FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 05

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# FBI Joins Investigation of Animal Mutilations Linked to UFOs

By WILLIAM BARNHILL, BOB PRATT and DAVID WRIGHT

The FBI has joined in the investigation of the bizarre mutilation of thousands of grazing horses and cattle over an 18-state area - attacks which have been linked to UFOs.

Disclosure of the FBI role was made at a recent conference of officials from seven states where the attacks have reached an alarming level.

Sen. Harrison Schmitt (R.-N. Mex.), the ex-astronaut and scientist who organized the conference, declared: "Either we've got a UFO situation or we've got a massive, massive conspiracy which is enormously well funded."

At least 8,000 cattle and horses have been butchered with surgical precision over an estimated 1.28 million square mile area stretching from Tennessee to Oregon since the mutilations began around 1970. The 1.28 million square miles is more than a third of the

total land area in the continental United States.

In many cases the attacks have coincided with UFO sightings. Baffled investigators say the strange pattern of the mutilations includes these startling facts:

- No tire marks, footprints or other signs of human activity are found near the mutilated carcasses.

- Only the blood and certain parts of the animals — usually the reproductive organs — are removed.

- Trace elements found on and in some carcasses are the same as those collected after a UFO sighting in New Mexico.

- Buzzards and coyotes refuse to eat the mutilated horses and cattle.

Sen. Schmitt, who received a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University and was a member of the Apollo 17 moon-landing crew, said state and local law enforcement officials have been unable to come up with leads on their own and FBI help is needed.

"To date, the mutilations have been as mysterious as they've been grisly," he said.

"The Justice Department authorized the FBI office in Albuquerque to become involved in the investigation of these crimes on the basis that several of the mutilation killings occurred on Indian lands."

Many attacks have occurred on animals at the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in Dulce, N. Mex.

"Any place we've had a muribation, we have also had UFO sightings." reported Gabe Valdez, a veteran New Mexico.

SAFFLING incidents have occurred in 18 states.

state trooper who has investigated more than 30 attacks.

If predators are involved, he said, "we have some predators with super powers. We find these carcasses are being lifted up (off the ground) and later they leave clamp marks on the legs. It is also very hard for me to believe that a predator can take the heart out of an animal through a small wound in the neck."

Dr. Henry Montelth, an engineering physicist at Sandia Laboratories which handles secret government projects, revealed that Indians are so terrified by the mutilations, they bury the carcasses immediately and are reluctant to discuss what happened. Even their dogs refuse to go near the carcasses.

Dr. Montaith, who has been investigating the attacks since they began, said Indians have told him of actually seeing spaceships land and unload "star people" who chase down

animals and take them back to the spaceship.

"There have been thousands of these mutilations nobody knows about. The Indians are usually frightened to death," he said.

"They don't say anything about it because they know it's being done by 'star people,' they

EXPERTS: New Mexico state trooper Gabe Valdez takes tissue samples from a mutilated cow found at Dulce, N. Mex. Assisting him.is retired scientist Howard Burgess, who's investigated several similar incidents with Valdez.

know why they're doing it, so therefore we should leave it alone.

"Those are their exact words ... The 'star people' know what they're doing and should be trusted."

Dr. Monteith said he has no doubt that aliens from outer space are responsible for the attacks and are using the animals' bodies as part of their study of life on earth.

Many other investigators police, scientists and UFO researchers agree that UFOs are the only possible explanation.

Said Richard Sigismund, a Boulder, Colo., psychologist and

UFO researcher: "What few clues we have concerning those responsible for the mutilations suggest that we are dealing with well-equipped, highly capable airborne entities . . . We are forced, I feel, to the hypothesis that unidentified aircraft are the means - UFOs."

To aid in solving the mystery, District Attorney Eloy Martinez of Espanola. N. Mex.. is seeking a $40,000 grant from the U.S. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Admitting UFOs are a possibility, he said:

"I might be the first district attorney in the country to prosecute an alien from outer space."