1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,200 Jim Lorenzo. 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:19,120 Most of us who follow the UFO problem are interested as well in other subjects that stand at the 3 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:24,640 border or maybe somewhat beyond the border of orthodox science. 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:30,200 And in referring to this fact, we like to describe ourselves as open-minded. 5 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,720 In the practice of open-mindedness, however, it's important, I think, to exercise caution 6 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:42,280 unless our minds become so open that we simply have a hole in the head. 7 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:48,440 We have to guard against the tendency to give support to certain ideas simply because they 8 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:53,440 are exciting rather than because they are substantial. 9 00:00:53,440 --> 00:01:01,320 And there's also a tendency, I think, to connect mysteries that do not necessarily have a connection 10 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:08,560 in fact, to lump these mysteries together and to try to relate them to one to the other 11 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,460 when maybe there is no real relation. 12 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:16,720 It should be less than enough to us to note how readily the sensation-monging tabloids, 13 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:24,080 a couple of subjects such as Bigfoot, monsters, strange disappearances, Polar Geist, Bermuda 14 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:29,320 Triangle, Preak, Cognizance, and so on, in order to increase the circulation of their 15 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:30,320 publications. 16 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:36,560 Now, I think that combining mysteries in this way has a basic appeal that allows the assumption 17 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,800 that perhaps we have only one major mystery to deal with. 18 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:50,600 And this may be more comforting than to accept the uncertainty that comes with confronting 19 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:58,800 the fact that life may present us with many mysteries instead of just one and that these 20 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:06,200 many mysteries may be related only in the sense that they are each a part of reality. 21 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:13,360 In the phenomenon of livestock mutilations, came to public attention in the early 1970s, 22 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,640 there were some who chose immediately to couple this new mystery with that of the flying saucer. 23 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:25,520 At APRO, and I guess I'm speaking largely for myself, we resisted this idea and I think 24 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,760 we resisted it for good reason. 25 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:33,440 For one, sensationalist publicity in the press had triggered a sort of panic at the time 26 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,080 in which each and every carcass found became a mystery. 27 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:42,520 It was no longer possible for a cow simply to die a natural death and the normal encroachments 28 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:47,920 of predators and scavengers became mutilations. 29 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:56,680 Law officers and others quoted in the press seemed to seize on catch phrases such as surgical 30 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,180 precision. 31 00:02:58,180 --> 00:03:03,460 It was always said that certain organs were removed with surgical precision even though 32 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:11,620 an inspection might show you that the surgical precision produced teeth marks. 33 00:03:11,620 --> 00:03:16,280 It was repeatedly stated that there was no blood in the carcass or that all blood had 34 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:23,080 been drained from the carcass and quite often these determinations which really could only 35 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:29,440 be made reliably by a trained medical person were often forthcoming from incidents where 36 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,920 no such qualified persons had been in attendance. 37 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:41,800 Still, correspondence that we received from apparently serious level-headed law men in 38 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,680 our great western cattle states seemed to indicate that there was a connection and we 39 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,040 kept our minds open to that possibility. 40 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:55,240 We felt however that as a tactical matter we could not afford to spend time investigating 41 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:00,160 mutilations on the chance of finding a UFO connection. 42 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:09,120 We decided that we would continue to investigate UFOs and if in this way we were led to mutilations 43 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,120 then we would have verified the connection. 44 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:19,040 Well I'm prepared to state today that we have followed that policy and we have found a relationship 45 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:28,000 in not just one case but repeatedly and I'll describe briefly some of the pertinent cases. 46 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,200 A pretty convincing association developed in the case investigated by Dr. John Durr, 47 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:39,120 Dr. Leo Sprinkle and Dr. Van Arsdale, all apoconsultants. 48 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:44,400 The case involved the sort of associations that I had previously scoffed at and in some 49 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:50,600 ways it seems to try to outdo the sensationalist fiction generated on the subject. 50 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:56,960 I'll quote from the report summary and state that none of the principles are mentioned 51 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,640 in the report by name. 52 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:04,920 This was a condition imposed on this investigation by the witnesses in order to avoid attention 53 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:14,000 and publicity so they'll be referred to in terms of the relationship or their job function. 54 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,440 And now I quote from the report from the three gentlemen just mentioned. 