Colorado cow mutilations baffle ranchers (Graphic)

[Ruby the Liberal]

Schuster just reported on this, so I looked up the original article. http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_13956752

This is VERY bizarre. Recommend reading the whole thing if this interests you (it isn't long).

Four calves, all killed overnight. Their innards gone. Tongues sliced out. Udders carefully removed. Facial skin sliced and gone. Eyes cored away. Not a single track surrounding the carcasses, which were found in pastures locked behind two gates and a mile from any road. Not a drop of blood on the ground or even on the remaining skin.

*snip*

Sanchez is a salt-of-the-earth-type fellow who put three kids through college running cattle. Yet, he says he and his wife marveled at incandescent blue lights hovering over a ridge near his pastures in July and August. He declined to speculate about the lights.

"I just say the truth and that's what I saw," he says.

Strange.

[thereismore]

1. A serial killer in the making practices his craft. nt

[intheflow]

9. A serial killer who kidnapped calves,

took them somewhere else to perform his "craft, then chartered a helicopter to drop the cleanly butchered, yet incomplete, carcasses in a field? :shrug:

This is just a weird story all around, but I don't think you can definitively say it was a serial killer. Just as likely a would-be butcher practicing his craft, or a vet wannabe, though none of these options explain why there were no footprints or tire tracks around the carcasses. Weird, weird, weird!

[thereismore]

33. I guess I don't believe the categorical "no blood" and "no tracks", etc. nt

[intheflow]

39. Well, the article says this kind of thing has happened hundreds of times

in this region since 1967. You'd think someone--some police officer, some rancher, someone would have seen a track at some time. It's a very dusty area, you notice tracks. And why would the ranchers lie? They're out of stock, that's money lost to them. :shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Obviously it's beings from a failed Russian rocket launch.

No humans could mutilate calves like that.

[intheflow]

12. LOL!

That was my first thought: aliens did their little Norway light show to draw attention away from the middle of nowhere Colorado ranch! :tinfoilhat:

[undeterred]

3. Sarah Palin hunting?

[comrade snarky]

4. UFO engines are made from cow parts

Mostly the soft ones.

[thereismore]

34. Udder nonsense. nt

[intheflow]

41. Ooh, you milked that one-liner! n/t

[hlthe2b]

5. Very much so... I hadn't realized these inicidents trace back to the 60s

and were so numerous-- in Colorado and elsewhere. Very bizarre. I'll leave the speculation to others, but it certainly seems inexplicable.

[Ghost in the Machine]

42. We had that happen here in Tennessee back in the late 70's/early 80's

No one has ever been able to explain it, besides trying to blame it on devil worshippers.... but no one buys that around here.

No one can explain away the fact that there was no tracks and no trace of blood.


Peace,

Ghost

[Octafish]

6. Linda Moulton Howe has written extensively on this subject.

A Strange Harvest

Don't think black helicopters crewed by Satan worshippers can really explain the evidence.

Edit: Better link.

[reggie the dog]

7. it is quite possible that

the blue lights were an alien craft and that they experiment on cows. For whatever reason they are not experimenting on humans. We should consider ourselves lucky.

[Echo In Light]

8. I haven't a problem w/the idea of other beings visiting earth...

But the idea that a species sophisticated enough to have mastered interplanetary travel having a recurring need to "experiment" on lowly creatures just seems ... well, dumb.

[Subdivisions]

10. Humans experiment on mice...

:shrug:

[reggie the dog]

11. pehaps they want to study primitive creatures

[Octafish]

13. Perhaps they want to send a message...

...Jacques Vallee has wondered whether humanity will get the visitors we deserve.

[reggie the dog]

16. how many religions worship a light in the sky

the gods are lights, things descended from the heavens. Why would pagan religions, and major religions from all around the world have this idea of "descending from the heavens"????

[intheflow]

20. The San Luis Valley is considered

a very sacred place, first by the Native Americans who lived there, now by the New Agers, Buddhists and Hindus who have established retreat/spiritual centers there.

