From a couple of years, the name of Derrel Sims became known in Italy, where the enterprising American has been frequent guest at conventions and conferences and in journals of National Center ufologist ( CUN ), Presented as one of the most eminent ufologist U.S. pioneer of studies on alien abductions, and in particular as regards " plants ", Ie micro-devices that extraterrestrial implant in the bodies of kidnapped themselves, and of which Sims had collected a good collection, which brings back a suitcase by showing the audience that comes to his lectures.

While taking into account the diverse and colorful wildlife that now orbit around a few years to the UFO in the USA (and beyond), the character has its undeniable originality and spregiudicatezza. But beyond the folk, what to think of sig. Sims and his sensational claims? What's true in her suitcase and behind her smile?

Should be of some concern is the fact that the autonominatosi Alien Hunter has so far received well little credit at ufologist overseas ocean. Nemo Propheta home , You know, but it is never possible to not have ever made space on the pages of the most prestigious American journals ufologist, while it is found with some regularity on tabloid commercial and tabloid that - in the U.S. as in Canada - put the word UFO on the cover?

The article that follows is the work of a local journalist who has followed in recent years the evolution of career ufologist by Sims, and it appeared last year on the weekly Houston Press . We thought that can help to restore balance, even for the Italian public, the image of the character.

The sky had become green a few months ago, up to Dallas from all over the Gulf. "Many people have seen", was the rapporteur said, "and if you have not seen it because they're watching, and you will never see anything if you do not see."

He began to talk about the lights down and melt the asphalt when, on the other side of the room ' Innova Center , A man pulled from the pocket of a coat box color dark blue . It was l ' Chief investigator on abductions , With his little box of treasures. With the lock-jaw and eyes that threw the arrow, Derrel Sims was somehow considered an important person, it seemed almost an agent of the FBI. Above the box had a magnifying glass, to this point members HUFON (the Houston UFO Network ) Did you forward.

"This has sent me a woman - said Sims -. He said that he found in his bed after a kidnapping." Raised their hands before their eyes. "These are very small plants nasal found by a young girl, "he continued." These two filamentous stuff? "asked one woman, distort the nose. Yes," said Sims. They were great 0.21 millimeters Precisely the measure that would have waited until he had a nose plant. Derrel Sims had instructed the mother of a girl keep the nasal mucus The day after each episode of abduction [abduction - NdT].
Sims also found in plants kleenex : "You know what to look for," he explained.

Then showed a eye plant "Which was the collective evidence of the kidnapping in 1992, and then a piece of" High-tech ceramics ", Which was found at the place where precipitate a UFO . Samples but there were still more difficult to recover and, one by one, the head investigator put them under the magnifying glass, small pieces blacks who were surgically extracted, he explained, by foot of Women, the hand of a man and neck another woman. "If the alien abductions are real, there will be evidence - said in a voice severe - and we think we've found."

His show was taken in April by the reporters TV Channel 13 . One of them, blonde and pretty, had just a few questions. Refused to sit at the conference on death and mutilated cows But thanked Sims out, saying it was all very fascinating and would have thought that even if it had not been there to work. Derrel was gentle and kind with her and it seemed you could not let go, and this did seem even more harsh the way in which he rejected the Houston Press by refusing to be photographed. "I do not come, but what happens to these people - he said -. I did not need a critic to evaluate what I'm doing."

In that field is called ufologist, Derrel Sims is becoming a star of first magnitude. Last March he and his surgical implants were the subject of an entire episode of the series Paranormal Borderline of UPN . In Houston alone, it saw 50,000 viewers and now a producer of Fox is considering to broadcast another program like this.

Moreover Derrel Sims and his work have also been the cover story of the journal UFO Magazine . Sims sells videotapes he produced on the subject and runs a telephone service fee for those who want to hear the latest news on aliens, a page on the Internet where you define self-Alien Hunter ( "Hunter Aliens") and is working on a 'autobiography that it intends to call Confessions of a Hunter Aliens .

