Analysis at Los Alamos and New Mexico Tech revealed the objects contain an iron carbide core with hardness matching the highest carbon tool steel, surrounded by layers of aluminum, calcium, barium, copper, and other elements. The membrane coating was composed entirely of materials from the human body, including blood proteins, an oxygen-binding iron pigment, and keratin. Scanning electron microscope photographs posted on Art Bell's website show the structured metallic rods in extraordinary detail, including what appears to be a barb-like anchoring device.
Sims reveals that nerve proprioceptors, sensory organs normally found only in fingertips and skin surfaces, were discovered deep inside the tissue surrounding the implants near bone. A Gauss meter registered strong electromagnetic readings over one patient's implant site, readings that vanished immediately after surgical removal. Both researchers note that major drug companies have expressed interest in the rejection-proof membrane technology.
Key Moments
Two pathologists confirm zero inflammatory response: Sims recalls predicting to Leir before surgery that the objects would show no inflammatory response and that nerve proprioceptors would be found around them. Two independent pathologists confirmed both - no chronic or acute inflammation, despite years in the body.
Membrane that a surgical scalpel cannot cut: Leir describes the dark gray smooth membrane covering the implants as having such tensile strength that a surgical blade - sharp enough to whittle bone - cannot cut through it, a property he says he has never encountered in 33 years of foot surgery.
Membrane composition - protein coagulant, hemocytorin, keratin: Sims names the three components of the dark gray biological membrane covering the implants: a protein coagulant from blood, an oxygen-binding iron pigment called hemocytorin (cousin to hemoglobin), and keratin strands - all derived from the host's own body.
No portal of entry in any of seven patients: Sims notes that across all seven patients examined by Leir and the general surgeon, no portal of entry could be found - no scar, no pore out of place - for objects sitting deep in the body next to bone.