Trinidad rancher finds mutilated cow

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Published: March 09, 2009 11:43 pm
By ANTHONY A. MESTAS
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
TRINIDAD - A cattle rancher made a horrific and mysterious discovery Sunday when he found the carcass of one of his cattle that was missing its udders and other female parts.

No one is sure what killed the cow on a pasture near the Purgatoire River, but Trinidad rancher Mike Duran said he definitely finds the death unusual.

Duran, 49, said Monday that after the cow had been missing for two days, he went to look for it in a pasture where he runs cattle a mile west of the town of Weston near Colorado 12.

"I last saw her Friday. She's an older cow so I thought she may have died.

"On Sunday, I spotted her near the (Purgatoire) river bottom and went and looked at her. She was on her side and it looked a little odd. "When I took a closer look I saw that her udders had been removed," Duran said.

The cow had its udders cleanly cut off with no blood on or around the carcass, Duran said.

"It was a perfect circle almost like a laser cut," he said. "It's not like a knife. it seemed to be cut and sealed at the same time," he said.

This is not the first time Duran has found a mutilated cow on his ranch.

In 1995, Duran said he found a cow that had been mutilated the exact same way on the same pasture.

"The other cow's udders were snipped off the same way. It's hard to imagine what or who could have done this to me again," Duran said.

The mutilation in 1995 never has been solved.

Duran, who operates a 30-head cattle ranch, said that in both occurrences, there were no animal or human tracks around the carcasses.

"There was no blood around either and if you cut off an udder there would be a whole lot of blood," Duran said.

Cattle mutilation phenomena involve thousands of cases in North America in which cattle have been found mutilated under unusual circumstances. The cows are found dead (although the cause of death is undetermined), exsanguinated

(all their blood has been removed) and have had certain organs removed from

their bodies. Often their reproductive and rectal parts have been removed.

The thousands of reported cattle mutilations in the United States and around the world dating to the 1970s have spawned theories about aliens sent to Earth to slice up cows.

"I don't know if aliens are doing this or what, but whoever it is, I don't like it," Duran said.

"You look at cattle mutilations in other places and it's just really something that can't be explained. I don't know, maybe it's UFOs (unidentified flying objects) or maybe not," he said with a laugh.

Duran said neighbors near the pasture told him that they had not heard or seen anything this past weekend

Duran, who also is a teacher at Trinidad High School, said he is no expert on the subject of cattle mutilations, but has studied information on the Internet.

"I looked up some pictures and facts last night and there are similar occurrences to what has happened to me. Some are exactly the same," he reported.

Duran said he has notified the Las Animas County Sheriff's Department about the mutilated cattle.

Las Animas County Undersheriff Derek Navarette said his office takes cattle mutilations seriously, although no one has ever been charged with the crime.

"If it's someone here killing livestock, that's a crime," Navarette said. "The problem is that there's never any evidence around to support that anyone was there.

"It's an odd phenomenon. The cattle is just there dead," Navarette said.

There hasn't been a cattle mutilation case in the area for several years, Navarette said. The case is similar to most around the United States.

"The same body parts were removed. The place where the cow was found Sunday is almost impossible for a vehicle to get to.

"It's an unusual place," he said.

Navarette said his office will continue to investigate the case.

"This is simply a mystery and it is very odd," he said.

[Ammit]

Didnt read all above:tears:, but is there any other report that says the eyes or lips were missing, along with a cored anus?

Seems to remind me of mutillations i seen in the uk.

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Ammit,have you any records of U.K. mutilations-my mum is intrigued by them.This is the only report i found unless there are associated links on the link above.

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Colorado rancher blames aliens for cattle mutilations

LAS ANIMAS - A rancher in southern Colorado has an out of this world theory for what killed one of his cows.



"We have other life out there and I think that's what it is," Mike Duran said.

Duran says he's noticed strange lights flying overhead and he believes aliens may be to blame for mutilating one of his cows.

"Like a round circle in the air," Duran said. "I've watched them and then they just disappear."

His ranch is near the town of Weston, which is about 20 miles west of Trinidad.

Duran says his cow was found dead with her udders and reproductive organs missing. He says there were no tracks near the body.

The cow was last seen alive on Friday and found dead on Sunday.

He believes aliens abducted the cow, carved it up and dropped it back by the river.

Duran claims the same thing happened in the same field in 1995.

"It's just a shock that it's happened again," he said.

He's reported both incidents to the Las Animas County Sheriff's Office, but investigators have not been able to solve either case.

"It's one of those unsolved mysteries, I guess," he said.


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Part 2: Unusual Animal Deaths - Bizarre Mutilation of Week-Old Calf

© 2009 by Linda Moulton Howe




1-week-old male calf discovered by Hoehne, Colorado,
rancher Tom Miller on March 17, 2009, with both ears removed
as if exposed to heat, front legs missing, all its internal organs removed
and hips broken as if dropped to ground from some height. Image
© 2009 by Chuck Zukowski, MUFON Field Investigator.

Return to Part 1

March 23, 2009 Hoehne, Colorado - I arrived back at my Albuquerque, New Mexico, office from the Duran mutilation investigation on Sunday night, March 15. Two days later on the morning of Tuesday, March 17, in Hoehne, Colorado - about fifteen miles northeast of Trinidad and about 40 miles east of Mike Duran’s place - rancher Tom Miller was stunned to find a 1-week-old male calf next to the feed bin dead and so bizarrely mutilated that it might be unique in animal mutilation history. In all the mutilation cases I have investigated, I don't think I've ever seen anything like this one.

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On Tuesday morning, March 17, rancher Tom Miller picked up the strangely mutilated,
bloodless carcass of a 1-week-old male calf from beside the feed bin and placed what was left
of the body on the back trailer of his truck, shown above. Image © 2009
by Chuck Zukowski, MUFON Field Investigator.