E 'was an honor to have been a few years ago one of the first journalists to speak of Mr. Sims. She began by saying - just because I knew - that could kill in an instant, without which I could do anything. Then went to describe his battle with intergalactic Mondoz , The head of the aliens, and I spoke on Houston Post But certainly was not my fault if the article is not finished on the front page and are only partly responsible if, relegated on the last page of the newspaper, everything seemed more a humorous piece that a reportage. Certainly the members of more orthodox HUFON have not liked and when I returned recently to investigate the growing fame dell'Inquirente Cape, many of them were unwilling to talk. One told me later that she had been reproached for having addressed the floor. Another said that I was naive to doubt of alien abductions and that the government had made me the brainwashing.

In any case, the end to my director came a warning from the Deputy Derrel Sims: "l ' Senior investigator " Dale C. Musser wrote that the collaboration of members of HUFON failure was not by chance. "Even if I do not know the personal reasons for which Mr Patterson it has with Mr. Sims, it is clear that this is a personal matter, and it seems that several things that has to write about him are defamatory and at risk of lawsuit. "

It was clear that their doors were closed and I did not where else to turn, are finished talking with a small group of leaked by HUFON. All of them believe it is possible that life exists on other planets, and many of them believe that the aliens might well visit the Earth. But everyone agrees on one thing: as you said one of them " Derrel is destroying the credibility of the ".
Sims was the reason why they left the HUFON three years ago, and Sims and his reputation is the reason why now returning from their exile and tell their stories on Derrel and pull out the papers on him and make the names of others who are willing to talk about it.

The most available of all was Rebecca Schätti , Un'agente real estate that has become a chronicler of the paranormal on the Internet and recently has devoted much of his time to investigate sull'Inquirente Head.
"I have doubts about people who call her by name aliens - says Schätti -. That is one of Derrel scam and I denounce the fraud. "

"The pioneering work of Derrel Sims on the phenomenon of abductions and aliens and his alleged discovery of artifacts will be perhaps a day at the base of large discoveries in the fields of science and technology." This at least is what he writes on distributing flyers to his lectures.

The investigators also acts as a Head " Head of kidnapped "In" support group of abducted by aliens "Organized by HUFON. The members of this group are confidential and you can find them in places and secret ending. Only the kidnapped are allowed and Derrel Sims can only certify that one was abducted. It boasts of being able to understand it alone to face but just to be sure brings out his instruments.

According to a press release about its methods, the evaluation begins with an analysis of your Writing . Then continue with something that is called " Profile token "Sims and ultimately assess the shape of your face and observed that there attitude while your story told. You can hold your gaze, which could indicate that the ve been inventing, could still undergo a battery of tests. The test of intelligence is necessary because "certain levels of intelligence are not likely to invent convincing stories", then there is the personality profile, and finally " questionnaire on alleged alien encounters ". A few years ago the test was only a short list of questions like" Have you ever heard unexplained hum? "And" Have you ever seen unexplained flashes of light in your eyes? ".

The questionnaire was subsequently developed into a true masterpiece rapimentologia aliena , A long discussion with questions about any excessive growth of the nails, allergic reaction to novocaine and "words or terms that you seem to know but do not have a precise meaning." In the section for men only "addressing questions about your testicles , And "for women" will ask: "Have you ever erotic fantasies about men of small stature or dark skinned, sexually talented, they do love and be gone?".

If you have arrived at this point, Sims puts in his laboratory and there hypnotized . Usually you will put us to obtain more details on your abduction, but people often sit thinking of having just seen a owl or something with big eyes kind cat. In these cases, Sims uses hypnosis to see beyond " Memory Screen "Left by aliens. The results are converted, as the chairman of HUFON, Donna Lee That until she was hypnotized had not the slightest idea of being kidnapped.

