It is fitting that I should meet the unexplained en route to a lecture by
Dr. Roger Leir via northbound 101. Traffic moved at a crawl, which gave me ample time to observe the heavens. Somewhere between the Silver Lake Boulevard and Vermont exits, I observed a bright light zooming toward the west, much like a helicopter would, only much faster, brighter, and without a single blinking light. I was elated to see so bright a shooting star in the midst of downtown Los Angeles and planned to watch it until it disappeared. It didn't. In fact, it slowed down, turned north, and vanished over the Hollywood Hills over the course of ten seconds.
I'm quick to conclude aliens. This is the second unidentified object I've seen in the skies over LA (the first being a whirligig-shaped object hovering over Montecito Heights in broad daylight). I like to think humans aren't alone in the universe. I like to think we're not the supreme sentience in this universe. Argue for God, argue for Angels, argue for Aliens. There is something out there. As part of my ongoing quest for a belief system, I decided this lecture/service for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), held at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Studio City, would be one not to miss.
I will skip the details of how many of the flock bore an uncanny resemblance to aliens themselves to focus on the subject of this talk. Dr. Leir is one of the world's leading researchers into the physical evidence of an extraterrestrial presence, chiefly through the removal of implants. Trained as a podiatrist, he discovered his first implant during surgery on a patient who had come into his office complaining of foot pain. An X-ray revealed something unusual in his foot next to his toe, and on removal, the object was found to be metallic. There were no signs of scarring, nor had there been an immune response. It was just there.
Dr. Leir's lecture detailed two such objects that he had removed recently. The first emitted radio waves between 14.74965 and 17.68658 MHz, but were not radioactive. Its elemental composition was found to be an iron base with traces of Gallium, Germanium, Iridium, and other rare metals; it was meteoric. When removed, it crumbled; when placed into a serum of the patient's blood, it reassembled. An investigation of the patient's home revealed extraordinary anomalies: bromine-enriched soil, a magnetized avocado tree and boat, and an apparent unipole, in which only one magnetic pole is observed.
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis of the second object detailed its structure. When removed, it was in an oil-filled tissue capsule with a high concentration of lauric acid, an antibacterial compound. The group was unable to cut the device with diamond-tipped tools and had to resort to a laser. This was not meteoric, but a collection of microscopic carbon tubes arranged in such a way as to appear organic. For the conceit of an implant, it did not look like a device at all, but in the field of nanotechnology, that's apparently the point.
I list only the facts of the case as they were presented via PowerPoint. Images and statistics were presented; the matter was scientific to its core. How, then, is there still doubt to be had? Why, despite the number of studies done on the subject, is the existence of extraterrestrial life such a moot point in the mainstream community? I assume it is because the three steps of abduction, implantation, and return have not been recorded chronologically; the devil is in the details. On that note, there are plenty of scientists who believe in the Devil, and angels. There is zero physical evidence for the latter beings, but let us compare, for a moment, an angel encounter and an alien encounter.
The Bible is full of angels, delivering messages from above, accompanied by fire. They either visit their subjects at home (the Virgin Mary) or take them away to change them (Moses). People continue to report extraterrestrial beings
in their room, or taking them away
on high to change them. So why is it that those who have been visited by an angel become saints and leaders, while those who have visited by aliens become shunned and denounced by greater society?
One could argue that aliens are less likely to speak to their abductees, whereas the sole purpose of angels is to speak. One could argue further that aliens do not seem wholly benevolent, whereas an angel is required to be so. Nonetheless, is the veracity of these claims not subject to faith? Isn't the disdain for alien hypotheses the same as that for Galileo's - a resistance to those hypotheses that decrease the cosmic importance of humanity?
I look at Dr. Leir's cases, and I appreciate the evidence for what it is. Though I have not seen the cause but only the effect, the idea of extraterrestrial influence appeals to me, not only because three different psychics have offered the view that I am somehow
part alien, but also because I believe their existence would increase the grandeur of "God's" creation far beyond "people." If there are other "people" out there, tracking us, changing us, shaping us, then is that not itself a question of angelic/demonic intervention? Does it prove or disprove God?
My question for Dr. Leir was cut off by the end of the program, but I was able to ask him half of it: If these are truly instances of a higher power implanting these devices into people, what are the consequences of removing them? Wouldn't these beings be angry? Do the objects ever reappear? Do mysterious things happen to you? All he was able to tell me was that his patients had experienced a tremendous sense of freedom after the objects had been removed from them. That was all. Is not the notion of freedom itself, amidst countless causes and stimuli, a matter of faith?
