Foreword

 @1998 Whitley Strieber

Sometimes the whole world knows when a historical figure makes his history. As often, though, people whose work is little known make history in the quiet of ordinary life.

Dr. Roger Leir is such a historical figure. There will come a time when the extraordinary breakthrough that he has made is noted in every textbook, but right now most of the world still has no idea of what he did, or even that such a thing could be possible.

But children will learn these crucial dates:

June 11, 1995: Roger Leir attends a lecture by Houston UFO researcher Derrel Sims at which Sims discusses the fact that many people who believe that they have been abducted by aliens also feel that they have had strange objects implanted into their bodies. Afterward, Leir makes Sims an offer: if witnesses will pay for their own air fare to Los Angeles, he will remove these objects free of charge.

August 19, 1995: Leir removes three objects from the feet and hands of two such people. The results are among the most remarkable outcomes recorded in the annals of surgery, and are thoroughly covered in the pages of this book.

May 18, 1996: Another set of surgeries takes place. This time, a large group of witnesses was invited to observe. I was among these witnesses, and to see these surgeries actually being performed was among the most moving experiences of my life.

Again, the outcome was the same: unexplained objects were extracted from the bodies of all three witnesses. These objects joined the others on the journey that Leir describes in these pages, a journey that will inevitably lead mankind straight to the strangest and most provocative discovery of all time.

Could somebody really be implanting objects into our bodies-somebody from another world? It seems fantastic to contemplate the idea that such beings could even find us in this vast universe. But it is even more incredible to imagine that they might not only be observing us, but also actually engaging in intimate intrusions into our bodies of which we have only dim memories.

And yet, the evidence is here, so overwhelmingly powerful that a sane person cannot easily deny that it is real, and yet so disturbing and challenging that even the best of scientists have trouble facing the fearsome questions that its existence poses.

Given that Dr. Leir has offered science the very sort of data that it was certain that the world of UFOs would never provide, he ought to be acclaimed as a hero. But that has most certainly not happened. The reason is what his data implies. To accept it, then we must also accept that somebody is capable of entering our homes and introducing these objects into our bodies, without permission and in a way that is almost completely undetectable. Worse, we must face the fact that, although the materials that the objects are made of can be analyzed, we presently have no way of knowing what it is that the objects do.

All we do have are the reports of the people who bear the objects. Their stories are confused, fragmented and extremely strange&emdash;but also, in subtle ways, consistent. In general, witnesses who report objects in their bodies do not describe contact with wise or angelic beings. Rather, their visitors tend to be tough and determined, sometimes even brutal-pretty much what one might expect from aliens who are willing to carry out what amount to unprovoked assaults on their victims.

And yet, this is a complex situation, and as negative as it seems, many witnesses also find it somehow engaging. The very effort to cope and understand seems to lead them to strengths that they didn't even know they possessed. However, it is also true that soldiers in a war find strengths that they did not know they had. This fact does not mean that war is good, any more than the fact that some witnesses can cope with the pressure their experiences put them under means that their abductors are somehow doing them a favor.

The fact that encounters can be coped with does not mean that they are necessarily in the interest of the victim. On the contrary, very much the opposite may be true, especially if some of the things that the witnesses are reporting prove to be true.

I have twice experienced an implant being placed in my body. The first event, in 1988, led me to have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of my head that showed a small, brightly returning object in the middle of my left temporal lobe. This was either an area where the myelin sheath had disappeared from a cluster of nerve endings or a solid object. The equipment could not differentiate. No matter what it was, though, there was obviously no way of exploring it or removing it surgically. So I was left to anguish about it. Did it mean that my mind was being controlled by somebody, or perhaps monitored? Since it couldn't be removed, I would have to bear it. Did that mean that it would eventually destroy me? Might I get a brain tumor or suffer some sort of stroke? These are not questions I could answer, but that I had to bear without answering.

I am not alone: every patient who has presented himself to Dr. Leir has been in the same quandary. In fact, every abductee must deal with this issue, especially those who have possible implants that are visible from the surface of their bodies.

