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Subject: From the most recent MUFON journal: cattle mutilations
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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.
eputy 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.