55 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:24,760 A few years ago the business partner and the husband and wife pooled their financial resources 56 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,640 to buy a ranch in the Rocky Mountain area. 57 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,040 The ranch was to be renovated and established as a working cattle ranch. 58 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,520 Despite the long distance from their original location they were pleased with the size and 59 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:41,400 features of the ranch and so on but they were puzzled because the ranch had been abandoned 60 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:46,680 for years and there was sort of an unspoken mystery surrounding it. 61 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:53,760 There are a number of very strange incidents supported by these reliable people and I won't 62 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:54,960 go into all of them. 63 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:02,520 I'll just mention those that seem to be related to the theme of my talk which is the connection 64 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:08,680 of UFO and cattle mutilations. 65 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:14,480 UFO sightings included nine glowing discs which sat down in a pasture near the pond 66 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:20,560 on the ranch and during that observation a light flash was observed by two men including 67 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,560 the business partner and at that moment the wife who was looking out the window experienced 68 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,680 the sensation of a blow to the head and she fell unconscious to the floor and it was revived 69 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,080 within a few seconds. 70 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:37,800 A photographer took a picture of a large circle approximately 75 feet diameter in a clearing. 71 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:43,520 Initially the circle supported no vegetation but now after a number of years the grass 72 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,720 and weeds are growing again. 73 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,200 And in another incident a cattle mutilation occurred at the time of these increased UFO 74 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:58,920 activities and the cow was identified as belonging to the ranch. 75 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:05,280 A body of a young bull also was found shortly after a hunting episode and the oldest son 76 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:12,280 and his friend were frightened when they discovered the cow because they hadn't seen either a bear 77 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:13,600 or a bigfoot in the area. 78 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:19,560 The young bull which did not belong to the ranch was found with his head twisted back 79 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:27,560 and with various organs and parts of his body removed as if by a surgical operation. 80 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:34,560 This is a characteristic of quite a number of the mutilations that is that the animal 81 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,720 that is found does not belong on the ranch where it's found. 82 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,840 It's somebody else's property apparently dropped there and there's other evidence to support 83 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,120 that that I'll deal with later. 84 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:55,120 During the course of this investigation our investigators talked to a law officer and 85 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,080 who patrolled that area. 86 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:05,880 Now he was quite specific in requesting that the information that he would give would 87 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,600 not be publicized at least not in connection with his name because that did not wish to 88 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:15,200 cause any public ridicule to be brought upon his office and he did not wish to cause any 89 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:20,560 ridicule or publicity which would disrupt the harmony of the community. 90 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:27,320 He said that in 1975 there had been several hundred cases of cattle mutilations reported 91 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,560 he had investigated many of these cases. 92 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:37,560 In 1976 he said there were fewer than a hundred and in 1977 there were fewer than ten. 93 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:42,720 However he pointed out that during 1977 he had followed a policy that he go out on very 94 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:49,720 few calls regarding reported animal mutilations so these statistics are sort of a self fulfilling 95 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,240 prophecy. 96 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:58,240 He simply recognized less calls and therefore he reports less cases in that period of time. 97 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,600 This law officer also described his fear and apprehension when out on night patrol he saw 98 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,480 strange lights near the road. 99 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:13,980 Now he knew the territory very well and he knew when these lights occurred in an area 100 00:09:13,980 --> 00:09:16,800 of a road or not. 101 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,640 He said many of these lights seemed to be silent objects which moved off the road and 102 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:25,000 into the air sometimes revealing cockpits as they flew away. 103 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:30,200 He did not claim to see any humanoids associated with these lights or objects but he has viewed 104 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,600 enough of these events to know that they are very real and that they cannot be accounted 105 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:41,600 for by the usual explanations of airplanes helicopters hallucinations or the planet Venus. 106 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:47,800 Although he cannot verify the events described by the business partner and the family he knows 107 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,920 that their early concerns were based upon this assumption that neighbor boys were playing 108 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:58,560 tricks and later they questioned him about the cause of the reported mutilations. 