SUBJECT: LINDA HOWE SPEAKS ON MUTES FILE: UFO1965 Copyright @1989 ParaNet Information Systems. This file may not be reposted or distributed without the written permission of ParaNet Information Systems. Permission has been granted for distribution on Compuserve ====================================================================== A STRANGE HARVEST CONTINUES by Linda Moulton Howe Mysterious animal mutilations go back to at least 1967 and the fa- mous "Snippy the Horse" case. That was the Appaloosa mare found stripped of flesh from the neck up in the Sand Dune Valley near Alamosa, Colorado. That story went worldwide and there was a lot of talk about UFOs involved. In the early 70's, mutilations were reported in the Great Lakes and Pennsylvania. Then something shifted dramatically in 1975 primarily to the Midwestern and Western United States. Sheriffs in Logan and Elbert Coun- ties in Colorado were investigating as many as three mutilations a day that summer. Many animals were warm to touch, dead only hours, but their bodies were carved in strange ways. Usually an ear, eyeball and tongue were taken. Many of the eyes had a neat, round patch of hide about three inches in diameter removed from the lower eyelid onto the forehead. Often one half the face was stripped so cleanly that the jaw bone looked as if it had laid in the sun for a long time. In almost every case, the rectum was cored out in about a four inch by six inch hole. Usually the udder and/or teats or penis and/or scrotum were cut away. Whatever was cut out, there wasn't any blood. That was one of the first signals to ranchers and law enforcement that something very bizarre was happening. Satanic cults will kill cattle in fields, but leave blood at the site. Coyotes will tear at carcasses and leave a lot of bone. The "cookie cutter" look of the cuts and the lack of blood are eerie when you see them because they are so unnatural. I have seen seven of the mutilated animals, including a horse that looked like it should get up and walk away even though it had been dead three weeks with the strange cuts. Its been twenty years since the Snippy case and about ten since the unexplained intensive harvest of animal parts began in the middle '70s. And the Strange Harvest continues: 1986 ---- August 25, Trinidad, Colorado. A yearling bull seen alive by its owner the evening of August 24 was found dead and mutilated the next morning. The nose, upper and lower lips were removed in a clean cut that made a 360 degree circle about four inches back from the tip of the cow's nose. The tongue had been cut out from deep inside the throat. An eye was missing. A long straight cut had been made from one rib cage to the other. From the ribs, two more straight cuts had been made down to the rectum. The result was a large triangular section of hide missing that included the sex or- gans and rectum. The Trinidad Sheriff's office sent Deputy Mike Bailey to take photos and make a report. Then Lou Girodo of the Trinidad District Attorney's of- fice went to the mutilation site with Trinidad Mayor and dentist, Dr. Ron Sanders. Dr. Sanders took these photos. (Note: There are four good photos. One of the missing mouth and the triangular cuts would be good to use.) In September, 1986, I drove to Trinidad to talk with Lou and Dr. San- ders. Lou Girodo had been working in the District Attorney's office for several years and had been the chief investigator of animal mutilations during the 1975-1979 period when law enforcement was trying to cope with several mutilation reports every month. I first met Lou when I was produc- ing the documentary film A STRANGE HARVEST in 1979 for the CBS affiliate in Denver. Lou and I had sat across from each other late one night in his office with a film camera running. When I asked him who he thought was behind the mutilations, he startled me by saying, "...who is doing this now is very possibly creatures not of this planet." Talking with Lou seven years later in September, he hadn't changed his mind. He said that unexplained red lights were seen three nights be- fore this current bull mutilation by neighbors two miles from the mutil- ation site. Three weeks later on September 18, 1986, two teenagers driving home around 8PM saw a "silent light hovering over their house." Sarah Gerald and Dino Rino each drew a fuzzy circular object with two red lights and one blue light in a triangular pattern to show Lou Girodo what they had seen. About the mutilation bull, Dr. Sanders said as a medically trained professional he knew he was looking at cuts made with a sharp instrument. In 1986, there were also mutilation reports from Escalante, Utah; Guntersville, Alabama, Oja Sarco and Chimayo, New Mexico. When Oja Sarco rancher Orlando Sanchez found his six-year-old Black Angus cow missing her udder, rectum, left eyeball and a lip in bloodless cuts he said, "I didn't even think it [the mutilations] was true until I seen it." He saw that cow alive at 7PM June 6, 1986 and found her mutilated carcass twelve hours la- ter at 7AM the next morning. 