Friday, 17 January 2020

UFO News Article:
“Seminar looks at mutilations”


26 May 1994
(The Taos News, New Mexico)

Quote from the article:
“A spate of unusual animal deaths an Taos and Colfax County has a number of ranchers and townsfolk worried — and watching the skies.

Described as classic examples of ‘cattle mutilations,’ the animal deaths reportedly have been occurring near Questa, Eagle Nest and Taos within the past few months.


[Gail] Staehlin said 17 mutilation cases were reported in the region last year and five so far this spring. She added that usually only one in six cases is reported to authorities.

According to speakers, reports of animals being killed in similar manner reached a peak during the mid-1970s, with most occurring in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.

‘We live in the place where it started, the epicentre,’ [Christopher] O’Brien said. ‘This is the home of this thing.’


Information provided at the seminar also concluded the incidents may be tied to space aliens, unidentified flying objects, …


A number of cases have been reported in the Taos area. The first specific mention of local incidents in which the term ‘cattle mutilations’ appeared was in a June 24, 1976, The Taos News article by Paul C. Merz

Merz reported that a mutilated cow was found May 13, 1976, near Pot Mountain, across the John Dunn Bridge west of Arroyo Hondo. Several at the time appeared to have occurred near the 13th day of each month, he wrote.

Gabe Valdez, a state police officer from Dulce, was quoted as saying of a June 13 incident that he saw ‘some type of aircraft,’ which landed near the carcass af a mutilated cow and ‘scorched grass’ on the mesa about 550 feet from it.

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A The Taos News article by Phil Bateman from Dec. 21, 1978, speculated a UFO sighting in Ranchitos [Ranchito] that July was tied to another round of mysterious animal deaths.”














Satellite photo of Ranchito, New Mexico (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)