Dreamcatcher

The woman, Patricia Damly, says her abduction experience occurred in October 1969. She and her family were on a camping trip in rural Texas when they experienced a nighttime episode of missing time and vague memories of some kind of abduction. The site of her experience has since been submerged by a lake, but it was near a famous Civil War-era iron bridge.

The second abductee, Pat Parrinello, has had several UFO sightings over the past forty-two years. The abduction may have occurred in 1954, when he was only six years old. The node in his hand wasn’t detected until 1971. Parrinello had a car accident in Venezuela, and X-rays were taken of his injured left arm. It was then the foreign body in his hand was first noticed.

Damly and Parrinello arrived at the clinic. The proceedings were videotaped. Ms. Damly was first under the knife. Dr. Leir, well versed by now in the literature of alleged alien implants, had blood drawn and separated from the patients. This serum was used to hold the objects after removal, as Dr. Leir had heard accounts of implanted objects disintegrating or vaporizing upon exposure to air. Derrel Sims administered hypnosis as the primary anesthesia, though a local, injected anesthesia was also used.

Once Ms. Damly was prepped and ready, Dr. Leir made an incision in her left big toe. It took him almost an hour to find the object. When he located and touched the object with his probe, Ms. Damly spasmed, almost jerking her foot off the table. Dr. Leir found this surprising, yet hypnosis is an unreliable method of anesthesia (which is why hospitals use drugs). After an hour, the local was probably wearing off. Dr. Leir seems to think Ms. Damly’s sensitivity to his probing was preternatural.

Eventually a tiny triangular object was removed from Ms. Damly’s toe. After removal, Dr. Leir made some crude attempts to dissect the little nodule, without much success. It was small, slick with blood (but it didn’t evaporate!), and tough, much as one would expect from a foreign body imbedded in living tissue for thirty-odd years. I have a piece of pencil lead in the palm of my left hand, and I daresay it would be hard to dissect too, after 32 years under my skin. A visible cortical had grown around it, isolating it from the sensitive tissues. That’s how the human body deals with stray matter that gets inserted into it. Photographs in the MUFON Proceedings show a three-lobed object, rather like a Mercedes star, about the size of a tomato seed.

The procedure was repeated on Mr. Parrinello, with the pseudonymous “Dr. A” doing the honors. A similar grayish object was removed, but this time no one tried to bisect it. Though Dr. Leir asserts in the captions under the pictures in the Proceedings that Parrinello’s object was “similar in size and shape” to Ms. Damly’s, the picture shows a teardrop nodule about 5 millimeters long.

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