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Michael Corbin of 1:104/422 * ReDirected Using ReDirect Version 1.00 (C)1989 David Nugent From scicom!csn.org!mcorbin From: mcorbin@csn.org (Michael Corbin) To: scicom!mcorbin Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:08:44 -0700 Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by csn.org with SMTP id AA08989 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:42:45 -0700 Message-Id: <199211121842.AA08989@csn.org> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7307; Thu, 12 Nov 92 13:37:34 EST Received: from PUCC.BITNET by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Mailer R2.09 ptf005) with BSMTP id 6614; Thu, 12 Nov 92 12:49:01 EST Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 20:18:44 EST Reply-To: FORUM FOR UFOLOGY Sender: FORUM FOR UFOLOGY From: Charles Mcgrew Subject: From the most recent MUFON journal: cattle mutilations To: Multiple recipients of list UFO-L Status: R These excerpts are from MUFON UFO JOURNAL No. 294 October 1992. If you want to see the complete article with pictures, get the issue of the MUFON Journal (available from MUFON, 103 Oldtowne Rd. Seguin, TX 78155), or to obtain more complete information, send to Ms. Howe herself, address at the end. Ms. Howe is by far the most knowledgable person on the cattle mutilation phenomenon today. Linda Moulton Howe, a TV producer and writer, is MUFON's Media Adviser. Her works include "A Strange Harvest," an Emmy Award-winning documentary about the animal mutilation mystery (CBS, (c)1980); "An Alien Harvest-Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms" (c)1989); "Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms," a 2-hour TV special (Fox, (c)1990); "UFO Report: Sightings (Fox, (c) 1991); and "The UFO Jigsaw" (c)1992). 1992 ANIMAL MUTILATION UPDATE Linda Moulton Howe (c) 1992 In the cold winter nights of December 1991 to January 1992, something was haunting Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, leaving dead and mutilated cattle in its wake. One couple, driving down a country lane after dark, saw two bright objects moving low in the sky. "As one got over the road above us, it blinked out," said Mike Markum of Cement, Oklahoma. "The other object stopped and started. That's what caught my attention. We heard no sound." Markum and his wife report they have seen several "sparkler-like balls" going over their house at low altitudes. One shot off at tremendous speed and left a green trail. By the end of January, five Oklahoma Counties (Grant, Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, and Commanche), Sumner County in Kansas and Webster County in Missouri had about 30 reports of mysteriously killed and mutilated animals. Even though the socially acceptable explanations in those counties are either Satanic cults or predators, Sheriff Archie Yearick of Grant County told me that he was puzzled "because there aren't any tracks around any of these carcasses." That same comment has been made by law enforcement and ranchers since the animal mutilation mystery began in September 1967, when a horse named Lady was found in the San Luis Valley of Colorado stripped of flesh from the neck up. Lady's hoof tracks stopped 100 feet from where her body was found. Residents had seen odd lights and "small jets" moving low and rapidly over the desert. Worldwide news articles quoted speculations that UFOs and the mare's strange death were connected. When I began research for my documentary "A Strange Harvest" in 1979, I did not set out to do a film about an alien life form connection. But that's what I found in several eyewitness accounts of orange, silent, glowing objects the size of football fields hovering above pastures where mutilated animals were later found. Or beams of light observed shining down from "silent helicopters" that lighted pastures "brighter than daylight" and the next day mutilated animals were found. And eyewitness reports of strange craft and/or nonhuman creatures involved with animals. In 1983, a Missouri couple watched through binoculars as two small beings in tight-fitting silver suits "floated a paralyzed black cow into a craft." The alien heads were large and white-colored. Nearby, a tall, green-skinned "lizard man" stood glaring with eyes slit by vertical pupils like a crocodile's. In 1980, a Waco, Texas rancher watched one evening as two, four-foot tall creatures with large, slanted, black eyes carried a calf between them. He was terrified and ran away. Three days later he had the courage to go back to the scene with his wife and son. There they found the mutilated calfs body. The hide was completely intact and included the hooves and the skull bone, but no other skeletal structure or muscles or internal organs. The hide was turned inside out and folded neatly on the ground next to the backbone from which all the ribs had been removed. That rancher asked me, "Who would do this - and what are they trying to tell us?" Since I began research into the animal mystery in 1979, no year has passed without mutilation