SUBJECT: ALIEN IMPLANTS IN HUMANS                            FILE: UFO2747





   Filename: Omni-8.Art
   Type    : Article
   Author  : Paul McCarthy
   Date    : 06/01/91
   Desc.   : Alien Implants in Humans

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   The following article was originally published in the science  magazine
   OMNI.  It is reproduced here exactly as it  appeared  in  its  original
   form, without so much as a misplaced comma, period, or question mark.

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------

   From "OMNI"--June 1991

           CAN  UFO RESEARCHERS PROVE THAT ALIENS ARE TAGGING AND TRACKING
                  HUMANS WITH TINY DEVICES IMPLANTED IN THE BODY OR BRAIN?
                                                          by Paul McCarthy


     One  of the most insidious forms of alien technology ever reported by
   UFO  buffs is the implant--a BB-like object said to be inserted in  the
   brains  or  bodies of UFO abductees.  According to some UFO  advocates,
   E.T.'s use these tiny devices to tag and track human abductees just  as
   earthbound wildlife specialists tag and track animals.

     But  how  can anyone know whether a reputed implant is real  or  not?
   How, some UFO investigators have begun to wonder, can they authenticate
   an implant should a sample emerge?

     One person addressing this issue is David Pritchard,  a  physicist at
   the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  According to Pritchard,  no
   matter how strange the structure or material of an alleged implant,  if
   it is not some "out of this world" material like "heavy metals or quark
   matter" it won't be possible to convince a lot of people.

     But,   Pritchard  adds,  there are other ways to skin the  cat.   For
   example,   researchers could peg an insert as such if it worked like  a
   flashlight  but  was a hundred times brighter than  any  flashlight  on
   Earth. If the implant sent complex but unrecognizable signals, he says,
   "that would be pretty convincing as well." Finally, Pritchard believes,
   evidence  would  mount  if investigators found the exact same  type  of
   implant in numerous people making abduction claims.

     Yet another means of studying the so-called alien implant is a  high-
   tech imaging technique called magnetic resonance imaging,  or MRI.  The
   technique was tapped by reputed abductee Whitley Strieber,  who says he
   remembers the insertion of needles in his head. His MRI brain scans, he
   adds,   now  show strange white spots.  "Are the unknown objects in  my
   brain  an  outcome of such intrusions?"  Strieber asked in  his  recent
   book, TRANSFORMATION. Pritchard says the dots prove nothing; they could
   be air bubbles.  But a statistical argument could be made he adds,   if
   researchers  can  show that professed UFO abductees have  significantly
   more dots than a random control group.

     Longtime UFO skeptic Phil Klass, who doesn't believe that aliens have
   ever come to Earth,  takes a different tack.  First, he says,  he would
   want  to  know  "where  the implant came from,"  and  would  feel  more
   confident  if  it  had been removed by a surgeon.  Then,   if  it  were
   something "that could not form naturally in the body," he would want to
   know if it could be made with terrestrial technology.  If the answer to
   that is no, says Klass, "I think you have your proof."

     Even  more skeptical is Robert Sheaffer,  author of THE UFO  VERDICT,
   who  says the whole question of UFO abductions is dubious and that  the
   idea of alien implants is "certainly rubbish."  According to  Sheaffer,
   the  UFO  is  a slippery phenomenon that always manages  to  fade  away
   before the evidence becomes too convincing,  and alien implants are  an
   example  of this.  "Some people might be saying they were kidnapped  by
   aliens for the money," says Sheaffer. "Others might be doing it because
   they really believe that they were abducted.  But there is not a  shred
   of  evidence to substantiate this claim.  Alien implants are  just  too
   good to be true."

     According  to UFO abduction expert Budd Hopkins,  author  of  MISSING
   TIME,  and INTRUDERS, a  number of radiologists are privately doing MRI
   scans  on people who claim they have been abducted by aliens--and  that
   the  aliens  have inserted devices in their bodies or  brains.   But  a
   neurosurgeon advised him that if,  as claimed, implants exist somewhere
   above the upper nasal passages, then they are near the optic nerve.  In
   that case, he says, "it would be very risky for a surgeon to try to get
   one  out."   What  does  Hopkins say about  the  prospect  of  actually
   validating these wierd alien implants?  "It'd have devastating societal
   impact," he says, "I am not looking forward to something like this."