109 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:03,760 Now the law officer is aware that military operations may not be an adequate explanation 110 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,240 for the experiences and sightings that have occurred in the area. 111 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:12,160 The law officer does not profess to have an explanation but he no longer scoffs at the 112 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:18,640 high hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitation. 113 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:24,600 With respect to UFO mutilations we have a map. 114 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:31,840 This map plots the location of mutilation reports in connection with sources of radiation 115 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:37,400 such as uranium mining and storage and atomic power plants and the person who created the 116 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:44,400 map was trying to relate these to support a particular theory that the mutilations might 117 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:52,800 be really an attempt to remove organs from cattle that would give evidence of deterioration 118 00:10:53,840 --> 00:11:00,480 caused by radiation components possibly in the soil or atmosphere. 119 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:07,280 I really don't think that supported too well that the red m's there on the map show the 120 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:14,280 locations of mutilation reports and you can see that there's preponence down through the 121 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:21,680 heartland of the country and in the states that are where a lot of cattle are raised. 122 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:29,680 In the state of Wyoming 30 miles north of Laramie a rancher named Pat McGuire has an 123 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:39,200 account which relates to my theme. 124 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:46,200 This is a drawing that he made and we'll show a photograph in a moment here but Pat McGuire 125 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:52,960 states that UFO observation is almost a daily occurrence in this area during the summer months 126 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:58,320 and when his irrigation system is in operation he checks the system daily at midnight and 127 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:04,680 at 3 a.m. thus he's outside during the hours when many people are asleep and Pat claims 128 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:09,200 that he and his family or he and his crew have observed many unusual events. 129 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:15,480 UFO activity often occurs between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. however he has observed the strange 130 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,840 craft during daylight hours. 131 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:23,400 The objects appear to be of metal under intelligent control with flashing lights, blue, green, 132 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:28,160 red and white lights and the objects appear to be of uniform shape but estimates have 133 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:35,160 varied from 30 feet high and 300 feet long to estimates of 500 feet long and the conclusion 134 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:43,080 that he makes is that there are ships of various sizes in the area. 135 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:52,920 In July 1975 Pat McGuire and Mark Murphy observed seven UFOs for a period of two hours. 136 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:59,760 The object appeared to be airships and two objects apparently landed on the far ridge. 137 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:06,920 I'll run through some of these views of the ranch so you can get an idea of the appearance 138 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:14,200 of the area. It's a very lonely place. I've marked out there the area apparently where 139 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:21,360 the UFOs landed and where one hovered for a long time. Just a few shots of around the 140 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:29,360 ranch to give a feeling for the general setup. This photo shows a rise in the background. 141 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Pat and Wanda McGuire watched a huge object which they estimated to be the size of a 142 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:45,560 football field on the morning of August 1977 while it hovered for two hours beyond the 143 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:50,560 rise during daylight. The object reflected light so that it appeared to have a metallic 144 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:57,560 surface. On one occasion Pat watched a yellow ball which appeared to be located between 145 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:05,720 the trailer house and the distant ridge. There's a smaller ridge closer to the ranch and in 146 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:12,720 August 1975 a cow apparently was, as he says, sucked up by an unknown area of the object. 147 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:22,720 Pat was watching the UFO with his spotting telescope and he saw the cow being elevated 148 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:29,040 up toward the UFO which then moved away from the area. During the next day Pat drove to 149 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:34,160 the area and he found a calf on the smaller ridge. The calf was bawling and apparently 150 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:40,160 looking for its mother. No traces of a burned area or landing box were found and no trace 151 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:45,120 of the missing cow has ever been found. We're a long way from understanding what's going 152 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:52,120 on here but a case that occurred in 1973 near Pasadena, Texas which is quite near Houston 153 00:14:53,600 --> 00:15:00,600 furnishes us with still another clue. It was brought to our attention only recently when 154 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:08,600 Mrs. D reported to us that she was very uneasy about a feeling that something had happened 155 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:18,360 for her that she couldn't recall during a period of time in 1973. She said she was returning 156 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:23,520 with members of her family from a bingo game at Pasadena, Texas with her mother, her brother 157 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:29,640 in law, daughter in niece and they saw a maneuvering light which they first assumed was a helicopter 158 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:35,400 and it seemed to be following the car. Mrs. D stopped the car to get a better look. Then 159 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:41,760 she got out of the car to get a yet closer look and the rest of her relatives as far 160 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,840 as is known stayed in the