THE PROJECT STIGMA REPORT ON THE CONTINUING
INVESTIGATION INTO THE OCCURRENCE OF ANIMAL MUTILATIONS
As announced in STIGMATA SUPPLEMENT NUMBER ONE. STIGMATA
will be issued quarterly in 1980. The last three 1980 editions (9, 10
& 11) will cost $1.50 each. All four 1980 issues may be ordered for
$5.00. Issues 9» 10 and 11 may be ordered for a total of $4.00.
Project Stigma’s special report on the mutilation/"mystery helicopter"
connection will be ready for mailing before the appearance of STIGMATA
NUMBER 9 {Second Quarter 1980) and may be ordered in advance for a
cost of $4.00 U.S., postpaid. The printing volume will, in part, be
dependent upon the volume of advance orders. This will be a limited
edition , so advance orders are recommended. Order from Project Stig¬
ma at the address given above.
Project Stigma is seeking volunteers to translate several articles in
Spanish (many from the Canary Islands) into written English. Some have
been translated already, but the cost is becoming prohibitive. Anyone
who might read or write Spanish and has spare time to devote to such
a project can contact us at the address above or phone (214) 784-5922.
Perhaps we can work out an exchange for information or a subscrip¬
tion to STIGMATA.
STIGMATA
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UPDATE -1979
Since the appearance of STIGMATA No. 7, we have learned of report¬
ed mutilations in Wyoming (Platte County), Colorado (Huerfano, Las
Animas, El Paso Counties), Kansas (Meade County), Texas (Wise Coun¬
ty) and rumors of cases in southern and southeastern Oklahoma. (Cre¬
dit: Linda M. Howe, David Perkins, Lou Girodo, Mrs. Stanley Post,
Tommy R. Blann). We will examine the situation in three other states
below:
Arkansas
For a brief run-down of events in Arkansas, see STIGMATA No. 7.
The concerted mute attack began to cease by Labor Day, around the
time mutilations were occurring more frequently in western Canada.
Unlike in the Canadian situation, there were numerousi-reports of uni¬
dentified helicopters near the time and location of mutilations in north-
central Arkansas, an area in which 18 missile sites are located, ser¬
viced by three helicopters which operate out of Little Rock Air Force
Base. At a meeting in August, Arkansas Humane Association official
B.J. Kready and others asked Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton to appoint
a task force to study the mutilation problem. The governor provided
meeting space for an informal group but refused to appoint the task force.
By the time another meeting was held in October, the task force idea
had "crumpled" and interest appeared to have long-since -peaked. In a
controversial experiment, Washington County (Fayetteville) sheriff's of¬
ficers periodically photographed the carcass of a sick cow that had in¬
tentionally been "put to sleep" and left in a field. The officials involved
claimed that the carcass had been attacked during the period by preda¬
tors and the results looked like what had previously been thought of as
a "classic" mutilation. After that September experiment, most officials
and agencies wrote off the majority of the Arkansas mutes as predator-
caused following natural deaths. But the official experiment was not with¬
out its detractors. Dr. Gary White, an Oz^rk vet, said two carcasses
he autopsied were "done by someone skilled, someone with sharp ins¬
truments". Former Benton County Deputy Don Rystrom (who investiga-'
ted many NW Arkansas mute cases and had one of his own animals
victimized, and witnessed a helicopter-like UFO) called the experiment
"a bunch of bullshit”. (Credit: Lucius Farish of the UFO News clipping
Service, Phimerville, Arkansas ; Dr. Nancy H. Owen, Uiiiv. of Arkansas).
Copyright e 1980 by Thomas R. Adams
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Iowa
3
Eight cattle mutes occurred in five Iowa counties in the last half of
1979 (Polk, Black Hawk, Hardin, Washington and Boone Counties). In
Black Hawk County, the first mutilation of 1980 was reported on or
about January 18th. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has
been looking into the possibility of cultist involvement. The DCI drew
criticism when they tried to subpoena records of the Des Moines pub¬
lic library to check out the identities of individuals checking out books
on the occult. DCI Chief Gerald Shanahan, who had seen STIGMATA
#5, noted that the photos of mutilated animals in that issue (from
Natrona Co.,Wyoming and Van Zandt Co., Texas) were "carbon co¬
pies" of the Iowa cases. Mutilations in general at last became "legi¬
timate" news when NEWSWEEK briefly reported on the recent Iowa
cases in its edition of January 21, 1980. (Credit: Peter Jordan, Grant
Callison, Nancy Raffensperger, Gerald Shanahan).
Nebraska
Seward County - A 300-lb., 4^-month-old Angus-Hereford cross hei¬
fer died on the weekend of September 8-9 on the Clarence Bide farm
near Beaver Crossing. Bide reported that the animal's top jaw was
skinned back to the eyes, its tongue and several lower teeth had ap¬
parently been cut out and the lower jaw was skinned back to the throat:
"Just the jawbones remained to the seen." State Patrol Investigator
George Fauver said there was evidence of "man-made incisions", des¬
pite a University of Nebraska-Lincoln report which suggested that pre¬
dators could be responsible. Bide added that the autopsy report showed
that the animal's skull had been fractured and he said his other animals
"seemed more scared for a few days". (Credit: OMAHA WORLD-HE¬
RALD, 9-11-79 & 9-20-79;Carol Werkmeister, Study on Animal Mutilations).
Perkins County - Two mutes occurred in the Madrid area in late August -
early September. Rancher Earl Mitt filed a report with Project Stigma
on his case. When he found the cow around 4:00 PM on August 27th,
Mr. Nutt judged it had been dead 10-12 hours. Though coyotes frequent
the area, no predators touch the carcass, from which was removed all
of the meat from the shoulder blade to within 8-10” of the ear, plus
the tongue. Two helicopters and a slowly-flying white plane had flown
over the area previously. (Credit: George Gengenbach, Earl Nutt).
