Jeff Walker #64 @7317 Wed Jun 26 22:43:38 1991 þ Ask_UFO #101 Dt: 18-Apr-91 13:02 By: Don Ecker To: All Re: The `HARVEST' Continues This file was provided to the ParaNet Information Service by UFO Magazine. All rights are reserved. You may distribute this file freely as long as this header remains intact. Date prepared: 4/18/91 Contributed by: Staff UFO Magazine ================================================================= UFO Magazine Vol. 5 No. 4 ( Coping With Abduction ) The `Harvest' Continues ANIMAL MUTILATION UPDATE by Linda Moulton Howe In 1989, there were so many cattle mutilations in southern Idaho that Bear Lake County Sheriff Brent Bunn told me, "We haven't seen anything like this since the 1970s." Sheriff Bunn sent me 16 neatly-typed "Investigation Reports" about cattle mutilations that had taken place in his county between May and December. Over half occurred in a remote valley called Nounan. Only eighty people live there. Ranching is their main income source, and cattle are precious. Disease and predators are old and well-understood enemies. What descended on Nounan, Idaho in the summer and fall of 1989 was not understood-and it scared people. Bloodless and precise cuts-that's what bothers people. Officer Gregg Athay wrote in his mutilation report, "There were no visible signs of the cause of death. It appeared that only the soft tissues (nose, lips and tongue) were gone off the head and four nipples off the bag. Again there was no blood on the hair and ground." No veterinarian report was made on that cow. But a month earlier, Dr. Charles Merrell at the Bear Lake Animal Hospital examined a dead Hereford cow. Dr. Merrell wrote after his examination: "Some time between approximately 8 p.m. (August 31, 1989) and 7 a.m. 1 September, the anus, vagina to include uterus and ovaries and all four teats (one teat deeply incised, the others shallow cuts) were removed by knife cuts around these tissues. There were no signs of injury and no blood to be found on the ground. " A neighbor, Bernice Laughter, said she saw lights in that area about 2 a.m. on September 1. Disks reported Throughout the history of animal mutilations, since 1967, there have been numerous eyewitness accounts of large, glowing disks or "silent helicopters " over pastures where dead animals are later found. One Waco, Texas rancher said he encountered two four-foot tall, light green-colored "creatures " with large, black, slanted eyes, carrying a calf which was later found dead and mutilated. In 1983, a Missouri couple watched through binoculars as two small beings in tight-fitting silver suits worked on a cow in a nearby pasture. The alien heads were large and white in color. Nearby, a tall, green-skinned "lizard man" stood glaring with eyes slit by vertical pupils like a crocodiles's. Several hypnosis sessions with various UFO abductees have produced information suggesting that the alien intruders are using the tissues and blood fluids for genetic experimentation and sustenance. One Missouri woman, who has experienced repeated encounters with small grey beings that have large, black eyes, sid the creatures told her, "We use substances from cows in an essential biochemical process for our survival." In the 1989 continuing harvest, over half of the Idaho mutilations were young calves. One mutilated calf, found December 24, north of Downey, Idaho, was found lying on its back with the navel, rectum and genitals neatly cut out of the steer's white belly. No blood was found anywhere. (See photo, p. 18.) This steer calf was taken for an autopsy to Dr. Chris Oats, D.V.M., at the Hawthorne Animal Hospital. Dr. Oats checked all the vital organs and was unable to determine the cause of death. During the autopsy, a sharp cut was found in the right chest area, and Dr. Oats discovered that a main artery had been severed under the chest wound. She was surprised that "the steer had lost a large amount of blood, but [she] could not understand where it went to. " There was no blood on the steer or on the ground. Dr. Oats also determined that the steer had not been dragged by the neck or tied up around the feet. Residents of southern Idaho weren't alone in their fear and con- fusion about the mutilations. William Veenhuizen woke up on July 17, 1989 to find his finest cow mutilated about 100 yards from his farmhouse in Maple Valley, Washington, southeast of Seattle. The six-year-old female was due to calve in about three weeks. But mutilators had cut away a smooth oval section of the cow's mouth, removed a section of jaw with teeth, excised the tongue and cut out the entire udder, vagina and rectal area. The calf was still inside the belly. Something woke Mr. Veenhuizen up around I a.m. that day, he remembers. He even put his shoes on and went outside, but he couldn't see or hear anything out of the ordinary. He was so upset after the mutilation, he started keeping the rest of his animals inside the barn. "A neighbor said to me that coyotes did it," he said, "but I said the coyotes don't have that sharp a knife."