authentic mutilations are USUALLY--what--98% of the time I'd guess--
WHOLESALE AVOIDED BY PREDATORS--at least for weeks to months after the incident. They want nothing to do with them.
And, the carcasses typically take a lot longer to decay.
And, sometimes--I don't know any frequency on this--the land and plants in the immediate circle around where the animal was originally taken up in a beam of light will have abnormalities compared to the surrounding ground and plants.
I forget what the abnormalities are--water content% would be one . . .
Also, in terms of the cuts . . . I'll quote from page p. 252 from Good's book:
"Dr John Altshuler, a haematologist and pathologist, was the first to conduct a post-mortem of a mutilated animal, the horse Lady, on a ranch in Alamosa, Colorado, in 1967. Since then, he has analysed hundreds of tissue samples, some of which he has given me, together with control samples, taken from mutilated animals. His conclusion is that high heat has been used to cut the animals. In effect, the Institute disputes his findings, so I asked him for a comment. He stated as follows:"
"The authors of the NIDS report failed to read and examine the photomicrographs published in Linda Moulton Howe's book, Alien Harvest.'16 In that book, I showed photomicrographs of skin that had pallisading of nuclei and the string-bean effect which only may be caused by high heat. Decomposition of tissue cannot cause or change this microscopic finding. I am enclosing a copy of a photograph from the text of Histologic Diagnosis of Inflammatory Skin Diseases by A. Bernard Ackerman, MD. If one compares the photomicrographs from Howe's book and the text, the findings will be seen to be identical. Please note that the legend in the text [of Ackerman's work] states, 'Blister secondary to electrodessication . . . ' Any physician knows that electrodessication is high heat. The data are irrefutable.'17"
'17 = Letter to the author, 20 October 1999.
On pp 250 & 251, details are given about some blood analyses. But I don't think these are the best. I'm not sure. Anyway--there seems to be an extremely low copper liver value. So much so that one would have expected the animal to have lost weight etc. Comparisons with the rest of the herd showed no similar defficiences. There were some other differences you can find in the book.
A blue gel has been found on the surfaces where the excisions have taken place, including an eye socket. An analysis of the blue gel found that it could be "characterized as a complex mixture of organic substances of biological origin and an aqueous solution containing formaldehyde. Since there is no biological process that produces formaldehyde and it is not a common environmental contaminant, the source of formaldehyde is unknown . . . '13 . . . it was decided to investigate whether the blue gel was comparable to any known embalming gels currently used in the United States . . . the blue gel-like substance found on the cow in Utah did not conform to any of the blue embalming gels currently in use in morturaries in the United States.
Doesn't sound like a predator at all, to me.
A beam of light is not always visible. Sometimes an animal is just seen rising up toward a ship or toward something hidden in a cloud, though I think the latter is not overly common.
I do appreciate everyones devotion to analysis on the topic though.
An Agent that was investigating cattle mutilations got ahold of me for any thoughts I might have because there was talk of Satanic involvement,as one theory,in the mutilations.
I ended up going with the other Agent to see two cows in W.Kansas and one in E.Colorado that were mutilated.
The cattle all seemed to have had their lips and private parts cut away,along with other things,so cleanly that I didn't think I could have done it with any blade and I was used to using a knife while skinning and butchering wild critters and cattle.
Nothing I saw gave me any idea that Satanists were involved from what I knew of them.I'm also sure that no Satanist that I ever met could have done such a clean job.
The other Agent and I came up with nothing,actually.
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I've been around cattle all my life and know what critters do to a carcass.
More than a few times,I've used freshly dead cattle as bait and have never seen animals cause anything like the damage that was done to those three carcasses.
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It really was strange.
I do remember that there had been UFOs reported in at least one area where a cow was found and there was talk of helicopter involvement,also.
Q,from your posts,I get the idea that the weird theories we had to go on back then have expanded with time.Please give me a ping if you can to anything interesting that you come upon.This thread has brought back many good,and a few bad,memories. :)