The head is there connected to neck bones and spine, but the two front legs are missing, along with the abdomen and internal organs. Then at the bottom of the spine and broken hip bones, two back legs and tail look relatively normal, but hanging only by thin hide.


Empty mediastinum and ribs of 1-week-old male calf found next to the feed bin
at the River Valley Ranch owned and operated by Tom Miller since the early 1960s.
Image © 2009 by Chris Zukowski.


One-week-old male calf had both eyes and tongue intact, but both hears had been cut off
at the skull in hardened, plasticized tissue that in previous mutilation cases is
characteristic of excision by heat. Image © 2009 by Chuck Zukowski.


Further, both ears were cut off at the skull, leaving circular patterns of hardened skin. Both eyes and the tongue remained, which is also unusual, since the majority of animal mutilations include the removal of at least one ear and one eye along with the removal of the tongue and jaw flesh. Chuck Zukowski, El Paso County, Colorado, Reserve Deputy Sheriff, whose full time profession is designing micro chips, also applies his technical knowledge as a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Chuck got to Tom Miller's ranch on Wednesday, March 18, and confirmed for me that when he examined the ear tissue, it was hardened.

Chuck cut out both ear excision tissues and hand-delivered them to the Colorado State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories in Fort Collins for analysis. As soon as there are test results, I will report further about the extraordinary calf mutilation at Earthfiles.com and in an Earthfiles podcast.

Tom Miller has been ranching on the same land for at least fifty years and told me he has never seen anything like it. He said natural predators would leave a bloody, torn mess. There is no sign of blood anywhere on what is left of the week-old-calf. Further, Mr. Miller told me the calf’s mother was extremely protective of her calf and would not let anyone near him.


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Interview:

Tom Miller, Owner and Rancher, River Valley Ranch, Hoehne, Colorado: “My cows are so protective of their calves. Sometimes you can’t touch the calf without that big momma cow being on top of you. That’s a strange part of it, too. Sometimes I have to doctor my little calves and I’ve got to be real careful and real quick to go at that calf and doctor it quickly before that cow is on top of me. So, how did this happen without the cow being just right in the mutilator’s face? That’s a strange thing.

WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF THE MOTHER COW THAT MORNING WHEN YOU FOUND THE COMPLETELY EVISCERATED YOUNG CALF?

Well, she was real excited and she was bellowing. Actually, all of my cows were running around and usually they don’t do that. Whenever I bring feed, they are all right there at the trough. But this morning (Tuesday, March 17, 2009), they were all running back and forth like they had been spooked.

HOW MANY COWS IN YOUR HERD?

There’s about 80 head out there.

SO 80 COWS WERE VERY AGITATED ON THE MORNING THAT YOU FOUND THE EVISCERATED CALF AND THE MOTHER WAS ESPECIALLY BELLERING AND AGITATATED.

That’s right.

HOW DID YOU CALM THE MOTHER DOWN?

I don’t know if I really did much. After I fed them, most of them came back and started eating. But the mother of the mutilated calf was still going around bellowing. Later in the day, she was still there after all the rest of the cows had left, she was still standing right there where I found the calf. Actually, it was pretty sad to see her there. She was just bellowing and didn’t know what happened to her calf.

AND COULD SMELL THE CALF PROBABLY THERE.

I think so because the mother was standing just at the spot where the calf had been.”



Feed bin where 1-week-old male calf was found dead and mutilated
on Tuesday morning, March 17, 2009. Image © 2009 by Chris Zukowski.

How did anyone, or anything, get this calf without a fight with the mother cow? And how did that 1-week-old calf end up dead with most of his body gone without blood, right next to the feed bin, far from his mother and the herd?

Because the calf’s hip bones were broken, Tom Miller wondered if the calf had been dropped from the air to the ground. This was the third mutilation on his ranch since the 1980s when Tom first found a 500-pound steer with both ears, eyes, tongue and some of its sex organs removed. His second mutilation was another young steer in 1998 in which both ears, eyes, tongue, and genitals were removed. And now the 1-week-old male calf in March 2009. The bloodless, trackless nature of each animal death leaves Tom Miller’s mind open to the possibility that the perpetrators are not humans.

Tom Miller: “If there really are those aliens or whatever they are out there and they are coming down, why are they doing that? Why would they just take portions of the calf? What do they do with it? There are a lot of questions I have.

WHY WOULD THEY DROP ANY OF THE ANIMALS THAT APPEAR TO CLEARLY BE DROPPED BACK TO THE PASTURE OR THE FEED LOT OR WHEREVER IT WAS FROM WHICH IT WAS TAKEN? IF IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS NON-HUMAN, WHY ARE THEY RETURNING ANY OF THE MUTILATED ANIMALS TO BE FOUND?

Yes, that’s true. And with mine, they dropped it where I could purposefully see it. You know, the mutilated calf could have been down in the river somewhere in the brush and I might never have found it. But it was dropped right where I had to see it. I couldn’t get around the feed bin without seeing it. Now, whether that was an accident or if it was on purpose, it’s strange. I've never seen anything like what happened to that little calf.

IF SOMETHING OUT THERE WANTS HUMANS TO PAY ATTENTION TO THEIR INTRUSIONS, INTERACTIONS, WITH EARTH LIFE, WHY?

Yes, why? Why do they do this just to animals? Or maybe they do take humans, too? I don’t know. People are gone missing. I’ll always be thinking of this, you know - is it going to happen again tomorrow? Or the next day? Or next week?”



The Day After Roswell © 1997
by U. S. Army Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso, now deceased.
Available at: Amazon.com.

Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso - retired from the United States Army and now deceased - wrote in his 1997 book, The Day After Roswell:

“In the Pentagon from 1961 to 1963, I reviewed field reports from local and state police agencies about the discoveries of dead cattle whose carcasses looked as though they had been systematically mutilated and there were reports from people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens and experimented on. … Our intelligence organizations … believed that the cattle mutilations that could not be obviously explained away as pranks, predators, or ritual slaughter, were the results of interventions by extraterrestrials who were harvesting specific organs - or harvesting for experimentation.”

Historically, when there have been animal mutilations in one geographic region, there might be several more over the next few months. So, I hope viewers and listeners will contact me about any new mutilation reports at my email address: earthfiles@earthfiles.com.



To be continued in Part 3: Third cattle mutilation discovered March 21, 2009, in Walsenburg, Colorado, north of Trinidad. Chuck Zukowski, Deputy Sheriff in El Paso County, Colorado, and field investigator for MUFON, investigated.

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Part3:Forensic report march 26th.

Unusual Animal Deaths - Forensic Investigations

© 2009 by Linda Moulton Howe



“It was like lots of tissue was taken from the calf
and then the carcass was dropped from a high elevation
and when it hit the ground, it crushed the pelvis, which was
dislocated.” - Chuck Zukowski, MUFON Field Investigator





March 26, 2009 Colorado Springs, Colorado - I began collecting tissues in formalin from mutilated animals in the 1980s for pathologists to examine. My research is included in large color photographs and documents in my first two books, An Alien Harvest © 1989 and Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. 1 © 1993. See Earthfiles Shop. The pressure of forensic facts has added up to compelling physical evidence that mutilation excisions are cut with high heat.

Physical investigations have also confirmed that internal organs - including large bovine hearts - have been removed without external excisions on the animal bodies; that the specific cutting instrument is still not identified because there is no carbon residue at the mutilator's excisions. Earth life is carbon-based. If the cutting instruments were typical lasers used in animal and human surgeries, there would be black carbon grains visible at the excision sites under a microscope. However, when examined microscopically, many mutilation excisions do not have carbon particles, even when pathology analysis has confirmed cooked hemoglobin and collagen that indicate the tissue was removed from the mutilated animals with a technology that generated enough heat to cauterize. Would modern acoustical scalpels cauterize without leaving carbon residue? That is a question that needs to be researched.

By 1994, I also began collecting soil and plants from mutilation sites for biophysicist W. C. Levengood to analyze. He has published some of his research in the international botany journal, Physiologia Plantarum, including his hypothesis that the plants and soil are affected as if a plasma energy containing microwave frequencies interacted with plant cell respiration.

Another significant forensic discovery was in January 1997 when field researcher Jean Bilodeaux from Oregon joined us to investigate a dead and mutilated bull in Red Bluff, California. [ See 3-part 101500Earthfiles ] Jean found hardened, dark particles on a mutilated bull's testicles and chest that proved to be pure bovine hemoglobin. Significantly, four years later, we found pure bovine hemoglobin particles on two more mutilated cattle. They were 2001 cases in Alabama and Canada. Pure hemoglobin can only be produced by two centrifuge processes in laboratories, not in remote pastures.
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Dead and mutilated 2,000-pound bull discovered January 17, 1997,
by owners Jean and Bill Barton on their winter ranch near Red Bluff, California.
Investigator Jean Bilodeaux collected tissue, grass and soil samples, including
unusual hardened dark particles from bull's testicles and chest near excision that
proved to be pure hemoglobin. Photograph on January 18, 1997 © by Jean Barton.


Dehydrated fragment from black particles found on chest hide of mutilated bull
discovered in Red Bluff, California, January 17, 1997. This photomicrograph (450x)
shows uninterrupted “mud crack”-type patterns and no indication of cellular structures
such as erythrocytes and leukocytes. Analytical chemistry analysis determined this is pure
bovine hemoglobin. Photomicrograph © 2000 by W. C. Levengood, Biophysicist.
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Infrared spectroscopy: “Bull Residue- Testicles” on top; “Bull Residue-Side”
in middle; known samples of pure bovine hemoglobin purchased from Sigma Aldrich
for “Hemoglobin Reference” on bottom. Spectra provided by
Phyllis A. Budinger, Analytical Chemist.



Three Cattle Mutilations In
Southern Colorado Since March 8, 2009

Now, there have been three cattle mutilations in southern Colorado since March 8, 2009. One Colorado Springs resident has been to all three with equipment he has learned to use as a reserve deputy sheriff for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. Chuck Zukowski also owns his own company, Zukowski, Inc., and works full time designing microchips as an IC mask design engineer. Since 2007, he has also contributed his technical knowledge to field research for the Mutual UFO Network.
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Chuck Zukowski holding his Geiger counter over the rear of the mutilated
28-year-old cow discovered on a creek bank of the Mike Duran ranch in Weston,
Colorado, discovered on March 8, 2009, and visited by Chuck on Saturday,
March 14, 2009. No radiation indicated. The animal had begun to naturally
deteriorate in the week after death. Image courtesy Chuck Zukowski.


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Interview:

Chuck Zukowski, Owner, Zukowski, Inc. (integrated circuit mask design engineer); Certified MUFON Field Investigator; and Reserve Deputy Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado Sheriff's Department, Colorado Springs, Colorado: “It might not be related to the calf mutilation in Hoehne, but I have a report on Monday, March 16, 2009, at 8:20 PM Mountain, that a dark, grayish triangle flew over Colorado Springs. That was the same night that Tom Miller thinks his calf was mutilated. [ See Part 2 ]. The eyewitness was walking his dogs and looking at the night sky hoping to see the International Space Station go over. He could not see the odd aerial craft well, but said it looked “eerie,” almost transparent with slight shimmering on the edges in the shape of a triangle. The aircraft was moving silently from southwest to northeast in a straight, steady velocity without wavering. The eyewitness estimated that at arm's length, the craft was big enough that it would take three to four inches of his hand to cover its size in the sky. He watched for about thirty seconds until he could no longer see the shimmering, triangle-shaped craft.

