11 October 1967
(The Examiner, Independence,
Missouri)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“Snippy the horse, a frisky, frollicking animal who ran afoul of a flying
saucer, may not have been the only animal who met his match from the skies, his
owner said Tuesday.
Mrs. Berle Lewis, who owned the three-year-old Appaloosa, said she is
wondering if the recent deaths of five horses and four cows on nearby lands are
somehow related.
Snippy was found dead Sept. 9, 20 miles northeast of Alamosa in desolate Southern Colorado terrain. The flesh from the head and
neck of the animal was ‘stripped clear to the bone.’
‘I’m convinced Snippy was killed by a Saucer,’ Mrs. Lewis said. ‘I’d
like to know if there’s any connection with the other animals.’
Mrs. Lewis said evidence seems to back up her theory. Markings in the
area indicated something may have landed and she said a Geiger counter showed
the ground to be radioactive. In addition, a Denver pathologist who examined the dead
animal said he ‘had no solution to offer for the death.’
Mrs. Lewis said the latest animals found dead were three horses near
Mosca, 14 miles
north of Alamosa, a ‘beautiful pinto’ found three miles southeast of where
Snippy died, a sorrel and four cows near the highway connecting Blanca and
Alamosa.
‘At first no one was interested,’ Mrs. Lewis said. ‘Now everyone wants
to know about it.’
Law officers have said the animal probably was killed by lightning.
Just in case it was something else, though, the University of Colorado
has sent an investigator from its Unidentified Flying Object research
department to check out the report.”
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