Editing Alien implants (section)

==History==
According to Peter Rogerson writing in ''Magonia'' magazine, the concept of alien implants can be traced to a March 1957 [[Long John Nebel]] radio show interview with UFOlogist John Robinson where Robinson recounted a neighbor's claim of being kidnapped by aliens in 1938 and kept subdued by "small earphones" placed behind his ears.<ref name=Magonia>{{cite web|last=Rogerson |first=Peter |title=Fairyland's Hunters, Part One|url=http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/90/revis01.html |work=#46 – June 1993 |publisher=Magonia |access-date=29 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217005222/http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/arc/90/revis01.html |archive-date=February 17, 2007 }}</ref>

Massachusetts resident Betty Andreasson claimed that aliens had implanted a device in her nose during her supposed alien abduction in 1967, first publicized by Raymond Fowler in his book, ''The Andreasson Affair''. A Canadian woman named Dorothy Wallis claimed a similar experience in 1983. In later years, the claims of authors like [[Whitley Strieber]] would popularize alien abduction ideas in general, including reports of unusual "implants" associated with abductions. [[John E. Mack]] wrote in his book ''Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens'' that he examined a "1/2- to 3/4-inch thin, wiry object" given to him by a twenty-four-year-old woman client who claimed it came out of her nose following an abduction experience. California podiatrist [[Roger Leir]] also claims to have removed alien implants from patients.<ref name="Nickell2001" />

According to skeptical investigator [[Joe Nickell]], supposed alien implants appear to be ordinary materials such as a shard of glass, a jagged piece of metal, and a carbon fiber. The objects are often found lodged in extremities such as toes, hands and shins. Nickell cites Israeli teaching hospital department head Virgil Priscu's opinion that there's "No mystery, no implants", explaining that normal objects picked up during a fall or by walking barefoot often become surrounded by scar tissue.<ref name="Nickell2001">{{cite book|author=Joe Nickell|title=Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Bm-EjjG3AwC&pg=PT124|access-date=29 March 2013|year= 2001|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-3727-8|pages=124–}}</ref>