reports and 1992 was no exception. On January 25, 1992 near Okemah, Oklahoma, a cow was found dead. The udder had been cut bloodlessly from the animal and was found Iying on the ground. The right chest was slit and an Okfuskee County Sheriff Deputy assumed the heart had been removed. But no veterinarian was asked to do a necropsy. Without any hard evidence, the deputy's report simply said: "Motive: Satanic Ritual." But even he was surprised about how precisely the cuts had been made without any blood residue. On Saturday, February 2, 1992 MUFON Oklahoma investigator Chuck Pine travelled to Garfield, Kingfisher and Grant County Sheriffs offices to help me get more details about the January mutilations. Grant County Sheriff Archie Yearick said that, that morning he had received a call from the police in Caldwell, Kansas about a fresh steer mutilation there. So, Chuck proceeded north over the border and travelled with a police officer to the mutilation site. Chuck retrieved tissue samples from the mutilator's cuts as well as unaffected tissue for contrast, preserved them in formalin solution and sent them Federal Express to Dr. John Altshuler, pathologist and hematologist in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Altshuler and I have been working together since 1989 in an effort to gather as many animal mutilation tissue samples as possible for microscopic examination. So far, the microscope has shown that tissue from animals (including rabbits, deer, horses and cattle) have been cut with high heat in the hundreds of degrees, as evidenced in the cooked hemoglobin and other cell changes. In one 1990 Oregon case, the tissue was serrated as if cut by pinking shears. Both Dr. Altshuler and the Oregon State Diagnostic Laboratory confirmed high heat had been used at the excision lines. Dr. Altshuler found the same heat-induced cell changes in the February 1, 1992 Caldwell, Kansas steer. The following Tuesday, February 11, 1992, there were two more reports of cattle mutilations at Calumet, Oklahoma, 10 miles west of El Reno. The first was found by Robert Jacobs and his son Travis Dean on the morning of February 6th. Half of the Brahma steer's tongue was removed; a bloodless, oval incision had removed the genitals and the rectum was cored out. No blood, no tracks. That evening, Travis took his girl-friend, Julie Hamilton, back to the field to show her what had happened. It was about 8:15 p.m. when they "saw a light above our field. It was about 10 times brighter than a star. As we drove closer, we began to see different colored lights on the edge. They were red, yellow, blue and white. They flashed at random, not sequentially." When they got to within three-quarters of a mile from the object, Julie became frightened and they returned to town. The object rose higher in the sky and followed them. "We were doing about 80 and by the time we reached town, it had gone past us. After dropping Julie off at her house, Travis picked up his father and went back to the field where they saw the light again over the pasture. Robert Jacobs said he could clearly see the different colors flashing on the object. They tried to approach it in the pick-up, but the light moved away and disappeared. In a few minutes, the light reappeared, moving to the southeast and disappeared again. The following Monday afternoon, February 10, another steer, a Hereford [Any of a breed of cattle developed in Herefordshire, England, having a reddish coat with white markings], was found dead and mutilated in the same Jacobs' pasture. Like the February 6th Brahma steer, the front half of the tongue had been removed; the left ear had been removed as if with high heat (see unidentified black, bubbly residue in bottom photo, this page); a neat excision had removed the genitals; and the rectum was cored out. On March 3, back in Okemah, Oklahoma after midnight, three men saw a grey, diamond-shaped object with "windows" land and then take off. They estimated the diameter to be over 30 feet. A week later on March 9, a cow was found with its udder cleanly and bloodlessly excised from the belly. There was also a large hole on the cow's left side. "Like a bullet hole," some said, but there was no exit hole and no bullet. There was also blood on the ground near the cow's head which is not typical. The next day on March 4, Benton County Sheriff Deputy Danny Varner went to meet Bill Cowger at Tyson's Hog Farms near Hiwasse, Arkansas. An eight-year-old cow was Iying on her right side. Her left eye was missing, the tongue had been removed, and a large piece of hide measuring 20 by 30 inches had been removed between the cow's back legs, taking the udder with it. The cut was only hide deep. The muscle tissue underneath was untouched. Sgt. Varner wrote in his investigation report: I found the cow's tongue had been removed by someone (using) a very sharp instrument. The tongue was cut diagonally from side to side, approximately six to eight inches from the cow's front teeth. The cow 's left eye had been removed. The cow's udder and hide were removed by a very