SUBJECT: EVEN MORE ON CATTLE MUTILATIONS FILE: UFO3179 Date: 24 Feb 93 From: Phil Koliske Cattle Mutilations. I, like most of us, have been skeptical of the stories about cattle mutilations. But I will relay one story that happened to me personaly. A few years back I was involved in a remote mining operation in Nevada. The location, was just a few miles from the border of the Test Site. The terrain in that area was as flat as a pool table and you could see for at least 50 miles to the east. One night a vehicle was approaching the main camp at a high rate of speed. Coming down the very twisting dirt road at that speed was very foolish, especialy at night. I figured it must be something of importance for anyone to drive that foolishly. As the vehicle got closer, and into the compond lights, I could see it was one of the company trucks. Skidding to a stop, the driver jumped out and was yelling at me to come down and go with him to see something strange. It was the company Geologist: He was extreemly excited, and by the looks of him, very upset. He relayed to me a story about a dead Cow he had found while he was out that night popping off rabbits with his new rifle. He was a young fellow straight out of College..but he didn't ever give me the impression that he was one to be easily spooked. We told some of the people at the camp where we were going, and took another employee who wanted to come along. To say were were well armed was a understatement....as most Gold mining operations are, for obvious reasons. I drove back along the road, following the Geologist's directions for about 15 miles and turned north heading up into the foothills of a large range of mountains. The dirt road/trail went for another 5 or so miles and by the weeds and brush growing over the trail.... and other signs, it was apperent that it hadn't been traveled over for quite some time. Getting to the end of the trail, the dead Cow was now in the headlights As we got out, I cautioned them to stay back near the truck, as I didn't want a bunch of footprints fouling up the area. Looking over the area of the dead Cow I could only see one set of footprints, and they matched the geologists boots. There were no other tire tracks other that that of the truck we were driving. and no other signs that there had been anybody up in that area for years. Looking over the Animal, it's corpse exibited all the clasical signs that I had read about in many publications: ...ie:.. It's sexual organs were missing.... A neat oval hole cut into its belly about 150mm dia. looking as they say, cut out with a laser. There was no blood, on the ground or on its skin. It's eyes were still intact, but it's upper lip was missing,.. neatly cut away . I would say that if the damage was done by predators, they would have not have been so selective as to take only the above mentioned parts,and to bore a neat hole in it's side. I have seen dead animals in the desert before, and the scavaging animals rip thier prey apart. and the birds will usualy go for the eyes first. There were no insects present,...and again; the most disturbing thing is that there was no Blood! There were no signs of a struggle of any kind. It looked like the animal had been dropped there as it's left horn was buried 6 ins. straight into the ground making a neat hole without any disturbed earth around it, as the animal would have to wiggle it's head to bore it's horn that deep into the ground. We looked around for a few hours and couldn't see anything else. We guessed that the Cow had been there for only a short time, or the insects would have taken over, and also the rotting smell would have been present. The next day I drove the 20+ miles over to the Ranch that I supposed the Cow belonged to, and informed the forman of what I found. He didn't seem too surprised by what I told him as he said it happens quite frequently. And I had the distinct feeling that he didn't want to talk about it much and nerviously changed the subject. Quite unusal for people living that remote to not want to "chat it up with someone" ,as most others I had encountered would talk for hours just to have somebody to talk to. ********************************************************************* * -------->>> THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo <<<------- * *********************************************************************