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here in St Louis and we will get back to

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nobody has any theories on that

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obviously either ah have you ever seen

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anything like this in your life not

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until you brought it in here today I

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don't know

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an incredible story NewsCenter 2's Ron

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Barber has been in this story he's back

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in Elsberry Missouri tonight and we've

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got him on the phone Ron uh what is the

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mood of the people in Ellsbury tonight

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Sherry there

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the concern here is high as a nearly

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full moon has kept total darkness from

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falling here in Elsberry some farmers

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will be spending a long night many of

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them spent a day touting their herd

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making certain that none of the cattle

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had fallen victims to the mutilation

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that has claimed at least five cows

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since April 24th one farmer who reported

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a heifer missing this afternoon later

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found that it wandered off the Cavs

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mother and baby are fine tonight A

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sizable number of farmers can be heard

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on their citizens banned radios at this

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hour waiting to see if a Repeat

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Performance by the UFOs is in the offing

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this night in so it would be the fourth

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or fifth time since June 8th that

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objects no one around here has ever seen

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before have appeared long enough to Glow

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a bright brilliant glow a gold color

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hover rise and descend several times

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move to the east move back to the west

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and then vanish it is a story here that

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no scriptwriter could duplicate and this

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one Sherry is for real good evening and

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thank you for joining us in NewsCenter 2

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the bizarre story out of Elsberry

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Missouri concerning mutilated cattle UFO

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sightings and mysterious dead flies has

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taken another strange twist this evening

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scientists here at the request of

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NewsCenter 2 now know what killed the

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Flies however they say the cause of

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death is something they have never seen

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before outside a laboratory thousands of

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dead flies were found in the area around

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several mutilated cows in Ellsbury they

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had apparently fed on the dead cow's

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carcasses a short time later they were

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found dead by the thousands sticking to

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near nearby tree limbs almost welded to

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them our test at Ralston Purina showed

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that the Flies died of a fungus What has

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scientists baffled is that they have

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been able to create this condition in

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Laboratories but they've never seen it

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happen naturally it's still not known if

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the Flies carried the fungus to the cow

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carcasses or from them it's still all a

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mystery farmers in Ellsbury are counting

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their herds but so far no new cases of

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cattle mutilations have been reported

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nor have there been any further

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sightings of UFOs which some people feel

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may be behind the whole bizarre episode

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Navy Senator 2's Ron Barber spent the

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night at nelsbury and says the mood of

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the people is cautious

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quite a few of the townsfolk of Elsberry

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Missouri gathered at the Manfred Hammond

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residence last night and looked towards

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the sky they gazed and really didn't

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even know what they were looking for

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whatever it was they didn't see anything

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other than a bright full moon somewhat

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obscured by light haze there were even a

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couple of semi-professional UFO Seekers

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fully equipped with highly professional

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camera gear but there was nothing more

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than a pleasant late spring night's

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get-together with the neighbors just the

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night before however Manfred Hammond his

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family and others say the sites were

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very prolific and very strange and they

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hovered over the tree and then it went

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right straight down

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and then it was down about 15 minutes

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and then come right back up went to the

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west and out of sight

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and then after a while we saw it back

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over here in the East again and come

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back up

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and come over and back down in the west

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and down every morning many Elsberry and

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area Farmers now are making careful head

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checks on their cattle in some cases

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counting them out one by one in others

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keeping their animals very close by well

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I've moved them right in front of my

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house but so that it is easier

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to watch them and it it's awful hard to

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get a good count on the cattle regularly

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but I've moved them in front of my house

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we're as close to close the house and

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close to the road where I think there

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won't be as much possibility of

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something happening

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the authoritative UFO sightings have

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been about every second or third night

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since early June so they'll be out

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looking again tonight and Counting

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animals again tomorrow morning

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those people here who have an

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explanation for the events that have

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taken place are not all that certain of

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their theories every piece of logic or

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reasoning seems to have holes in it

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what is known for absolute certain is

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that every dead cow is costing these

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Farmers hundreds perhaps thousands of

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Ron Barber News Center 2 Elsberry

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a rural Wentzville farmer has reported

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what appears to be a cow killing very

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similar to the recent incidents in

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Office of civil preparedness it is not a

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difficult instrument to use that

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accomplished we headed out to the cleat

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last Saturday Mr Parr followed his nose

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to the source of a rancid smell down a

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slight embankment it was there Mr Parr

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discovered the carcass of one of his

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registered cows apparently dead about

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five or six days at that time there were

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similarities to the Elsberry incidents

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although you can't see it here Mr Parr

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told me the right ear appeared to have

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been neatly sliced off there were at

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that time hundreds of dead flies stuck

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to the fence wire near the carcass when

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we got there today a driving rain had

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washed many of them off but some were

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still visible

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and now something else Mr Parr noted

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that was highly unusual to him

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the cow apparently died from the looks

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of it with its legs underneath it

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always turn to their side

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but just before they die up there even

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if they're laying upright before they

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die and that's the way on what I've seen

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detector close to the carcass and close

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to the wire with the Flies I thought I

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heard more activity near the scene than

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Wentzville with our camera crew he felt

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of buzzards or large Predators near the

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carcass in the nearly two weeks since

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the cow was only about eight years of

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age normally animals of this nature Live

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this way well it just seems

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kind of weird about all I could say

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about it it seems weird

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last night at least nine persons saw

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what they all felt were UFOs in an area

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west of Elsberry the objects bobbed

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weaved and maneuvered up and down for a

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period of four hours from 9pm to 1 this

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we talked to several of the witnesses

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their descriptions did vary considerably

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but they all agreed on one point never

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had they seen anything like the objects

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that they saw last night it was just

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make a Believer out of me because I just

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you know I didn't expect to see anything

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when I came up and yet I saw these

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lights moving and they would move in

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line lines you know move along and

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possibly have red or green lights this

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was just an orange brilliant line at one

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point I did see

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um well this is when our group had grown

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quite a bit and we had nine or ten

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people there I think it was around 12

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o'clock a.m and we saw a brilliant light

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that flashed for five to ten seconds in

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white red green orange just and it

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lasted that long and then it disappeared

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you up I was recited it appeared odd to

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this reporter when I saw the dead animal

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surrounded by a complete circle of dirt

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in an otherwise grassy pasture the

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veterinarian Dr Newberry who had

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investigated earlier alleged mutilations

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told me the circle was caused by curious

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cows Milling around the dead cow

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he felt the dead animal was struck by

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lightning burn marks underneath the skin

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appeared to verify that conclusion to

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the Layman

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meantime at least a dozen members of

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various UFO groups mostly from St Louis

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trooped up here today to try to assist

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through what remains of the carcasses

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and interview the citizens

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t-shirts bearing the emblems Elsberry

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UFO country are being sold here by the

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despite the fact the cow today appears

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to have been struck by lightning the

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whole feeling in the community may have

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been summed up by one farmer I overheard

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talking to a group of other Farmers

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today he said quote all these darn cows