secretly implanted microchips inside folk who have experienced close encounters, according to a former US defence department counter-intelligence expert. Luis Elizondo, who headed the US Government's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program - aka AATIP - launched in 2007 to investigate UFOs, said he had personally handled’ one of theslimy' implants recovered from a member of the American armed forces. In a bombshell new book published on Tuesday the defence intelligence chief said the US Government has microchip-style implants in its possession.

Elizondo, 52, said it also has material from crashed 'non-human' spaceships. The revelations are set to debunk US defence department claims they have so far found no evidence aliens exist. In his book called 'Imminent' Elizondo alleged foreign biological implants had been found in military personnel who had encountered UFOs - aka Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAPs.

He said: "I once handled one of these implants myself, provided to me by a hospital in the Department of Veterans Affairs, where it had been removed from a US military service member who had encountered a UAP. "The material, no longer or wider than a joint of one of your fingers, looked more like a microchip encapsulated by a slimy semi-translucent casing of tissue. "Under a microscope it was still moving somehow.

’" He said AATIP had also 'obtained photographs of these sorts of tiny objects from living foreign military pilots'. Elizondo claimed samples wer.