Since the abduction by the aliens is a ' harrowing experience , Sims also recommended to follow a hypnotic therapy. "The hypnotherapist is great." Within the support group for abducted, according to a press release "kidnapped many have stated that for the first time in their life they felt uncomfortable." Musser , An engineer arrived who was suffering from depression, I came to find that it was a " Post-abduction syndrome "And became a most faithful. Now that is investigating the Elder of the group is trying to understand, among other things, because the aliens crashes his plane in the middle of the sky while returning from the funeral of his father.

The private investigator took Rebecca to Schätti $ 500 , Has found some problem with tax and a following of small companies with strange names, but no previous criminal of Derrel Sims. The Schätti was disappointed and suggested that the investigator if she wanted the dirty clothes should go and steal from rubbish Sims, Rebecca, but we thought and decided that no, he did not want to get up to that point.

There is a woman from Dallas who believes that aliens have the drowned children . Derrel Sims went to investigate and there was also the Schätti. The rib is, writes letters, makes phone calls. Rebecca thinks that it has discouraged the organizer of a conference dall'invitare Sims to speak. "What she wrote in her article? - Asked me - 'This is crazy that hunting played' I do not know why I do so, is not the end of the world, but if it is evil to the people and we need someone do stop. "

One evening in 1983, at a time when they were happening "a lot of personal stories, the Schätti was reading a book in bed when a sudden, he reached out next to his car, a 15 miles from home , In a state of hysteria It was much later. Was never able to imagine what had happened and the experience had been removed to the back of his mind until they had a meeting with head of HUFON and heard of " Missing time "." Oh, it happened to me, "she said, and those others said" Oh, you were kidnapped! "And sent home with advice to read a book by the renowned guru of abduction, Budd Hopkins . He did, I was scared and wondered if it was not just been kidnapped by a UFO.

On the death of his mother, a few years ago, Rebecca felt that her relationship with the Earth as they had weakened, and for some reason he turned on all'Inquirente Cape abduction, compiled all the tests and waited, but never accepted Sims to handle his case, not even said anything at all, except that it was terribly busy.

When Budd Hopkins was in town, the Schätti put with their backs to the wall and became hypnotise. There were no aliens to peek, but the story reminded about a car and a highway that did not exist at that time . Rebecca realized that there could never trust dell'ipnosi and that would never have known what had happened.

"I think it is a good example of how you can be dragged, sucked into this whole affair. I had something, but Derrel can not tell me what, and even Budd Hopkins. Nobody can tell me what happened, but I had left to convince they could do it. "

The Hunter says Aliens to descend from a race of warriors dating back to the king of England. Does not say which king, but his family came to the end in the town of Alamogordo , New Mexico, and Derrel Sims grew up in the years of the Cold War, noting the rise in air missiles near the polygon White Sands .

Now says that the aliens have persecuted his family one hundred years from now, in any event was not surprised the day that they told him that three UFOs were dipped in beaten and had followed the takeoff of a rocket. Aliens were to look for the first time when she was three years , Sims told the magazine UFO Magazine. I instead told that they had come next to his bed only once, when he was 17 years and was already deeply involved nell'ufologia. What they have done, I can not tell unless it happened to you: you could not understand.

Be that as it may, Sims stopped higher studies after only one year and if there was a alien plant on his body, this did not prevent him from join the army. Recounts that he was attending a course as an agent of the military police in 1968 when the CIA would have recruited and sent to work in covert operations that, to remember his friends, had something to do with the breeding of lions and tigers But Sims has always been held on vague and his military resume shows only that the policeman had for three years with no particular distinction.

In the end he found himself in Spring , To live in a street called Enchanted Gate (Porta Incantata). In 1979 began the first of its eight businesses in and around Houston, call Parallax Enterprises . The following year he founded the construction company Sims Construction & Supply And this seems to have kept busy until 1987, when it reappeared with the Executive Financial Associates . At this time was also involved in New Age , And I knew enough about "the latest research on the brain" to lead the company Accelerated Learning Systems (Accelerated Learning Systems) whose courses, according to a flier, "respond to the questions' Who am I? ',' Why am I here? ' and 'What do I want to become?'. " The secret is "in Quantum holographic techniques . With this technique Mr. Sims had obtained a black belt karate without ever having taken a lesson: never succeeded in a man. "The same system had become instructor scuba diving - Went on the flyer - and with this special technique could teach you everything we know about scuba diving and karate in just five minutes. Behind a small fee.

