ALIEN IMPLANT

THE RICHARD PRICE STORY

- THE UFO ABDUCTION WITH THE "SMOKING GUN

by ANTONIO HUNEEUS
©1990  by  A. Huneeus.  All Rights Reserved

      Until a few years ago, just the account of a UFO abduction experience was considered an extraordinary phenomenon. The Betty and Barney Hill case in New Hampshire, the Charlie Hickson incident in Pascagoula and the Travis Walton affair in Arizona, for instance, were all huge media sensations. In those days it was enough to have come it contact with aliens, taken onboard their craft and being subjected to some kind of physical examination. These days, however, the public and the media have become somewhat jaded about abductions with all the recent hoopla created by the books of Whitley Strieber, Budd Hopkins, Ray Fowler and others. Although an abduction - if real - will obviously be an extraordinary and traumatic experience for those who have gone through it, the public has become so exposed to this kind of story that they now seem to demand something extra in order to get excited. New York researcher, artist and author Budd Hopkins introduced a few years ago the scars exhibited by many abductees, as well as the apparent landing traces in the Copley Woods case featured in his book "Intruders," while Strieber and others have talked and produced photos of the brain taken with magnetic resonance scanners which showed tiny anomalous artifacts.
     The chase for the so-called implants - a key feature of many abduction accounts - has been going on for a long time. After many false starts and other so far inconclusive cases, this writer has finally located an abduction with a "smoking gun." That is, a case where the implant was known to be inside the body of someone who consciously recalls having experienced a UFO abduction, and where the implant came out naturally and is currently being analyzed by a bona fide physicist from a prominent university. The case in question is that of Richard Price from Troy in upstate New York.
     I first met Richard at researcher Pat Marcattilio's Spring 1989 ET Conference in Trenton, New Jersey, where I had the occasion to interview him at length about his Abduction and the subsequent events which led to the investigation of his case and the eventual retrieval of the implant that came from his body on August 10, 1989. We have kept in regular contact over the telephone since then, giving me an opportunity to find out further details about his case as well as getting to know him better and gain his trust - a key aspect in the interaction between witnesses and ufologists if any given investigation is going to prosper.
      I am satisfied so far that Richard Price is telling the truth and that his case is indeed extraordinary!
     Although Richard is writing his own book and has appeared on a couple of TV talk shows (Hard Copy and Joan Rivers), I am pleased at being the first one to lay down the full story in print. The original incident took place in late September of 1955 in a wooded area near a cemetery in Troy, New York, when Richard was just eight years old. I shall not repeat the details of his experience here since the reader can follow it in Richard's own words as described in our interview. His account is extraordinarily vivid and truly fascinating. Some details - such as the interactive "movie" he was shown inside the UFO - can be found in other  abductions, yet other details like the graphic description of the manner in which the implant was inserted in his body, are really an eye-opener. There is much material here for further research in this field.
    "A couple of years after the incident happened," Richard told me, he mentioned to his
grandmother that, "I had been on a spaceship and she said, 'Don't tell anybody or they'll think you're crazy.'" As later events would prove, Richard should have followed her advice. Experiencing an abduction is a disturbing ordeal in itself, as I have seen by knowing many abductees through Budd Hopkins' Intruders Foundation (of which I am a member of its Board of Advisors) and by havingtheastern university who had been referred to him by cattle mutilation researcher Linda Howe, and arrangements were made for Richard to come to the physicist's laboratory to start the process of analyzing the object. The professor proceeded to take "constantly pictures of it all day with a photo microscope." Since he need a piece of it to conduct further laboratory analysis, they finally decided to cut it in two. "He took a razor blade," explained Richard, "and underneath the microscope he took the piece and cut it off - he's got a piece of it and I got the other piece so he could examine it."
    As stated at the beginning of this article, the subject of implants are a key element in all abduction stories. The reason is that more than anything else, they have the potential of validating abductions as real incidents and not mere psychological fantasies, as many skeptics maintain. In Europe, for instance, there is a socio-psychological school among many ufologists, which postulates that abductions and most Close Encounters of the Third Kind are the manifestations of a new folklore. In this revisionist view, abductions are not hoaxes or hallucinations, but neither are they real incidents involving physical craft and alien occupants. It will take just one clearly cut incident with a "smoking gun," as Richard Price's case has the potential to demonstrate, to establish the physicality of the abduction experience and demolish the pseudo-psychological interpretations. It all depends, of course, on what exactly is found about the composition and nature of the retrieved object, the so-called implant.

