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Definition
Most commonly, mutilated animals are cattle, but horses, goats, even deer and house-hold pets have been found dead although the cause of death is undetermined.
Often their reproductive and rectal organs as well other body parts such as one or both eyes, heart, tongue, ears and bones have been removed. In most cases, the animal is completely drained of blood, with only a few drops or none at all located around the carcass. Organs are sometimes liquefied, and dead flies are found on the body. Other (living) animals (including scavengers/carrion eaters) will avoid the carcass, acting extremely nervous or distressed around it.
Investigators have reported a strange chemical smell associated with the mutilated cattle and the carcass being covered with a white powder. Equally puzzling is the fact that there are no tracts of predators, vehicles or footprints leading to or from the carcass, even when the ground was soft after rain. The lack of tracks or blood trails and clamp marks on the animals' legs suggests that the cattle were taken to another location and killed. After being mutilated, the cattle were then dropped in the general area from where they were abducted.
The removal of and the cutting of flesh and bone appears to be done with surgical precision and often the incisions have been cauterized which has led some investigators to suggest that the perpetrators are using some form of laser. This technology was not available when the first mutilations were reported.
For the first time that tissue gathered from mutilator cuts in Arkansas on March 11, 1989, revealed the following characteristics under microscopic examination:
- The line is pinpoint thin;
- The line was subjected to high heat, probably 300 degrees Fahrenheit or above, leaving a hard and darkened edge;
- The cuts were made rapidly, probably in two minutes or less, because there is no inflammatory cell destruction whichtypically begins in a few minutes after any trauma to tissue
History
The phenomena began in the Fall of 1973, when farmers in Minnesota and
Kansas reported mutilated cattle. The circumstances surrounding the deaths
were different then anything the local police had ever investigated. At
this time, the blame for the mutilations was placed on Satanic cults. Soon,
reports of cattle mutilations spread throughout the Midwest United States
and even into Canada.
The cattle mutilation phenomena claimed the lives of over 10,000 head of
cattle by 1979. Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Alabama, Puerto Rico, Canada, and as far away as South America, have been home to such mutilations. The purpose of these grotesque and strange occurrences still remains a mystery.
Theories
By the late 1970s, four main theories about the mutilation cases
had emerged:
Satanic Cults
Police agencies in Alberta, Idaho, Montana, and Iowa did link some mutilation cases to satanic cults and ritual sacrifices. However, police investigating this theory found little supporting evidence and often ran into dead ends.The problem with this theory is that the mutilations are too widespread, span 30 years, and would require a large amount of resources to be executed throughout the world.
Government Conspiracy
Black, unmarked, helicopters with tinted windows and powerful searchlights are often seen during a cattle mutilation wave. Conspiracy theorists believe the government is conducting top secret chemical warfare experiments.The weakness of this theory is that the government would have access to their own stock of cattle and would not necessarily need to use random cattle belonging to civilians. Also, the phenomena is too global to be conducted by any one government.
Strange animals
The first mutilation was reported in Colorado in September of 1967; the same year that Mothman terrorized and mutilated cattle in West Virginia, and a decade before the Chupacabra would be blamed for draining the blood and mutilating goats and livestock in Puerto Rico. So far none of these cryptids have been captured or photographed.
Scavenging animals/predators
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation examined over 200 mutilation reports and concluded that the majority were caused by scavenging animals. They suggest that scavengers like ants and vultures go first for the softest dead tissue like the lips, eyes and rectum. They argue that once the cow's heart stops pumping the blood will flow to and coagulate in the lowest portion of the body giving it an appearance of being drained of all blood.
However, the way in which the animal died is inconsistent with how a predator would kill it. Unlike animal attack, the flesh, adjoining the area where it has been removed, is smooth and clean as if cut with a searing or laser scalpel. As well, the areas chosen for removal are quite strange. Mainly the sexual, anterior digestive tract and sensory organs are affected. Also, no carrion eaters will touch the mutilated cow even though it has plenty of flesh still left to be eaten.
Extraterrestrial experiments
The absence of tracks, the mysterious nature of the act, and the coinciding UFO reports preceding mutilations suggest this is a sinister plan performed by aliens. Evidence at the scene of a mutilation suggest that the cattle were taken elsewhere by air, mutilated, and then dropped back near to where they were taken. UFOs are usually seen in the vicinity of cattle mutilations, and cattle are deathly afraid of them. Some ranchers have even reported seeing a UFO abducting the cattle in their fields.
There are more evidences to support this theory: cattle mutilations often occur in UFO Hotspots such as Northern New Mexico, and near Area 51, Nevada and two separate alien abductees have reported, under regressive hypnosis, seeing cattle taken into the alien craft and mutilated.
The researchers speculate that the extra terrestrials could use the removed organs and blood to create human blood plasma and perform genetical engineering and transplantation.
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