I applaud Butch’s efforts and support his decision to get involved in so-called “mutilation” research. We need as many individuals with law enforcement experience as possible involved in investigating these puzzling cases. Take it from me: this line of inquiry is fraught with a social stigma that comes with this frightening appearing territory. I know from many years of personal experience that this is NOT a popular subject to have one’s name attached to and this is not a subject that most investigators should become involved in. Again, thanks Butch for your efforts and courage, but all of us need to do more research on the subject that is surrounded with misconceptions and inappropriate generalities.
At no time did I hear any mention of the considerable amount of circumstantial evidence that suggests human groups(s) may be directly involved in many, if not most, cattle mutilations. Police Chief Ted Oliphant’s work in the Fyffe, AL region in the late 80s and early 90s, for instance, suggests that some kind of “bacteriological experiments” were going on with area cattle targeted as unwilling subjects by nearby Maxwell Air Force base. Both Ted and I have been saying for years that there is a strong possibility that some (if not most?) cattle mutilations may also be a monitoring program for environmental pollutants such as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy “prion” disease better known as “mad-cow disease” in the food chain. (See:
http://blogs.myspace.com/neworleansphotography and my book
Secrets of the Mysterious Valley chapter 13: pages 405 to 435). The subject of environmental monitoring is a seldom mentioned potential motive that could explain many of these cattle death cases. IMO this theory has legs and deserves much more attention. NIDS published a thought-provoking paper on this subject in 2002 and NIDS managing director micro-biologist Colm Kelleher wrote an excellent book titled Brain Trust
http://colmkelleher.com/ that looks at this subject as a rationale for the mutilations. The probable role of the Rocky Mountain Biophysical Lab in the emergence of mad-cow/TSE was never mentioned etc. I could go on and on…
David Perkins has been investigating mutilations since 1975. He was Linda Howe’s camerman and chief consultant for her doc Strange Harvest. He and Linda now vehemently disagree on the subject. Perkins observed early on in the ‘70s that regions hardest hit by the mutilators were located downwind and downstream of where we obtain and utilize uranium. This suggested to him that could be an environmental monitoring program at work. IMO, Perkins’ theorizing is by far the most creative thinking in the field of “mutology.”
At no time during the show w/ Butch was there a mention of over 300 helicopter sightings that have been reported in and around cattle mutilation sites, including choppers and occupants seen conducting experiments on what turn out to be mutilated cows and animals being flown by chopper dangling from harnesses. Nor were there mentions of sheriff’s officers almost shooting down choppers seen flying away from a mute sites. At no time were there mentions of the rare physical evidence that has been documented at crime scenes that also hints at human involvement. Items found over the years include a gas-mask, scalpel, ritual occult sign, i.e., candles, ritual symbols, carefully combed tail hair, organs in a plastic bag hanging above the carcass, not to mention barbiturates, anti-coagulants, synthetic amphetamines, aluminum-titanium-oxygen-silicon flakes, and antimony that have all been detected over the years in mutilated livestock cases.
This is not a simple mystery and there are many popular culture misconceptions that have gained a life of their own that the data does not support. These include: all cattle mutilations have been drained of blood (Not true. Most are NOT drained.) High-heat is the cutting agent (Not true. Out of around 200 cases I have been involved with, forensic sample testing showed only four cases where cooked hemoglobin was present.)
Also, what few people care to realize is that unusual scavenger action can produce evidence that (to the untrained eye) appears high strange and “surgically-precise.” I have seen magpies and crows carve out perfect circles in the rear-end of cows, for instance. This picture was obtained by the late Michael Corbin from a Park County case. The rancher claimed that he watched birds do this to the carcass.
Another intriguing element that Butch didn’t mention about the Gomez cases is the fluorescing paint material detected by black light on animals that were then targeted by the mutilators, or the lighter-than-air conventional craft that were apparently seen. I don’t care what Linda says: these facts indicate to me (and other researchers) that some sort of human perpetrators and agenda may be involved in some (if not most) cases. BTW: Howard Burgess was the liaison between NM State patrolman Gabe Valdez and Los Alamos Lab for forensic sample testing of Dulce area cattle deaths—most notably the Manuel Gomez cases in the late 1970s.
I could pick the show apart and go on and on, but instead, I suggest Gene and David have myself, David Perkins and Gabe Valdez on a show that would set the record straight as to what we really know about the unexplained livestock mutilation mystery. Between us we have about 90 years of field experience. I can also update everyone on the nine cows, a horse and a goat mutilation that have been reported since November 2009 in the San Luis Valley.
Even this up-to-speed Paracast bunch will be surprised at the extent of the data that has been obtained to explain this mystery and need I mention: it ain’t all due to aliens rustling up lip & eye stew or making udder soufflé’.