A DEFINITION

       What are these implants and what is their intended purpose?  Two of the definitions given by 'Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary' for the word 'implant' are: "to insert in a living site (as for growth, slow release, or formation of an organic union) [subcutaneously - ed. hormone pellets]," and "something (as a graft or pellet) implanted in tissue." In ufological parlance, an implant is usually meant as a "tracking device" placed by the abductors in order to keep tabs on the subject, not unlike the more crude electronic artifacts our scientists place on animal species under study. In these cases, the wild specimen is captured, tagged and then released back to his environment. The analogy, as you can see, it quite straightforward.
     Unfortunately, we are not at liberty to divulge either the name or university where the physicist works, nor to quote verbatim from his "Preliminary Description" of  "Artifact 889," since he has requested anonymity for the time being. Yet this author knows who he is and where he works, and has a copy of his preliminary report, as well as the original handwritten notes of his first observations of  Richard's implant. Needless to say, the investigation is still ongoing, but as Richard put it, "he doesn't know what it was, and he still doesn't know."

THE ANALYSIS

     According to the physicist's preliminary report, he received Artifact 889 on August 22, 1989. Before it was cut in two pieces, the object could be divided in three components: an amber-colored interior, a white coating and at least 6 small appendages. The interior exhibited a translucent quality and a uniform light brownish coloration. The white coating seemed to be made of something like Teflon material. Analysis of the coating was made with a scanning electron microscope with Auger electron energy analysis. The covering itself consisted  mainly of carbon (90%) with tantalum (10%) and oxygen (3%), as well as traces of nitrogen. The scientist thought that these could be "scar tissue," but inconsistencies in the ratio between the elements were found.
    Perhaps the most interesting findings were the description of the appendages.
Photomicrographs and scanning electron microscopic images showed clearly that these tiny appendages had what looked like 3-prong clamps that resembled hooks and twisted cables. This was entirely consistent with Richard's description of how the aliens inserted the implant with a special device. "I could remember during the abduction that it looked liked they were hooking up this thing underneath the skin," he said adding that some of his descriptions were made before the implant popped out.
     That was not all, however. The physicist also found out that when put in water vapor, the appearance of the appendages would change: they looked translucent and white when they were damp and black when they were dry. One was even seen to change its color to a fairly bright red. When I myself looked at the object during the Trenton UFO Conference, it seemed like a little black dot, a very small metallic piece or a dark pebble. I have not seen it under the microscope, but I have viewed the photos which show the alleged wires and even one magnification which oddly resembles a little skier.
    This in essence is what I can report about the analysis of Richard Price's implant up to this moment. In other words, it remains a mystery. There is no explanation as to why it was in his body in the first place, what it is exactly, and what is its purpose, if any.
    That in a nutshell is Richard Price's extraordinary story. Despite the length of this article and the following interview, we have still left out many interesting details, including a puzzling "missing time" incident that happened a few years ago when Richard was working as a cab driver. Hopefully, the full story will come out sometime soon in Richard's own words in book form. Those readers who are interested in contacting him directly for more information or to obtain a videotaped interview with him, can do so by writing and sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to P.O. Box 672, Latham, NY 12110. (not in use)

The years that followed brought many changes to my life. Some that I did not like and others that I did. There were also things that happened that people took the wrong  way or misunderstood and the information was never corrected, including the university and the scientist who did the testing of the implant material.

I have been in the process for many years writing a book about all this. Most of my private life is not included here. I do want to say that I have remarried twice and most of that info will be in the book. To begin, I will try to show you the chronological order of events that have happened and as best I can remember, share with you what has been happening in my life, and where I am now.

In February, 1990, I called a certified public accountant in Florida, who also sold a UFO Abduction Insurance policy as a gimmick. There was an article in our local paper about him, so I inquired and got the policy. Approximately a week later, he called me back and asked me if I would do a segment with him on “Hard Copy”, a TV tabloid news show. They wanted to meet a person who actually got the insurance. The show aired on February 23, 1990.