car. However there's a question about that too which developed 161 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:52,040 later. Over the years as I said Mrs. D has been bothered by a feeling that important 162 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:56,800 things happened that she couldn't recall and she remembered that after that stop she drove 163 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:02,880 on to Aldoloma and there she joined a group of their relatives including a Jeanette and 164 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:09,520 Albert and the UFO followed them and was appearing to land in a nearby pasture and it came low 165 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:14,880 enough so that they could see into the large windows and this was all that she consciously 166 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:20,640 remembered of the incidents but under regressive hypnosis. She remembered that at the time they 167 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:26,200 had initially stopped and that she had gotten out of the car that she had seen the UFO elevate 168 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:36,440 some kind of an animal in a beam under the craft and there is a situation there where 169 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:42,200 the rest of the relatives that were present apparently observed this too but they do not 170 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:47,240 want to discuss it. They have a sort of a mental block they simply do not want to talk about 171 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:53,480 it although they do acknowledge that the incident occurred. When they reached their destination 172 00:16:53,520 --> 00:17:02,920 and noticed the UFO coming close and apparently landing they all remarked that there were 173 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:09,880 very large windows and Mrs. D remembers that she could look in through these windows and 174 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:17,400 it appeared to her that the craft was equipped as a laboratory and under hypnosis she suddenly 175 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,240 began to explain that's what it is it's a laboratory that's they're dissecting animals 176 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:27,800 in there but at that point she's told us under hypnosis that she was not supposed to remember 177 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:34,760 that. She said quote I'm entering forbidden territory and when we tried to find out from 178 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:40,680 her who forbid her to enter that territory she would answer the question but she became nauseous 179 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:47,240 and we were never able to determine whether the nausea related to what she'd seen in the craft 180 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:54,680 or whether it was some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion which prevented us from delving into an 181 00:17:54,680 --> 00:18:01,480 area of information that she was not supposed to talk about and it was a very effective block 182 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:08,120 because I tell you you tend to discontinue a hypnotic session when the subject is threatening 183 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:15,080 to throw up on you. Another mysterious aspect of this case is that Mrs. D's daughter was not 184 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:21,160 with them in the car during the period of travel from the first sighting and for that period of 185 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:27,640 travel from the first sighting until they reached aledoloma and the daughter does not remember 186 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:36,040 this period either. Now this has all the aspects of an abduction it appears as though she was removed 187 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:43,000 from the group at the location of the first sighting and restored to them when they got to the 188 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:52,600 relative's house but she is entirely blank on that period of time and has had several dreams 189 00:18:53,480 --> 00:19:01,720 which sound very much like things reported in the Andresan affair which has been mentioned 190 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:07,880 earlier today by Mr. Andrews. I think one lesson that I learned from all this is that we need to 191 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:13,160 keep our minds open to the evidence and not dismiss out of hand those aspects which do not make 192 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:23,640 sense to us or do not appeal to us for other reasons. An area of heavy activity is northern 193 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:31,640 New Mexico. There are quite a number of things reported there. Here's law officer Gabe Daldes 194 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:39,000 indicating some marks found in an area of mutilation. Mutilated heifer, 195 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:49,000 Edmond Gomez, local rancher pointing this out. Again I guess there's some examples of the surgical 196 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:56,760 precision we hear about. This is a rancher in the area who is trying to find some way to 197 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:00,600 recover his losses. He's tried to sue the government that hasn't worked. He says they should be 198 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:08,440 protecting his cattle. Of course that is a serious problem. He's suffered quite a loss and 199 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:15,720 you can't blame him for trying to recover something. I guess that's all my slides we could have the 200 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:23,000 light up. On one ranch in particular that I've just dealt with over a period of a few years, 201 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:29,640 six or seven ahead of cattle have been lost in this manner. Dr. Howard Burgess, an Afro member 202 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:35,720 studying this situation, noted that 90% of the mutilated animals fell into a particular profile. 203 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:45,240 He said that they were four or five-year-old cows or they were heifers less than a year old. 204 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:51,160 And all of them that were brought to his attention were of a particular strain, 205 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:57,640 a Charlie-Herford cross. The cattle that were molested in this area showed signs of having been 206 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:05,000 hauled aloft by one leg. The hair on this leg, which could either be a fore leg or a hind leg, 207 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,640 would be worn off in a band around the leg and quite often the leg was broken. 