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THE IMPLANT ISSUE
here is absolutely no doubt that certain elements of the US government, and particularly the Air Force, have taken a deep interest in the stories of alien abductees being implanted with strange, small objects—the purpose of which both baffles and disturbs those tasked with monitoring the situation. As we have seen, the military’s involvement in this area dates back to at least 1980, when implanted abductee Myrna Hansen was examined at New Mexico–based Lovelace Medical Center. While all this might sound like something straight out of a wild science-fiction movie—aliens taking over people’s minds and controlling them with tiny devices—the fact is that such technology is all too real. There is a very good reason why the alien implant issue should be taken seriously: we, the human race, are now creating our very own equivalents of the technology that aliens may have had for who knows how many years. Maybe, for millennia. In other words, this technology is all too real. Disturbingly, there are people who are pushing for us all to be implanted with devices designed to track our movements, record our medical histories, and provide information on our social-media activity. One of these people is science fiction writer Elizabeth Moon. She is no fool: she has degrees
