Website: Google News Archive
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(Search term: Colorado Animal Mutilation)
UFO news article:
“Mutilation of Cattle Still Being Reported”
23 December 1985
(The Victoria Advocate, Texas)
Quote from the article:
“Reports of lights in the sky and unmarked helicopters
prowling cattle lands led to speculation of UFOs and military testing of
chemical or germ warfare.
But far away from the state capitols and college
campuses, ranchers occasionally still find things in their fields they can’t
explain.
Myron Scott, a 23-year-old rancher who has spent his
whole life in the fields near Trinidad, tells of feeding hay to his livestock
one night this fall when he saw lights hovering above a pasture two miles away.
The next day he found the cow.
But he said he had never seen anything like this. The
600-pound steer’s hide was pulled up over its body ‘like you’d roll a cigarette
paper’; its tongue was cut out and its horn and spine was broken, as if it had
fallen from a considerable height.
Yet there was no trace of blood, no footprint. Coyote
tracks stopped about 30 feet
from the body.
Scott had heard about the mutilations in the 1970s and
was familiar with the official explanation of predators.
‘I don’t pay them a whole lot of mind,’ he said. ‘I
know what I
seen.’ ”
seen.’ ”
NOTE: The newspaper date is 23 December 1985.
Satellite photo of Trinidad, Colorado (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
