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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: May 19, 1976 OWNER: Sharp Ranch - Corona, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Black angus bull DATE DIED: May 15, 1976 POSITION FOUND IN: Left side on back ORGANS TAKEN: Testicles removed TRACK EVIDENCE: None INSPECTOR: Claude Foster DATE: June 29, 1976 OWNER: Tony Lamb - ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Yearling steer DATE DIED: 48 hours prior to date POSITION FOUND IN: Left side ORGANS TAKEN: Right ear and right eye, the tongue, circle cut out at his navel, penis was gone, and he had also been cut around his rectum. TRACK EVIDENCE: None stated INSPECTOR: Harold Gilbert DATE: July 10, 1976 OWNER: ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Buffalo calf DATE DIED: July 10, 1976 POSITION FOUND IN: ORGANS TAKEN: Tongue, testicles and penis. Cut at the rectum, also gone was large intestine. TRACK EVIDENCE: A white helicopter was seen the morning of July DATE: July 1, 1976 OWNER: Stanley Cisneros- Questa, New Mexico ANIMAL DESCRIPTION: Solid red cow - pregnant DATE DIED: June 29 or June 30, 1976 POSITION FOUND IN: Laying on right side ORGANS TAKEN: Left eye; udder was cut off TRACK EVIDENCE: None INSPECTOR: Milton Culbertson
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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.