1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 The cut on her jaw bone was just real, real sharp to sasko. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 A large incision removing its sacs organs. 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Rectum had been cored out, tail cut off. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Her milk sac had been cut out on the left side and on the oval about the size of a basketball. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000 It's a mystery that remains unexplained after 30 years of investigation. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Some claim alien forces are responsible. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Others claim cult activity or secret government testing. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Cattle mutilation. 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 The most recent outbreak appears to have been in a three county area of northeastern Alabama. 10 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Over 50 cases of mutilation have been reported in just the past six months. 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Organs appear to have been removed with surgical precision. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 So far, the farmers in the area have lost more than $40,000 in livestock. 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:01,000 With such tremendous losses, the police department in 5th Alabama has launched an intensive investigation. 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Ted Oliphant is a 5th police officer who has personally investigated more than 30 cattle mutilation cases. 15 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 We're finding the same thing over and over again. The sacs organs have been removed from the animals. 16 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,000 The tongues have been cut out of them. The jaw has been stripped into oval, cleaned to the bone, and all without blood. 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Who or what is responsible for the seemingly ritualistic slaughter of these cattle? 18 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Researchers have little to go on beyond these decomposing carcasses. 19 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And despite attempts to prove that as sinister forces at work here, some experts believe the mutilations are all the result of natural causes. 20 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:49,000 It leads us to think maybe that animal is getting mutilated, but what's happening is predators, vultures are also involved with that process. 21 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:56,000 The indication that predators are not responsible for these animals being cut on is the evidence of high heat at the excision, 22 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 evidence of high heat in excess of several hundred degrees or more according to the pathologist who studied the tissue samples. 23 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:08,000 That pathologist is Dr. John Altschuler. He has studied suspect cattle tissue for the last four years. 24 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:15,000 The tissue at the incisional areas is very firm and very hard and looks burned. 25 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:24,000 And the microscopic evidence clearly indicates that heat has been applied and predators to my knowledge cannot do that. 26 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Here we have a photomicrograph taken of a hide from an animal where we've had evidence of burning. 27 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:39,000 The arrow shows a pink color to the tissue underneath the lining of the hide. 28 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:50,000 As we move towards the cut area, you notice the definite color change from pink down here to blue up here. 29 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:56,000 This is a very typical change of exposure of tissue to heat. 30 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Other unusual evidence has been found at some alleged mutilation sites. 31 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 A white flaky substance was recovered from one Alabama location. 32 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Officer Olyphant had it analyzed at one Eastern University. 33 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:12,000 And they determined to do this composed of aluminum, titanium, silicone and oxygen. 34 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Aluminum and oxygen or aluminum oxide is what's used in the styptic pencil that I use if I've cut myself after shaving and that stops bleeding. 35 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Perhaps that has something to do with why the animals don't have blood on them at the excision lines. 36 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:32,000 In more than half of the Alabama cases, farmers report seen an unmarked helicopter leading the scene just before or after a cattle mutilation. 37 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:39,000 I had a chopper in behind the barn that all my cattle rounded up in behind the barn. 38 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,000 The chopper, when it appeared, it was kind of unordinary. 39 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 It looked like it's sitting on a box, you know. 40 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Of course, it was better enough to get a cow in. 41 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:01,000 If I catch them hovering over their cattle and pasture, I'd probably shoot. 42 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Probably shoot. 43 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:11,000 That was a helicopter noise. Sounded like it was right over the trailer. 44 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Went out the front door. 45 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Went over to my car. 46 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Great turn to sea. 47 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Pulled out a handgun. 48 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I walked towards the edge of the trailer. 49 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I saw the helicopter. 50 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 There's a light blue helicopter, no markings, no numbers. 51 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 I mean, it was hovering about 15 foot above the creek. 52 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,000 I dropped my holster in the helicopter's air gun. 53 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,000 I think the greatest mystery of this case is the lack of physical evidence that we found at the sites. 54 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Only in one case did we find that white flaky material. 55 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:52,000 We haven't been able to find footprints, we haven't been able to find tracks or wheel marks or anything to indicate that anybody's even been in there. 56 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 How do you explain that? We can't. 57 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:01,000 My tendency to believe is that something a lot higher intelligence than what we've got in normal everyday occurrence around here. 58 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Don't really have any ideas who could be doing it or the reasons behind it, you know. 59 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 You could get most of the parts they removed from a slaughterhouse for free. 60 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Yes, I run a meat processing plant and I made a statement that I would donate them jaw bone, the blood, their rectum and whatever, you know, if they just asked me for it and then they wouldn't have to kill these farmers cattle like I did. 61 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Despite the willingness of the ranchers to cooperate with authorities in a larger scale investigation, most government officials are sticking to the predator theory. 62 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 They do not believe that high tension lines in the area are somehow related to the mutilations. 63 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:49,000 They also deny charges that the government is mutilating cattle in order to support new technology, replacing human blood with bovine blood. 64 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:55,000 And what about the unmarked helicopters? Do they point to the existence of a conspiracy? 65 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 I think the helicopters are doing the same thing we're doing on the ground. 66 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 I think they're investigating who's doing this, they're trying to find out too. 67 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:08,000 And because of their behavior, it's obvious that they'd rather have us think that they're doing it than what's actually happening. 68 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Whoever or whatever is responsible may never be known. 69 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:18,000 The silent testimony of these mutilation victims has not been able to resolve the mystery. 70 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,000 One of the most intriguing aspects of our investigation is what we didn't find. 71 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 The moment our sightings team arrived in Fife, the mutilation stopped. 72 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Did our presence scare someone or something away? 73 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Or was it merely coincidence that our investigation coincided with an end to this bizarre phenomenon?