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LETTERS
My interest in reading STIGMATA was to see whether there was a
rationale for explaining "slow motion mutilation of humans". What I
have in mind is the existence and use of highly sophisticated equip¬
ment which can surveill a human; i.e., see and overhear conversa¬
tions (even when cloistered within the walls of otherwise optically
opaque confines) and secondly to debilitate him clinically. Not know¬
ing all of the gory details of mutes, I thought perhaps that such e-
quipment was responsible as part of a training program to prepare
personnel to use such hypothesized equipment. Having now read STIG¬
MATA, I can offer a scenario that embraces both issues.
Before we get into the issue, you will see that I am simplifying the
explanation of the source of mutes but at the expense of embracing
a far more insidious and more insoluble problem.
To start things off, let us consider first a model problem. I have in
mind "The Prisoner", a TV series dealing largely with a 1984-type
society. Frequently, in this Psycho-Sci-Fi story, scenes are shown
of surveillance-headquarters. Personnel are shown who man equipment
used in surveillance. On occasion such personnel are called upon to
zoom in on a person, who may be sleeping at the time, and in some
way bother, annoy, or do something else unethical. The question
posed is - what sort of training do such staff members undergo and
what sort of ancillary exercises are necessary to maintain skills,
proficiency, etc. ? Also, just what makes such a person tick?
And now a short step into the real world - maybe:
(a) Refer to Peter Watson's book, WAR ON THE MIND (Basic Books,
1978, p. 242). Chapter twelve deals with atrocity research. With re¬
gard to ex-servicemen who had committed atrocities in Vietnam: "All
the men went to psychiatrists in order to confess their part in atroci¬
ties in the Vietnam War ... The incidents reported ranged from mis¬
treating prisoners (military and civilian) to mutilating thE bodies of
dead Vietnamese - cutting off ears, genitals and breasts." Watson
continues, "These studies suggest that although the conditions of war
may make anyone a potential mass murderer, some men are more
prone to kill indiscriminately than others."
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(b) Two books of note have surfaced. The first is TECHIsjO
by Ford Rowan (Putnam) and SPOOKS - THE HAUNTING
CA by Jim Hougan (Morrow). The latter reference has noi
with ghosts. TECHNO SPIES deals in part with the types
ment personnel who fancy themselves to be super patriots
do no wrong and are the custodians of our system. They
to protect the system from threats as they perceive them
this can have translated into the Animal House mentality
the quote of one George White in John Marks' book on ClA
trol studies (THE SEARCH FOR THE MANCHURIAN CANlp
namely, "Where else could a red-blooded American boy I
steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of
Highest?" (p. 101). Hougan's book illustrates further the
personnel who are trained in a Techno-spy background ani|3
government service for other sectors.
SPIES
F AME RI-
ii :hing to do
pf govern-
who can
seek ways
In part
typified by
Mind Con-
UDATE)-
e, cheat,
he AU-
nypes of
leave the
(c) Suppose there exists in combination: surveillance headi j
maybe a prototype of the one that we taxpayers funded
in Iran recently, and a class of satellites which are simi
advanced forms of SALT II verifiers. Suppose further tha{
ellites can "see" with super-focused EMR (note: electro
diation) of wavelength much longer than 7,000 Angstrom u
more like the order of centimeters. Then it follows that
could be "seen" and also could endure all the rights and
individuals who are illuminated (call them "lumes") with
length EMR. To find out the consequences of illumination
wavelength EMR, consult Paul Brodeur's THE ZAPPING O
(W.W. Norton, 1977). Another good reference is BIBLIOGtt
REPORTED BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA ("Effects") and CLI
IFESTATIONS ATTRIBUTED TO MICROWAVE AND RADIO
CY RADIATION by Zorach R. Glaser re: NTIS-AD-750-27
lumes could be seen remotely and would endure in slow
various types of maladies attributable to illumination of tl
whatever reason).
(d) Finally, if personnel staffed such hypothetical equipme|:
tion is - what sort of people would they be and further,
additional training would they require? Part of the answer
WAR ON THE MIND. They would have to be savage types
little regard for life and could easily perpetrate such deep
[uarters,
ch was lost
ar to or are
these sat-
ntiagnetic ra-
nits, say
individuals
arivileges of
long wave-
with long-
r AMERICA
APHY OF
NICAL MAN-
-FREQUEN-
1. Thus,
nhotion the
bis sort (for
nt, the ques-
\|vhat sort of
resides in
who have
s, particu-
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6
larly, in the name of meeting the best needs of the country. Such
patriots are recruited from the characters written about by Hougan
and Rowan. And they need just a touch of the Mafia-type view of the
value of life.
Now - where does the issue of mutes fit into all of this? Put yourself
in the shoes of a psychologist-consultant who must decide on ways to
keep skills at a high level. He is dealing with personnel who are on
mundane eight-hour shifts. These people are savages who must slow¬
ly peck away at a person in methodical fashion. Savagery must be
maintained; ferocity must be intensified sporadically. Under such cir¬
cumstances, it seems reasonable that mutilation of animals would be
ordered much as has been described in STIGMATA #4, pp. 6 and 7.
The des aription of the mutilation (last paragraph on p. 9); i. e., the
bull sans rectum and sex organs, provides a technician a brief res¬
pite while in the act of also committing this very same activity on
some tax-paying lume perhaps during a five-year period while the lume
and his many diagnosticians witness the transformation from some in¬
cipient condition to a full-blown case of cancer of the colon or incon¬
tinence or impotence, etc.