At Tom Miller’s ranch, the first thing I saw was ‘Holy Mackerel!’ And the first thought I had was it sure looks like a large predator got hold of the 1-week-old calf. It was very eerie.


On Tuesday morning, March 17, 2009, rancher Tom Miller
picked up the strangely mutilated, bloodless carcass of
his 1-week-old male calf from beside the feed bin and placed
what was left of the body on his flatbed truck, shown above.
Image © 2009 by Chuck Zukowski, MUFON Field Investigator.

Something you would expect to see in a horror flick where something comes in and just rips you apart. But, there was no blood splattered anywhere on the hair near the areas that were ripped or cut off the calf.

And then the rancher, Tom Miller, pointed towards the ears of this calf, a little black Angus. The ears looked as though they had been surgically removed.

I HAVE TOUCHED A LOT OF MUTILATION TISSUE WHERE THE EDGES WERE ALMOST LIKE PLASTIC, DARKENED AND HARDENED. I’M LOOKING AT YOUR PHOTO RIGHT NOW OF ONE OF THE EARS EXCISED AT THE SKULL. IT HAS VARIOUS LEVELS OF LAYERS, NOT EXACTLY SMOOTH LIKE SOME MUTILATIONS DOWN TO THE SKULL BONE.

Exactly.


1-week-old male calf discovered by Hoehne, Colorado, rancher Tom Miller
on March 17, 2009, with both ears removed as if exposed to heat, its abdomen
and all internal organs removed and pelvis broken as if dropped to the ground from
some height. Image © 2009 by Chuck Zukowski, MUFON Field Investigator.

DID YOU TOUCH THAT TISSUE TO SEE WHAT IT FELT LIKE?

With surgical gloves on, I did feel the difference along the edges of the ear excisions. You do want to check and feel for hardness around the excision. I took samples by taking both excised ear regions off. I went about 1-inch or so outside where the ears used to be and outside the mutilator's excisions and did my own circular cut using a razor blade. When I was making that cut, I could feel the coolness of the moisture between my fingers and the skull and the tissue between my index finger and thumb that was holding what I was cutting. Right then and there, you could really tell a difference between what it should normally feel like after a kill and that it's different.

Like you said, it was very plastic, hard plastic, like something you would expect to be molded.

THAT WOULD MEAN THE EARS WERE PROBABLY EXPOSED TO HIGH HEAT WHEN THEY WERE EXCISED.

From my untrained eye – I’m not a veterinarian or trained lab technician – but to a layman, it looks as though the ear tissues were cauterized.

TOM MILLER TOLD ME HE HAS NEVER SEEN – EVEN IN PREDATOR KILLS – THE TAKING OF BOTH EARS LIKE THAT.

Oh, absolutely! Both ears removed like that was definitely an anomaly I’ve never seen before. As a matter of fact, I got a chance to talk to a brand inspector from the Colorado State Board of Stock Inspection. Here’s a guy whose profession is to know cows. The anomalies of what was left of the ears, that’s something he had never seen. He has seen predators munch on ears before, usually the last thing because there really is no meat. If you think about it, if you are a predator, there is really nothing in the ear that you would go after first. You’re going to go after a gut kill.

The rancher and the brand inspector were both very amazed, not only at how the ears were taken off, but the actual kill itself. The brand inspector said, ‘It looked like a semi-truck had hit it and removed everything!’

But the distance from the nearest road to where the calf was found near the feeder was a good 150 to 170 yards. I took samples there at the site where Tom Miller found it. The site had some hay over it that had been there for a few days. There were no bloodstains anywhere that I could see on the hay. It was like lots of tissue was taken from the calf and then the carcass was dropped from a high elevation and when it hit the ground, it crushed the pelvis, which was dislocated.

The shoulder areas were broken and dislocated. I’ve never seen a predator kill that resembles this week-old calf.

NO, NEITHER HAVE I AND NEITHER HAS TOM MILLER. IN THIRTY YEARS OF INVESTIGATING ANIMAL MUTILATIONS, I HAVE NEVER SEEN A CARCASS LIKE THIS IN EITHER CATEGORY OF PREDATOR KILL OR THE CLASSIC ANIMAL MUTILATION. THIS IS UNIQUE AND YET, WHAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ANIMAL MUTILATION PHENOMENON IS THE REMOVAL OF THOSE EARS AT THE SKULL.

Yes, absolutely! I do have photographs of the front of the mouth where you look for removed teeth – and I saw that both eyes and tongue were there. All that was there with the Mike Duran cow in Weston, too.

People have asked me on some cases, ‘Well, that doesn’t fit the scenario of cattle mutilations.’ Scenario of what? How do you know what the scenario is?! I mean, whoever is doing these cattle mutilations are going to do whatever they want to do to that particular animal at that particular time. And just because it doesn’t fit the criteria of every single cow, there are elements that it does fit. And that’s what makes this particular mutilation of the calf what I call ‘a non-Earth’ case.

IT’S NOT NATURAL.

It’s not natural as far as we know!



Mutilated Animals Deliberately
Returned to Be Found?

TOM MILLER MADE A VERY KEEN OBSERVATION THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED AND WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE, THEY WANTED THIS CALF TO BE FOUND. WHERE THE CALF CARCASS WAS PLACED NEXT TO THE FEED BIN, THAT MORNING TOM WAS WORKING WITH ANOTHER PERSON ON A MACHINE AND THEY WERE STOPPED BY THE CALF'S BODY.

TOM SAID HE HAD AN EERIE FEELING THAT THE CALF'S MUTILATED BODY WAS PLACED THERE TO BE SURE THAT HE FOUND IT.

Yeah, I’ve picked that up sometimes talking with other ranchers on mutilations. It’s almost as if the animal was placed specifically for them to find it. We really don’t know who is doing this and what their thinking behind these mutilations is.

