Summary

Podiatric surgeon based in Thousand Oaks, California who from 1995 until his death in 2014 performed 17 documented surgical procedures to remove small objects from individuals who reported CE4/abduction experiences and believed they had been implanted with foreign devices. The removed specimens were submitted to multiple independent materials analysis laboratories - including researchers affiliated with New Mexico Tech, Los Alamos National Laboratory, UC San Diego, and the University of Toronto - with several analyses producing anomalous findings: unusual isotopic ratios inconsistent with terrestrial manufacturing, absence of inflammatory response in surrounding tissue despite long-term implantation, and in some cases detectable radio frequency emissions. Leir documented his findings in 'The Aliens and the Scalpel' (1998, expanded 2005). His work represents the most systematic surgical and materials-analysis approach to the CE4 physical evidence question in the research record.

Roles

• -Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM), private practice - Thousand Oaks, California
• -Author - The Aliens and the Scalpel (1998, 2nd ed. 2005)
• -Founder - A&S Research Inc.
• -Performed 17 documented alleged implant removal surgeries (1995-2014)

Organizations

Education

• -Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM)

Early Career

• -Established private podiatric surgical practice in Thousand Oaks, California
• -Initial contact with the UAP research community through CE4 researcher Derrel Sims in the mid-1990s
• -Agreed to perform the first implant removal surgeries in 1995 after reviewing physical examination records of alleged abductees referred by Sims