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Bovine Intervention
High-powered research team tries to get to the bottom of cow mutilations
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
ARE EXTRATERRESTRIAL aliens swooping down on the cattle ranches of our
Western states, pouncing on unsuspecting cows, cutting out their vaginas and
other interesting body parts, and carrying them back to their home planets
for weird science experiments?
The National Institute for Discovery Science isn't ready to say yes, but
they're not throwing out the possibility, either. The privately funded
research organization is conducting a serious study of what it calls the
"controversy regarding the alleged connection between cattle mutilations and
UFOs."
"We've been able in a few cases to rule out predators, scavengers and
infectious disease, and we've been able to show, using veterinary pathology,
that sharp instruments were used on these animals. That's as far as we're
prepared to go," says NIDS deputy administrator Colm Kelleher. "Who's using
the sharp instruments, why they're using them, we have no idea. In most of
the cases there has been an absence of vehicle tracks around the scene. We
don't know what that means. A lot of ranchers have reported a lot of unusual
activity in the sky to us, but we're not in a position of drawing a cause and
effect between UFOs and animal mutilations without more evidence. There's not
a smoking gun, so to speak."
At first glance, it's easy to dismiss the folks at NIDS as a bunch of, well,
nitwits. Not counting people who have chosen to isolate themselves from
humanity by several hundred miles of desert, who actually believes that
extraterrestrials are cutting up our cows? And why, of all the locations on
earth for a national headquarters, did this organization's management choose
Las Vegas?
The last time we associated extraterrestrials with Nevada's gambling capital,
they were zapping peace doves and singing backup vocals for Tom Jones in Tim
Burton's Mars Attacks.
But these people are serious. The organization's founder, Robert Bigelow, is
a successful national business developer, the owner of Budget Suites of
America. Kelleher, his second in command, holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry. One
member of the organization's Science Advisory Board once served on the
Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb; another is the provost of
the University of Nevada at Las Vegas; and a third, former Apollo astronaut
Edgar Mitchell, was the sixth man to walk on the moon.
And they conduct serious investigations.
In one report on a mutilated cow by a NIDS investigator studying a 1998
incident in northeastern Utah, the organization alleged that the cow's left
eye and ear had been removed, an "unusual, formaldehyde-containing blue
gel-like substance was found on the eye, the ear and the anus of the animal,
its heart was shredded, and though no fetus was present, it tested positive
on two different pregnancy tests."
Kelleher says that this is one of perhaps a half-dozen cattle-mutilation
cases NIDS has documented in its four-year existence that cannot be explained
by so-called natural phenomena, such as scavengers or human poachers.
Lest anyone wish to distance themselves from the issue by several hundred
miles of parched desert, NIDS has received "lots of reports from Northern
California" that the organization has not been able to investigate (NIDS
hotline: 702.798.1700.)
"Ninety-five percent of the calls involve cattle," Kelleher says. "But
occasionally we hear about a horse, or an elk, or a buffalo."
According to the NIDS website, missing body parts of dead cattle include
lips, tongue, skin and muscles of the lower jaw, rectum and/or genitalia
(vulva, vagina, sometimes the entire uterus), penis, scrotum (with or without
testicles), eyeball (with or without eyelids; usually only one, on the upper
side, when the animal is lying on its side), tail, mammary gland (the whole
udder or teats only) and ears. An online graph indicates that the most
commonly reported missing parts are rectums and vaginas.
Another mutilation investigator, former Alabama police officer and now Bay
Area resident Ted Oliphant III, talks in a 1997 article on his website about
a dead cow found in Red Bluff (Sonoma County): "It was found missing teats
from the udder, its jaw had been stripped and an ear was missing. Then it
happened again, and again and again. By the time the first year had passed,
the Bartons had lost four head of livestock." Oliphant attributes the
mutilations to a government conspiracy rather than alien invaders.
But according to the Idaho Falls Post Register, animal-mutilation
investigator Linda Moulton Howe, author of the book An Alien Harvest,
believes that extraterrestrials are definitely behind the cattle killings.
"I've talked to dozens of eyewitnesses who have seen silver discs landing in
their fields," Howe is quoted as saying.
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