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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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## C DATE: October 24, 1975 OWNER: Mark Crowther - Sanford, Colorado ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Bull, registered DATE DIED: Had been dead three or four days POSITION FOUND IN: ORGANS TAKEN: Testicles, penis, rectum, also tongue and left ear TRACK EVIDENCE: Only those of bull INSPECTOR: Paul Riley DATE: October 29, 1975 CENTER: Sam Dunlap - Tucumcari, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Bull DATE DIED: October 29, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: ORGANS TAKEN: Sexual organs and tongue TRACK EVIDENCE: None stated INSPECTOR: D. F. Garnett DATE: November 4, 1975 OWNER: Robert Burns - Nara Visa, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Cow, black angus DATE DIED: Had been dead six or seven days when found POSITION FOUND IN: Laying on back ORGANS TAKEN: Sexual organs and tongue also left ear TRACK EVIDENCE: None specified - varmits had eaten on the an INSPECTOR: D. F. Garnett DATE: November 5, 1975 OWNER: C. A. Ragland - Tucumcari, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Heifer calf, 450 lbs. DATE DIED: November 5, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: ORGANS TAKEN: All sex organs, bag-skinned off, flesh gon TRACK EVIDENCE: None stated INSPECTOR: D. F. Garnett
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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.