IF THE MUTILATORS ARE NON-HUMANS AND THE EYEWITNESSES I’VE INTERVIEWED ARE CORRECT, THEY DESCRIBE BEAMS OF LIGHT COMING FROM ROUND, GLOWING AERIAL DISCS. EYEWITNESSES HAVE SEEN ANIMALS RISE IN THE BEAMS OF LIGHT, HAVE SEEN ANIMALS START DOWN IN BEAMS OF LIGHT AND THEN BE DROPPED TO THE GROUND THROUGH TREES. IF SO, WE’RE DEALING WITH A TECHNOLOGY WE DON’T UNDERSTAND.

We obviously don’t know how these …

ENTITIES.

Yeah, we really don’t know how they think, how they reason or why they do things the way they do. We’d like to think they have some type of compassion …but to be honest with you, you have to look at them 180 degrees opposite saying they have no compassion, are very analytical and robotic and they just do things we will never understand.

But most of the time, it seems that the mutilators they try to get the animal back to an area where at least the rancher can find it. Is that what they are thinking? Or are they putting the carcass back to where they think the animal belongs? We really don’t know.

And what is so significant about the calf? You have all the other cows in the herd and there mus be a reason to pick a particular subject and what is taken from the animal. We assume that whoeveer or whatever is doing this is reasoning out why they are going to take one particular animal and not the rest.



Chuck Used Geiger Counter and TriField Meter

CONSIDER THIS: ON MARCH 8, MIKE DURAN FINDS HIS 28-YEAR-OLD – THE OLDEST COW IN HIS HERD – WHO HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO A 3-MONTH-OLD. THE MOTHER IS MUTILATED IN A MORE CLASSIC WAY BY THE CREEK.

THEN ON MARCH 17, WHICH IS ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF LATER, TOM MILLER FINDS A 1-WEEK-OLD CALF, THE YOUNGEST OF HIS HERD. SO YOU GET THIS SENSE OF SOMETHING THAT IS TAKING EXTREMES, LIKE SAMPLES. WITH YOUR INSTRUMENTS, WHAT DID YOU FIND AT THE CALF SITE BY THE FEED BIN COMPARED TO WHAT YOU FOUND AT THE DURAN MUTILATION ON THE CREEK BANK?

I did not pick up any radiation signatures at the Duran site or at the Miller site. But one of the things I did take with me was my TriField meter and I did pick up electromagnetic readings from both animals – more readings with the Duran case probably because more of the animal was there. But I did also pick up readings from the calf.

IN THE CALF AND IN THE DURAN COW, WHAT SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES SEEMED TO BE THE HIGHEST?

I was picking up more on the magnetic range than the electric range.


TriField Meter measures magnetic, electric
and radio/microwave frequencies. See: TriField Meter.

Now, as an investigator I need to experiment with live and other dead animals to see what readings I get so I have some normal baseline readings to compare with animal mutilations. That’s part of my investigation now – I have to understand why I got the readings that I got.



Hoehne Calf Was Protected
from Predators After Death

One good thing in the Tom Miller case that Mike Duran could not do. When Tom Miller found his calf and realized the ears were missing – this has happened to him before (two previous mutilations) and that red flag went up to him. Tom also knew about the Mike Duran mutilation case that made the local newspapers the week before. What Tom did – thank goodness for us – was put the calf on the back of his flatbed truck and drove it into his barn and closed the doors.

So, now we can guarantee there was no predator damage from the time he discovered it (morning of March 17, 2009) until the time that I saw it (afternoon of March 18, 2009).

When I came up to the calf on the flatbed truck – even with a predator kill, you’re still going to get blood pooling. But if you look at my photographs of the animal on the back of that flatbed truck, there was no blood at all. It was as if the cow had been out there for a week and all the blood had dried up and dissipated. I’ve never seen that before.

I also used a magnet I have that is flat and about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide. You take a baggie and turn it inside out and put the magnet on the backside and lightly sweep the magnet over the hair of the animal. What we’re looking for are any small, metallic objects that might be embedded in the hair. There are some cases in the past where little round, metal balls have been found. Once you drag the magnet with the plastic bag inside out, then you fold the bag up around the magnet and whatever was collected on it. But don't know if I'll have anything significant on these new cases.

At least I was able to gather both excised ear tissues within 36 hours of the calf's suspected death and drove them to Colorado State University's Veterinarian Diagnostic Laboratory for analysis.”



Chuck Zukowski hand-delivered both ear tissues to CSU and as soon as there are test results, I will report further about the extraordinary calf mutilation. Then on Saturday, March 21, Chuck received yet another call about a mutilated cow about twelve miles southeast of Walsenburg on a ranch only about twenty miles from Tom Miller's place in Hoehne. By Sunday, March 22, Chuck was there to investigate and take more photographs. I interviewed the rancher, Jim Garren, on March 23, for Earthfiles Part 4.

Historically, when there have been animal mutilations in one geographic region, there might be several more over the next few months. So, I hope viewers and listeners will contact me about any new mutilation reports at my email address: earthfiles@earthfiles.com.

To be continued in Part 4 - Third cow mutilation southeast of Walsenburg.

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This has been happening in this area forever.

The first documented case was Lady/Skippy the horse near Alamosa in 1967.

I personally flew a camera man from a TV station in Colorado Springs over
a ranch at La Veta Pass near Walsenburg Colorado to film circles left in the
pasture at the site of a mutilation. That was in 1995.

The San Luis Valley is famous for this type of activity.

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Yeah i read about the horse on the earthfiles site and heard Linda speak about it on several occassions- she's on coast to coast tonight.I've been trying to get hold of "A strange harvest" but cannot find it as a freeview anywhere.