208 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,960 And in many cases they showed evidence of having been dropped from considerable height in that the 209 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:22,520 carcass would contain a number of broken bones. Now Dr. Burgess theorized that because cattle were 210 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:28,600 grabbed at night without warning but still seemingly carefully chosen that they were somehow marked in 211 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:35,320 advance and he convinced a local rancher to run the number of these cattle under a black light at 212 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:41,880 night. And they found 20 cows, all of which fitted the profile of those previously killed, 213 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:48,120 all marked in a manner that became luminescent under the black light. Now the cause of this 214 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:52,680 luminescence was never determined, although Dr. Burgess ran a number of laboratory tests. 215 00:21:54,760 --> 00:22:03,000 And after two weeks, approximately, the luminescence abruptly seized in all the samples 216 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:11,800 and eventually all the marked cows died. Now there's a definite difference between the mutilated 217 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,680 cattle and those dying of natural causes. The mutes, as they're called, do not bloat and scavenging 218 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:25,880 animals do not touch them. They usually exhibit a hole in both jugulars, apparently where the 219 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:35,000 blood has been drained. And early on after they've been found, the internal organs seem to be 220 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,920 abnormally mushy and some medical technicians who have handled these organs in the course of autopsy 221 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:46,760 have complained of health problems. Also, though no definite tie-in has been established, one young 222 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:52,840 technician has developed an apparently incurable disease similar to leukemia. This individual had 223 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:59,240 been involved in testing some material which was found on some mutilated cattle in northern Colorado. 224 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:09,960 An electron microscopic examination showed this material to be composed of very minute, precisely 225 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:19,720 formed spheres of a size of 0.3 to 1 micron in diameter held together by some sort of binder, 226 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:27,080 as I said, giving the appearance of toothpaste. So far this material has defied identification. 227 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:34,520 In many cases on record, insects which normally attack dead animals died en masse 228 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:40,280 after contacting the carcass, flesh-eating beetles in Missouri and flies in Colorado were found 229 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:45,160 covering the respective carcasses and they were all dead. And no cause of death has been determined. 230 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:52,440 In another unexplained oddity, the sheriff of Benton County, Arkansas reports numerous mutilations 231 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,720 all occurring on a straight line connecting the northeast corner of the county to the southwest 232 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:05,080 corner and nowhere else in the county. Spectrographic studies of the livers of many of the victim 233 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:11,800 cows shows a complete absence of copper. A control sample of liver, bought at the local 234 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:17,320 butcher shop, showed an easily detectable amount. It was noted also that the livers from the 235 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:26,280 mutes were pale pink in color, not the normal color of liver at all. And in this connection, 236 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:32,760 we'd like to point out that high levels of microwave radiation can cause the release of copper 237 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:39,800 in living tissue. And that since copper is an agent which binds cellular iron, we suggest that the 238 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:46,120 absence of copper and iron could account for the color change in the liver tissue. Apparently, 239 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:51,160 these metals are released into the blood and disappear from the carcass with the blood. 240 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,880 Another symptom worthy of note is that many internal blood vessels are found to be ruptured, 241 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:00,440 but perhaps this results at least in part from the dropping of the carcass from considerable height. 242 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:09,480 Now, back in 1977, a rancher near Taos, New Mexico, collected insurance on a cow which had been a 243 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:15,000 mutilation victim, even though the cow changed in color from red to a cream color during the 244 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:22,520 experience. In northern New Mexico, where a birthday party involving several neighborhood 245 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,960 families had broken up about midnight, various participants had barely reached their homes 246 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,440 when, as they all reported later, they heard a crackling sound and noted that the area was 247 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:38,520 lighted up in a manner that suggested that a neighbor's house was on fire. These 20-odd witnesses 248 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:44,120 rushed outside to see a disc at an elevation of approximately 100 meters per hour. 249 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,160 It seemed to be directly over a state highway inspector's truck, 250 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,720 which was parked between two of the houses. These houses were about 25 meters apart. 