sharp instrument, no damage was done to the stomach wall and the cuts looked to be that of a surgeon. The cow's vaginal area looked to be enlarged and pulled outwards. The ground surrounding the cow had no indications (she) had struggled and I was unable to find any footprints around the cow. A small amount of blood was found on and around the cow. On Monday, March 9, 19921 contacted Dr. Marion Harris, a veterinarian from Gravette, Arkansas. I asked Dr. Harris if a cow's internal organs could be removed by entering the cow's vagina. Dr. Harris stated that organs could be removed through the vaginal tract if the cow had recently had a calf and the person knew what they were doing. According to Mr. Cowger, the cow had a calf about six weeks prior to her death. I asked Dr. Harris if he would do an autospy on the cow and he stated he would. On Thursday, March 12, 1992 at 2 p. m., I, Det. Sgt. Sam Blankenship and Bill Cowger met Dr. Harris at the property where the cow was found. Dr. Harris was unable to determine if any organs (were) missing because of waiting eight days before an autopsy was attempted. February to March 1992 also included reports of 11 mutilated cows in Webster County, Missouri east of Springfield. At the same time, people were seeing strange lights in the sky over Northview. The Highway Patrol said so many people were parking along the I-44 Northview exit to look for UFOs that it was a safety hazard. Tissue from nine of the mutilations was sent to Dr. Altshuler who found evidence of high heat at the excision lines and a hardened "plasticized" edge which is not consistent with typical lasers. Even a portable laser is the size of a large freezer and requires a large electrical generator. "If you could afford one, why would you lug it out to a field in the middle of the night where a farmer might take a shot at you for messing with his cows? Why not just buy your own cow?" Duane Bedell asked. He is Co-State Section Director of the MUFON chapter in Webster County. "And how are the cows killed without a struggle, no tracks and no blood?" One farmer, Joe Bouldin, said his cow's throat was slit, the esophagus was removed and the teats were sliced off the udder. "But there were no marks on the ground anywhere. It's real mysterious," Bouldin said. A necropsy revealed most of the blood had been drained from the cow. But the ground was dry. "How do you drain a cow of blood without spilling any?" Bouldin asked. "I've never carried a gun before in my life," Bouldin added, "but now we are carrying a loaded gun in our truck. That's about how I feel about all this." Another troubled farmer was Edwina Ragsdale. She said, "It's just like the cows were embalmed. We went out there last week (February 1992) and there was a faint smell of decay, but they should have been deteriorated by now." When asked what she thought was responsible, she said, "UFOs or cults, they both scare me to death." I have also seen an "embalmed" animal. In May 1980, when I was producing the documentary "A Strange Harvest," a rancher east of Colorado Springs found one of his horses dead and mutilated. As often happens, mutilations aren't reported for several days. In this case, the crew and I filmed about 20 days after the horse was first found dead. The weather had been warm, but still there were no maggots. Another week later, after the horse had been dead for a month, maggots emerged. But when we cut into the horse's flanks to take tissue samples, the muscle was bright red. I asked a local veterinarian if that was normal. He said it was not, that there should have been decayed tissue. By April 1992, mutilations were reported in Liberty, Mississippi and Leduc, Alberta, Canada. In Liberty, two cows had been found with half their face hide removed and the tongues cut out. Then a three-day-old calf was found with its head and hind feet missing, all bloodless and trackless. That month in Canada, ranchers Dorthea and Roman Verchomin discovered the first of six mutilated cows found between April 14 and July 16, 1992. They are certain predators are not to blame. The first was a 20-year-old Holstein milk cow that Mrs. Verchomin had raised and kept to provide extra milk during the calving season. She was a quiet, docile cow and Mrs. Verchomin said she does not understand what could have separated her from the herd. The cow hadn't been dead more than six hours when she was found. In the left shoulder was a hole like a "bullet hole" that angled down into the chest, similar to the cow in Okemah, Oklahoma. Like the Okemah case, no bullet was recovered and there was no exit-wound. On the cow's throat was a 12-inch vertical cut just beside the jugular vein. There was also a round cut around the rectum, approximately two inches deep into the hide, right through the hair, and the anus and vagina had been cut out. "Most notable was the absence of blood in and around the body," wrote MUFON investigator Janice Semeniuk, working with Gordon Kijek, Director of the Alberta UFO Study Group. Mr. and Mrs. Verchomin called veterinarian Dr. Wayne Sereda and when