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Eli Hornick is a rancher in northern New Mexico who has experienced the horror of cattle

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mutilation firsthand.

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Recently Hornick participated in a sightings investigation of animal mutilation in the

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southwest.

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Since his participation, Hornick informs us that the mutilations have not only continued,

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but seem to be increasing.

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The

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tongue was missing.

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The meat after it cut it open looked like it had been cooked or something.

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When we found the animal, it couldn't have been there no longer than 12, 13 hours because

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I was there at 6.30 in the evening.

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I was back there at 7 o'clock the next morning.

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It wasn't maybe 600 yards from the ranch house and this animal was all, it had been

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mutilated.

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There's no blood, no tracks, no sign of nothing.

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And this animal was already decomposing like it had been dead for four or five days.

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If it was satanic cults, you'd have blood all over everything.

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If it was predators, you'd have blood all over.

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These cuts are very uniform, very smooth.

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The eye looks like it has just been sucked out.

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It's a pattern that continues to be all too familiar for many ranchers in the Southwest.

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And now there's a strange new development.

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We've had a disturbing new trend where ranchers inadvertently are touching these carcasses

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and they're developing what could be, I guess, likened to a chemical like burn.

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I stuck my thumb in the animal's mouth.

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When I stuck that thumb in there, well, it burned for about two weeks.

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I mean, like, I would say it would be like a battery acid burn or something, you know,

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like that.

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Since our last report, the border area between New Mexico and Colorado has been hit hard.

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Ranchers there tell sightings that animals are decomposing at an unnaturally rapid rate

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and the body count is up.

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We're having mutilations that are occurring on almost a weekly basis.

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They seem to be expanding outwards from this area about a week and a half after the sighting

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segment aired.

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We've had two cases in Swatch County, Colorado, which is about 80 miles north of here.

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I think they're coming down out of the air with some kind of air equipment, picking

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them up, taking them, bringing them back and laying them down.

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Eli Hornick is fed up with the seeming lack of interest in his and other ranchers' plight.

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Mutilation reports gathered dust on government desks while animals continue to die.

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And even as the number of dead cattle rises, official interest in the mystery is declining.

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Somebody somewhere in this country knows what's going on.

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I mean, it just seems like every time we try to do an investigation, try to get something

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started, it comes to a dead end.

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We can't get senators, congressmen, you know, it just gets a lot of publicity, but it just

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dies.

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You know, it doesn't seem like, you know, it's a crime.

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You know, this is real monetary value.

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This is my living.

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You know, it's cost me thousands of dollars already.

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They're taking my living away from me.

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It's just outright thievery.

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Why isn't somebody doing something about it?

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Our government has the capacity to monitor any square acre of ground in this country

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if they want to.

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If they are not part of the problem and they are truly as baffled about this as the ranchers

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and investigators like myself are, let's catch whoever or whatever is mutilating cattle.

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Ranchers and private investigators say they smell a rat.

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They are beginning to believe that there is a government conspiracy of silence at the

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heart of the mutilation phenomenon.

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We was caught in hay in one of the meadows and this helicopter was right there.

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It looked to me like a big military type helicopter.

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No numbers.

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And that night we had a mutilation.

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I think people are scared to pay attention.

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They're scared.

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This is something of the unknown and they just don't want to get involved.

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And it's a very frightening thing to, especially when you see these things.

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My God, they could come after me.

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Maybe they'll start on humans next, I hope not.

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Finally, someone in Washington is taking the cattle mutilation problem seriously.

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This is a letter written by New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, requesting that the livestock

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board provide him with a detailed status report on the progress of their cattle mutilation

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investigation.

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For ranchers like Eli Hornick, it's the first sign of official support for a phenomenon

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that has plagued them since 1967.