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From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@get2net.dk>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:06:12
Fwd Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:19:24 -0400
Subject: DA Investigating Mysterious Cow Deaths In New


Source: Albuquerque Journal,

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/6news06-09.htm

Stig

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Wednesday, June 9, 1999

DA Investigating Recent Cow Deaths

By Brendan Smith
Journal Staff Writer

**

No one is sure what killed a calf and two cows last month on the
Tres Ritos Ranch north of Questa, but ranch manager Tom Reed
definitely finds the deaths unusual.

"I come up with more questions than answers," Reed said Monday.
"I wouldn't be surprised if we never do find out who or what is
doing this. It may be something totally unexpected."

The last cow was found dead May 23 in a pasture near where a
dead calf and a dead cow were found earlier in the month, Reed
said. The last cow had its udder cleanly cut off and a deep hole
with smoothly cut edges gouged into its neck, Reed said.

Each of the three animals had unexplained wounds and missing
body parts, Reed said.

The 8th Judicial District Attorney's Office takes cattle
mutilations seriously, although no one has ever been charged
with the crime, Assistant District Attorney John Day said. The
judicial district covers Taos, Colfax and Union counties.

"If someone is up there killing livestock, that's a crime," Day
said Tuesday. "Whether (cattle mutilations) are a secret
government project or aliens, that's out of my realm."

Dozens of reported cattle mutilations in northern New Mexico
dating back to the 1970s have spawned theories about aliens sent
to Earth to slice up cows.

Reed said he couldn't explain the three recent deaths from his
herd of 40 cattle, but he isn't convinced aliens cut up his
cattle.

"I would lean more to the government or cults or something like
that. I really don't know anything. I guess that's just
speculation," he said. "If the government isn't involved, I
think they're covering it up."

Gabe Valdez, a retired State Police officer who has investigated
cattle mutilations near Dulce, said he is working with the
District Attorney's Office in investigating the recent cattle
deaths on Tres Ritos Ranch.

Valdez, who lives in Albuquerque, is now a field investigator
for the National Institute for Discovery Science, a private
organization that has volunteered to pay for necropsies and lab
tests on the dead cattle.

The institute, based in Las Vegas, Nev., researches cattle
mutilations, UFOs and reported encounters with aliens. The
organization is funded entirely by a Las Vegas entrepreneur who
is interested in the paranormal field, said Colm Kelleher, the
institute's deputy administrator.

Reed found the first dead cow on May 4 in a pasture on the
3,200-acre Tres Ritos Ranch. The cow's right eye and right ear
were missing with a circular cut around the right ear extending
down the neck, Reed said.

"There were no tracks where she was injured or hurting and
dragged herself around," Reed said. "She was just there."

The calf was found dead four days later in the same area. The
calf's right eye and tongue were missing and the genital area
had been cut open, Reed said. The calf's rump also was missing
but Reed thinks birds may have eaten it.

Valdez said he saw flipped cow patties around the third dead cow
that may have been caused by "turbulence," but Valdez didn't
know if the turbulence was from an alien spaceship.

"It was an unexplained animal death," Valdez said. "Don't ask me
what I think. I don't know who's doing it."

The New Mexico Livestock Board investigated about 30 cattle
mutilations in northern New Mexico in 1993 and 1994, including
one mutilated cow reported by Reed at the Tres Ritos Ranch in
May 1994.

The Livestock Board concluded most of the 1993-94 cattle
mutilations were not caused by predators or scavengers. An
earlier investigation by the board found there was "possible
involvement of clandestine Satanic groups."

Predators or scavengers were blamed for similar cattle
mutilations from the 1970s investigated in 1980 by an ex-FBI
agent for the 1st Judicial District Attorney in Santa Fe.

The Las Vegas institute hasn't determined what caused the recent
deaths of the cows on Tres Ritos Ranch.

The institute has researched about a dozen unexplained cattle
deaths, most in New Mexico or Utah, over the past three years,
Kelleher said.

After conducting necropsies and lab tests, some of those cattle
deaths were determined to be caused by infectious disease,
accidental poisoning from insecticides, or the work of predators
or scavengers, Kelleher said.

Other cases of cattle mutilations have proved more mysterious.

"There are a small handful for which there are no logical
explanations," Kelleher said.


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