he opened the cow on site, "the flesh was unusually white," indicating thorough removal of blood. Mrs. Verchomin said the vet and Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigator, Cst. Coloumbe, discussed how "they" could drain so much blood out of the animal. Yet the two investigators maintained that predators were responsible for the kill. That conclusion upset Mrs. Verchomin. "I have never seen cuts like those on that cow. I followed the cuts with my finger. They were harder than the hide and every two inches there was a slight rise like a scalloped edge," she said. "The rest of the cows became very upset when they found her. Their eyes rolled around and they bellowed and stampeded." Mrs. Verchomin is convinced after years of farming that no predator could cut a cow that way. "Coyotes don't even come onto our property," she said, "and they haven't bothered the herd in the past." Speculation about Satanic cult activity raised the possibility that someone arrived quietly, perhaps by canoe, from the shore of Saunders Lake which runs alongside the property. Yet, there were no clues as to how the blood was drained from the cow without leaving a trace or tracks. Mrs. Verchomin remembered that she had let her dogs out the evening before and was waked around 1:45 a.m. by their barking. She realized she had not shut down the pump house. So she took a flashlight out into the yard. "It was unusually quiet, even for the country," she said. "There was no noise whatsoever." But she saw nothing unusual until the next morning when she found her mutilated milk cow. Then between June 14 and July 16, 1992, Dorthea and Roman Verchomin found five more dead cattle on their Leduc, Alberta, Canada farm. All six of the cows were found Iying on their right side. The chronological list is: 1) April 14, 1992......20-year-old Holstein milk cow 2) June 14, 1992...250-pound Charolais Hereford calf 3) June 21, 1992......250-pound Hereford heifer calf 4) June 24, 1992 .....250-pound Hereford heifer calf 5) June 28, 1992.........800-pound Hereford milk cow 6) July 16, 1992.........800-pound Hereford milk cow Mrs. Vermochin estimates the June 14 calf was found about two days after death. It was in a twisted position with the right side of the head and chest Iying on the ground with front legs straight to the left, while the back half was flat to the ground with the hind legs spread apart. The left ear and eye were gone. A hole in the left side of the neck angled down into the chest. The tail was removed up to the tail bone. The rectum and vulva were cored out, along with a large, oval-shaped piece of hide that extended from the rectum up between the back legs, along the belly to three ribs up onto the chest. All the internal organs had been cleanly removed and the internal cavity was dry and blackened in color. Again, Dr. Sereda was called to examine the animal. This time he brought a veterinarian colleague along and stated that because the calf was decomposing he could not make a positive determination of cause of death. An RCMP investigator was also there, but neither photographs nor tissue samples were taken. The June 21 calf was still warm when found dead near its mother's feet. The cow was standing guard over the body a full mile from the rest of the herd. Mrs. Verchomin took the carcass to the Provincial Lab veterinarian who said "there is no such thing as cattle mutilations" and promptly determined that the calf died "due to overwhelming bacterial infection," specifically Clostridium bacteria. There were no excisions. Three days later on June 24, "we smelled another dead animal," said Mrs. Verchomin, and they discovered another 250-pound calf decaying 60 yards from where yet an even bigger Hereford would be found on June 28. That 800-pound Hereford milk cow found on the 28th had an ear and eye missing, the tail was removed to the tail bone, the rectum and vagina had been cored out and the udder had been excised in a "perfect, round circle only hide deep leaving the membrane tissue covering the muscles completely untouched." Mrs. Verchomin said the pristine nature of the cuts on the perfectly preserved body astonished her. Cst. Coulombe of the RCMP Leduc Detachment arrived to check the cow, but no vet was called because "the body was already two or three days dead." There were no signs of predators. "In fact, the animal layed there for a full week and not even the coyotes touched it. Not one bite! Finally, it decomposed by itself," said Mrs. Verchomin. On July 16, a two-year-old Hereford milk cow was found with the rectum cored out and one teat cleanly removed from the udder as if "burned off." Part of the tongue and several teeth were gone. On the left side of its neck was a four-inch slit with a one-inch-wide and two-inch-deep hole in the middle of it. Tissue samples were taken from the outer region of the rectum and vulva, and forwarded to Dr. Altshuler. He found the excision lines to be darkened and plasticized; under the microscope the cells revealed exposure to high heat. Mutilation reports are not confined to