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Aliens Involved in Mysterious Calf Mutilations

hypocritexposer

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UFO Chaser: Aliens Involved in Mysterious Calf Mutilations

Thursday , November 26, 2009

AP


SAN LUIS, Colo. —
A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.

Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed.

But rancher Manuel Sanchez has found no signs of human attackers, such as footprints or ATV tracks. And there are no signs of an animal attack by a coyote or mountain lion. Usually predators leave pools of blood or drag marks from carrying away the livestock.

Two officers from the Costilla County Sheriff's Office have investigated the mutilations but say they don't know what's killing the calves.

"There's nothing really to go by," said Sanchez, who's ranched for nearly 50 years. "I can't figure it out."

A spokesman for the sheriff's office told The Pueblo Chieftain that investigators doubt a person butchered the calves because there is no blood at the scene.

"I've butchered a cow before and I know what kind of a mess it leaves," Sgt. James Chavez said.

Some in the area believe the mutilations are the work of aliens. An area UFO chaser, Chuck Zukowski of Colorado Springs, has been to the Costilla County pasture to investigate.

He told the paper there have been other unexplained calf mutilations in the area, including three in March. One of the other calves, found dead on a ranch near Trinidad, had its ears removed, Zukowski said.

"We're trying as much as we can to find a pattern," said Zukowski, who runs a UFO Web site called ufonut.com.

Sanchez said he has sold off his 32 remaining calves out of fear more would be mutilated. He hasn't decided how he'll manage the remaining 40 animals in his herd.

"It's a big loss for a small rancher," he said.
 

tenbach79

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Thats a interesting article. That part of colorado is widely know for that kind of things. I had a young cow about 5 yrs ago that was killed in that same matter as in the article. My dad had a calf killed about 20 yrs back that was the same way. It had 4 holes cut on its back all the way to the tail head. It looked like someone took a cookie cutter and cut them out perfectly round. He had a vet come out and do a atuopsy done on it and the only organ that was left was the heart and it had hundres of wholes in it like someon poked it with needles.
 

Big Swede

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I've always been very skeptical about these kind of things. There's usually a logical explanation just like the crop circles in Europe. However some people who I trust and believe have claimed to have found mutilated cattle on their place. I just don't know.
 

MsSage

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Why wont coyotes, birds, or dogs touch the meat? If it was done by humans or another animal there would be scavengers eating.........
 

per

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MsSage said:
Why wont coyotes, birds, or dogs touch the meat? If it was done by humans or another animal there would be scavengers eating.........
All the best parts are gone. :wink: :)
 
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Anonymous

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If you ever get a chance to get your hands on a book called "Mystery Stalks the Prairie" by Roberta Donovan you should read it...Lots of photos of mutilations - and reports of mutilations her husband Capt Dick Donovan and Capt Keith Wolverton of the Cascade County (Great Falls) Sheriffs office had investigated...
I knew and worked with both- top investigators- but they claim they investigated about 70 cases where they could find no "reasonable" explanation for the deaths or mutilation.....In fact back in the 70's there were so many reported cases that they had a multi county task force set up investigating these reports...The task force included Air Force CID officers from neighboring Malmstrom AFB....
 

Silver

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We had a neighbour a few years back that was sure aliens were causing grief with his cattle. Every so often a cow would show up with 2 or 3 holes in a line just down a ways from the back bone. Sometimes they were dead, sometimes they were alive but sore.
The mystery was solved one winter morning when the neighbours son came along to see his dad picking up a bale he'd set down ..... complete with the cow that was standing along side it. Turns out the grapple forks make a nice row of puncture marks that can cripple or even kill. :wink:
 

tenbach79

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Well the holes that were in the calf that we had was about the size of a grape fruit and no one was in the pasture with a grapple fork.
 

Bob M

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This is a story about a mutilation that happened sometime ago on our ranch. I wrote it shortly after it happened so it is accurate.

We had cows and calves over a range of hills north of our headquarters.Cows that we hadn't brought into the heavy lot were just across the fence from the cows and calves in what we called the North Meadow. I drove up to cake the two bunches and found a big 200 pound heifer calf that was dead. Her mother was in a nervous state. What made this a very abnormal situation was, after examining the calf, she had three perfect circles of hide taken from her body, one of them under her tail, one from where her udder would be and one from the middle of her belly. These circles were about six inches in diameter. Just across the fence, in the meadow where the cows were that hadn't yet calved, I found two new born calves side by side, both of them dead. There were no cattle there. They were on the far side of the meadow.

Clyde Weber was deputy sheriff at that time. I loaded the calf up that was mutilated and took it to Clyde's shop. Clyde was out of town but I showed it to several others. Dr. John Bunner was in the shop that day. He told me had no idea what kind of tools were used to make such perfect circles and only taking the hide with no damage to the muscles. It definitely couldn[t have been done by a native predator of any kind. I didn't have time to show it to anyone else so took the calf home and went aboutt he many things that had to be done with cattle to feed and cows calving. That evening I called neighbor, Ronald Snyder, and told him about the mysterious event that had happened. He told me he had awakended during the night with a start and went for his gun. He went to the door and looked outside and didnt hear or see aniything but he knew sometihng was amiss..

I thought to take pictiures of the calf but not until the next day when the circles had dried and weren't as perfect as they had been. I wish Ihad taken some close-ups sooner. The precision and perfection were iunbelievable. I welcome any explanation or like experiences biy any one else. (End of original story)

This happened about 35 years ago but is almost an exact happening to what is reported here..
 

jingo2

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There was a new story about this kinda thing in the Nat Geo channel the other day.


Ranching around here is about gone and over. People selling/sold out. Me included.
 

Clarencen

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DeadSteer.jpg

MutilatdSteer.jpg
 

Clarencen

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The pictures in the above post were taken in June of 1992.
I really didn't believe it was anything unatural, but I took the pictures in case something similiar turned up. I showed them to several people most thought it strange. Then I showed it to our veterinarian, he said it was a natural occurance, I tended to agree although a little hard to explain. I think the cuttings on the steers face was done by eagles. The other was a hole in the hide then the hot sun shrunk the hide. What do you think?
 

gcreekrch

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Clarencen said:
The pictures in the above post were taken in June of 1992.
I really didn't believe it was anything unatural, but I took the pictures in case something similiar turned up. I showed them to several people most thought it strange. Then I showed it to our veterinarian, he said it was a natural occurance, I tended to agree although a little hard to explain. I think the cuttings on the steers face was done by eagles. The other was a hole in the hide then the hot sun shrunk the hide. What do you think?

All but the circle on the belly look like the work of birds or dogs (coyotes in your case, could be wolves in mine). Most times the ears are left until near the last. The circle on the belly doesn't make sense, normally a predator will eat the guts first, start at the bag and work forward. I've seen too many kills and that circle isn't a norm.
Just my 2 cents worth. :D
 

Soapweed

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jingo2 said:
There was a new story about this kinda thing in the Nat Geo channel the other day.


Ranching around here is about gone and over. People selling/sold out. Me included.

Where is "here," at least in general terms?
 

Denny

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Soapweed said:
jingo2 said:
There was a new story about this kinda thing in the Nat Geo channel the other day.


Ranching around here is about gone and over. People selling/sold out. Me included.

Where is "here," at least in general terms?

At the corner of doom and gloom.
 

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