1985 My 1985 files contain only a half dozen cases from ranchlands as di- verse as Corpus Christi, Texas; Chimayo, New Mexico; and Ogallala, South Dakota. But it was Scenic, South Dakota that had a mix of several UFO re- ports and a mutilation. Mike Heathershaw was born and raised on his ranch at the northern edge of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. On March 8, he found an 8-year- old cow dead and mutilated. She had given birth to a calf two days before on March 6. "I've seen a lot of dead animals eaten by buzzards and coyotes," said Heathershaw, "but not with these characteristics. No blood whatso- ever." Except for two odd tracks "crying" from the eyes a short distance down the nose. He found the cow in a grassy dirt pasture with no tracks around her. The whole udder had been cut out "like with a knife." The rectum was cut out in a four-inch wide hole. I asked Heathershaw if he had seen any other mutilations on his ranch before. "No," he said. "I laughed at them before. But this has nothing to do with coyotes. They chew and eat more." Heathershaw never found the dead cow's two-day-old calf. That same week, Phyllis Clifford of Porcupine, South Dakota, saw a light over the Badlands "change colors from all red to all green to all white." There was a red light on top and a greenish haze around the center of it. Phyllis said she could not hear any sound associated with the light. In March, David Brewer with the Pine Ridge Bureau of Indian Affairs, reported red and green lights dropping down into a village west of Pine Ridge. At Slim Butte several miles west of Pine Ridge, Tommy La Deaux said he saw the "biggest light he'd ever seen" moving along the ground. He esti- mated the diameter to be 300 feet. Pine Ridge Judge Nancy Perez saw a light set down in her yard and called police who came and saw nothing. As soon as the police left, the light came back on and "took off." While all this was going on in South Dakota, a five-year-old Here- ford cow in Chimayo, New Mexico was attacked by the mutilators. Rancher Tony Martinez found her udder had been cut out in a circle and so had her rectum. She had been alive the day before. The other cows in the pasture were spooked. "It seemed like they were scared by something," said Marti- nez. By May, more was happening in South Dakota. In Ogallala, on a very remote pasture 15 miles north of Pine Ridge, rancher Eldon Lessert found his six-year-old Black Angus cow dead with the "udder completely removed very smoothly in one cut, almost a circle or oval that sagged away from the belly." A little further outside that cut, the hide had half a dozen very small holes "punched out sort of in a line." The rectum was a "very neat cut" forming one large hole with intestines extruding. This is one of the few cases where the rancher reported "a little blood on the hide, but more on the ground." Lessert said, "Some very sharp knife was used to cut these wounds, nothing jagged. Just smooth cut." That cow had a three-week-old calf that kept bawling about 300 yards away, but would not go near its dead mother. WHO? WHY? My files get much thicker as we go back to 1984 and the years be- fore. The association of mutilation with Unidentified Flying Objects is strong and dramatic in many cases. As Deputy Sheriff Bill Waugh said in Elbert County, Colorado: "Those big orange balls of light was always as- sociated with the mutilations." If extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs) are harvesting odd parts from our animals, what are they doing with them? One speculation is the harvest of DNA to create biological robots. In the context of that speculation, the work of Dr. James Womack at Texas A & M University is perhaps pertinent. In February 1984, Dr. Womack reported in the national journal GENETIC MAPS that big chunks of cattle chromosomes are identical to large sections of human chromosomes. "We must have more in common than previously believed," said Dr. Womack. Humans carry 23 pairs of chromo- somes which contain all hereditary factors. Cows have 30 pairs. Further, in 1986 it was reported from Texas Tech University that cow's blood can be used as an emergency blood transfusion substitute because the hemoglobin so closely matches human blood. These unexpected and recently discovered similarities about cows and humans might offer some clue about the mutilations. But if the ETs are using cow parts because the DNA is close to hu- man, what kind of biological robots are they making? Are they secretly among us, an invasion from within? Why was there such intense harvesting activity in 1975-1980 which has steadily dropped off since but not disappeared? Did something special happen in the cosmos then? Or was the harvesting in _anticipation_ of some alien need? From the human point of view, it's a one-way trade route. Whatever is taken is not paid for. And what's left behind is fear, anger, and dead animals. Copyright February 1987 Linda Moulton Howe. Reprinted on ParaNet by permission of the copyright holder. ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************