  
Message #1927 "ParaNet UFO Echo"  
Date: 07-Mar-93 12:08  
From: Michael Corbin  
To:   All  
Subj: Cow Mutilations Across The U.s.a.  
  
* Forwarded from "Alt.Alien.Visitors"  
* Originally by Scott Leaf  
* Originally to All  
* Originally dated 6 Mar 1993, 14:49  
  
From: Scott_Leaf@mindlink.bc.ca (Scott Leaf)  
Date: 5 Mar 93 22:50:17 GMT  
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada  
Message-ID: <21669@mindlink.bc.ca>  
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors  
  
Reprinted from The Toronto Globe and Mail, March 4, 1993.  
(Canada's National Newspaper)  
  
MUTILATED COWS RAISE QUESTIONS, UDDER CHAOS  
  
-Cox News Service  
Sand Mountain, Alabama  
  
     Who's killing the cows of Sand Mountain?  Some suspect  
aliens in UFOs.  Some say Satanists.  Or else it's  
government agents swooping down from helicopters for the  
kill.  Or exposure to high-pressure lines.  Or it's cow  
murderers, impure and simple.  Whoever, it's udder chaos up  
here.  As Ted Oliphant said: "There's strange things afoot."  
     Ahoof, too.  Since October, 26 (1992) animals -nearly  
all cows- have been mutilated in several small, rural  
communities in this mountain in northeastern Alabama.  
Nearly all have been killed in the same manner, with  
precise, bloodless, almost high-tech surgical incisions that  
removed various animal parts: tongues, teeth, eyes, ears,  
hearts, and excretory and sexual organs.  
     And when the animals are found in pastures, there are  
no footprints.  No wire tracks.  No trails.  No blood,  
either.  
     "It's pure Sherlock Holmes and one of the weirdest  
cases I've ever seen in my life," said Mr. Oliphant, a Fyffe  
policeman investigating the killings.  "We've got no  
witnesses, no motive, no suspects.  The only thing we got is  
the animals left behind."  
     The mystery is enhanced by two factors: helicopters and  
UFOs.  According to Mr. Oliphant. 95 per cent of the cases  
have involved reports of helicopter sightings, often with  
red, green and white lights or blue and white ones.  Last  
month, Jean Cole, the wife of Albertville Chief Detective  
Tommy Cole saw a copter in their back yard.  She saw four  
men in business suits sitting in it.  When she spied them,  
the copter flew off.  The next day, Det. Cole found a Black  
Angus mutilated, it's sexual organs and rectum removed.  
"I've seen many animals killed by predators, and there's  
always blood around, " he said  
     "I've never seen anything like it.  I don't know what  
it was.  I've been in the business 35 years.  I've had many,  
many dead cows and bulls, but none like that."  
  
     Furthermore, Fyffe is the "UFO Capital of Alabama," as  
proclaimed by the Alabama state Senate in 1989 after several  
UFO sightings that year.  Mr. Oliphant, 33, once a filmaker  
who made a documentary on UFO's, moved here two and a half  
years ago to study this phenomenon.  A year later, he became  
a policeman to better understand the effects of life in he  
UFO Capital of Alabama.  
     Now he is investigating another phenomenon.  Thousands  
of such cow mutilations have occurred across the U.S. since  
1967.  Linda Louton Howe, a Philadelphia filmaker who made a  
documentary and wrote a book on the subject, arrived in  
Fyffe last weekend with a film crew.  She's convinced that  
aliens are responsible.  
     Margaret Pope agrees.  A calf belonging to the  
Geraldine woman was mutilated earlier this month. At first  
she suspected coyotes.  But not with the calf's udders  
removed.  "Like somebody had sliced it off - a straight cut,  
not like an animal," Mrs Pope said.  There was an incision  
on the left shoulder and a circular cut on the left side of  
the jaw.  The teeth were gone.  
     "There was no sign of a struggle," Mrs Pope said.  "No  
blood, nothing.  Just laying there with it's parts cut out.  
I think it's UFOs, because of lots of lights in the sky, no  
disturbance on the ground.  And the cuts were too precise.  
But you watch who you say [aliens] to.  I don't want to be  
made fun of.  We're not weird.  And this isn't fun."  
     Not for John Strawn of Albertville, who's patrolling  
his land at night to protect his cattle.  "This ol' boy don'  
believe in little green men and flying saucers, because it  
ain't," he said.  "Its strange but it ain't [aliens].  If we  
want to make up stories we can do better than this."  
     "I heard one storythat it was a swamp ape.  I like that  
one pretty good, a lot better than I like aliens.  They  
ain't no aliens piloting these helicopters, I can tell you.  
We got cow murderers over here, thats all there is to it."  
     Mr. Strawn insists he's seen helicopters in pastures at  
night.  Earlier this month, Doug Segers said he saw a  
helicopter forcing his 42 cattle into a corner of his  
pasture.  He was carrying his rifle and when he ran to his  
truck the copter flew off.  
     Who's responsible? Is it merely bovine intervention?  
Another theory: Goverment agents, flying in low-level  
helicopters at night, are killing animals and removing their  
organs to sxtudy the effects (testing for cancer and other  
diseases) on livestock living near high-power lines.  
  
     The most recent mutilation occured Feb 17 (1993), when  
P.T. Williams of Arab found one of his Black Anguscalves  
with its reproductive organs, togue and right eye removed.  
     "I'm not saying there are mutilation cases in this  
county that have not happened," said Jimmy Miller, an  
investigator for the Alabama Department of Agriculture.  
"But what I've seen have not been mutilation cases except  
for Tommy's.  There were bodu parts removed from his that  
could not have ben removed by predators."  
     "Predators don't do this," Mr. Oliphant said.  "And is  
it were a satanic cult they would have used knives and  
there'd be blood.  They'd do it in secrecy and not with  
technology.  Everybody wants me to tell 'em it's a satanic  
cult, because this is the heart of the Bible Belt and they  
want an easy explanation so they can be done with it.  They  
don't want to look at the scientific facts.  The evidence  
doesn't lead to that.  We've got more than one group doing  
this.  We've got the unexplained events, with high  
technology, cauterization of wounds.  And we've got  
something I can't release right now."  
     So the folks on Sand Mountain wait and watch.  Watch  
carefully for close encounters of the herd kind.  
  