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Part 4: Unusual Animal Deaths - March 21st Walsenburg Cow

© 2009 by Linda Moulton Howe

“I think it’s something extraterrestrial.
That’s all I can assume it could be – whether it’s a little green man
or what, I don’t know. But I don’t believe that either human or animal
as I know them could accomplish this (mutilation).”
- Jim Garren, Walsenburg Rancher



Three cattle mutilations discovered in southern Colorado between March 8
and March 21, 2009. The three sites form a triangle (yellow circles) on the map starting
with Weston about a half-hour west of Trinidad, which was the 28-year-old cow found
March 8, and probably killed on night of March 6, 2009, because she was seen alive
March 6. Hoehne is about 15 miles northeast of Trinidad, where 1-week-old calf was
found eviscerated on morning of Tuesday, March 17, 2009, and known to be alive
Monday afternoon, March 16, 2009. Third mutilation, a ranch about 12.5 miles
southeast of Walsenburg (20 miles northwest of Hoehne) where 2.5-year-old heifer found
Saturday morning, March 21, after giving birth to male calf Friday night, March 20.



2.5-year-old English Angus and French Gelbvieh heifer crossbreed gave birth
to calf Friday, March 20, 2009, and was found dead under juniper tree with udder removed
without blood or milk fluids visible next morning, in Walsenburg, Colorado.
Image Sunday morning, March 22, 2009 © by Chuck Zukowski.



March 27, 2009 Walsenburg, Colorado - Jim Garren is 70-years-old and retired from his CPA profession to full time ranching since 1993 on three ranches - two in southern Colorado and one in Missouri. One of his Colorado ranches is twelve and a half miles southeast of Walsenburg and only about twenty miles from Tom Miller's ranch in Hoehne where the 1-week-old calf was found bloodlessly eviscerated on March 17, 2009.

Three days later on Friday, March 20, 2009, Jim Garren's ranch helper, Tim Meyers, was checking on one of their 2.5-year-old heifers pregnant for the first time and late in giving birth. Jim has been crossbreeding pure bred Angus bulls and French Gelbvieh cows to produce a stronger, more muscular cow that has good marbling in its meat. The heifer was a healthy 1100-pounds, one of his best crossbreeds and Jim Garren was eager to see her first calf.

During Friday night, it now appears she gave birth, licked her new male calf clean and he probably sucked his first colostrum “immune milk” that strengthens newborns. The mother had him hide under a juniper tree, flat to the ground - perhaps because she wanted to graze for more strength before returning to her newborn calf. Or perhaps, she sensed something dangerous.

On Saturday morning, March 21, around 11 AM, Tim Meyers was feeding range cubes to the herd and realized the special, pregnant cow was missing. He went looking for her and found her dead. He called ranch owner Jim Garren in shock.


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Interview:

Jim Garren, retired CPA and owner of ranch 12.5 miles southeast of Walsenburg and 20 miles from Hoehne: “He said, ‘Her bag is missing!' And I said, ‘What?' He said, ‘She doesn't have a bag, but there isn't any blood!’ (laughs) Ted didn't understand that and I couldn't either.

So, we started making some calls. Tim called the sheriff in Las Animas County and he recommended we call the brand inspector. An hour or so later, the brand inspector joined Tim who took him to the site of the death. The two men looked all around the ground to see if they could determine what might have happened. They could not find any tracks. They could not find any blood. They did not see any trauma on the cow.

About 5 PM Saturday afternoon, March 21, 2009, they were walking circles around the area where we found the cow and lo and behold, we found the baby calf hid out under a tree. The calf had been cleaned up, which a cow does after birth. The placenta afterbirth was not too far from the calf and had completely dried up. The calf was bawling and in apparent good health.

So, Ted took the calf and we have some milk supplements we are able to give the calves and he fed the newborn male. He’s eating it and to this day, he’s eating the heck out of that supplement and growing good. So, we believe from that, the calf had sucked the mother and got his first colostrum (first “immune milk”), or else he would have died.

So, we believe she had nursed the calf before her death and the mutilated mother was found about 50 yards away from where we found the calf.

THAT MEANS THE COW GAVE BIRTH SOME TIME IN THE NIGHT FROM FRIDAY, MARCH 20, TO SATURDAY, MARCH 21, AND APPARENTLY LICKED THE CALF CLEAN AND FED HIM. THEN AFTER THAT, COMES THIS TERRIBLE THING THAT TAKES AWAY HER UDDER AND KILLS HER.

That’s my supposition and I believe that to be right because of the attitude and ability of this calf. He is doing real good and you would not expect a calf that never got the first colostrum from the mother to do that well.



No Unusual Tracks or Signs of Struggle
At Calf and Heifer Sites

COULD YOU DESCRIBE BOTH GROUND SCENES AROUND THE CALF AND HEIFER?

Well, where the calf was found, a few yards away from the calf, we found the afterbirth that the mother had sloughed off. We saw tracks of the mother cow. We didn’t see any other tracks at all. The calf was more or less underneath a juniper tree. There was no disturbance other than the afterbirth being close by. We did see one little spot of blood, but I think that’s where the cow had laid when she gave birth to the calf.

THAT WAS CLOSE TO THE CALF UNDER THE JUNIPER TREE?

Yes, pretty close. Not right in the same spot, but reasonably close. What I’m saying happened is that the calf was probably born there, was cleaned up there, and there was some blood there from the mother – which is natural – and then I think the calf got up and nursed and I think the mother hid the calf underneath the branches of the juniper tree.

Then around the mother, she was also under a juniper tree, although the branches were about three feet above her. The only blood I saw was a little on her hind leg that would be consistent with her dropping, sloughing off, the afterbirth. It was dry and caked and normally a cow will have some blood on her legs from that.



