Number Six, Spring-Summer 1979
(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:
“HELICOPTERS – A SPECIAL REPORT
Project Stigma is currently preparing a special report to consist largely of a catalog of reports ot unidentified helicopters at or near mutilation sites. We have knowledge of over 200 such sightings and we are seeking data regarding those which have yet to be reported. For those who have doubted the likelihood of a link between ‘mystery choppers’ and the ‘mystery choppings’, the report will serve to convincingly illuminate the connection. We would appreciate hearing whether our readers would prefer an 8½″ X 11″ report (or an 8½ X 11 STIGMATA?) rather than the current 8½″ X 7″ size. Watch for an announcement regarding the helicopter report and catalog in the upcoming STIGMATA #7.
Project Stigma is currently preparing a special report to consist largely of a catalog of reports ot unidentified helicopters at or near mutilation sites. We have knowledge of over 200 such sightings and we are seeking data regarding those which have yet to be reported. For those who have doubted the likelihood of a link between ‘mystery choppers’ and the ‘mystery choppings’, the report will serve to convincingly illuminate the connection. We would appreciate hearing whether our readers would prefer an 8½″ X 11″ report (or an 8½ X 11 STIGMATA?) rather than the current 8½″ X 7″ size. Watch for an announcement regarding the helicopter report and catalog in the upcoming STIGMATA #7.
A CLOSER LOOK
1977
- October
Washington
- Snohomish county: We are indebted to Jacob
Davidson of Seattle for providing us with a series
of consistently fine reports by investigator Jerry Phillips of Everett , Washington
A
vet, Dr. John Carr, was called to the scene and he declared that the colt died
from loss of blood via some unknown procedure. There was no blood on the ground
and only a small amount in the heart and chest cavity. There were no tracks or
signs in the 3-inch grass in the area. It looked ‘as though the colt had been dropped
out of the air’. In the same field, 30 to 40 feet of electric fence
was down, with two fence posts snapped off at the base. There were no tracks
around the fence. Henning left the carcass in the field so he could keep an eye
on it. Then, (quoting from Phillips’ report): On the second day a cobweb-like
material developed over the open wound. Later the second day a large German
shepherd dog was observed coming into the field. When he spotted the dead
animal he stopped, smelled the air, made a circle around it and continued on
its way. The third day, a coyote which had been seen in
the area several times in previous months, came into the field, circled
the animal several times, then began eating on the head and neck. He would not
go near the rear of the horse. Mr. Henning went out to have a look and found
plenty of evidence on the ground and in the grass to show where the coyote had
dug his paws in when pulling at the neck hide.....Mr. Henning brought the mare
and her other colt out and tried to get them near the dead colt. Neither one
would come within 50 feet
of it. He tried laying hay next to it and they still would not approach it. Mr.
Henning has two labrador dogs…..he turned them loose to see what they would do.
They circled the animal, but would not get within 20 feet of it.
Henning
told Phillips that he had been working with the surviving colt before the
killing and she was fairly gentle. After the mutilation she stood in the barn
and quivered. Henning had difficulty even approaching her for a week. The mare
was very possessive and protective of her colts, and she would become very
upset if anyone even walked between them. There was no evidence that she tried
to interfere when the victim colt was in danger that morning. Afterward, ‘she
acted as if the colt had never existed’.
1978
– April through August
Missouri
– Lincoln County: By now we assume that most readers of this
publication are aware of the reports of livestock mutilations, UFO and
unidentified helicopter sightings, anomalous odors (and even a June encounter
with a 4-ft.-tall ‘ape’) – all in Lincoln County (with some ‘spillover’ into adjoining
counties), and especially around the community of Elsberry.
These
events received a relatively substantial amount of nationwide publicity. We
wanted to refer interested readers to a couple of published accounts regarding
these incidents:
International
UFO Reporter (1609
Sherman Ave., Suite 207 Evanston , Illinois 60201
Pursuit
(R.F.D. 5 – Gales Ferry, CT 06335 – subscription/membership for one year is $10.00;
Pursuit is the journal of the Society for the Investigation of the
Unexplained). ‘Mutilations: The Elsberry Enigma’ by editors R. Martin Wolf and
Steven N. Mayne appears in the Winter 1979 edition. This is more like it: a
simple recounting of the evidence, anecdotal and otherwise, gathered by the
authors during their investigation in the Elsberry area. And where conclusions
are not warranted, they are not drawn. The article includes a chronological
listing of extramundane events (beginning with a mutilation in 1975) and
details on diverse Fortean occurrences. The interesting thing is, Project
Stigma has since become aware of many other unusual events in the Lincoln County Lincoln County
1978
- December
Fanning
did not return to feed the hogs until Friday morning, December 8th. Be found
one hog ‘standing up dead. I kicked him and he fell over’. Fanning told reporter
Roberta G. Boman of the Times and Democrat (Orangeburg , SC 200 lbs ., weighed no more
than approximately 50
pounds ). In my opinion, no animal got that hog.’
Fanning
went on to exclaim that ‘I was scared, and I'm not scared of many things. I go
hunting and fishing a lot. Never seen anything like it. It’s the weirdest thing
I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m an outdoorsman, and I wouldn’t have said nothing
unless the other three people saw it too.’ (Our thanks to Leonard Stringfield
for advising us of the Fanning case.)
MUTES
IN THE MEDIA
***
Sandler International Films of Hollywood, California has been gathering new material
to be used in updating ‘UFOs Past, Present and Future’, a documentary film
which was originally released in the mid-1970’s. The Sandler crew has filmed
interviews in Colorado and New Mexico
***
At press time, ABC-TV News has, for several weeks, been filming an investigative
report on animal mutilations, to be aired (possibly in two parts) on the ‘20-20’ news-feature program in the
early summer (‘20-20’
will apparently be seen weekly on Thursday nights during the summer). Project
Stigma investigators conferred with correspondent Dave Marash and his crew in
early May, and we were impressed with their sincerity and in-depth approach.
Assuming the story is aired, watch for impressive eye-witness accounts of UFOs
and mystery helicopters in mutilation-prone areas.”
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