Those who are engaged in slowly destroying a lume's eyesight would
be revitalized by frequent rapid mutilations which ■■involve removing
eyes from the sockets of a cow or bull. The act of mutilating an ani¬
mal permits the perpetrator to cope with the staleness that otherwise
would arise and furnishes an outlet for the technician to see in mom¬
ents an accomplishment that he otherwise is charged with synthesizing
over a very long time in an unsuspecting lume.
So why do it the way it is done; i. e., risk being caught or having
one's helicopter shot down? The only answer here is, that to have any
value, the act must be committed under some uncertainty. It may not
be the same to do the same thing in a corral in the middle of a safe
zone ten miles square. Although there is no account of just how many
times novices commit these deeds under less demanding circumstances
as part of a training program.
So, there you have it - no. 6 for p.22 of STIGMATA #5, as you re¬
quested. It would be interesting if you referred to lumes as an exten¬
sion of mutes and began to log them geographically in the lower for-
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ty-eight as you have done for mutes. There is a word of
however. You will have begun the generation of a scenar
transition of the country from what we currently regard
a 1984-type society where Big Brother not only sees you,
act of seeing you he also clinically debilitates you. Seco:
are numerous Mental Health professionals out there of thli
conventional variety who instantly brand a lume as param
phrenic. Along these lines, check MADNESS NETWORK
tumn 1978. *Good luckt
J
(Name withheld)
Eastern United States
*(P.O. Box 684; San Francisco, CA 94101 - quarterly - $5.00)
caution,
o for the
t to be to
but in the
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oid schizo-
NEWS, Au-
and
faci
The conflict between local and federal police officials
sion of testimony by officers who had carried out thorouj
tions in the field, such as Captain Wolverton (editor’s m
Keith Wolverton; Cascade County, Montana Sheriff's Dept
that a fix has been put in from the top to prevent the
situation from being made public. In my opinion, the co
mutilations is inextricably linked with other governraenta|l
of the real nature of the UFO phenomenon, of the impos
disposing of nuclear waste safely, of the disastrous eco
of certain agricultural chemical products and pesticides,
thodic and carefully planned series of major political as
of the deliberately orchestrated shortages and emergency
planned at the Bilderberger and Trilateral meetings.
This is the context within which this conflict between off]
Captain Wolverton and Washington officials who have nev^
a mutilation developed, and it is not separate from the
fabric; it is part of the same material. The same techni
erate deception is at work, the same fix is in from the
these different areas of cover-up, a blatant mockery of
government is supposed to operate. There are times wh^i
if the Nazis really lost the war, or whether Reinhard Ge;
the suppre-
ith investiga¬
te: Capt.
), indicates
:ts of the
Yer-up of the
cover-ups:
liability of
logical effects
of the me-
^assinations,
s and wars
cers like
r even seen
if’est of the
que of delib-
top in all
low the U.S.
n I wonder
hlen snatched
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victory from defeat when Allen Dulles gave him carte blanche to
set up and design an American equivalent of the Gestapo: the Cen¬
tral Intelligence Agency. Seen in this context, conflict between Wash¬
ington officials and local officers who remain loyal to the! principles
this country was founded on is not surprising.
Some of the information coming through indicates direct
involvement in the mutilations: the fact that many have t
in the vicinity of nuclear and military installations, the
STIGMATA #6 of mutilators in Army uniforms beside a
copter, the military surgical Instrument found at a muti
and all other significant details in that long letter (pages
STIGMATA #6). In addition, there is the recent report tl
of decidedly terrestrial drugs such as FCP and mescaline
in the blood residue of a batch of mutilated cattle.
government
siken place
report In
funded heli-
tion site,
16-19,
l|iat traces
were found
la
Other information coming through points just as clearly
involvement in the mutilations. The evidence is so overwfl
there would be no point in trying to summarize it here,
most significant aspects of it are the cases where unma
ters have been seen turning into UFOs and vice-versa.
bu
Could it be that both UFOs and the U.S. government are
method of mutilating animals to monitor nuclear waste
organic life? This would clarify some of the otherwise c
and confusing details in the information that comes throu
tli
wi
enti;
tin
If both UFOs and the U.S. government are involved in
are they working independently or in collusion? It is conjii
ledge that the C.I.A. has become a secret government
government of the U.S. Is a small group of initiates in
of Reinhard Gehlen illegally making decisions for the
steering us over the precipice to the slaughter? If so,
we citizens have is to blow the cover-up in every way w
the different areas it exists, making the linkage between
coming from the different areas. It is not yet 1984, but
given us a dollar that isn’t worth one silver dime. Confl|i
cal and federal officials is perfectly understandable.
George Andrews - Drury, Missouri 65638
to direct UFO
helming that
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CANADA IN A QUANDARY
The classic animal mutilations have not only been, for the most part,
a phenonmenon of the 1970's; but, with a few exceptions, they have
been restricted to - and at least concentrated in - the 48 contiguous
United States. As the decade of the 1970's waned, reports coming
from such places as the Canary Islands, the Dominican Republic and
Panama suggested at least the possibility that the mutilations may be
international in scope. The problem is to determine just how well
these cases correlate with the "classic” mutes in the United States.
(We will examine this question in detail in STIGMATA No. 9).
Beginning in May of 1979 and accelerating with the approach of Sept¬
ember, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan hosted a
series of livestock mutilations, with most reports emanating from
Alberta. This mute siege received a great deal of media coverage
in Alberta and across Canada (but very little coverage in the U. S. )
and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) initiated a probe into
it all and installed Corporal Lyn Lauber of Calgary as the coordin¬
ator of the investigation.