Ben Jamison, a man I had met years ago (about 1980), was at a meeting I had with some other people. I am including him here because of the significance of this part of my story. Ben was invited  to this meeting, by these people, to hear my account of the abduction, because he was an area UFO investigator. Ben is a math professor at the State University of New York at Albany.

After this meeting, Ben and I met quite often to talk. We got together many times at a HO JO's restaurant, not only to go over some of my UFO happenings, but we also talked about my family. This was a concern with all the public attention it would cause.  If articles were to be written about me or TV news media was to air my account, it may have an affect on my boys in school.

Ben went to a UFO conference on Long Island and met Bill Knell, a UFO investigator from Queens, one of the New York City boroughs. While there, Ben told Bill Knell my story and he became interested in my UFO account, because this was after the implant had came out. Ben returned from Long Island and told me about Bill, and asked me to contact him, so we could get together and talk.

Ben and I still got together, but not as often. Ben felt that the media attention I needed would come from Bill. He was a host of a local UFO show on cable TV, on Long Island.

Bill, along with many others, saw me on “Hard Copy”. Bill called me one night and asked if I would go to a UFO convention in Trenton, New Jersey. March 30, and 31, 1990. He paid my expenses to and from the convention. Months later, I had found out that he was selling video tapes of an interview he did with me and because he never made a contract with me or paid any royalties, I felt I could not trust him, I decided to end all my involvement with him. (One last thing he did just before this, was getting me on as a guest on the Joan Rivers Show.)  

I met Pat Marcattillo, the coordinator of the convention in New Jersey. At his request, I gave a short account about what happened and was able to show people part of the implant. I also had microscopic pictures of the implant that was taken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M I T).

Also, on that weekend, I met Antonio Huneeus. His article appears above. I was interviewed here at the convention by Antonio, for the article in “UFO UNIVERSE” Magazine.

During the time and after Antonio published the article above, we stayed in contact. I have been to his home and had many conversations pertaining to the abduction with him. He introduced me to many people in the UFO research field. I had attended many conferences with his help. I organized a UFO conference with the help of some friends that was so successful for the place we used, we had to turn people away. This was in Latham, NY, not far from Albany. Antonio came and was part of the lecturers that were present that night.

After people read Antonio's Article in UFO Universe, he began getting requests from people and other journalists, from all over the world, to use portions of the article in their publications. I was even asked to be a part of a book that was written by someone in France. Also, a television producer in Japan published a book with a section in it about my abduction. A year later, I was asked to be part of a Sony Play Station game called “Chasin’ the UFO”. It was mostly available in Japan only.

While being a guest on the Joan Rivers Show, that aired May 25, 1990, I was able to meet Rosemary Osnato, another abductee I had heard about. I also met a noted UFO Researcher/writer (of several books) by the name of Budd Hopkins, who, later in the day, invited me to his home to share information.

Two weeks after the Joan Rivers Show, I was asked again by Bill Knell to return to New York City and Trenton, NJ, because some TV producers wanted to tape my story, one from Japan for Nippon Television. The other from California (Hollywood) I met in New York, at a hotel in Queens. He worked on the story with United States Air Force Ret. LT. Col. Wendell Stevens, who with Brigadier General Charles (Chuck) Yeager, are two men from the Air Force I have admired for years and always wanted to meet. I finally met one of them during this visit. I stayed in New York City for 3 days. I was also on a cable TV show in Long Island, that was about UFO’s.

Over the summer of 1990, it was somewhat peaceful, without having to do any lectures or interviews. In September ’90, a reporter called me. He wrote for a group of newspapers. I don’t recall where he was from, but in the  first week of October, an article about me appeared in the tabloid paper “Weekly World News.” At the same time, “Copleys News Service” asked me to do radio shows. Not knowing what was about to happen in the next two weeks, I was going with almost no sleep. I was bombarded with phones calls from radio stations all over the world. Talk shows got the information from Copleys News Service. Most of the calls came during the night. Some stations were nice enough to call in the day time and tell me they would call back at 3:00 in the morning to interview me. Others didn’t care, they just called. Some of the stations were from Australia and New Zealand.

