5 September 1996
(The Taos News, New Mexico)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
Quote from the article:
“In Gallina
Canyon above Valdez,
seamstress Jenny Meadowcroft slept fitfully Saturday night (Aug. 31) [1996].
She woke in the dark just before dawn when her cat jumped over her head.
She sat up, looked out the large window beside her bed
and saw three globes of soft, luminous light. ‘It was very beautiful. I was
awed and amazed,’ she said. ‘I wasn’t afraid.’
She described the lights as white in front, blue and
red toward the rear. They weren’t in a triangle, she explained, but in a fixed
relationship to each other. ‘I figured they were part of one craft. They took
off, moving south very fast without a sound.’ She says they shot past the next
window and disappeared. No dogs barked, though one was outside. ‘That was the
first UFO I’ve ever seen,’ she said. ‘I’ll never forget it.’
Meadowcroft’s description roughly matched those of
three local residents, two from Arroyo Hondo and one from Arroyo Seco, who
claim to have seen red, white and blue lights hovering over Gallina Canyon
in the past month. UFO sightings commonly coincide with reports of cattle
mutilations. Since July 8, two mutilated cows, both belonging to Jesse
Gonzales, have been found in Arroyo Hondo.
A third cow that showed classic signs of mutilation
was found in a pasture in El Prado Saturday.
…
A round patch of skin the size of a fist had
apparently been cut from the middle of the belly, another classic sign,
according to private investigator Gail Staehlin who examined the animal Sunday (Sept. 1). All
edges of the cuts were smooth and symmetrical. Staehlin said they looked
burned. A little bloody liquid seeped from the nose, but otherwise there were
no traces of blood, and no tracks. Staehlin estimated that the animal had been
dead since Thursday night (Aug. 29), the night of a spectacular thunderstorm in
Taos. ‘That
seems to be the pattern now,’ Staehlin said, ‘to strike during a violent storm
that keeps everyone else inside.’
Some dry cow patties were found flipped over, another
characteristic of a mutilation site, Staehlin said. Chamisa bushes 40 feet away were crushed
downward and a couple of small branches had been recently snapped off a nearby
cottonwood sapling, ‘as if something flew down,’ Staehlin said. ‘A chopper
could have done that.’
Staehlin claims that on more than one occasion she has
seen black helicopters while investigating cattle mutilations. She said she was
followed along the road by a helicopter without any identifying numbers, and
once one hovered right over her as she was inspecting a dead cow.
Tom Reed says he has also seen black and dark bue
helicopters without identifying numbers flying over his ranch, ‘[but] I was
looking at them through binoculars,’ he said. ‘Maybe the numbers were too small
to see.’
Reed, who has managed a ranch north of Questa for 15
years, said he lost eight cows and 13 calves between 1989 and 1990. ‘A lot of
those could have been from natural causes, disease or predators,’ he said, ‘but
some of them weren’t. I’ve seen what animals do. We have a lot of wild dogs
around here and some of them have been seen bringing down elk, but predators
don’t make nice clean cuts.’
He said he found a full-grown, healthy cow dead and
mutilated in an irrigation ditch that had only four inches of water in it. In
May of 1990 he found a mutilated calf in a nearby corral with the entrails cut
out of it.
…
This soft-spoken, down-to-earth rancher said that when
he ran a batch of 1- to 2-month-old calves through a chute to inspect them this
spring, he discovered that four steers and five heifers had the tips of their
ears cut off. He did not report it, but ‘it did seem kind of strange,’ he said.
‘All of them had at least one ear cropped; two of them had both—just an inch
off the top in that smooth cut—but they weren’t dead,’ he said, ‘so maybe they
weren’t mutilated.’
The most recent mutilation at his ranch occurred last
March when he found a 1-month-old calf with the tongue, right eye and two front
teeth missing. ‘The teeth weren’t knocked out; they looked like they had been
pulled,’ he said. ‘All the insides were gone and the cut was smooth.’ He noted
abrasions on two of the calves legs that might indicate it had been airlifted
to or from the site, ‘but who knows where they came from. I get abrasions
myself,’ he said.
Perhaps the most curious occurrence was Reed’s
discovery of a dark patch of what may have been blood in the grass 12 feet away from the body,
in the shape of a recently mutilated calf. ‘There was some gray goo in between
them,’ he said, ‘but by the time the brand inspector got here, it was gone.’
He complained that Jerry Valerio, local brand
inspector for Taos,
had been taken off the cases. ‘It always seems like when you’re getting
somewhere, somebody higher comes in and stops it.’ He said the last mutilation
he reported, ‘they took the whole calf and I never heard back from any of them.
I never got much results from calling them in the past,’ he said. ‘They always
say they have no information, they can’t tell you anything’ ”
My comment:
This is a newspaper article (one of many newspaper articles) that
clearly proves that there exists a connection between UFO sightings and some of
the cattle/animal mutilation incidents.
And – rancher Tom Reed’s testimony reveals that the U.S. government
takes the animal mutilation phenomenon very seriously – and hides all
information regarding animal mutilation cases.
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