Though Alberta is not, of course, part of the United States, it is
probably the most "Americanized" of the Canadian provinces (if we
can be so momentarily brazen to exclude Alberta from the North
American continent). Much of what we think of as the spirit of the
wide open U. S. "West" is captured in resource-rich, cow-happy,
"boomtown" Alberta. But this link is ever more tangible, with op¬
timistically successful "nouveau riche" Albertans investing heavily
in U.S. properties and concerns, and with U.S. interests returning
the favor. At the same time, countries other than the U.S. are en¬
thusiastically investing in Alberta. According to TIME Magazine
("Canada's Western Energy Boom", Dec. 10, 1979), nearly 60% of
prosperous Calgary's population is of non-English-speaking origin,
with Germans predominating. And, on a vast "Military Experimental
Range" north of Medicine Hat, British and West German tank troops,
along with the Canadians, conduct "war games".
The password for understanding present-day Alberta may be the pass¬
word for all of us in the 1980's - and beyond - energy. Alberta has
85% of Canada's proven or known oil and gas reserves, half of Cana-
lii
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da's coal, major untapped hydropower sites, plus enormous "uncon¬
ventional" sources of energy - like vast oil-bearing tar sands and
heavy bitumen oil which, according to TIME (12-10-79), cannot now
be pursued economically, but will become entirely feasible - and
crucial - as oil prices continue to rise. This may all seem (and may
indeed all be) incidental where our pursuit of the mutilation phenom¬
enon is concerned. Yet among the small band of serious mutilation
investigators, one can hear speculation regarding some link between
the occurrence of mutes and the exploration for vital energy sources:
petroleum, natural gas or perhaps nuclear fuels. The jury remains
out on this. Of course, if we could somehow fathom the criteria for
selecting Alberta - or any other place for that matter - as a mute-
siege-sitc; we would have made a quantum-leap in our understanding
of the problem.
It is the intensity of the Alberta-Saskatchewan mutilation wave of the
last half of 1979 that cannot be ignored. Actually, indications are
that the Canadian mutilations did not begin in 1979, but may extend
at least as far back as 1967, the year of the historic "Snippy" case
in southern Colorado, along with other mutes in that same area as
well as in Kansas and perhaps even points east. We’ll briefly exam¬
ine some of the earlier Canadian mutilations:
In Alberta in August of 1967, a dead horse was seen near an area o-
ver which a domed saucer-craft was seen earlier that same day. The
horse's hair appeared singed and no rigor mortis had set in. When
the witness returned to the remote site the next day (on the Sarcee
Reserve, near Twin Bridges), the horse was gone, leaving the im¬
print of the carcass where it had lain.
On November 5, 1967, a large UFO was reported near Livingston,
Ontario, leaving a sulphurous odor lingering in the area. That night,
a horse suffered a long cut on its neck and a second horse was found
"dead with its throat and jugular vein cut off yet there was no evi¬
dence of blood."
Then on August 19, 1968, near Ashville, Manitoba, the carcass of a
three-day-old calf was found, missing its genitals, right front leg
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and an ear. The cuts were clean and no blood was in e
carcass turned up missing the next day but was then fo
days later - scarcely decomposed - at another location.
vidence. The
und a few
The three cases above are from THE SAUCER PHENOM
Kurt Glemser (Kitchener, Ontario, 1970) and were furnip
by Fortean chronicler Mr. X of the Res Bureaux (P. O.
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5C8), publisher of the
BULLETIN.
RES
In STIGMATA No. 3, we briefly discussed the following;
reports: rumors of mutilations in Ontario in 1975 and Qlh
horse slashings in Ontario (Mt. Forest area) in 1976; and
lation of two horses near Wildwood, Alberta in the Spring
(with large duck-like prints found in snow at the site).
We are indebted to paranormal writer and researcher Tommy R.
Blann of Lewisville, Texas for the following account of an incident
which occurred near Teulon, Manitoba on August 14, 1976:
A farmer was taking count of cattle when he noticed that
two cattle were missing. He indicated that he takes a count
of his cattle daily and keeps a pretty close watch on them.
He went in search of them and found both cows looking "like
they were dead for years, and charred to the bone.' Near¬
by were some willow trees with a few branches that were
facing the cattle that had also been burned and charred. The
RCMP investigated, but were unable to arrive at an explana¬
tion for the animals' deaths. The farmer did indicate that
the RCMP took flesh samples that had been charred, along
with some of the charred vegetation
Tommy Blann had previously informed Project Stigma th
occurred west of Calgary, Alberta in 1977. We have situ
additional details on these two cases from Dr. Nancy Jo
of Calgary: (1) June 1977 - a bull with scrotum and pen
west of Cochrane, Alberta and (2) July 1977 - a cow mi
udder, also west of Cochrane. According to RCMP Cor
ber, the cutting was "less refined" than on some of the
and the RCMP says that both animals were "shot". No
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hed to us
Box 1598;
BUREAUX
Canadian
ebec in 1976;
the muti-
of 1976
at mutilations
ce received
hnson Smith
is removed,
ssing its
ijjoral Lyn Lau-
1979 mutes,
tracks or
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The areas in which confirmed or suspected animal mutilations have occurred in 1979.
grass swirls were found near either animal.