But in the larger sense, all of mankind is in this quandary. It is hard to admit that visitors could exist, harder still to face the fact that they are here. But the hardest thing of all to face is the fact that all of this remains so unknown.

I have spent time with a mother whose little three-year-old has begun reporting what appear to be close encounters, and whose left calf muscle has a dark shadow in it that appeared suddenly, but with no surface wound. The child's pediatrician is observing the case, but has no idea how to proceed, beyond removing the foreign object and reassuring the parents that it is benign.

But where did it come from, and why is it there? What is happening to this child, and to the thousands of children and adults like him who desperately need science to join hands with Roger Leir, and help them understand what is happening to them?

These questions cannot be answered until a massive effort is undertaken to understand implants: who is putting them in us, and what do they do?

The present scientific climate could not be more hostile to answering these questions. Not even if the perpetrators of implantation themselves were in control of the National Academy of Sciences could they do a better job of making certain that the public remains indifferent to this problem. I have made a ten-year personal journey struggling with the issue of my own implants. I have asked for help from science, from the Centers for Disease Control, from the National Institutes for Mental Health, from Congress and the White House under three presidents, from friends in the military and the intelligence communities.

There has been no official help of any kind at all. Nobody wants to face what appears to be an almost indisputable reality: people who report being implanted by apparent aliens actually have objects in their bodies that can be detected and removed.

What more proof is needed than this? How could a human problem of such horrifying dimensions simply be ignored? It is almost impossible to believe, but any reader of this book, upon seeing the way that science and the media reacted to Roger Leir's phenomenally provocative discoveries, cannot help but be shocked, even terrified. To me, as an abductee who is facing this thing up close and personal, it seems impossible to believe that the situation that now pertains could actually be true.

But there are not only implants being removed by Dr. Leir, there are now hundreds of hours of video of UFOs, some of it taken by the very sorts of professionals that the scientific community claimed would never see such things. So what are we waiting for? Somebody is right here right now, and they are plunging deep into our bodies and our lives, and we are refusing even to entertain the evidence, let alone mount an effort to find out what in the world is going on.

Were it not for pioneers like Roger Leir and his friend and fellow investigator Derrel Sims, who figures prominently in this book, this situation would be allowed to continue absolutely ignored. As it is, Roger's indefatigable scientific curiosity has given us a chance that we did not have before: instead of leaving this problem to future generations, he offers us, in this powerful book, a chance to look at the data and the struggles that surround it today.

No matter how resolute science is in its denial of the obvious, or how helpless government and the military prove to be, at least close-encounter witnesses can now point to hard evidence that their experiences are not psychologically disturbed fantasies and dreams, but are instead real experiences that absolutely and urgently cry out for careful explanation and effective action.

This book, thus, is not only the testament of one man's journey into what is genuinely new knowledge, it is also a clear signal to every close encounter witness that we need not hide our experiences lest we be thought mad or dismissed as publicity-hungry neurotics. It proves that there is physical evidence of our encounters, and shows with authority that this evidence cannot be explained in any normal way.

It sounds a clear call to action now, because what it reveals would appear to be the visible edge of a broad scale exploitation of the human species by unknown forces for unknown reasons. This process is proceeding very, very slowly, and so is as hard for us to notice as the slow forward creeping of a snake is for a mouse. But eventually the snake gets close enough, and its strike, when it comes, is blindingly fast and overwhelmingly powerful.

But sometimes the mouse notices. Sometimes the snake misses. It is hard to bear the idea that there may be visitors here from the unknown, engaged in this ferocious and broad-scale penetration of the human body. What is even harder to bear, is that we might be able to actually face this terror, and face it down.

Ten thousand scientists might have turned away from us abductees and our wild stories, preferring to ignore the serpent and let him draw closer. But one scientist has said no. He has taken the matter in hand, and proved what was supposed to be impossible to prove.

Because of Roger Leir, we have a chance of defeating the serpent, or at least compelling it to deal with us on our own terms. Because, if the serpent weren't vulnerable, it would have no reason to proceed in secrecy.

Roger Leir went into a very dark place and turned on a light. This is the story of how he did it.

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