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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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# Mutilated Cow is Discovered in Dulce Area ## Journal Special DULCE - A multilated cow - the seventh in the area this year - has been found near Dulce and a State Police officer says he believes he has found evidence, the cattle are being transported elsewhere for the multilations and the carcasses returned to the animals' home pastures the same night. The carcase of the most recent mutilation was discovered Wednesday. The udder and the rectum of a 4-year-old Hereford cow had been severed, and a portion of the lower lip was missing Investigators estimate the mutilation occurred Monday night. On the same date exactly 2 years ago, a carcass and a series of mysterious tracks were discovered in the area. State Police officer Gabe Valder said the carcase this week was located within 500 yards of where the carcars was found in the 1976 case. In examining the carcass, Valdes said he found that the left front leg and the left rear leg had been fractured. He said he could clearly perceive indentations in the flesh, near the fractures, and he believed they were left by clamps attached to the animal's legs. Valdez said he could not discern any tracks in the area of the Monday night muralist, nor could he find any body of prints left by the muralist cover. cleowhere. Ho, believes the cattle are airlifted from the pasture during the night, taken to a secluded area, mutilated and returned to the pasture. "You could tell where these clamps or viruses were attached," he said. "I'm positive they do their work somewhere else." The cow, he said, was lying on its right side and there was no evidence of a struggle. Only a minimal amount of blood was near the body. Thursday afternoon, a Paris, Texas, team of investigators — recently formed to probe multilateral plaguing ranches throughout the West for the past three years — arrived in Dulce to examine the site and the carcasses. Valdez said the animal's vertebrae were broken. The mutilation occurred .ha Manuel Gomez ranch, in a pasture 13 miles east of Dulce. Gomez has lost four cattle to mutilations since 1974. There have been a total of 10 mutilations in the area during the past two years. Repeatedly frustrated in attempt to unravel the mutilation cases, Valden Thursday said he intends to assemble most of the Gomez cattle "to see if they are being marked in any way that can be identified in the darkness. He said a retired scientist in Albuquerque is assembling a device to examine the cattle. "We'll get the hard in a corral and run them through the squeeze chute and see if we can find anything." Valdez said. He expects to conduct the experiment next week.
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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.