     One of the most insidious forms of alien technology ever reported  by
   UFO  buffs is the implant--a BB-like object said to be inserted in  the
   brains  or bodies of UFO abductees.  According to some  UFO  advocates,
   E.T.'s  use these tiny devices to tag and track human abductees just as
   earthbound wildlife specialists tag and track animals.

     But  how  can anyone know whether a reputed implant is real  or  not?
   How, some UFO investigators have begun to wonder, can they authenticate
   an implant should a sample emerge?

     One person addressing this issue is David Pritchard,  a  physicist at
   the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  According to Pritchard,  no
   matter how strange the structure or material of an alleged implant,  if
   it is not some "out of this world" material like "heavy metals or quark
   matter" it won't be possible to convince a lot of people.

     But,   Pritchard  adds,  there are other ways to skin the  cat.   For
   example,   researchers could peg an insert as such if it worked like  a
   flashlight  but  was  a hundred times brighter than any  flashlight  on
   Earth. If the implant sent complex but unrecognizable signals, he says,
   "that would be pretty convincing as well." Finally, Pritchard believes,
   evidence  would  mount if investigators found the exact  same  type  of
   implant in numerous people making abduction claims.

     Yet  another means of studying the so-called alien implant is a high-
   tech imaging technique called magnetic resonance imaging,  or MRI.  The
   technique was tapped by reputed abductee Whitley Strieber,  who says he
   remembers the insertion of needles in his head. His MRI brain scans, he
   adds,   now show strange white spots.  "Are the unknown objects  in  my
   brain  an  outcome of such intrusions?"  Strieber asked in  his  recent
   book, TRANSFORMATION. Pritchard says the dots prove nothing; they could
   be  air bubbles.  But a statistical argument could be made he adds,  if
   researchers  can show that professed UFO abductees  have  significantly
   more dots than a random control group.

     Longtime UFO skeptic Phil Klass, who doesn't believe that aliens have
   ever come to Earth,  takes a different tack. First,  he says,  he would
   want  to  know  "where the implant came from,"   and  would  feel  more
   confident  if  it  had been removed by a surgeon.  Then,   if  it  were
   something "that could not form naturally in the body," he would want to
   know if it could be made with terrestrial technology.  If the answer to
   that is no, says Klass, "I think you have your proof."

     Even  more skeptical is Robert Sheaffer,  author of THE UFO  VERDICT,
   who  says the whole question of UFO abductions is dubious and that  the
   idea  of alien implants is "certainly rubbish."  According to Sheaffer,
   the  UFO  is  a slippery phenomenon that always manages  to  fade  away
   before  the evidence becomes too convincing,  and alien implants are an
   example  of this.  "Some people might be saying they were kidnapped  by
   aliens for the money," says Sheaffer. "Others might be doing it because
   they  really believe that they were abducted.  But there is not a shred
   of  evidence  to substantiate this claim.  Alien implants are just  too
   good to be true."

     According  to  UFO abduction expert Budd Hopkins,  author of  MISSING
   TIME,  and INTRUDERS, a  number of radiologists are privately doing MRI
   scans  on people who claim they have been abducted by aliens--and  that
   the  aliens  have  inserted devices in their bodies or brains.   But  a
   neurosurgeon advised him that if, as claimed,  implants exist somewhere
   above the upper nasal passages,  then they are near the optic nerve. In
   that case, he says, "it would be very risky for a surgeon to try to get
   one  out."   What  does  Hopkins say about  the  prospect  of  actually
   validating these wierd alien implants?  "It'd have devastating societal
   impact," he says, "I am not looking forward to something like this."




**********************************************
* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
**********************************************

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.altexxanet.org. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.