2 November 1980
(The Greeley Daily
Tribune, Colorado
Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville , Arkansas
Quote from the article (Page 19):
“The call comes into the sheriff’s office shortly
after 8 a .m.
on a bright, sunny, summer morning. The caller is a rancher from a remote part
of the county. He tells the sheriff or a member of the investigations
department of the sheriff’s office that he has just found a cow in a pasture a
mile or so away from the home headquarters of the ranch.
The cow has been mutilated.
That scene has been repeated thousands of times over
the past five to six years in at least 40 states and foreign countries,
according to David Perkins, director of Animal Mutilations Probe, based in
Farisita, about 20 miles
northwest of Walsenburg in south-central Colorado.
Perkins is one of a handful of private investigators
who has devoted countless hours in the investigation of the mysterious
circumstances surrounding mutilations. County sheriffs in most States west of
the Mississippi River have put in several hundred hours probing the incidets,
which usually involve a cow with part or all of the senses organs, i.e., an
eye, the tongue, and an ear, as well as the reproductive organs, missing.
Usually, there is no sign of struggle, the body will
be void of blood and there will be no blood where the animals have been cut.
And there are no tracks around the animal, other than its own.
Predators often don’t touch the carcass of the animal,
and, in some cases, the carcass seems to decompose much faster than what is
normal.
Evidence is scarce.
One outcome of the New Mexico
conference (a three-day convention in Albuquerque
Perkins and (Tom) Adams
disputed the conclusion, suggesting instead that unidentified flying objects
are involved.
On the night of Aug. 21, 1975, officers from the Logan
County Sheriff’s Department spent more than five hours chasing unidentified
aircraft. The chase began when a helicopter sighting was reported at about 10
p.m. near Stoneham
During the next five hours reports of similar
sightings ranged from north of New Raymer, to Merino, Peetz, and Kimball and Bushnell , Neb. Wyo.
On Aug. 25, 1975, more ‘helicopter’ sightings were
reported and a mutilated yearling heifer was discovered in Adams County
On Sept. 3, 1975, the Weld Sheriff’s Department
received a report of helicopter sightings northeast of Cornish and when
officers responded, at least five distinctive aircraft were sighted, with at
least two believed to be helicopters.
At approximately the same time, a New Raymer rancher
reported seeing a helicopter land in an arroyo on his ranch. The craft was
later seen taking off and leaving the area, flying in a northwest direction.
The next morning, Sept. 4, 1975, a mutilated heifer
was discovered near Briggsdale, just north of Cornish.”
The article also reports on the animal mutilation
investigation work of Dr. Henry Montheith, engineering physicist at Sandia
Labs, a government research area in New
Mexico
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