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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.
“cattle mutilation”9 pages
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DATE: October 11, 1975 OWNER: Sam Britt - 33 miles West of Clayton, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Hereford bull, 3 years, 1400-1500 lbs. DATE DIED: 36-48 hours before October 11 POSITION FOUND IN: Right side ORGANS TAKEN: Scrotum, penis, rectum TRACK EVIDENCE: None stated INSPECTOR: Frank Best DATE: October 13, 1975 OWNER: Alvin Stocton - Raton, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Bull DATE DIED: October 11, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: Right side ORGANS TAKEN: Scrotum, testicles, penis and end of sheath TRACK EVIDENCE: Only those made by Mr. Stocton, Sheriff Grubilnik, and Ben Wooten INSPECTOR: Ben Wooten DATE: October 15, 1975 OWNER: W. F. Martin - Springer, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Black bull DATE DIED: October 15, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: ORGANS TAKEN: Rectum, penis, testicles TRACK EVIDENCE: None stated INSPECTOR: Harold Gilbert DATE: October 18, 1975 OWNER: Rock Ranch - Nara Visa, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Black angus cow DATE DIED: Found October 16 - had been dead seven to eight days prior POSITION FOUND IN: Laying on back ORGANS TAKEN: Rectum and vagina TRACK EVIDENCE: None noted INSPECTOR: Dwayne Masscy
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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.