigation, including an atomic force microscope used to study the surface of the implant in great detail. 

"We found that on this last one," he said, "in one small area, there were little sacs or eggs, and each one was filled with an oil. A French biologist [we consulted] said he had never seen anything like this come out of a human body. In the future, we will definitely repeat some of the things we did and see if the next one also contains little sacs." 

Leir talked about his own feelings as to the Big Picture. 

"Why, we ask over and over again, if alien abduction is occurring, then why is it occurring? It's my opinion that the human race is being genetically manipulated, and that these implants may be markers for that genetic manipulation. Now, if Zecheriah Sitchin is correct, and we were a genetically manipulated being to begin with, thousands of years ago, then maybe they haven't gone permanently and left us alone. 

"Maybe we have been continually manipulated, but perhaps there's a certain urgency now because of what we not only do to each other, but what we're doing to this planet that we live on. We don't seem to realize that we're in a delicate balance with nature and with the other planets in the solar system, which might in turn be in a delicate balance with other entities in the universe." 

Leir has also conducted research in another field, the domain of childhood development as studied by pediatricians, and reached some very interesting conclusions. 

"What I have stumbled on," he began, "is that the children born within the last 40 or 50 years are not the same human being as those born a few years back."

Leir said that he had compiled functional growth statistics for children born between the years 1947 to 1987, using medical school textbooks for pediatrics. 

"We find that there is a range of acceleration in those growth statistics that varies from sixteen to eighty percent. For example, the age of 'propping,' when you can prop a little baby up and they can sit there by themselves. In 1947, that happened at six months, and it was five months in 1987, which is a 16.33 percent change. On the other hand, we have the age of gait. That's when a child began to walk independently, which in 1947 was 24 months, and eleven months in 1987. That represents a 60 percent change. So we find changes in these seventeen functional growth characteristics varying from about 16 to 80 percent." 

Even more dramatic, according to Leir, are changes in the overall consciousness of the average child today. 
"I've never had a mother or a grandmother disagree with me," he said. "These kids are different. They seem to have an innate, inborn knowledge and consciousness about things in this world that goes beyond anything that we have ever conceived."

Leir said he does not feel the changes are due to the natural process of evolution. 

"Forty or fifty years is too short a time for evolutionary change," he argued. "You could say, well, the next biggest possibility is that it's environmental. So let's look at the environmental aspects of it. Some kids who don't get enough to eat do the same things as the kids who get too much to eat. Kids that are born in poverty show the same functional growth characteristics as people born in very affluent societies. Kids that don't have television sets will do the same things as kids who watch TV. So I think that eliminates a lot of environmental possibilities." 

Leir also discarded the idea of random mutation. 

"Perhaps our atmosphere is so degraded that we're getting more cosmic radiation and therefore more mutations are occurring. Well, if that was true, and these are random mutations, it would affect random systems. It wouldn't be specific, for the same thing. You might get a lot of babies born with one ear three inches larger than the other. Less toes or more fingers or something like that. But we don't. Instead, we find all these specific changes. And it looks like, in a nutshell, that the consciousness of the human race is being expanded."

But there is a darker side to all that forward progress, according to Leir, that may be also be the result of alien experimentation on humans. 

"No matter who does these experiments," he said, "whether they're a few million years older than us or whatever, I think if you're going to do a true scientific experiment, then you're going to have your successes and your failures. And perhaps, just perhaps, we are starting to see some of the failures.

"Those are the kids," he continued, "who go into the high schools and shoot up their friends or kill their parents or their brothers and sisters. Lately the newscasters are saying things like, 'It's as if he had no conscience.' It takes me back to a picture called 'The Bad Seed,' with Patty McCormack, years ago, about a child that was born without a conscience. And if you look into some of these kids' eyes, seeing them in person, which I have, you just look at them and it's like nobody's home. 

"One of the things that's really a shame," Leir went on, "is that they're going to punish these kids [with prison sentences, etc.]. And I don't think they should be punished. I think that you're dealing with defective hardware. If you have an experiment that's going on to expand man's consciousness, and then you find people with no conscience, it's the opposite side of the coin. We've never heard of anything like this going on before. I mean, in the worst, most primitive societies, they didn't go into schools and kill their friends.

"If this is a genetic experiment," he concluded, "and we are producing children with an expanded consciousness, then I would hope that they far outnumber those who can be deemed genetic failures. And that it will ultimately lead to a much better world." 

THE END