[SittinYonder]

"I suspect, and I know it sounds farfetched, it was government testing,"

With all the money the government wastes, couldn't they just buy a horse to mutilate?

eyespy ... here's a MUFON ping for you.

[Little Pig]

UFO != Alien spacecraft.


The Air Force and NASA both confirm the existence of UFOs. However, they are just that: Unidentified. It does not mean they are of non-terrestrial origin.

[Brilliant]

PETA ought to file a lawsuit against the Klingons and hold them responsible for these attrocities.

[null and void]

Here's an example of healthy dead critters.

OTOH, there are no green mammals...

[Buck W.]

LIHOP? MIHOP?

[kenth]

"And on the night his cow was killed, his television flickered."

PROOF! ALIENS! I seen 'em.

Seriesly though, just what nefarious plans do these aliens have that requires them to acquire cow tongues and anal probes?

[docbnj]

"On Oct. 11, six horses and a burro -- all healthy -- were found dead in a field near Calhan."

Ah! The "healthy dead!" Sounds like a government plot, indeed.

The "healthy dead" make good, loyal, liberal voters. They have the herd instinct.

See? Everything fits together.

[TN4Liberty]

"I've got to think it's UFOs. That's the only thing logical," Hasenbalg said.

Yes, there is no more logical conclusion one could draw than UFOs.

[Blzbba]

"And on the night his cow was killed, his television flickered. "



IT wasn't aliens! It was POLTERGEIST!!!

[TOWER]

Okay, I admit it. It was me. I am an alien from outer space. No point in hiding now.

[Gamera977]

You know if Klingons were responsible I'd doubt there would be anything left recognizable as a cow. Or a farm...

Now Cardassians on the other hand...

Seriously, somebody, the National Geographic Channel I think ran a show a lil while back where they explained most of the 'mutilations' as due to natural maggots on the corpses. Seems the maggots eat their favorite organs and soft parts out of the corpse and leave the rest, making it look like the parts had been surgically removed.

Makes a little more sense than the idea that aliens smart enough to build either a faster-than-light drive (impossible to current human science) or a ship able to make a voyage of several thousand years would come to earth to cut up livestock.

[Fintan]

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[evets]

"I'd give anything if she could talk... She'd have a story to tell."

"The aliens did it!"

[beethovenfan]

Somehow, Bush must be behind this!

[Jhohanna]

Growing up in Colorado Springs, this stuff was fodder for the minds of us kids. Interestingly enough, my grandfather worked on Project Blue Book for the Air Force, and while he never discussed his investigations and experiences - citing classified... He did tell me when they 'declassified' Blue Book, that there was much that was left out.

While I myself have never seen a UFO, etc... I believe that there must be life out there somewhere. But what the heck would they want with this? Mind you, this is where the South Park episodes come from (it's 25 miles West of Colorado Springs in the mountains - Fairplay/Hartsel). I just can't see them messing with cows and horses, when WE are clearly the intelligent life... though some would argue that. :P

It's much more likely that this is sick pranks done by morons and methheads that want to perpetuate the rural legends of UFO cattle mutilation... or just for kicks. However, in the Gazette Telegraph, discussing these events in October, a very real theory was put forth. It was probably lightning. Which would create the pinholes as it traveled through the cow. And there was thunder/lightning during those storms.

Some people will believe anything, though.

[Semper Paratus]

This didn't have to happen if they just hired a couple of gay cowboys to watch the herd.

[SunkenCiv]

Whinny get around to it, you may want to ping this.

[KevinDavis]

[SunkenCiv]

The mane thing to remember is, similar mutilations in the 1980s and 90s were sometimes attributed to drug smugglers.