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This FBI file on animal mutilations brings together newspaper clippings, correspondence and New Mexico livestock and State Police reports from the 1970s. The clippings report cattle mutilations near Dulce, Cuba and Taos, including an orange light seen near Taos that left a powder with potassium and magnesium, the same elements found on marked cattle hides. Senator Harrison Schmitt's letter to rancher Manuel Gomez forwards State Police Chief Martin Vigil's 1978 reports and notes that Officer Gabe Valdez had found no positive leads.
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UNITED STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 1915 JERRY APODACA, GOVERNOR DR. CHARLES E. BECKNELL SECRETARY September 19,1978 17447. #17447. Sup. 25,197 The Honorable Harrison Schmitt U. S. Senator for New Mexico 1251 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. 20510 Dear Senator Schmitt: Very truly yours, Pursuant to your correspondence, dated July 10, 1978, regarding a request from Mr. Manuel S. Gomez of Dulce, New Mexico, for a government investigation of the mysterious livestock mutilations which have plagued Rio Arriba County for the past two years, attached hereto kindly find official New Mexico State Police Offense/Incident Reports submitted by Officer Gabe Valdez, together with reports from members of the New Mexico Livestock Board, for your informa:t and whatever disposition you deem appropriate. MATTHEW Trusting the information is satisfactory, I remain CHIEF MARTIN E. VIGIL, DIRECTOR New Mexico State Police MEV:WJB:j1 ENCLOSURES (26 PAGES) FOR LETTER DATED OCTOBER 16, 1978, TO MR. MANUEL S. GOMEZ
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.