NEW RASH OF BIZARRE MUTILATIONS REPORTED IN ALABAMA

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From:ISCNI*Flash
Title:NEW RASH OF BIZARRE MUTILATIONS REPORTED IN ALABAMA
Source:Huntsville Times
Date:Feburary 25, 1996


Junior [James] Pittman, a 60 year old retired military man, now farmer, lost

a 10 year old 1,100 lb. Holstein cow in the early morning of Feb 9, 1996. His

comment was, "It's weird and it don't make no sense -- what would anybody

want with a cow, as cheap as they are today? They're going for about 16 cents

a pound, just giving 'em away, up in Tennessee. What would anybody want with

a neck bone?"

"Foggy, damp, overcast," said Pittman, citing the ideal weather conditions

for such covert operations. "That's when they do their dirty work. That's

when this happened."

Sue Pitts, the assistant state director for MUFON, from Huntsville,

investigated the scene. She [found] an 8 inch deep, 6 inch wide, 8-1/2 inch

long incision at the base of the [cow's] neck.

But who did this? What caused this, another dead animal in an area

beleaguered by more than 30 cow mutilations in 1992 and 1993?

"This happens all over the world," said Ms. Pitts. "It's not exclusively Sand

Mountain."

"There was some question on that one (the Pittman cow), that it was something

besides a predator," said Marshall County Sheriff Mac Holcomb. "As to what,

who knows?"

James Pittman doesn't think aliens killed his cow. He thinks someone passed

over his pasture, snuck through the night in a helicopter with a silent,

sophisticated motor, and started another rash of cow mutilations.

Since Pittman's cow was killed, two more cows have been found dead in

Marshall County, one near Boaz and another one in a community called Asbury,

near Albertville. Sheriff Mac Holcomb's investigators concluded that the

latest cow deaths were not the result of [surgical] mutilations.

"A perfectly round incision," said Milton Rains, the Asbury farmer who found

his cow dead last Tuesday morning [Feb 20]. "It wasn't done by dogs, either.

I don't believe a predator could have cut an incision as round as that one

was."

Junior Pittman could not explain the lack of smell and blood where the cow

was found. He could not figure out why rigor mortis hadn't set in four days

after death. There weren't any tracks, footprints or cow tracks near the

mud-stained scene.

"I don't want to say UFOs," Junior Pittman said. "It wasn't devil worshippers

or gangs. It was quick and quiet, the way they did it. It (a UFO) is a

possibility."

Ms. Jaci Pittman discovered the cow by the pond. That morning about 8 a.m.,

when she heard a calf hollering, she went over to the calf, and she saw the

dead cow 50 yards away with the hole in its neck, sprawled in the mud and

water.

Phyllis Baldwin, a family friend and a nurse in Fort Payne said, "They

injected her. They took all the blood. There was no clotting or blood in the

belly."

Pittman said, "The skin was smooth," describing the area inside the wound.

"... even with a good steady hand, you couldn't do it that good." He

commented it looked like a laser beam had done it.

"They went into her neck, behind the jawbone," said Milton Rains, describing

his dead cow. "That blood hadn't clotted, and she'd been dead 12 to 48 hours.

There was no sign of anything on the ground."

Pittman said he woke up around 2:30 that morning and heard a helicopter going

over in that direction. "I didn't think anything of it. It was a quiet

helicopter. In Vietnam, you could hear a helicopter a long time before it got

to you." He says that wasn't a military helicopter he heard on the morning of

Feb. 9.

A blue and white helicopter has been spotted by the Pittmans over their

pasture before.