"The surprising thing about yourself is how you get where you are!" said again: "Your sense of being is unlimited, and it becomes hard to be fatal."

Maybe not, not with his superhuman ability to learn. It seems in fact that Sims has never taught what they had learned, taught only to learn Super-Learning , L ' Optimal learning and l ' Experimental learning Massimo . In 1989, according to another of his publicity leaflet, Sims had discovered that "probably used less than 1% of your total brain capacity." He, of course, I used a lot more and for only $ 220 you would have taught to think as he thought. "Come and become a explorer-archaeologist about yourself , Beginning a life of discovery of the wonder of wonders that you have created! "

It was more or less in this period that it became part of Houston UFO Network and shortly after moved Derrel Sims, going to live on a street which is called Rising Star (Rising star). Appeared elegant dress to the first meeting but, as a former member of HUFON, Max Washburn , "Had on her face looked like 'I have seen all the colors' and when he said that he had been kidnapped, the thought."

Doris The wife of Sims, is almost not never seen it in meetings and even his son, then an adolescent. Sims told his friends that aliens had ruined. Derrel was friendship easily. As a woman, "was a person all encompassing , The kind that is there to give you a hand ". Vince Johnson instead, considered only "a somewhat 'play' from the beginning, when the Sims gave his hand, saying:" Hello, I am a warrior. "

The HUFON grew slowly until 150 members And the role of Sims grew along with the group. More or less in the period when he became Head of the kidnapped, he founded another company called Saber Enterprises . The Saber comes as a laboratory and research center But is little more than a post office box and a room at the Sims house, where he works as " ipno therapist-graduate ".

"A hypnotic state exists whenever suspend the critical and analytical thought process," he wrote in an old sheet of HUFON. The letters "C.Ht." (certified hypnotherapist) who followed in his name to come from a range of " institutions ipnologici ". The problem, say the therapists ipno-equipped with a real degree, is that these schools usually consist of a single person who tells you" You are graduating "at the end of a short course.

However, when Derrel Sims took her degree began to hypnotise members of HUFON and, for $ 395 each, to graduate them as ipno-time therapists.

Its supporters say it needs money to follow the aliens, and no one doubts that Sims is serious about extraterrestrials. When he speaks of his abduction "makes it very anger "Recalls another kidnapped the group," with a lot of aggression, as if you could muster an army to fight the ET. "

It is said that at Saber Enterprises is working on a paralyzing weapon to neutralize the aliens. He also put out a manifesto sought by the appearance type of alienation, that reads: "Anyone with information on the activities of these individuals please contact DERREL SIMS.

"His approach is very, very scientific" testimony of another member HUFON, Dan Marshall . 'He knew what he was really talking about, "said another kidnapped. "His work is of a higher standard than other ufologist.

Derrel Wherever he went, there were several others who followed him. When Musser was ever revealed who was kidnapped during his vacation in camp, the head investigator organized a team of volunteers and left for the wild woods of Colorado, with their cameras flattened, waiting for what would have happened. Waited and waited, but did not disappear Musser and nothing happened. In the end, Sims began to feel sick and, as told later, the aliens were working to force him telepathically to go in search of a doctor, so that they could look after his companions. But the Alien Hunter refused to withdraw and that is why the aliens did not come: they were afraid of him !

Svelto brain and language, the Chief investigators solved the mystery of abduction with the speed of lightning. And little by little he revealed his findings. For the full coincidence of him Derrel Sims Wayne , C.HT. of HUFON, the man who stood before them on stage, he was the fulcrum of activities of alien abductions across the Earth. Aliens were trying to take and this would have made even if Sims had not had a highly placed friend, named God ! "With him I have a good agreement," he told Sims. Certainly there was no power greater than a covenant between God and Derrel Sims, and Sims believed that, inevitably, the head of the aliens would have to descend to Earth to negotiate.

