Number Five, Fall-Winter 1978
(Project Stigma, Paris,
Texas)
Source: Archives For the Unexplained (AFU.se),
Norrköping, Sweden
Project Stigma was run by the late animal mutilation
researcher Thomas (Tom) R. Adams.
Quote from the newsletter issue:
“A CLOSER LOOK
Missouri
… A wave of mutilations has transpired this year in
Lincoln County, which adjoins Pike County, Missouri on the south (those fans of
quirky nomenclature will note yet another Lincoln Co. in our chronology, plus a
couple of Washington counties, not to mention Washington State). The
mutilations and UFO activity around the town of Elsberry received considerable publicity this
past summer. One could even purchase T-shirts proclaiming Elsberry to be
‘Mutilated Cow Country.’ At least half a
dozen mutilations were reported in Lincoln County
through August. Investigators David Perkins, Cari Seawell and Bill Mcintyre
were in Elsberry around the first of August. They found a witness who saw a UFO
over a man’s field the night before a mutilation was discovered there. A dog
that had barked furiously at the approximate time of the UFO sighting later
disappeared (Some animals do become agitated during UFO events and/or
mutilation incidents; others become abnormally subdued - see ‘Animal Reactions’
in this issue).
New Mexico
(continued)
Rio Arriba
County
(continued) - In 1967 the first nuclear device designed to stimulate the
production of natural gas from a well was exploded at what has come to be known
as ‘The Gasbuggy’ site. The three cows and a calf described above were
discovered near this site. Gabe Valdez estimates that more than half of the Rio
Arriba mutilations this year have been found in ‘gas country.’
Texas
Deaf Smith
County
- Deaf Smith leads all counties in the Texas Panhandle and High Plains in fed
cattle production (AMARILLO NEWS-GLOBE, July 2, 1978) as well as in reported
cattle mutilations. The county seat, of course, is Hereford. An Interfraternity Council
spokesman at nearby West
Texas State
University denied that
‘fraternity rites’ were to blame for the mutes, squelching rumors of ‘Animal
House’ antics. At least six mutilations (5 cows, 1 horse) have been reported in
Deaf Smith Co. this year, with an unknown number rumored but unreported.
Officials and observers in the area seemed convinced of the classic nature of
the acts. Sheriff Travis McPherson says a series of UFO sightings were reported
around the time of the mid-1978 mutilation wave. Several cars and a tractor
reportedly died as strange lights or objects passed in the vicinity. There have
been rumors of mutilations having happened this year in other Panhandle
counties, including Randall, Donley and Moore, but no supporting data has come
to light.
LATE NEWS
Izzy Zane provides us with more details which might
relate to the Lincoln Co., Wisconsin mutilation (teats) of 28 cows in August.
An odd burned fungus circle (18-ft.) was found near Spooner, Wisc., in Washburn
Co., over 100 miles
from the Lincoln Co. mute site. But the burned substance in the circle was
‘like graphite’, and a similar phenomenon had been reported on the Forrest
Gladney farm during the Elsberry, Mo.
mutilation/UFO furor. There were no known UFO reports around Spooner, but some
sort of UFO had been indicated over Lincoln Co., Wisc. earlier in August.
Elsberry, of course, is in Lincoln
County, Missouri.”
Wikipedia article: “Project Gasbuggy”:
Wikipedia article: “Rio Arriba County, New Mexico”:
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=“Cow+Mutilations”
Map of New
Mexico highlighting Rio
Arriba County
(text by Wikipedia)
(wikimedia.org image)
