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Below is an article which appeared in the Rocky Mountain News on April 27,
1993. Notice the reference to the "white substance" found on a mutilated
animal's right rib cage and on the ground next to it.
I am curious if there are any readers of the net that could elaborate on
the chemical composition of this substance and how it reacted with the
deputy's metal pen tip.
CATTLE MUTILATIONS STRIKE IN ALABAMA
By Dick Foster
Rocky Mountain News Southern Bureau
Colorado is not alone in witnessing the resumption of cattle mutilations.
Officials in Alabama say 32 mutilations have occurred since October in two
northeastern counties.
"The cow's udder had been cut off cleaner than you could cut it with a
razor. I've been ranching most of my life and I've seen animals that
predators hot a hold of. I'd be willing to bet my life it was no predator,"
said Jimmy Pope, a Geraldine, Ala., rancher whose cow was found in a pasture
500 feet from his house.
"The cow had an oval-shaped cut on her shoulder where skin and hair had
been removed, there was no blood nowhere, and the mouth had been cut in
an oval shape and the teeth had been removed surgically," he said.
While removal of specific organs in DeKalb and Marshall counties cases is
similar to two incidents last November in Costilla and Las Animas counties
in southern Colorado, the Alabama cases have produced some new twists.
Tissue samples from one Alabama cow, examined under microscope by Denver
pathologist Dr. John Altshuler, showed that the blood around the cut tissue
had been "cooked," indicating temperatures of at least 300 degrees had been
used to make or cauterize the cuts.
Also, traces of a chemical substance were found at the scene of a
mutilation, according to Fyffe, Ala., police Officer Ted Oliphant.
"We found a white substance on a cow's right rib cage and on the ground next
to it. I put it into a plastic wrapper, and back at the office, when I
touched some of it with the metal tip of my pen, it turned to liquid within
one second. I put the rest on a piece of paper. We sent it to a molecular
biologist for analysis and found it was composed of aluminum, titanium,
oxygen and silicon. This is not a substance that occurs in nature," said
Oliphant.
The Alabama mutilations fit the classic patter, officials said.
"It varies from animal to animal, but generally the same things are taken.
Sex organs are removed with an oval incision, rectums are cored out, tongues
are cut out, jaws stripped to the bone, milk sacs are removed, sometimes a
very large incision and internal organs are taken," said Oliphant.
Pope said he was awakened by his barking Labrador retrievers about 3 A.M.
but looked outside and saw nothing. His neighbor, 3 miles away, told Pope
he had seen a low-flying helicopter late that night. "We've got helicopters
in about 90% of these cases, either reported by the farmers themselves on
their neighbors," said Oliphant. "They're these light blue with gray
bottoms, Bell Jet Rangers with no markings on them.
We don't know whose running these things, but they're pushing their luck.
The farmers are driving around with high-powered rifles in their trucks."
END ARTICLE
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