The plot was similar to that of Dune , The famous science fiction novel of the'60s, in which a young nobleman takes control of the planet Arrakis and demands a visit by the Galaxy. Sims began to repeat the battle cry of the noble " The emperor must come to Arrakis! ".

The only small problem with all this history was the issue of evidence. The investigators had no head even a grain. But it was lucky, surprisingly lucky, because the tests were soon provided.

In December 1992, the morning after a meeting on the abduction of HUFON, Dale Musser awoke with nose that bled . This was a bad sign. Sims put it in and the details began to flow. Musser was discovered that kidnapped not once, but twice, the first just before the meeting, when an alien who was carrying a gray belt with hanging tools the withdrawal from his bed depositing it in the middle of the road where it was sucked up by a radius dell'astronave board and the mother was ordered to undress completely. He was then led into a series of rooms where he saw some of his colleagues in the HUFON with a dinosaur Some aliens resembling a monks , Similar to cockroaches and more of the appearance of a Bigfoot [the American version of the Yeti - NdT]. What we put on the nose of Musser, as only after he understood, was in fact a bugs, whose recovery after the meeting had caused the bleeding.

When Sims put them under hypnosis, colleagues that Musser had seen on board said he had seen their other colleagues and eventually a former member of HUFON that now resided in Jacksonville, Fla., said that she was there that fluttered in UF board, but she was not surprised was because of these travel regularly and, indeed, was always the first to be charged. The Chief said investigators that the last time you had hypnotized had given a message to Mondoz. Consequently when Mondoz had appeared in his bedroom, the woman was quickly shouted " Derrel Sims knows what you are doing! ". They say that at that point the head of Mondoz turned into a worm But calm when shooting did put a bug at all those who have attended the meeting on the abduction in order to discover what would have explained this Derrel Sims.

Whatever has Mondoz then proceeds, the abduction was without a doubt trauma for the land, a woman saw Jesus UF on board and another spoke to his dead brother and a third was offered dell'Argentera when he said of being hungry! It was kind of sawing aliens via a finger to the secretary, but they were kind enough to hang.

The day after - the story continues - the secretary was sitting at her desk and was stropicciando sleepy eyes when something that fell out in the annals of HUFON would become known as the ' eye plant ". Sims had him examined at the University of Houston and began to proclaim joyfully that contained rare metals . As for "the abduction collective 8 December 1992, "Sims said that was the first time in history that the aliens were taken simultaneously from different locations people.

What a magnificent operation dell'Inquirente head; years that wonderful and successful. Sims distributed a brochure boasting its successes had "orchestrated a kidnapping collective", had "snatched two 'eye capsules' in two separate kidnappings" and had " dominated the mental processes of an alien in a program on board a spaceship. "It was discovered that the aliens" are errors of carelessness "and" seem to have a low intelligence quotient ".

This news brought great relief to some land. UFO Universe made the cover story and Sims was baptized " Aliens of the Hunter "On the cover of UFO Library Magazine . Spoke on radio programs and was invited to hold conferences.

But in August 1993 when he went to the section of Mutual UFO Network of Corpus Christi, Texas, it seemed that it was forgotten because he was there. "You understand - I told the director of the group, Doris Upchurch - We wanted to learn more about multiple cases of kidnapping and there was interested if he was able to grab a hummingbird or capture a deer with bare hands. But from that moment so that the most dangerous place in the world is between a microphone and Derrel Sims. "

If the investigators find head rarely something humorous in that it does, there was a small faction of the community ufologist who rarely finds something different. For a long time critics of the Sims were content to talk in low tones among themselves, but in the spring of'93 began to speak aloud.