Saturday Morning, March 21, 2009,
Photos by Rancher
No Evidence of Natural Predators

Around where the udder had been removed, I could find no traces of blood at all. The cuts were just perfect. They were bigger than the actual udder would have been and they just cut the hide and pulled the udder out. What is left is just some tallow – she was a good, fat heifer – and some raw meat (muscle). But none of that has been cut! Her stomach had never been torn open. Her rectum had not been torn open.


2.5-year-old English Angus and French Gelbvieh heifer crossbreed as she was found
beneath a juniper tree with udder bloodlessly removed, vaginal tissues reddened and
expanded from having given birth earlier Friday night, March 20, 2009, to male calf.
Image Saturday morning, March 21, 2009 © 2009 by rancher Jim Garren.


Ranch manager Tim Meyers holds rear right leg of heifer up so ranch owner Jim Garren
could photograph bloodless hole where udder was removed. Images above and below
Saturday morning, March 21, 2009 © 2009 by rancher Jim Garren.




Her head – I could not find any signs of trauma, which you would look for if a lion had killed her or something like that. I could not see where her feet had moved the ground in any fashion. She was laying on her left side and her feet/legs were sticking straight out front and back. Under a normal tranquilization or attack, a cow will move her feet before she goes under. Nothing! I could not see any sign she ever moved her feet at all.


Tongue, eyes and ears intact on 2.5-year-old English Angus and French
Gelbvieh heifer crossbreed. Image Sunday morning,
March 22, 2009 © by Chuck Zukowski.


We felt all over her. We couldn’t feel any holes or outside entry points (for bullets) to indicate she had been shot, but I don’t believe there is a human alive that could cut that udder off that cleanly without spilling some blood.

ESPECIALLY IF SHE WAS PREGNANT AND HAD JUST GIVEN BIRTH AND THAT UDDER SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENGORGED WITH MILK AND BLOOD.

The udder would have been plumb full of milk.

AND THERE WAS NO FLUID?

No fluid. There was not a wet spot on the ground. We circled all around looking for anything we could find, like a bare spot where grass had been killed or whatever. We made several circles around at least as far as 50 yards out because we went that far where we found the calf. There were four of us doing that and no one has seen any tracks or anything other than cow tracks.



No Bird Predators, But Coyote Ate Rectum
by Sunday Morning, March 22


2.5-year-old English Angus and French Gelbvieh heifer crossbreed gave birth
to calf Friday, March 20, 2009, and was found dead with udder removed without
blood or milk fluids visible next morning, in Walsenburg, Colorado.
Image Sunday morning, March 22, 2009 © by Chuck Zukowski.


HER BODY IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT CHUCK ZUKOWSKI TOOK ARE SO CLEAN. I WONDERED IF EVEN THAT IS NORMAL THAT BIRDS OR OTHER PREDATORS HAVE NOT REALLY DONE ANYTHING TO HER BODY SINCE FRIDAY NIGHT?

Well, my experience with dead cows – and we have had some in the past with poison weeds. My experience is that shortly after they die, the crows will peck their eyes out and a coyote will tear out the rectum. Now, as of Saturday evening (March 21, 2009), none of that had happened.

We went back out there on Sunday, March 22, 2009, about 9:30 AM, and the right eye was still intact (cow was laying on left side with right side of face skyward). That tells me crows never got on her. But, a coyote had eaten out her rectum. So, there was a pretty good hole in there on Sunday. It was not there on the first photographs that we took on Saturday, the rectal skin had not been broken.


Foreground disturbance after coyote ate rectal and vaginal tissues out between
Saturday night, March 21, 2009, and Sunday morning, March 22, 2009, by 9:30 AM.
Image on March 22 © 2009 by Chuck Zukowski.



Why the Mutilator's Focus
On Mother and Not Calf?

THE MOTHER IS LYING 50 YARDS AWAY FROM HER NEWBORN ON HER LEFT SIDE WITH NO APPARENT SIGNS OF STRUGGLE, NO TRACKS, NO BLOOD AROUND THE EXCISIOIN OF THE BIG UDDER THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENGORGED WITH MILK AND BLOOD. MY QUESTION IS: WHATEVER CAME FOR THE MOTHER, WHY WOULDN’T IT HAVE GONE AFTER THE NEWBORN CALF AS WELL?

I can’t answer that. It puzzled us, too, except that I’ve observed over the years that when a cow – particularly after she has just had a calf and the calf has had its first nursing – will do what we call ‘hide a calf.’ The mother cow will pick a spot and the calf will lay down and the calf will not raise its head, it will not move. It virtually is invisible. That’s the nature of the cow and that’s the way we found the newborn calf.

The way we found him actually was that Tim’s wife heard it bawl and I suspect it was getting hungry and was bawling for the mother, which under normal circumstances, after a calf has eaten, it won’t bawl, it won’t move, it will just lay as flush to the ground as it can lay. That’s the nature of the mother cow protecting the newborn calf. Normally, the mother will stay pretty close to the newborn and she usually will get some help from another cow to baby sit when she needs to go get some water and that sort of thing. How the cows communicate all of that, I can’t tell you, but that’s what we have observed. Maybe the cow was possibly out away from the calf grazing when her death occurred.

IS THIS YOUR FIRST MUTILATION ON THIS PARTICULAR RANCH SOUTH OF WALSENBURG?

Yes.

HAD YOU EVER HAD ANIMAL MUTILATIONS ANYWHERE ELSE YOU HAVE RANCHED?

No, I have not. This was my first.

WHAT IS YOUR REACTION?

Well, I’m sickened because I put in a lot of effort to raise these particular heifers through the genetics I am using to grow them and I have some theories that I’ve exercised about how fast I breed them. And this mother cow was just perfect, all ten of the special cows were just perfect. I just hate like heck to lose one like that!

Her calf was approximately 80 pounds and he was just in super health and super strong for just being as young as he was. That’s the way all of these heifers calves are. So, I’m having great expectations for the production of this animal I’m developing, so I’m very sad that I lost her.

