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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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DATE: SEPTEMBER 9, 1975 OWNER: Alva A. Simpson, Jr. - Abiquiu, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Bull, hereford DATE DIED: Between 5:30pm August 30, and 8:30pm August 31, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: Right side ORGANS TAKEN: Scrotum, penis, rectum TRACK EVIDENCE: Wet ground and an elbow imprint was found INSPECTOR: Pat Archuleta DATE: October 4, 1975 OWNER: Mark Crowther, Sanford, Colorado ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Bull DATE DIED: October 4, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: ORGANS TAKEN: tongue cut out, half of left ear cut off, testicles, penis and rectum had been removed. TRACK EVIDENCE: There was hair on logs and brush, also several trees about three inches in diameter had been broken down where it appeared he had been down prior to his death INSPECTOR: Paul B. Riley
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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.