We Are Not Alone by Marc Hartzman

Author:Marc Hartzman [Hartzman, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2023-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

The Ariel students drew pictures for investigator Cynthia Hind. Many depicted UFOs or aliens, and sometimes both.

CATTLE MUTILATION CULPRITS: ALIENS OR SATANISTS?

Tim Burton’s 1996 sci-fi comedy classic Mars Attacks! opens with a herd of flaming cattle stampeding by a bewildered farmer. The film’s Martian invaders had no intent of dissecting the bovines or draining their blood or harvesting their organs. For them, searing livestock and farms with heat rays was pure strategy: burn earth’s food supply and the planet would fall to its knees. These were aliens with a clear plan, unlike the ones that have often been accused of mutilating cattle across the country for the past six decades—primarily in the 1970s—and continue to be accused today. Of all the wonders earth has to offer, what would make cow lips, ears, tongues, and udders a prize worth traveling light-years for?

Cases of cattle mutilation typically involve the removal of such body parts, as well as the sex organs, with surgical precision, yet leave no trace of blood, footprints, or vehicular tracks. As one farmer in the early seventies told a reporter, it was “as if the bodies were mutilated elsewhere and dropped to the ground via the air.” These types of mysterious mutilations have given aliens a bad rap. In 1975—a year in which Colorado ranchers reported nearly two hundred cases between April and October—a report by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) exonerated interstellar visitors in at least one wave of murders.

The group’s investigation covered hundreds of deaths in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Colorado, and Minnesota. Many of the victims had been slain by earthly predators or died due to natural causes, but enough cattle “bore strange mutilations which could not be accounted for in a mundane manner.” Perfect health at the animals’ time of death and no signs of struggle raised questions and stirred imaginations.

“Blood was missing from the carcass and there were definite indications that certain organs had been removed with surgical skill,” an APRO spokesperson said, regarding cases where simple explanations did not suffice.

If not aliens, hungry coyotes, or other beasts, what savage creature could be so cruel and precise? Apparently, humans. With the help of law enforcement and veterinarians, a cult of satanists was found responsible and apprehended.

They had wreaked their havoc under the cover of night and avoided leaving tracks by carefully walking over large pieces of pasteboard. The cultists then shot the animals with tranquilizer darts, withdrew their blood, and severed their organs. As Colorado’s El Paso County undersheriff Gary Gibb explained to the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph in 1975, “They use the organs they take in satanic rites. A male member will eat the sex organ of the animal in order to better his sexual prowess.” The same article reported that APRO believed the satanists might have also intended to provoke rumors of alien attacks with the hopes of unhinging locals and causing glorious chaos.

“What needs to be emphasized is the entire lack of what could be called UFO involvement,” APRO stated in its March 1975 bulletin.

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