251 00:25:54,360 --> 00:26:00,440 As the witnesses watched, they reported in the light from the UFO that they saw a powdery 252 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:07,240 material showering down and falling on the truck. The highway inspector showed the presence of 253 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:13,640 mind to gather up a substantial amount of this material in a sterile fruit jar. 254 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:21,720 Dr. Burgess eventually had the opportunity to examine this material, and in it he found 255 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:28,600 22 elements which generally occur in organic material, plus trace quantities of europium, 256 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:35,720 lanthamum, and yttrium, rarists that can be products of nuclear fission. And there were also trace 257 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:43,080 amounts of platinum and vanadium. There were, in addition, substantial amounts of magnesium 258 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:48,040 and potassium. Now these last two elements had previously been found in increased amounts 259 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:55,560 in the samples of luminescent hair discussed earlier. One of the obstacles that conventional 260 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,760 science has often invoked as a reason for not delving into the UFO problem is its lack of 261 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:06,600 repetivity. It has been said that science cannot deal with transient phenomena of random occurrence, 262 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:13,240 and I think that this excuse is no longer operative. There are now many areas of this country where 263 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:20,440 incidents repeat themselves to an extent that in any investigator with patience, foresight, 264 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:27,640 and little instrumentation can document the existence of alien craft. At the present time, 265 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:33,160 one of our investigators is completing a report of an expedition he made into an area of repeated 266 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:42,280 mutilations. He made three trips and spent three or four days each trip camped out in an area where 267 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:48,760 UFOs had been reported. He was able to photograph UFOs repeatedly on two of the trips. One was a 268 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:56,200 blank, but on the other two repeated photographs. And a mutilation occurred during one period of his 269 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:08,760 surveillance. An interesting sidelight is that he had observed and photographed a UFO at night 270 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:16,360 maneuvering in a certain area where it dropped behind trees. He could occasionally see a tree 271 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:23,000 silhouetted against it, and sometimes trees lighted up as a backdrop. So he went back in daylight 272 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:29,960 with his Hasselblad camera to take a photograph of the area in order to establish some reference 273 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:34,360 points to see what he could work out in the way of triangulation. He observed this UFO from two 274 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:39,000 points. He went back with a Hasselblad camera, set it up these two points and took photographs, 275 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,600 and when he developed one of the frames, there was a UFO in the picture, which he didn't see at the time. 276 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,240 Another of our investigators, and I think he may be in the audience now, 277 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,840 stopped on a drive through the South Dakota Black Hills in an area where ranchers claimed 278 00:28:54,840 --> 00:29:00,120 they've lost 350 heads of cattle in the past few years. I called him when I heard about 279 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,040 activity in that area, and it turned out that he had, he was planning a trip through the area, so he 280 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:11,960 stopped. And just one of those spur-of-the-moment things, there was no particular plans, but he 281 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:17,560 did go out with two other men to a high vantage point on the reservation there. 282 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:26,840 And before the night was over, watched an orange disc move into the area and spend 283 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:33,160 considerable time exploring a canyon in much the way that they'd been doing in Northern New Mexico. 284 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,600 Well, he reported this to me by phone. He says, no, this is not supposed to happen. When the 285 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:41,880 investigator comes, the UFO is supposed to stay away. I think in dealing with the UFO problem, 286 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:47,880 we can easily fall into an error of thinking, which stems directly from our manner of speaking 287 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:53,880 about it. We tend to speak of a mystery or the mystery when in actuality there may be many 288 00:29:53,880 --> 00:30:00,440 mysteries arbitrarily lumped together, including serious psychological problems projected as 289 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:07,160 UFO cases. Personally, I try to adhere to the principle of parsimony in my approach to all aspects 290 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:14,120 of the problem, to refrain from generating a new theory or concept when one is not necessary. 291 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:21,400 When APRO became involved in UFO research 28 years ago, we felt that the extraterrestrial 292 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:27,640 hypothesis was a viable investigative assumption for at least one important aspect of the mystery, 293 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,960 and I still think so. And I think that UFO involvement in the death and mutilation of 294 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:38,440 animals supports that hypothesis. It's an activity that's overly physically in nature, 295 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,600 and I cannot conceive of it as being the work of other dimensional beings if such exists. 296 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:48,600 Nor does it make any sense as the work of earth-based secret societies. It would be much more 297 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:54,360 economic for such societies to operate their own ranches or purchase cattle to fill their needs. 298 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:04,760 Using such a sophisticated vehicle to wrestle cattle seems to me to be an extravagant 299 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:13,080 misuse of technology. Obviously, the losses to cattle ranchers and farmers are substantial, 300 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:20,760 and we can ponder where this fact might lead. Will insurance companies begin to write UFO loss 301 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:27,480 clauses into their policies? Or will this aspect of the UFO mystery eventually be solved beyond 302 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:33,480 reasonable doubt by cattlemen's associations rather than UFO investigators protecting their own 303 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:43,240 interests? Thank you.