[Ruby the Liberal]

23. Is that where this is happening?

[intheflow]

24. Yep. n/t

[mitchum]

32. Maybe because man had not yet discovered flight ...

and the activity seemed to be sublime, mysterious, and superstitious?
That's always been my take on the importance of "the heavens" to the primitive mind

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Well out of the top of my head there are reasons

1.- Intergalactic beings are somewhat militaristic and need to know what we eat. Basic intel you know... of course that is the human in me speaking.

2.- We experiment with animals all the time... just saying.

Of course methinks there is a far more ahem Terran origin to this, but I could not prove it... and there is a reason why I cannot prove it... they are good if you get me drift.

[Echo In Light]

22. Guess in my mind's eye such beings would be well beyond the need to 'experiment'

... in ways that don't have any seemingly rational point ... I mean, what's to learn, exactly, that such advanced creatures wouldn't have gleaned from the first few times they shredded an animal?

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Why I suspect the origin of this is ahem far more pedestrian

and well terran... in origin.

Not like our intel agencies have never used the UFO phenomena for ahem cover.

[Echo In Light]

27. Yes. Didn't the "Iron Mt" report outline the potential for using that ploy?

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Yep and I am the firest one to say

that it is the height of hubris to think that there is no intelligent life somewhere else in the universe. It is also the height of hubris to think that since we can't it means others could not do things like travel faster than light.

Hey. why would they come? I am a cynic... the same reason we spend money to send explorers to the four corners of the world.

But cattle mutilation related to Aliens? If this is truly an Alien related phenomena... well I guess I don't want to actually meet these guys.

:-)

And given that 95% of all UFOs are ... pretty terran in origin...

[anonymous171]

35. Perhaps their system of ethics is different from our own. nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. It's that annoying little blue fucker, Thomas the Tank Engine. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Meh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation#Natural_causes

The hypothesis that natural phenomena account for most mutilation characteristics has been validated by a number of experiments, including one cited by long-time scientific skeptic Robert T. Carroll, conducted by Washington County (Arkansas) Sheriff's Department. In the experiment, the body of a recently deceased cow was left in a field and observed for 48 hours. During the 48 hours, postmortem bloating was reported to have caused incision-like tears in the cow's skin that matched the "surgical" cuts reported on mutilated cows, while the action of blowflies and maggots reportedly matched the soft tissue damage observed on mutilated cows.

[intheflow]

17. Happening in the San Luis Valley?

It's a huge valley that's very sparsely populated, so little by way of light pollution to block the night sky view. Many people down there will believe it's UFO-related, I can tell you that. By some accounts, the San Luis Valley has the most UFO sightings per capita per year of any area of the country. They even have a little UFO tourist trap down there. It's a pretty funky valley with natural lithium hot springs and the largest sand dunes in the United States. I guess I'd go there if I were an alien; I certainly love going there as a human. (Though I imagine it would suck big time if I was a calf.:()

[spanone]

18. McLunch

[mikelgb]

19. hmm

[kestrel91316]

25. Somebody speculated a few years ago that this mutilations had something to do

with Mad Cow Disease and a coverup of government attempts to study it in herds near the area where prion diseases first showed up in deer and cattle in NE CO........

It made more sense to me than any of the other theories.

I would love to see one of these carcasses up close and personal and FRESH, just to see what I can make of it........

[Ruby the Liberal]

30. Contact the reporter from the Post

Being a vet, you would likely have a good chance of being able to do that when it happens again.

[kestrel91316]

38. Well, they probably should get somebody more qualified than a CAT DOCTOR, lol.

if they want credibility.

I just have some idle professional curiosity about it.......

[Ruby the Liberal]

43. Don't tell 'em that part.

:D

[The Straight Story]

28. chupa-fucking-cabra

:)

[Generic Other]

31. It happens near Air Force installations

Quite a few in my county in Washington state. And Colorado Springs. One theory was that it was possibly related to pilot initiations.

[thereismore]

36. Cool. We need a reality show. nt

[intheflow]

40. Hey, it happened in Colorado!

Could be just another hoax from the Balloon Boy family.

[BeHereNow]

37. Easily explained, no mystery, should be obvious to all!

Rumsfeld and Poindexter are testing new military crowd control
weapons to use against civilians.

BHN

[Nihil]

44. That'll be a real giveaway ...

... the first time they find an anti-war protester's body lying in a field
with no eyes, no genitals and no tits ...
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