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Mr. X, in his RES BUREAUX BULLETIN <No. 35, 6-15-78), reports
on three events occurring in April of 1978. A streak of bright light
descended from the sky in Newfoundland, Canada; a strange beam
of light flooded a kitchen (causing a radio to "glow") in Victoria,
British Columbia; and a beam of light descended on a barn contain¬
ing six horses in Prince George, British Columbia. Three horses on
one side of the barn were apparently unaffected, but the other three
were badly frightened. One was struck momentarily unconscious, one
kicked both hindlegs through the side of its stall and one horse
charged wildly around the barn "as though scared to death". One of
the animals exhibited two bare patches of hide as though the hair had
been burned out or tom out. Thirteen people observed a UFO (in ad¬
dition to the "beam") from two different areas of Prince George that
same night.
Then, on a farm north of Spillimacheen, British Columbia in Novem¬
ber of 1978, a bull was discovered with a half-inch hole penetrating
six inches into the back of its head. Part of the bull's genitals had
been removed, but there was little or no blood in evidence. (Credit:
John Magor via W. K. Allan of Kelowna, B.C.)
As for the 1979 Canadian mutilations, we present the following es¬
sentially-chronological catalog. The data lisWfor each case will be:
date of discovery (we’ll include the date of death if known or estima¬
ted); province, location in reference to the nearest town or communi¬
ty; description of victim animal; parts of carcass missing, and any
other pertinent details as known and as space permits:
1979
MAY 30 - ALBERTA - Hand Hills, 24 km. SW of Hanna - bull calf -
tail, rectum, penis, scrotum, lips, one ear all missing - dead ap¬
prox. 4 days.
JUNE - QUEBEC - He d’Orleans (or Island of Orleans, in St. Law¬
rence River, near Quebec City) - young bull - rectum, genitals
missing - bums on carcass (thought caused by "naptha").
H5
14
JULY - SASKATCHEWAN
tail, ear cut off.
Saskatoon - quarter horse, still alive -
AUGUST - SASKATCHEWAN - Saskatoon - two horses
an ear, tails and manes cut off - other similar unconfir
in the area.
AUGUST 12 - ALBERTA - Blackie - Six-year-old Simme
(valued, by some accounts, at $45,000) - rectum, most
testicles, left ear and tip of tongue removed - no sign
Former Calgary policeman Don Seney discovered the cah
first I thought of a coyote, but all the cuts were clean
like a kn if e cut - and the nature of the cuts show signs
surgical instrument and knowledge by whoever did this. ’
HERALD, 8-16-79).
ntal bull
of penis,
of struggle -
cass: "At
exactly
both of a
(CALGARY
AUGUST, 2nd week - ALBERTA - Brooks-Tilley area
a steer shot by a high-powered rifle - "genitals had be^
bestiality had been confirmed in a similar imcident in tl
October 1978 and was also suspected in these cases.
two cows and
n mutilated" ■
lis area in
AUGUST 28 - ALBERTA - 7 km. west of Disbury - 800
with penis and anus removed.
SEPTEMBER - BRITISH COLUMBIA - Harrogate area
vine - tiny hole in skull near eye, penetrated skull -
an
portion of one eair was missing - local authorities conf
head - other cattle in the vicinity have vanished.
SEPTEMBER 9 - SASKATCHEWAN - .Marsden - four-ye4r-old Here¬
ford cow - genitals, rectum, teats missing.
SEPTEMBER 13 - SASKATCHEWAN - Eastend - six-ye^
ford cow - tongue, udder missing - large hole in rear
perhaps two weeks.
SEPTEMBER 16 - ALBERTA - Sangudo - bull (no details).
both with
med reports
-lb. steer.
female bo-
eye and a
iscated the
r-old Here-
dead for
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15
SEPTEMBER 21 - ALBERTA - 23 km. SW of Claresholm - bull -
genitals, tongue, tip of right ear and right leg removed.
SEPTEMBER 23 - ALBERTA - 5 km. south of Brooks - five-month-
old female colt - mammary glands, groin skin, right eye, an ear
and part of muzzle removed.
SEPTEMBER 26 - ALBERTA - feed lot 5 mi. NW of Fort Macleod -
heifer - reportedly died of blackleg, and was then dragged by feed-
lot staff into nearby field - discovered next day to be minus vagina
and a piece of one ear - "similar" to other Alberta mutes but "fair¬
ly crude" - later designated by RCMP as a "copy cat" mutilation by
someone imitating the other "classic mutilations".
SEPTEMBER 26 - ALBERTA - 30 km. SW of Nanton - three-year-
old Hereford bull - dead 4 or 5 days - scrotum, right ear and part
of tongue missing.
SEPTEMBER 26 - ALBERTA - Twin Butte area - bovine - likely nat¬
ural causes and predators, according to the RCMP.
SEPTEMBER 27 - ALBERTA - Westward Ho area - one-year-old
steer - dead 3 or 4 days - no parts taken - "mischief ruled out".
SEPTEMBER 29 - ALBERTA - Gem - Six-year-old, 1700-lb. Here¬
ford bull - penis missing - line pf punctures along brisket.
SEPTEMBER 29 - ALBERTA -5.5 km. west of Kipp - yearling hei¬
fer - tongue, right ear, part of rectum gone.
SEPTEMBER 30 - ALBERTA - Parkland - steer - rectum, tip of
both ears removed.
OCTOBER, 1st week - ALBERTA - 5 mi. from Elk Island National
Park - three-year-old bull - genitals removed - lay with head folded
under carcass.
OCTOBER, 1st week - SASKATCHEWAN - Mossbank - no details.
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OCTOBER 1 - ALBERTA - Rocky Mountain House - bull.
OCTOBER 1 - ALBERTA - Tofield - six-month-old Charolais-cross
bull - rectum, testicles, part of penis "neatly removed" - bladder
removed - "no blood had been spilled" - carcass apparently bruised
on neck and shoulder - broken neck suspected - Constable Jim War¬
ren: "It was hard to believe at first, but you can't doubt it when you
see one." (ALBERTA REPORT, 10-12-79).
