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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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# Cattle Mutilation Mystery Deepens Schoenfeld Clinical Laboratories in Altoquique analyzed the samples and found the affected birds to contain significant deposits of potassium and magnesium. The laboratory report disclosed Tuesday that the potassium content was more than 70 times above normal. At the laboratory here, Bob Seboafield characterized the presence of potassium and magnesium on the lides as "highly suspicious." He said he believed the substance was made water soluble and doubted that it would have occurred on the animals through natural means. "How it got there, I don't know," he said. The ultraviolet light test is the first such test known to have been conducted in connection with the mutation. The test at the Gomes corrals took place July 5. At the time, Valdez, Gomes and Albaquerque retired scientist, Edward Burgess were unaware of an incident which had occurred four nights before near Teos. Three families living near each other three miles northwest of Tacos were startled at 12:05 am by what they later described as "a very bright orange Eight" outside their homes. Mrs. Elias Vargas, who lives in one of the homes, said the light frightened her. "I had just gone to bed and suddenly the room lit up with a bright orange light," she recalled. "I thought maybe the neighbors were throwing firecrackers, but then too bright to be that I realized it was. "I went to the window and opened it, and I could hear a kind of crane falling noise. The light was so bright I could see for some distance." At first I thought the neighbour house was so fire, so I went to the other window. I saw this form, it wasn't a definite form, but it was roundish and about as big as two ears, may be bigger. By then it wasn't orange any more, it was a sort of gray color. It stayed for about two minutes. I pushed into another bedroom and opened the door, and it took off to the north and disappeared in two seconds. All you could see was a red light. It happened so fast I got real scared. I don't think I want to sleep until 5 in the morning." Mrs. Vargis said members of all three families saw the light. She said it horrred her over a space between her house and that of an immediate neighbor. A 50-pound fuel tank and a pickup truck were directly below the object. The next morning, she said, a thin powder was found on the roof of the pickup's cab. They collected the powder in a jar. Eventually, the substance was given to the Schoenfeld laboratory in Albuquerque. Schoenfeld said Tuesday initial analysis of the substance show it contains significant amounts of potassium and magnesium — the same elements found on the hide of the cattle tested four nights later. In descending order, Schoenfeld said the residue contains calcium. sodium, potassium, aluminum, phosphorus magnesium and iron. Other elements presently classified include borium, bismuth, platinum, vanadium and strontium. It is possible to find all the discussions in the mail. No doubt they do not appear in the air. If you try it found it in a picture book, then would have to be something to have moving in there. He described the cape of natual al as call gray and about half an inch long. 106 of an inch wide, and about a inch in a sheet of a paper. I'm really out to the business of paint analysis," Siemfeld said. It could easily be a film of oxidized metal. We're going to do some more work with it. I'm not convinced that it's metallic or organic or all. He told me example particles are embedded in the material. "We can't really say what it is you" he said "for the moment, I'm half- None of the authorities care to specialize on a direct tie between the residue and the substance found on the five cattle. "Right now, the only tie is the potassium and the magnesium," Burgess says, "and that's not substantial enough right now to say the two are definitely related. But it's intriguing." One official noted unrelated cattle are generally found lying on their right side—the same side the live cattle were "marked" on. Classic mutilation signs are a torsed rectum, severed sexual organs, a severed tongue, eyes gouged out and, in some cases, a severed left ear.
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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.