Posted on 11/26/2009 7:11:08 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.
Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed.
But rancher Manuel Sanchez has found no signs of human attackers, such as footprints or ATV tracks. And there are no signs of an animal attack by a coyote or mountain lion. Usually predators leave pools of blood or drag marks from carrying away the livestock.
Two officers from the Costilla County Sheriff's Office have investigated the mutilations but say they don't know what's killing the calves.
"There's nothing really to go by," said Sanchez, who's ranched for nearly 50 years. "I can't figure it out."
A spokesman for the sheriff's office told The Pueblo Chieftain that investigators doubt a person butchered the calves because there is no blood at the scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Have any of these ranchers tried putting up some motion-activated, IR cameras when these things start up?
Is there any interesting footage around?
What if they only folded space and their trip was 10 miles round trip?
And suppose they are trying to create a human drone or copy...vermillion tissue might be in limited supply unless borrowed from other species.
Ranches are big. How could you set up motion activated cameras on thousands of acres where animals are moving around constantly?
I agree!
Earlier thread from March, dunno if that counts as “recent weeks” as the excerpt states.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2208437/posts
I guess that’s a problem. Damn it, Jim! I’m a computer programmer, not a rancher.
Oh and BTW, I think this alien stuff is occult activity!
Yes it is in my opinion too lookup Aleister Crowley and a spirit entity he called Lam. Looks like these so called “grey” UFO aliens...
*http://www.cloudbait.com/projects/allskycamera.html*
Small varmints do take internal organs, eyes, a$$holes and can leave the dried hide almost hollow. I remember seeing possums run out of the body of a dead cow. Not all cattle that die in the pasture (for whatever reason) are torn to shreds and dragged around, some are but not all.
An initially uneven cut, as from a predators teeth or a birds beak, can come to look like a scalpel cut after a few days, or even less, when the tissue stretches either due to drying or bloating.
These cases have been baffling ranchers and investigators for decades now, and there are thousands of them on record, all with the same hallmarks.
Sorry. I just don't buy that. I remember a report by a forensic pathologist back in the 80's who visited many of these supposed "mutilation" sites. He cited case after case where the animal's body was surrounded by bird droppings, animal fur consistent with coyotes on nearby fence barbs, etc, and the rancher would be standing right there insisting there was "no sign" of predation or scavenging.
The biggest "mutey" flap started during the recession of the early 80's. I don't think that's a coincidence, nor that we're starting to hear similar stuff now. When people are under unusual economic stress, formerly normal things, like dead cows, can start to seem strange and unaccountable.
My nephews set up deer cams around a water tank on our south Texas hunting lease. It was very interesting the creatures that came in the night for a drink.
In the late 1970’s, we lived in northeast Wyoming, in the Black Hills. My husband was a Forest Service Ranger. He was administering a timber sale for a rancher with whom we developed a close friendship. One morning in late August, the rancher called him and asked him to come to his property and bring the Sheriff and Game Warden with him. I went also because the rancher’s wife was a friend.What the rancher showed us was rather stunning. He found a five-month old calf, lying on his side in the middle of his pasture. We had a rather wet summer, so the grass was pretty high, but starting to cure. The tall grass had not been trampled down around the calf. Other than the rancher’s, there were no tracks. The calf had been completely eviscerated, tongue removed, genitalia removed, eyeballs removed (even the eye lids). The hide was not torn, it appeared to be cut (lasered?). There was not a speck of blood anywhere.
The rancher’s two border collies would not go near the carcass. In fact, they would go no closer than about 20 feet. They layed down and cowered. Not typical behavior for those dogs.
My husband called the University of Wyoming and they sent some game biologists up the following day. They were completely baffled, as well. One interesting thing they did find. There was NO insect life within about 10 feet of the carcass. Usually there would be some maggot infestation by then. There weren’t even ants or beetles around........nor had the coyotes, vultures or other scavengers approached.
We are not kooks. We are both college educated and have always been rather pragmatic and practical people. What we saw that day remains a mystery to us and to those involved. There just wasn’t a known answer. It was not the work of natural predators. No person could have been there without leaving signs.
Reading back over this, I know it sounds kinda nuts. But I know what we saw.
Yes, I slate any of these so called encounters to simple demonic activity at best/or worst.
Once thought they lived underground and like climate change theories starting in 1975 *”global drought” to Carl Sagans “nuclear winter”, now “global warming” and now the cretures Grays are from outter space!
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[PDF] Sahel drought and global climate change}File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Sahel drought and global climate change ... The persistence of drought in the Sahel in the 1970s and 1980s was caused by variations in global ...
http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/papers/Giannini_SahelCyberseminar.pdf
I would think these U of W biologists would have written some sort of report on such a finding. Could you find out their names?
Well, you’ve obviously been reading the skeptic’s reports on these incidents.
I can tell you that back when this phenomenon began to attract a lot of attention, I read dozens of reports by qualified observers and investigators, as well as experienced ranchers, who all stated the same things over and over and over again. Namely, that these kills were unlike anything they’d ever seen.
No animal or human tracks. No blood. No signs of struggle. The exact same organs taken time and time again, while the rest of the carcass remained untouched. Always happened in the wee hours of the night, and done without rousing guard dogs and other animals. And yes, the surgical precision of a surgeon used to remove the organs in every case (most kills being discovered within hours - not days).
I’ve heard and read interviews with people who’ve been ranching their entire lives, and every one of them stated that they well knew the difference between what they saw, and a kill by a predator.
Again, I’m not supporting the alien theory. I’m only saying that there’s never been a clear explanation for this phenomenon.
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