OCTOBER 2 - SASKATCHEWAN - Neudorf area - yearling Charolais -
an autopsy was performed by a Melville, Sask. veterinarian. Dr.
Cochrane. Editor Denis Comeau of the MELVILLE ADVANCE obtained
the following details about the autopsy from Staff Sgt. Don Buchanan of
the Melville RCMP:
The autopsy revealed the cow had suffered a rear attack of some
nature in which its body had a large hole in the skin just ventral
to the vagina*. The vulvar lips of the cow's vagina were absent.
The hole in the skin was heart-shaped and about 9 cm. by 8 cm.
in size. The area bordering the wound was slightly irregular
and rough in appearance. A small number of "v-shaped" cuts
varying in length from 3 mm. to 9 mm. with their base loca¬
ted toward the opening were present at the periphery of the
wound. Certain organs were missing and examination revealed
irregular lacerations in the tissue edges. A number of smooth-
edged areas around the wound and inside were also found. After
performing the autopsy. Dr. Cochrane determined that the
wounds had been caused perhaps by a coyote or other carniv-
erous animal.
Editor Corneau writes that the police and other observers at the site
were not satisfied with the autopsy findings, so samples were sent to
the Saskatchewan Provincial Veterinary Laboratory in Regina for an¬
alysis. There, Dr. M. A. Swendrowski concurred with Dr. Coch¬
rane's opinion.
OCTOBER 4 - ALBERTA - 27 km. west of Claresholm - five-year-
old cow - ear, genitals, udder and part of tongue removed - heart
believed removed through a 20-cm. hole in left side - no blood at
the site.
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OCTOBER 4 - ALBERTA
sheath, scrotum missing.
Nanton - yearling steer - an
us, penis.
OCTOBER 4 - ALBERTA - Blood Reserve, 24 km. west
14-year-old Newton Long Time Squirrel saw about nine
in a circle on or near the ground a quarter-mile from
The lights took off apparently, though Newton did not ac
them rise - The next thing he knew, the lights were ai
they suddenly zipped one-by-one over his head, without
Newton's elders found a cow "with a hole where its hea
where the lights had first been seen. (LETHBRIDGE HE
6, 1979).
OCTOBER 6 - ALBERTA - Enoch Band Reserve - three
Charolais bull - .dead for perhaps ten days - anus, pen
missing.
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OCTOBER 8 - ALBERTA - 38 km. south of Oyen - Hereford bull.
OCTOBER 8 - ALBERTA - Tofield - seven-year-old cow - bladder
missing.
OCTOBER 13 - ALBERTA - 30 km. west of Fort Made
steer - anus, tongue gone - genitals intact.
OCTOBER 14 - ALBERTA - 7 km. west of Markerville
old Hereford heifer - udder, genitals , one eye and end.
moved. RCMP investigation coordinator Corporal Lyn L#i
cuts were definitely made with a knife." (RED DEER,A
CATE, 10-16-79).
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OCTOBER 16 - ALBERTA - Rocky Mountain House - twelve-hour-
old calf - lips, throat cut.
OCTOBER 16 - ALBERTA - Rocky Mountain House - se^en-year-old
Hereford cow - teats, anus, vulva gone.
OCTOBER, mid-month - SASKATCHEWAN - Goodeve - no details.
bull - geni-
OCTOBER, 3rd week - SASKATCHEWAN - Ituna area
tals and tongue missing.
OCTOBER 17 - SASKATCHEWAN - Goodeve area - young
covered on Wednesday, estimated dead since the previou
or Sunday - Editor Denis Comeau of the MELVILLE AE 1
the farmer who owned the steer for a description of the
site as he found it:
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how it got there. I checked and all my fences were
the animal was just lying there in the ditch, with a
off ... no blood anywhere, either on the animal,or
ditch. I thought then that it had been hit by either a
or a car. I noticed an odd semi-circular track going
into the ditch, where the steer had been dumped. Bulf
noticed that the track did not show any tire imprint,
-strange, really strange. We hauled the steer out of
ditch and back to the farmyard and it was then that
ticed something else about the animal. The tongue w.
ing and one ear had been cut off, the ear in which
implanted an ear tag for identification purposes. The
ticed that the animal’s throat had been cut ... very
with something that had to be extremely sharp. The
there was no blood anywhere, either on the animal
the cuts had been made) or in the ditch. On the stee
domen, there was a small white circular impression
it had been injected with something. The funny thing
steer had been in the pasture before and, when we
it was in the ditch alongside the road. Yet there weijri
tracks leading to or from the pasture - just that odd
circular track in the ditch and really just one of thoi3i
steer - dis-
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no imprint of a tire. Whatever made that track had to be
pretty heavy and there was something else funny about it.
In the dirt by the side of the road, the track made an in¬
dentation, but when you project where the track went in¬
to the ditch through some weeds, the weeds are not broken
or damaged in any way. It's just as if whatever dropped
the steer there was hanging low above the ground. I just
don't know what to make of it ... I noticed that our faml ly
dog just wouldn’t go near the dead animal and no birds
such as crows or magpies would go near it, either. Usual¬
ly, our dog will at least sniff around something like that
and the birds will feed on it. But they seemed to want noth¬
ing to do with it. And, you gotta remember that the animal
had been lying there dead in the ditch for several days.
Mr. Corneau’s informant told him that a number of observers on the
nearby Little Black Bear Reserve saw three or four large, silver
objects hovering low nearby. When the witnesses flashed their head¬
lights at the objects, the objects quickly took off and left the area.
