======== Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo Subject: Article: Strange implants found by doctors, surgery recorded on videotape From: Brian Zeiler Date: 15 Nov 1995 03:50:39 GMT The Plain Dealer November 8, 1995 Wednesday, FINAL / ALL SECTION: NATIONAL; Pg. 14A LENGTH: 407 words HEADLINE: DOCTOR PROBES OBJECTS REPORTEDLY LEFT BY ALIENS BYLINE: By STEVE CHAWKINS; SCRIPPS HOWARD DATELINE: VENTURA, CALIF. BODY: He didn't want his name used. He's a California surgeon and he's scared of repercussions. "I'd probably be ostracized, I'd be criticized, maybe I'd even lose my license," he said. "People with credibility who put themselves forward in this field could wind up dead, in jail or out of business." The Plain Dealer, November 8, 1995 He performed the operations anyway, before witnesses and a video camera. He cut into the big toe of a woman and into the back of a man's hand. Both be lievedthey'd been abducted by aliens. From both, he extracted small foreig n objects with some unusual properties. "No one has the answers," he said. "But we all know something's going o n." The doctor has been active in UFO groups for five years. Through them , he met a Houston UFO researcher who sent the purported abductees here for s urgerylast August. The patients didn't know each other. Neither had been aware of the obje cts heor she carried. Neither bore any nearby scars or punctures. In both cases, the objects came to light in X-rays for minor, unrelated injuries. In decades of practice, the doctor said he'd never seen anything quite like what he fished out. The objects were encased in a thick, dark membrane. These weren't cysts , he said. They were so tough, his scalpel couldn't cut them. The Plain Dealer, November 8, 1995 The object in the man was the size of a cantaloupe seed; on e of the woman's two was T-shaped. Both patients jerked back when the doctor touched the ob jects - an unusual reaction for people calmed by hypnosis and placed on lo cal anesthetics. Back in Texas, the membranes were dried out and cut open, revealing tin y, highly magnetic pieces of a shiny black metal. Under ultraviolet light, th ey glowed a brilliant green - same as the "fingerprints" on the thighs and ba cks ofsome who claim to have been abducted, the doctor said. Strange items have been pulled from "abductees" before but many somehow have disappeared before independent scientists could examine them. The sk eptics remain skeptical. "We haven't heard of anything that, without the shadow of a doubt, coul dn't have been made here on Earth," said Barry Karr, director of the Center for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. "Let's see the evide nce." Perhaps they will. The objects are in Houston for electrical, chemical and microscopic ana lysis.The patients who unwittingly carried them say they feel liberated. T he doctor The Plain Dealer, November 8, 1995 figures he'll be called on to perform more operations before l ong.