SUBJECT: DETAILED ARTICLE ON LASER CUTS ON ANIMALS FILE: UFO1973 Message number 9419 in "Alabama UFO Echo" Date: 07-15-91 18:17 From: Jean-Francois Paquin To: All Subj: UFO UPDATE #2 EID:9ea6 16ef9220 PID: RA 1.01 MSGID: 1:167/102 4e208452 U F O U P D A T E ANTI-MATTER "The heat damage to the tissue is due to natural decomposition, not to some laserlike device." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You've heard it all before: Herds of cattle have been systematically mutiled by aliens, who swoop down on deserted pastures in flying saucers, do their dirty deeds, and disappear. Ever since thse claims emerged in the Sixties, debunkers have swiftly replied. The straight, deep cuts found on cattle are inflicted by vicious wild animals and cults, the critic said. As time went on, even most professional UFOlogists - and the public - agreed. But now the debate has been revived. According to award - winning filmmaker Linda Moulton Howe, author of the new book "An Alien Harvest", the strange surgeries could not have been performed by natural predators or by humains, as the debunkers claim. To make her argument, Howe presents new case studies with photos of mutilated cattle. She includes interviews with farmers, ranchers, and law enforcement officials, as well as transcripts of hypnosis sessions with UFO abductees, two of whom claim to have witness the aliens in the act. Howe even cites what she says is government knowledge of these events. Her strongest evidence, however, is a medical report on tissue samples taken from five mutilated animals last March. Conducted by pathologist/hematologist John H. Altshuler of the University of Colorado in Denver, the report found that cuts were made "at a temperature of at least three hundred degrees Fahrenheit in less than two minutes." The report, "Howe says, confirms high heat, as well as rapid, pinpoint inc- isions that exclude natural predators." What's more, she saids, "the laser equipment needed for pinpoint high-heat excisions of tissue can weigh more than five hundred pounds, take a team of experts to set up, and require tremendous power. The idea that a satanic cult could be operating such equipment stretches my credibility much more than does the existence of alien life forms." The skeptics do not agree Corneil veterinanan John M. King says that "every mutilation case I've seen so far has been questionable." Besides, he says, after studying Altshuler's slides, he believes that heat damage in the issue is due to autolysis - natural decomposition - not to a laserlike device. Daniel Kagan, author of Mute Evidence (Bantam, 1984), a book about cattle mutilation, concurs, Howe's theory, he says, "is impossible to prove." Kenneth Rommel, a former FBI agent and author of a 297 pages federally funded report on the subject, is skeptical as well. Cattle mutilation claims, says Rommel, are "a bunch of garbage, a bunch of very creative writing on the part of the media, and a lot of statements made by law enforcement officials and others that are totally unsupported by fact." Indeed, Rommel's report, written in 1980 for the state of New Mexico, found only natural causes, inc- luding predator/scavenger action, at the root of mutilation claims. But Howe is sticking to her guns. "Alienness is the very hallmark of the animal mutilations," she says. "Over twenty-two years very little makes sense. This material should be treated credibly, like any other medical of science story." - PEGGY NOONAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Frac --- * Origin: Le Voyageur de L'Imaginaire <== Montreal, Que ==> (1:167/102) ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************