STIGMATA SUPPLEMENT NUMBER ONE - JANUARY 1980
PUBUSHED BV PROJECT STIGMA - P.O. BOX 1094 - PARIS, TEXAS 75460 USA
1. STIGMATA wiU be a quarterly publlcatloii
in 1980, beginning with the next issue. No.
8 (Spring 1980).
2. Price increase ; STIGMATA No. 8 will be
priced at $1, 00 each, as announced, but the
next three 1980 issues will cost $1.50 each.
A one-year subscription to the four 1980
issues (#8, 9, 10 & 11) is now $5-00.
Those who have already paid their dollar
for No. 8 may subscribe to issues 9, 10 &
II for $4.00.
Back issues of editions 4, 5, 6 & 7 are
still available @ $1.00 each.
Order from Project Stigma at the address
listed above. We ask that foreign subscribers
remit In U. S. funds or International Money
Order.
3. HELICOPTER REPORT; We regret the de�
lay in the publication of this report, which
we aimounced several months ago. The re�
port is still in preparation and will appear
in the first half of 1980. It will consist pri�
marily of a catalog of unidentified helicopter
accounts In the vicinity of mutilation events.
A decision had to be made whether to com�
plete preparation of the helicopter report
right away or to proceed with the publica�
tion of STIGMATA No. 8, and we have opt�
ed for the latter. The final word on the pub�
lication of this mystery helicopter report
will appear in No. 8 - honest. Apparently
these choppers are yet to be "grounded":
Two cattle mutilations occurred in Western
Nebraska this year and an unmarked heli�
copter was seen in the area of both sites,
4. LETTERS FROM READERS are of great
interest to us. We hope to publish several
in the next and subsequent editions, but we
would like to see more of your comments
and opinions. If you write to us be sure to
specify whether your letter or parts there�
of is for publication and whether you want
us to withhold your name and address.
OCCURRENCES, RUMOURS AND THINGS-
IN-THE-WORKS: Many readers are aware
that, since the publication of STIGMATA
No, 7, most of the Interest in the muti�
lation phenomenon has been emanating
from, and directed toward, the Canadian
provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan,
where at least 30 livestock mutilations
have been reported. With few exceptions,
the classic mutilations have been a phen�
omenon of the 1970's and of the continen�
tal United Smtes. Now, with the decade
on the wane, an Interesting new perspec�
tive has been added with the advent of
the Alberta (and Sask,) mute wave. We
will Inevitably be intrigued by whatever
developments await us in the Eighties. --
-Things have been relatively
quiet in the U. S. as the outbreak devel�
oped In Canada. There was a considera�
ble mute onslaught in Arkansas this year
(see STIGMATA No. 7) but they nave ap�
parently ceased in that state for the mo�
ment, Otherwise, there have been scatter�
ed reports in late 1979 from Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado and, most recently. In
Iowa and Illinois. WeTl update these in
STIGMATA No. 8.--Did muti�
lations occur In the 1880's, in 1910 and
in 1911?? We have very few details at pre�
sent but we hope to learn more and rep^*
ort on them in the near future.-
�Among items that are rumored to be
in the works, however tentatively: an an�
thology of commentary on the mutilation
phenomenon; a bibliography of published
materials;<a fund for research and inves�
tigation; an in-depth documentary by a
Colorado TV station, a program which
may or may not be circulated to other TV
stations around the country,--
We wish we had a dollar (no, make that
an ounce of gold) for every writer we've
heard of within the past few years who
promised (or threatened) to turn out a
serious book on mutilations.--
Project Stigma riiqsed off by OMNI?? De-
tails later.
Copyright o 1980 by Thomas R. Adams
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