If the government or some corporation were doing cattle mutilations then you would think it would be easier, safer, and more efficient to simply purchase the cattle and test them rather than risk exposure, law suits, and being shot at to perform some mundane thing like testing tissue samples. It's a bizarre thing to be sure that makes little sense.
I wish they would have elaborated on the problems with L.M.H.'s investigations into the subject.
I couldn't agree more. This extremely odd, widespread activity would not only be more expensive than buying cattle direct, it would be
enormously more expensive. It would also have all the risks mentioned, and really doesn't seem to foot with common sense. If corporate, there are more effective ways to drive out the smaller farmers from the business (this is happening anyway as a matter of economics; besides, your business reputation would be ruined if the reality came to light). Additionally, practically speaking, how do you hoist up relatively heavy cattle and sheep onto a helicopter, all the while avoiding leaving tracks, while the animals are presumably trying to avoid you? What about the criminal aspects of the activity (including insurance fraud)?
This all doesn't address the fact that numerous farmers are now taking pot shots at the helicopters with high powered rifles. Given the number of bullets flying around, wouldn't we see more direct evidence of government / corporate involvement? I would have to think some of these farmers are decent shots.
That being said, the government does some pretty stupid stuff. I once heard a show about crop circles, where the pattern seems to mimic what is occurring here -- at the core exists a paranormal phenomenum (the simple crop circles) which is being augmented by a small team of government contractors employed by MI5 (who create the more complex circles). Again, though, why? At least people aren't firing rifles at the crop circle hoaxers.
Also, how could L.M.H. go so far off the reservation (she did have a legitimate career at one point)? This is the same argument used against Hopkins, Jacobs, Carpenter,
et. al. (all of whom have legitimate careers) regarding the abduction phenomenum. I'm not saying it can't happen, but I don't get the psychology of so many seemingly intelligent people totally developing their own fantasy land.
By the way, I also truly enjoyed the show -- I thought it was one of the better ones I have heard on the Paracast, with frontline researchers coming forward to tell their experiences (
cf. discussions around the 'state' of UFology).