1 00:00:04,850 --> 00:00:02,450 officer Gabe Valdez of the New Mexico 2 00:00:06,710 --> 00:00:04,860 State Police and retired scientist 3 00:00:08,629 --> 00:00:06,720 Howard Burgess who pioneered the 4 00:00:11,089 --> 00:00:08,639 development of kirlian Photography in 5 00:00:13,669 --> 00:00:11,099 this country periodically pool their 6 00:00:16,490 --> 00:00:13,679 knowledge and expertise in an effort to 7 00:00:19,550 --> 00:00:16,500 solve the mutilation mystery officer 8 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:19,560 Valdez describes how it all began it was 9 00:00:26,450 --> 00:00:23,760 in 1976 June the 14th 10 00:00:29,029 --> 00:00:26,460 we when we first had one of our 11 00:00:31,669 --> 00:00:29,039 Cattlemen relations here in Dulce 12 00:00:35,209 --> 00:00:31,679 the catalog that was nearly belonged to 13 00:00:37,010 --> 00:00:35,219 Mr Manuel Gomez any time that we do find 14 00:00:40,490 --> 00:00:37,020 one that 15 00:00:43,010 --> 00:00:40,500 it's not too decomposed and it's a 16 00:00:46,069 --> 00:00:43,020 it's fresh enough for us to do some 17 00:00:47,869 --> 00:00:46,079 tests or I do call on Mr Burgess because 18 00:00:49,310 --> 00:00:47,879 because he has a lot of knowledge in the 19 00:00:52,430 --> 00:00:49,320 field of science that 20 00:00:53,810 --> 00:00:52,440 is very helpful to me in conducting my 21 00:00:56,150 --> 00:00:53,820 investigations 22 00:00:58,369 --> 00:00:56,160 Howard Burgess said a theory that some 23 00:01:00,470 --> 00:00:58,379 of the cattle had been marked prior to 24 00:01:02,450 --> 00:01:00,480 their mutilation with something which 25 00:01:05,929 --> 00:01:02,460 would show up in the ultraviolet light 26 00:01:08,690 --> 00:01:05,939 but being visible to the naked eye 27 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:08,700 late one night he and Valdez conducted 28 00:01:14,450 --> 00:01:11,340 an experiment and found that out of 80 29 00:01:17,090 --> 00:01:14,460 head of cattle five were indeed marked 30 00:01:20,330 --> 00:01:17,100 with a powdery white substance visible 31 00:01:23,749 --> 00:01:20,340 only under ultraviolet light 32 00:01:26,090 --> 00:01:23,759 so we took ultraviolet with some special 33 00:01:30,230 --> 00:01:26,100 filters and ran the cattle through it 34 00:01:32,749 --> 00:01:30,240 and what appears to be markings glowed 35 00:01:35,870 --> 00:01:32,759 under ultraviolet it's invisible to the 36 00:01:39,649 --> 00:01:35,880 normal eye but under ultraviolet it does 37 00:01:42,830 --> 00:01:39,659 glow then we removed the air from the 38 00:01:45,530 --> 00:01:42,840 region that does glow and we removed a 39 00:01:49,370 --> 00:01:45,540 control sample we took these to the lab 40 00:01:54,109 --> 00:01:49,380 and had chemical checks run on them 41 00:01:57,050 --> 00:01:54,119 we did find that the sample that did low 42 00:01:59,690 --> 00:01:57,060 is extremely high in potassium and 43 00:02:02,090 --> 00:01:59,700 magnesium at the time this was 44 00:02:05,510 --> 00:02:02,100 interesting but it didn't mean much to 45 00:02:08,330 --> 00:02:05,520 us until we ran onto other things that 46 00:02:11,869 --> 00:02:08,340 began to tie in with it the tying came 47 00:02:14,330 --> 00:02:11,879 on July 3 1978 when a UFO was sighted 48 00:02:17,210 --> 00:02:14,340 over Taos New Mexico as it hovered over 49 00:02:19,610 --> 00:02:17,220 the town it dropped a thin film of Ashes 50 00:02:21,710 --> 00:02:19,620 onto the ground below the ashes 51 00:02:24,290 --> 00:02:21,720 contained high levels of magnesium and 52 00:02:27,110 --> 00:02:24,300 potassium the same elements found on the 53 00:02:30,229 --> 00:02:27,120 cattle under ultraviolet light but there 54 00:02:32,930 --> 00:02:30,239 was more we find there's at least 25 55 00:02:35,089 --> 00:02:32,940 elements in there there's a good 56 00:02:36,770 --> 00:02:35,099 possibility that it may be something 57 00:02:40,430 --> 00:02:36,780 that's organic 58 00:02:43,250 --> 00:02:40,440 if it is this just opens up a real bag 59 00:02:45,290 --> 00:02:43,260 of worms because anything can happen if 60 00:02:48,410 --> 00:02:45,300 this is an organic material that has 61 00:02:50,449 --> 00:02:48,420 come from one of these 62 00:02:53,750 --> 00:02:50,459 crafts and this 63 00:02:57,110 --> 00:02:53,760 as the people told us directly fell from