On January 27, 1991, the Times Union, a Newspaper in Albany, NY, had an article about me, after I was interviewed by a staff writer. About three months later, a reporter from the Associated Press saw it and did a national story that appeared in the papers on Mothers Day, May 5, 1991.

In the last week of September 1991, I received a call about being on CNBC cable station, affiliated with NBC. It was a talk show with guest host, G. Gordon Liddy. The show was live at night. A researcher that was on the show with me, who I did not know, and myself, stayed in a very plush hotel near Fort Lee, NJ. We were really treated nice. I was taken to and from CNBC, the hotel and Penn station by limousine.

In June of ’92, I was invited to be part of a UFO Conference at MIT. My public relations manager at the time made all the arrangements for the 5 day stay. I went by car with Ben Jamison, the researcher I knew from the area, who also attended the conference.

Here at the conference, researchers from all over the world came to present their finding of UFO related activity. Abductees were invited to attend the conference to share their experiences and share information with those of the group.

After the five day conference was over, I think, in my opinion, some left with more questions than answers. Later, a book was released about the conference. In it, Professor Pritchard told about his research with the piece of material from part of the implant that he had. The article included a report from a doctor at Boston General Hospital who Professor Pritchard got a second opinion from. He was using information that Professor Pritchard gave him instead of an independent research study on the material. Because of this, and other facts that arose from the testing done on the implant, I had a negative attitude toward the results. When pictures were taken of the implant, the so called “wires” were said to be cotton fibers when compared to micro photos of the same. My disagreement was the magnification was done at different levels. To me, it was like comparing a basketball to an orange.

After Professor Pritchard distributed his book containing the facts about the implant, everyone took the results as final. Although it took him about two years to research the implant and explain his results, I didn’t except it because I had professional friends that felt his work was not done scientifically.

 In April of ’91, a little more than a year after she saw me on “Hard Copy”, I met a lady who told me she was a biologist. She wanted to see some of the photos that were taken at MIT of the implant. She was getting my newsletters from her son who is interested in UFOs . I do not know her son, as he is not on my mailing list, but I understand he gets it from someone in California that is on my list.

In August of ’97, I was single again. I had moved many times and was told people had a hard time finding me. However, after I had  rented a motel room, about a week later, I received a phone call from the same lady I had met in April of ’91. She was visiting a local laboratory again and had heard about the MIT results from a lady there who knew were I was.

She came over to the motel with two cases, a microscope in one and the other had medical supplies. She used the microscope to look at my piece of the implant. This piece of the implant has a black object imbedded in the material and has never been looked at. It can be seen in microscopic pictures. Other professional people knew about it including Professor Pritchard  After viewing the object and describing what she saw, she left it alone as I asked and cut a very small piece of the material to take so that she could do a DNA test and a few other tests.

She called back about three days later to tell me she did not get a good DNA match. She also mentioned several other inconsistencies pertaining to the report by Professor Pritchard.

An article about this was in my newsletter. Copies of it can still be obtained. Not much more needs to be said for the “YEARS AFTER” except I have not finished the book yet called, “WHAT AFFECTS YOUR LIFE?”. I have been still moving here and there. Moved to North Carolina then back to New York for a year. Now, back in North Carolina. I have been married for more than two years.

No one has come forward to ask me about testing or analyzing the black object the way I want it done. Until then it will remain part of “the Smoking Gun”.

WINTER SKIES

While gazing into winter skies,
Orion the Hunter within it lies.
Betelgeuse the star so bright,
helps light up a long cold night.

With dippers point to Polaris star,
around its circle many heros there are.
Perseus, brave Titan he would be,
remembered as hero by you and me.

Hercules, the man of unending strength,
would save his friends at any length.
Cassiopeia and Andromeda too,
among these men they hold so true.

Not to forget Pegasus the horse,
who, special to Perseus of course.
Zeus, the god of their faith on high,
somewhere among them he must lie.

They will be remembered by you and me,
by those who believe in Greek mythology.
For those who don't the saying goes,
the stars just shine within its glows.

copyright 1991 Richard L. Price, Sr.