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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.
“New Mexico State Police”5 pages
## Mutilated Cattle Found Near Cuba CUBA-Three new cattle mutilations were confirmed by State Police Sunday, on the Julius Ferran ranch 30 miles northeast of Cuba. The udder and rectum of each cow had been removed, and an ear of the calf was missing. They were all Herefords, and had been dead about five days, 250 yards of the ranch house. The carcasses of two cows and a calf were discovered about 9 p.m. Saturday, officer Rick Poolaw of Coba said. "It's definitely a mutilation," he said, describing the classic signs: There were no tracks. Do Love O.
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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.