Max Washburn questioned the validity of its corsi accelerati"da un week-end" e pensava che il rapimento collettivo fosse pericoloso: "Non si può sfidare il demonio". Altri trovavano assurdo il tema centrale degli "alieni contro Derrel Sims". David Mayo sosteneva che l'Inquirente Caponon si comportava in maniera professionale. Vince Johnson diceva che Sims avevamanie di grandezza. Ma erano soprattutto preoccupati per il gruppo di rapiti: non sapevano cosa stesse succedendo là dentro, ma Rebecca Schatte credeva che alcune di quelle persone avessero probabilmente bisogno di unserio aiutoe né lei né Johnson pensavano che Sims avesse i requisiti per fornirglielo. Quando la Schatte spiegò le sue ragioni e suggerì che venisse chiamato unopsicologo professionistaper sovrintendere al gruppo di sostegno, uno dei rapiti si alzò e cominciò a gridarle: "Sta zitta! Chiudi il becco! Sta zitta!". Le cose cominciavano a mettersi male ma l'Inquirente Capo rimase seduto tranquillo per quasi tutto il tempo e lasciò che fossero i suoi rapiti a difenderlo, almeno finchéRod Lewisnon prese uno di loro a male parole e Sims allora si sporse dal tavolo "con la faccia diCharles Mansonsotto l'effetto di anfetamine" ed i dissidenti decisero di filarsela a gambe levate.

Sims non ha mai detto chi ha esaminato l'impianto oculare all'Università di Houston e non hamai rivelato i risultatifinali delle analisi. Ma questa cosina è un impianto corporeo inserito da un alieno? "Oh, santa pazienza - diceLisa Meffert,genetistadi quell'università - E' questo che va in giro a dire? No, molto probabilmente è lacapocchia di uno spillo" e racconta che Sims se ne era venuto "con fare cospiratorio" dicendo che la cosa era uscita dall'occhio di un tizio. La Meffert pensò che Sims fosse un avvocato che doveva fare causa a qualcuno e non chiese altro, ma esaminò l'"impianto" con un microscopio e gli disse che si trattava probabilmente di unpezzetto di plasticadi un fermaglio per capelli.

In quel periodo esisteva già una videocassetta sul rapimento collettivo e un curioso ingrandimento della foto di un impianto, stato pubblicato sulla copertina di un "rapporto speciale" della HUFON. Sims cercò un secondo parere, portò la suasferettaalCentro di Superconduttività dell'Università di Houstonea quanto pare fu molto soddisfatto del ritrovamento dimetalli rari, che ribaltava la conclusione della capocchia di spillo. Se Sims avesse detto chi era e cosa voleva, "lo avremmo preso per un pazzo e cacciato via", diceJoe Kulik. Ma quando venne fuori la storia sui giornali l'ufficio pubbliche relazioni dell'università non apprezzò la notizia che il Centro di Supercon-duttività avrebbe fatto ricerche su impianti alieni, e Kulik è sicuro che nessuno di quell'università vorrà mai più avere a che fare con Derrel Sims.

Questo non trattiene Sims dall'usare il buon nome dell'università nelle sue conferenze sull'impianto, o dall'insinuare che sta ancora lavorando con qualcuno là dentro. Ma quando dice "Abbiamo alcuniscienziatidi altissimo livello" sta probabilmente pensando aiWarren LaboratorieseaDavid Pritchard. Sims ha raccontato aUFO Magazineche i Laboratori Warren sono "una grande, molto grande società" vicino a Houston. George Warren dice invece che la sua è solo una piccolaazienda erboristicaa Stafford. Warren non ne è proprio sicuro ma non pensa di essere mai stato rapito dagli alieni. Ha incontrato Sims alcuni anni fa, ad un congresso ufologico, e da allora gli esamina gli impianti alieni. E' qualcosa a cui crede, spiega, e lo fa gratis, e spera di riuscire un giorno ad avere Derrel a libro paga: forse insieme possono riuscire a immaginare come fanno a volare gli UFO e sviluppare una nuova fonte di energia per il paese. "Voglio aiutarlo a vivere meglio - dice Warren - E' uno scienziato che vuole aiutare l'umanità, ed anch'io lo sono."

