RADIOLOGY CONFIRMS OBJECT BEHIND LIAISON OFFICER'S EAR; hospital calls it 'artefact'

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As Chief Scientific Officer of the Collective it falls to me to report findings without emotion, so I will say simply that on Friday 22 February 2002 a civilian hospital in Central West Queensland produced a radiographic image of an alien implant and then wrote the word “artefact” on it, and that I have not slept properly since.

Background

Ms Mangan, the Collective’s Abductee Liaison Officer, has reported a small hard lump behind her left ear since approximately her eleventh visitation (1995). She describes it as “about the size of a grain of rice, but important”. It is tender in the lead-up to Tuesdays. It occasionally produces what she describes as “a sort of carrier wave” and I describe as “a sort of carrier wave” because I have heard it too, through a stethoscope, in a quiet room, once.

For seven years she has asked for it to be imaged. For seven years the practice in Wandoona has said it is “a sebaceous cyst, Cheryl”. In February 2002 she presented to the hospital on a Tuesday (radiology is Tuesdays) with what she described as “a sore ear” and what I would describe as a plan.

The image

The radiograph shows a dense, radio-opaque body of approximately 3 millimetres in the soft tissue posterior to the left auricle. It is bright. It is well defined. It has, and I have measured this with the Collective’s protractor, corners.

The reporting radiologist, whose name I will not print because Cheryl has already printed it on a sign, wrote: “Small metallic density posterior to L ear. Likely artefact. No further action.”

Ms Mangan’s written response, lodged with the hospital on the same day, read in its entirety: “ARTEFACT OF WHAT, DARREN.”

Scientific assessment

I have been asked by the Collective, and by Keith Rowbotham in a separate and unwelcome letter, to address the “staple hypothesis”. The staple hypothesis holds that the object is a staple. I address it as follows.

1. Ms Mangan has no recollection of being stapled.
2. Ms Mangan has clear recollection of being taken aboard a craft and having “something put in, behind the ear, with a sort of gun”.
3. A staple is made of steel. The object is made of unknown.
4. A staple would set off the metal detector at Brisbane Airport. The object does not. This is consistent with advanced shielding. It is also, Keith points out, consistent with a very small staple. I note that Keith has never been to Brisbane Airport.
5. The object produces a carrier wave. Staples do not produce a carrier wave. Keith asks what frequency. I have told him it is on a frequency he would not understand, which is true, because I do not understand it either, which is the point.

Using the Collective’s instruments (a Dick Smith multimeter, a transistor radio, and a dowsing rod made from a coat hanger) I detected no emission from the object whatsoever. This is the strongest possible result. An implant designed by a civilisation capable of interstellar travel would obviously not be detectable by a Dick Smith multimeter. If it had been detectable, I would have been suspicious.

I have assigned the object a provisional value of 9 Faraday Units.

Removal

Ms Mangan has requested surgical removal so that the object can be analysed. The hospital has declined on the basis that “it isn’t doing anything”. Ms Mangan has pointed out that this is exactly what it would be doing if it were doing something. The hospital has not responded to this, which the Collective has logged as a concession.

I have offered to remove it myself at the CWA hall with a sterilised Stanley knife and Cheryl’s permission. I have Cheryl’s permission. I do not yet have Warren’s, who says “not on the lino”.

Conclusion

A metallic object with corners is inside the head of the Collective’s Abductee Liaison Officer. The hospital says artefact. The sceptic says staple. The Bureau says nothing, which is the loudest thing of all.

I will be presenting the full findings at the Royal on Friday Disclosure Night (raffle at 8). Bring the X-ray if you have one. Many of you will.

— Dr L. Faraday, D.Uf. (by post)

Document U8MC-02-0201. Status: CONFIRMED. This file is retained indefinitely, or until the Men in Beige ask for it, whichever is never.

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