This occurred on Saturday night, during the weekend on which it was
suspected that the steer died. (MELVILLE ADVOCATE, 10-24-79).
OCTOBER 20 - SASKATCHEWAN - 25 mi. south of Glentworth, near
U.S. border - bovine - rectum, genitals, udder and tongue were mis¬
sing - no blood at the scene nor even in the ventricles leading to the
animal’s heart, as if the ventricles had been washed clean - the meat
was pink, resembling "chicken meat".
OCTOBER 26 - ALBERTA - 9 mi. east of Esther - twelve-or-thirteen -
year-old Hereford cow - udder, anus and at least one ear gone - ac¬
cording to the Oyen, Alberta ECHO (11-2-79), rigor mortis had appar¬
ently set in in the front legs but the rear legs were very flexible and
"crossed in an unusual way".
OCTOBER 28 - ALBERTA - 16 km. north of Fort Macleod - Hereford
cow - fresh, thought done that previous night - tongue, rectum gone -
patch of skin near udder removed with a "sharp instrument", accord¬
ing to RCMP Corporal Emil Smetaniuk.
OCTOBER 28 - ALBERTA - Clive - bull (no details).
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NOVEMBER 3 - ALBERTA - a field NE of Airdrie - two heifers -
one had skin cut away around the jaw and cuts to the vulva and anus;
the second had cuts to the anus and rectum. According to RCMP Cor¬
poral Randy McKenzie, the first was "carried out in an amateurish
fashion" but the other was quite "professional". McKenzie was of the
opinion, however, that the same mutilator (s) did both and may have
been "just practising or whatever" on the first one. Genitals were
not removed from either animal.
NOVEMBER 11 - ALBERTA - Nanton - Hereford heifer - right ear
cut off - skin around right eye taken - "precise cuts" with a"sharp
instrument".
NOVEMBER 11 - ALBERTA - near Namao - young heifer - genitals
and bladder missing - on Chester Crozier's dairy farm.
NOVEMBER 12 - ALBERTA - near Namao - second cow mutilated on
Chester Crozier farm - genitals, two teats and a piece of tongue re¬
moved - cow was about to give birth - an ear on the unborn calf had
been cut off as it lay in the mother's womb.
NOVEMBER 13 or 14 - ALBERTA - near Airdrie - white-faced heifer -
genitals not removed but "attempts had been made to take them" - vet¬
erinarian and RCMP consultant Dr. David Green of Airdrie confirmed
it as a "classic mutilation".
NOVEMBER 13 - ALBERTA - Caroline - bovine (no details).
DECEMBER, 2nd week - ALBERTA - last reported case of 1979; no
details available at present.
There have been a few known or acknowledged UFO reports in the area
of some of the Canadian mutilation sites in 1979, but these, by far, are
more the exception than the rule. In the vast majority of the cases,
nothing is seen and nothing is heard, on the ground or in the air. Even
less substantial than the meager UFO reports are a couple of helicop¬
ter accounts, all complicated by the fact that there are over 6, 000
helicopters registered in Alberta alone - used, for instance, by oil and
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energy companies and larger ranching operations.
Despite a flimsy if not non-existent case for the involvement of cult-
ists in the Alberta-Saskatchewan mutilations, the RCMP concentrated,
at least early on, on this avenue of investigation in their search for
culprits (at least this is what was announced). This approach, of
course, has already been taken inna number of the United States,
all to the same futile end.
Rather than having most or all of the mutilations blamed on preda¬
tors, as has happened in several states, Canadian authorities have
generally conceded that the truly classic mutilation reports represent
decidedly unnatural acts. The greatest controversy has not arisen
over whether fflie classic mutilations are caused by predators or by
unnatural attackers (although on occasion, predators have been cited
in "suspicious" cases) - but over what percentage of the mutilations
are "copy-cat" jobs, perpetrated by impudent jerkwater punks attemp¬
ting to imitate the real thing. One problem that arises is whether,
when an attack on an animal seems amateurish, clumsy or sloppy,
it indeed represents "copy-catting" or perhaps another oblique aspect
of the complex - and subtle - classic mutilation scenario.
Despite the relatively small number of known UFO accounts during
the Alberta-Saskatchewan mute siege, the ufonauts, even in Canada,
remain a favorite target for finger-pointing. Cult expert and Univer¬
sity of Alberta professor Bill Meilen was questioned about mutilations
by the EDMONTON SUN(11-13-79). Though he "would like to avoid"
the term ”UFO", Meilen feels that all the evidence extant regarding
mutilations "points to biopsies being performed by beings using a
means of flight 'beyond our comprehension"’. Meilen told reporter
Lance Beswick that among the Canadian mute items of pertinence to
be addressed are:
**The discovery of fractures in many of the animals consistent with
injuries caused by being dropped from a height of at least 10 feet;
**Thousands of flies found on the corpses died strangely without ap¬
parent reason;
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**A seven-year-old heifer whose unborn calf had been removed and
mutilated WITHOUT (SUN’s emphasis) the placental bag being bro¬
ken.
The EDMONTON JOURNAL asked RCMP Corporal Lyn Lauber for his
reaction to Meilen's statements and Lauber told the JOURNAL (11-26-
79): "We’re looking for humans doing these things, not UFOs or little
green men." Lauber discounted Meilen's contention that some of the
mute carcasses suffered crushed bones as though dropped from the
air. "We haven't experienced anything like that in Alberta", said Lau¬
ber. Lauber also said it was not true that the unborn calf was mutila¬
ted without the placenta having been broken. Lauber added, "We have¬
n't figured out what’s killing them, but we are looking at a cult ....
there are cults here in Alberta. There’s no doubt about that, and we
assume that these mutilations are being done for cult practices - eith¬
er for voodoo, witchcraft or satanism."