Sims è stato abbastanza bravo a proteggere il nome di George Warren dall'attenzione del pubblico, ma per qualche ragione invece il nome di Sims è apparso parecchie volte sulla stampa accanto a quello diPritchard.Professore di fisica al MIT[Massachussets Institute of Technology], ha recentemente pubblicato su UFO Magazine le sue ultime ricerche circa un oggetto che sarebbe uscito da unpene. La sua attività ufologica gli porta il disprezzo dei suoi colleghi, ma Pritchard tira diritto sperando nel giorno in cui troverà una prova degli alieni e potrà annunciare: "Vedete, ho fatto una scoperta importante come quella diCopernico".

Circa un anno fa, il Cacciatore di Alieni si mise in contatto con lui e da allora si sono sentiti quattro o cinque volte, abbastanza per far dire al professore che Sims "procede in maniera più credibile della maggioranza degli altri". Piuttosto che raccogliere cosine cadute nei letti o per terra, Pritchard pensa che sia molto più sensato cercare gli impianti là dove sono stati impiantati e Sims l'ha invitato a presenziare ai prossimi interventi chirurgici di prelievo.

Nel giugno 1995, Sims si trovava in California, a stringere mani ad un congresso ufologico. Ci mise un po' a presentarsi (all'epoca l'Inquirente Capo sulle abduction era anche diventato "Direttore per le Indagini Fisiche"). "Mi parve un po'schizzato", ricorda oggi Roger Leir. "Chi volete che se ne vada in giro con una scatoletta piena diimpianti alienied una valigetta diradiografie?". Ad ogni modo si parlarono e il tecnicopodiatricorimase poco impressionato finché Derrel Sims non gli mise sotto il naso il referto di un laboratorio dell'Università di Houston: una "università credibile" che trovava metalli rari, "questo mi fece rizzare le orecchie". Poi gli si sollevarono le sopracciglia esaminando le radiografie di quelli che Sims chiamava "oggetti anomali". Sims gli passò la radiografia di un piede; si dà il caso che Leir sia un podiatra e così su due piedi Leir si offrì volontario per estrarre quegli impianti e venne nominato Direttore Medico della Saber Enterprises.

Adesso, dovunque vada l'Inquirente Capo, per 30 dollari potete comprarvi la videocassetta, che comincia con lui e finisce con lui, ma nel mezzo c'è la ripresa di un'autentica operazione chirurgica, ed un impianto salta fuori da dove si presume che sia entrato.

La faccia della donna non si vede nel filmato, ma era una delgruppo di rapitiche fa capo a Derrel e, anche se l'impianto non le causava dolore, voleva tanto toglierselo dall'alluce che accettò di prendere l'aereo e farsi scarnificare il piede, anestetizzato con un ago, mentre Sims le stava accanto, con in testa una cuffia da chirurgo, per provvedere all'ipno-anestesia. "Ogni volta che espiri, è la tensione del giorno che se ne va - sussurrava Sims. - Lasciala andare. Va tutto bene, lasciati andare. E mentre succede, voglio che noti che il tuo piede, quello su cui stiamo per operare, voglio che lo metti avanti e lo metti in un secchiello di ghiaccio. Ecco!". Leir fece un segno sul dito, con l'aiuto di un assistente gli strinse attorno un laccio emostatico e cominciò a tagliare. Poi uscì del sangue, strinsero ancora il laccio, allargarono il taglio e cominciarono a sondare con i bisturi.
"E' proprio qui, vero?", disse il secondo chirurgo. "Sì, penso", rispose Leir.
"Stiamo toccando ora l'oggetto", annunciò il secondo. "Sembra un metallo duro."
Leir tirò fuori qualcosa e lo mise nella garza. "E' quello?" "No - rispose Leir - è tessuto morbido."
E spingevano e frugavano, tagliavano e strizzavano. La donna si agitava sempre di più e Derrel continuava a parlare, ma dopo un po' interruppe l'incubo e chiese: "Dov'è il mio impianto, dottore?" E Leir rispose: "Stiamo pescando, Derrel. E' comepescare."
Era passata più di un'ora, quando Leir disse: "L'ho preso!" e stavolta l'aveva trovato. Era un minuscolotriangolino nero, e la ragione per cui era stato così difficile trovarlo, concluse istantaneamente Leir, era che gli era cresciuto intorno "uno strato di tessuto fibroso anomalo". Erano tutti molto eccitati. Leir era ansioso di portarlo ad un laboratorio. Molti impianti eranoevaporatio si eranopolverizzatialla luce del giorno, ma Leir pensava di sapere come conservare questo. L'Inquirente Capo si portò l'impianto a casa, avvolto nel sangue della paziente. Ben presto annunciò che l'oggettoriluceva di verdesotto una luce nera, ma otto mesi dopo la rivista UFO Magazine riportò che "al momento di andare in stampa i reperti giacciono presso un laboratorio non precisato in attesa di analisi ufficiali".

