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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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OWNER: Sam Griego - Pintada, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Black Motley face DATE DIED: December 26, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: Left side ORGANS TAKEN: Cut all of the rectun, udder, two holes on jugler vein on right side, hole in between front legs, a little b which looked like they might want to get to the heart Two holes on back in front of hip bones same size as ones in neck, one to each side of spine right across, looked like they were made from the air while cow was standing up. All sexual organs and udder were taken. TRACK EVIDENCE: None except for bird tracks INSPECTOR: Pete B. Marez DATE: January 19, 1976 OWNER: Dipper Cattle Company - Pintada, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Crossbred red motley face DATE DIED: December 19, 1975 POSITION FOUND IN: Left side ORGANS TAKEN: All sexual organs and tongue TRACK EVIDENCE: None INSPECTOR: Pete B. Marez DATE: February 14, 1976 DATE: February 14, 1976 OWNER: Rhea Howe - Engle, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: 2 yr. old Charloais-Hereford heifer, 700 lbs. DATE DIED: Between February 11 and 13, 1976 POSITION FOUND IN: Back and left side ORGANS TAKEN: Udder TRACK EVIDENCE: Rained night before INSPECTOR: Tom Bennett DATE: April 23, 1976 OWNER: Pete Gutierrez - Chilli, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Blue Roan Mare ORGANS TAKEN: Bag area and rectum area TRACK EVIDENCE: Numerous track of coyote's (or dog) in evidence INSPECTOR: A. J. Gibbs
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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.