A Canadian wire-service story (VANCOUVER SUN, 10-16-79) had Lau¬
ber and the RCMP speculating that the mutes might be attributed to
introverted, outwardly-respectable persons "bored with their dull lives".
Lauber speculated that "outwardly they may appear to have high moral
standards and be family-oriented, but they crave some sort of excite¬
ment". So, could an insidious, crafty, quietly-desperate band of crazed
introverts be grimly taking out their frustrations on helpless bo vines?
The speculation has it that, operating "during the dark hours, perhaps
just before dawn", they would not need light. With a "good hunting
knife and a sharpener", they "could do it by feel”.
Then, the TORONTO STAR (12-17-79) quoted Corporal Lauber, succinct¬
ly summing up his assessment of the possibility of UFO involvement in
the mutilations, as saying, "I can't see what the attraction of a bull’s
ass would be to a UFO."
The controversy continues - which should come as no surprise. In
late 1979, in Alberta and Saskatchewan, winter took its time setting
in (a climatological anomaly in which some might find or seek signif¬
icance), but finally it did so; and the mutilations - or at least reports
of them - had ceased by mid-December. But they occurred, and that
fact cannot be erased from memory nor from history. The noble and
justifiably-re putable RCMP may, privately at least, be just a bit hum¬
bled by it all. In that, of course, they are not alone. But, on this
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occasion, the Mounties did not (yet) get their, er... .culprit.
We are especially grateful for the helpful information supplied by: Tim
Tokaryk, Bill Allan, Bob Pratt, Don Worley, Mr. X, Walter Andrus,
Dr. Nancy J. Smith, Tommy Blann, Kenneth Pawson, Dwight Whalen,
Jenny Jackson, Richard Houghton, Mrs. Helen E. Ball, Link Byfield,
Denis C. Corneau, Ralph Thompson, Paul W. Rockley, Randy Burton,
Bernice Duguay, John Jackson.
BRIEFS
**In a western state in 1978, a dead or dying horse was found after a
UFO hovered over its corral. Several witnesses (Including a sheriff &
veterinarian) observed that, although there were no visible wounds on
the body, the animal was "bleeding" freely. But the blood "dissipated"
or evaporated before it could coagulate or drip to the ground. No blood
was found on the ground the next morning, nor was any found in the'
carcass. The witnesses are apparently reluctant to cooperate with in¬
vestigators, but if more is learned we shall pass it along.
**Dr. Nancy H. Owen, a cultural anthropologist at the University of
Arkansas, has received a grant from the Arkansas Endowment for the
Humanities to investigate "The Impact of Livestock Mutilations on Rur¬
al Arkansas Communities”. Her final report is due later this year.
**THE MUTE STRATEGY, a novel by Albuquerque author and publish¬
er Dave DeWitt, may be, as one reviewer has said, "pulp", but it is
also hard-to-put-down, imaginative though not-to-excess, well-written
and, like Mervin Casey's earlier THE MUTILATORS, THE MUTE
STRATEGY effectively captures the feeling and ambience of a mute-
plagued area. $2.25. Sunbelt Press; P.O. Box 4980; Albuquerque, New
Mexico USA 87196.
**Special Projects Director Linda M. Howe of McGraw-Hill station
KMGH in Denver is producing A'STRANGE HARVEST, a documentary
on mutilations to be aired, tentatively, in spring, 1980. Early indica¬
tions for the substance and depth of the documentary sound most prom¬
ising. Hopefully other stations and networks will exhibit some interest
in airing the program.
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**A movie about mutilations? In Australia?? In 1911 !l?? David L. Rees
of England's Manchester Aerial Phenomena Investigation Team (MAPIT)
(publishers of SKYWATCH - 92, Hillcrest Road; Offerton, Stockport,
Chesire, SK2 5SE, England) has sent along the following excerpt from
STARBURST MAGAZINE (Vol. I, No. II; Jadwin House; 205-211 Kentish
Town Road; London NW5, England):
Australia often gets forgotten as the birth place of the movies.
I’ve done a bit of research myself on the history of aussie SF
movies and discovered what must be the first SF (science fic¬
tion) movie ever made anywhere. It was called "Haunted Billa-
bong" and appears to have been about the strange mutilation
of sheep on a station in Coonabarabran. It was made in 1911
and was actually shot in the old Padstow Studios in Sydney,
which have long since been demolished. From what I gather
from the research I have done the sheep were mutilated by
visitors from outer space and this is only revealed at the end
of the movie. Before it was assumed that it was the work of
rabid dingos (Australian wild dogs), but at the end you find
out a flying saucer had landed in the billabong (a stream bed
or channel, usually dry) and was using it as a base. Need¬
less to say, all surviving prints of the film have vanished
but I got this info from an old newspaper which reviewed the
movie. I dug around a bit and found an archive shot of the
director, Tom Jackson.
Mr. Rees reports that a friend of his in Australia is trying to veri¬
fy the story and obtain more details.
"""Several cattle died in the weeks that followed the disabling accident
at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania in March of
1979. Nineteen cattle died on a farm 4^ miles from the plant and two
cows died on a farm 3 miles away. The state Agriculture Department
reported that laboratory autopsies and tests indicated that "most died
of complications in calving and two suffered infections of the uteru s."
There are rumors making the rounds to the effect that the federal
government brought psychics to the plant to see if they could pick up
indications of sabotage, and that some of the cattle in the area that
died were in fact mutilated. Interesting, but unsubstantiated.