I fuoriusciti dalla HUFON ora chiamano se stessiSPUFON, una sigla che non significa nulla se non il loro rifiuto di prendere chiunque sul serio. Si riuniscono di tanto in tanto per una colazione. Fra tartine e caffè, discutono di UFO e di rapimenti alieni. C'è qualcosa in tutto ciò, dicono, ma nessuno sa cosa sia e nessuno lo saprà mai, se quelli come Derrel Sims continuano a far scappare via le persone serie.

"Gli impianti di Derrel non sonomai stati pienamente analizzatie non lo saranno mai", conclude la Schatte, "perché una volta dimostrato che sono solo polvere del pavimento, non potrebbe più farci dei soldi".

Ma che abbiamo o no esaminato gli impianti, gli esperti sono sempre più interessati al lavoro di Leir e Sims. Unacommissione eticacaliforniana sta indagando la necessità di fare interventi chirurgici su impianti. In Texas, un altro esperto di etica pensa che sia possibile che Sims pratichi psicologiasenza avere una licenza.

L'Inquirente Capo non sapeva nulla dei suoi nuovi fans ad aprile. Insieme a 70 membri della Houston UFO Network, era seduto nell'oscurità, guardando le immagini dicarcasse di mucche in decomposizione. "Non mi dilungherò troppo su strane morti di animali", disse il relatore, ma invece continuò a farlo, al punto che anche l'Inquirente Capo si alzò per una pausa. Lo trovai nel corridoio e gli chiesi se era sicuro di non voler parlare con me. Nessuna possibilità: se scrivi una storia non complimentosa, mi disse, "tutto quel che otterrai sarà fare la figura del *******".

Ed era tutto. Mi voltò le spalle e ricominciò a parlare con chiunque fosse disposto ad ascoltarlo. Parlò dellecinque operazioni chirurgichepreviste per maggio, del rapporto che stava scrivendo per ilMIT, del congresso di luglio dove si sarebbe seduto accanto a Budd Hopkins, e dell'ente morale che aveva appena fondato per finanziare le sue ricerche.

Alla fine venne interrotto quando un uomo di mezza età con i capelli candidi si fece avanti,sfregandosi il pollice. Il tizio sapeva solo che aveva guardato la videocassetta dell'intervento chirurgico e, il mattino dopo, si era svegliato con un dolore che non riusciva a capire. "Guarda, viene proprio da qui - disse sfregandoselo più forte. "Quando lo schiaccio diventa sempre più rosso eaforma di triangolo".

L'Inquirente Capo si sporse avanti ed esaminò il pollice dell'uomo. Sì, forse c'era proprio qualcosa lì dentro, ma ci sarebbe voluta una radiografia per esserne sicuri. Gli diede il nome di unchiropraticoche poteva fargliela. "Digli solo 'Mi manda Derrel' e ti farà entrare sorridendo".


[tratto da UFO - Rivista di informazione ufologica n. 20, luglio-dicembre 1997]