WHAT WAS HER ESTIMATED WEIGHT AT DEATH?

When she was preg-checked on October 21, 2008, she weighed 1,070 pounds. So, I’m guessing that at the time of her death, she weighed about 1100 pounds. The combination of the cow and calf were worth at least $1,250. She was a very classy-looking cow. But I can't afford mortality insurance, so it's pure loss.



Who? or What? Killed and Mutilated
Walsenburg Heifer?

“I think it’s something extraterrestrial.
That’s all I can assume it could be – whether it’s a little green
man or what, I don’t know. But I don’t believe that either human
or animal as I know them could accomplish
this (mutilation).” - Jim Garren, Rancher

My own impression today is that the cutting off of the udder, I don’t believe there is a human alive that could cut it that cleanly and not cause some blood to flow. I just don’t think it’s possible.

A second observation I had was that I don’t see how an animal or human could cause that cow to die as big and strong and young as she was without tearing up, or having some marks visible on the ground. I don’t believe there is a man or horse alive that could have roped her and made her go down without showing some signs of the struggle.

I certainly don’t believe it was an animal because we have lost cattle – mostly calves to lions – and to what we believe were coyotes – and in all cases, meat was eaten, the lion ate into the calf stomachs to get its dinner and the coyotes go through the rectum to get to theirs. None of that was on my cow on Saturday. So, I have to eliminate animals as I know what they do and I’ve kind of got to eliminate man because I don’t think there is any way that could happen. We don’t have any electricity on the ranch. There are no signs or tracks. We’re so remote, it would have been virtually impossible for someone to have walked to where this happened. You could have got there on horse back – we do that all the time – but we found no horse tracks at all.

I think it’s something extraterrestrial. That’s all I can assume it could be – whether it’s a little green man or what, I don’t know. But I don’t believe that either human or animal as I know them could accomplish this (mutilation).



Beam Technology?


Greeley Tribune, Greeley, Colorado, Sunday,
November 2, 1980, article by Bill Jackson, Tribune Staff Writer,
entitled: “Mutilations - Predators ... or UFOs? What's the answer?”

EYEWITNESSES HAVE DESCRIBED SEEING BEAMS COME DOWN FROM THE SKY INTO PASTURES – AND I HAVE HALF A DOZEN EYEWITNESSES WHO SAY THEY HAVE SEEN ANIMALS RISE IN THESE BEAMS AND OTHERS HAVE SEEN ANIMALS DROPPED TO THE GROUND FROM THE BEAMS, OR PLACED ON THE GROUND BY THESE BEAMS. WHAT IS THIS BEAM TECHNOLOGY, I DON’T KNOW, BUT THE BEAM TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE ANIMAL MUTILATION PHENOMENON AROUND THE WORLD FOR AT LEAST HALF A CENTURY.

THAT WOULD AT LEAST EXPLAIN HOW YOUR WONDERFUL COW MIGHT HAVE BEEN SELECTIVELY TAKEN VERTICALLY FROM THE PASTURE AND THEN RETURNED VERTICALLY.

Yeah, that would explain why we don’t see any tracks or signs. Of course, if the surgery was done somewhere other than where she was at (when taken), that would explain why we don’t see any blood.

RIGHT.

I’ve talked with some of the neighbors and Tim has talked to quite a few of our neighbors. I have a couple of partners that partner on some cattle with me and I’ve talked with them. And I’ve talked with some veterinarians.

Really, no one has a clue! (laughs) They just say, ‘I can’t believe it.’

DOES ANYBODY BRING UP THE POSSIBILITY OF SOMETHING FROM OUTER SPACE?

Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! Most of them say it’s got to be something that we don’t know what it’s about.

WHEN PEOPLE SPECULATE AND CONTEMPLATE SOMETHING EXTRATERRESTRIAL FROM OUTER SPACE, WHAT DO THEY SAY TO YOU?

Basically, they say it’s technologically above our ability to understand it and shrug their shoulders and say, ‘I don’t understand it, but it has to be something like that that could accomplish what happened without leaving any signs or traces.’

HAVE ANY OF YOUR NEIGHBOR AROUND YOUR RANCH SOUTH OF WALSENBURG HAD ANY ANIMAL MUTILATIONS IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO?

The closest one would be this Tom Miller that you’re talking about.

IN HOEHNE, COLORADO.

Yes, Hoehne is probably 20 miles from our ranch. I don’t know Mr. Miller and could not call him my neighbor, but that’s the closest of anyone I know of.

WHEN YOU SAW THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT CHUCK ZUKOWSKI TOOK OF THE 1-WEEK-OLD CALF LAYED OUT ON TOM MILLER’S FLATBED TRUCK, WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST REACTION AND THOUGHT?

I just could not understand it. I mean, I just saw a head and front legs and two hind legs with a gap in the middle – that’s what I saw. I could not understand. There wasn’t even any hide between the head and the hind legs. I’ve never seen anything like it.”


On Tuesday morning, March 17, rancher Tom Miller
picked up the strangely mutilated, bloodless carcass of
a 1-week-old male calf from beside the feed bin and placed what was left
of the body on his flatbed truck, shown above. Image March 18 © 2009
by Chuck Zukowski, MUFON Field Investigator.

From the Hoehne 1-week-old calf above, investigator Chuck Zukowski cut out both unusual ear excisions and hand-delivered to the Colorado State University Veterinarian Diagnostic Laboratory for analysis. Final test results pending. Chuck did not sample tissue from the Jim Garren mutilated heifer near Walsenburg on Sunday, March 22, because too much time had elapsed since her death on Friday night, March 20, 2009.

Historically, when there have been animal mutilations in one geographic region, there might be several more over the next few months. So, I hope viewers and listeners will contact me about any new mutilation reports at my email address: earthfiles@earthfiles.com.