cattle. They have included most domestic animals, including house cats. Since the 1970s, there have been waves of cat mutilations in Canada, California, Texas and again in 1992. From May 15 on, cats were found dead and mutilated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Typical was the purebred Rus- sian blue cat that was put out in the evening and never came back. The back half of the cat was found three blocks from its owner's home without a trace of blood. It was the fourth cat found cut in half in a two week period. In the summer of 1991 in Plano, Texas, an upper middle class community north of Dallas, the police department had nearly 100 reports of missing domestic cats along with several mutilated ones. After my book, An Alien Harest [**An Alien Harvest - Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms,(c)1989 by Linda Moulton Howe], was released in June 1989 about animal mutliations, human abductions and government knowledge, I received a letter from a security guard in Denver, Colorado. He described a night in August when he was patrolling the grounds of a large corporation west of the city. From his truck, he could see a large circle of lights in the dark sky. The lights remained stationary over a pasture a few hundred feet from where the guard watched. He never phoned anyone because he was afraid if he uttered the word "UFO" he might lose his job. But the next morning, he felt guilty as he watched a farmer gather up two dead and mutilated cows from the pasture where the lights had hovered overhead. He asked me, "What kind of technology are we talking about? I never took my eyes off those lights. There was no beam, no sound, nothing. How did they do it?" If alien life forms have been involved with nearly three decades of worldwide animal mutilations and disappearances, what is it the aliens need? In 1980, Myrna Hansen and her young son saw two whitesuited beings working on a cow near Cimarron, New Mexico. The cow was bellowing in pain, and Myrna tried to interfere. The result was that both she and her son were abducted by large, brightly-lighted disks which took them to an underground facility which she thought was in the Las Cruces region. There Myrna saw a humanoid figure floating in a vat of reddish liquid which she perceived to be a "treatment" or sustenance of some kind for the immersed being. She also thought the liquid was related to blood fluids and tissues removed from animals. A decade earlier in 1973, Judy Doraty watched a brown and white calf rise in a pale beam of yellow light. Inside a small, round, white room, she saw tissue excised from the calf's eye, tongue and testicles by two, small, grey-skinned creatures with large eyes. They had four fingers, instead of five, and those long, thin fingers tapered to dark nails. Their eyes were not solid black, but were yellow with a black vertical pupil like a cat's or a snake's. Judy's daughter, Cindy, was also abducted at the same time, and in a 1990 hypnosis session with psychiatric hypno-therapist John Carpenter in Springfield, Missouri, also reported seeing a calf rising in a beam of light. Judy had the clear impression that what the alien beings were doing with the calf had to do with survival -- theirs and ours. In both the Cindy Doraty and Myrna Hansen cases, the women were examined by the beings. Eggs were removed in a painful procedure from Myrna's ovaries. In some cases, men and women have been shown "baby things" which they are told are hybrids, part human and part something else. If genetic material is what the alien intelligence wants, why does it need so much over so many years? And why does it leave animals to be found with strange, bloodless excisions that provoke fear and anger? To report or obtain further information, please contact: Linda Moulton Howe P.O. Box 538 Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006 Ph: (215) 938-7869 PHOTO LIST (if you want to see the photos, get the Journal article or one of Ms. Howe's books): Mutilated steer, Caldwell, Kansas, photographed by Chuck Pine on Feb. 3, 1992. Steer's head showing excision of jaw tissue, bone and teeth. Photo by Chuck Pine. Oval cut in belly of Brahma steer, genitals removed. Calumet, OK. Photo by Chuck Pine. Two oval incisions of rectal tissue in same steer. Photo by Chuck Pine. Hereford steer #2, with half of tongue removed. Photo by Chuck Pine. Same steer. Left ear removed as if burned off, leaving unidentified black, bubbly residue. February 10, 1992. Photo by Chuck Pine. Same steer. Rectum cored out. Photo by Chuck Pine. Benton County, Arkansas. Left eye missing. Photo by Deputy Sheriff Danny Varner. Same steer. Man opening mouth to show removed tongue. Photo by Deputy Danny Varner. Benton County, Arkansas. Large oval incision from belly of cow where entire udder was removed hide-deep. March 4,1992. Photo by Benton County Deputy Sheriff Danny Varner. Leduc, Alberta, Canada, April 14, 1992. Twenty-year-old Holstein milk cow. Left shoulder with triangular section of hide removed. Photo by Mrs. Verchomin's neighbor, Mr. R. Trelenberg.