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INEXPLICATA
The
Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Issue # 11
Spring 2003
INEXPLICATA is the official journal of the Institute
of Hispanic Ufology, an organization dedicated to increasing
and promoting information and awareness on UFO and paranormal
research in Spain, the Caribbean, Central and South America. Editor
Scott Corrales Contributing
Editors
Manuel Carballal (Spain)
Willie Durand Urbina (Puerto Rico)
Dr. Rafael Lara Palmeros (Mexico)
Lucy Guzmán de Plá (Puerto Rico)
Gloria R. Coluchi (Argentina)
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Just
When You Thought It Was Safe To
Go Back to The Pasture...
The summer of 2002 will probably be best remembered for
its blockbuster movies or other ephemeral items that quickly
vanish from our mental radar screens. But to thousands of
farmers and cattle ranchers seven thousand miles away, the
summer of 2002--which is actually their winter--will be
remembered as the winter in which entire herds of cattle were
decimated in Argentina.
The story surfaced in the month of May and the animal
deaths increased exponentially with each passing week, with
claims outstripping officialdom's ability to muster weak
explanations for each case. Unlike other mutilation waves, such
as those involving the Chupacabras or other predators, the
Argentinean events of 2002 were investigated by numerous
veterinarians, given that country's history as one of the
world's foremost exporters of beef.
We have done our best to summarize the highlights of this
wave in this issue of INEXPLICATA for those who may have not
followed it as the events played out. As for the present status
of the mutilations, who can say? In August 2002 police officials
stated that they would no longer accept any reports regarding
animal mutilations and farmers understandably stopped making
reports. Now that Argentina basks in springtime heat, it may be
possible for researchers to visit parts of the country rendered
inaccessible by one of the worst winters ever experienced in
that land, beset by economic and political hardships. Who knows
what they'll find?
Scott Corrales
Institute of Hispanic Ufology
October 22, 2002 The
Night Ravagers: Cattle Mutilations in Argentina by
Scott Corrales
Some two thousand years ago, the Roman historian
Pausanias had the opportunity to witness an unusual sight: the
carcass of what was described as "a Triton" --one of
the sea-god Neptune's helpers--allegedly slain after having come
ashore to kill the cattle of the inhabitants of the Greek city
of Tanagra. Pausanias reported the the creature had "hard,
dense scales and stank."
Whether or not mermen were making forays into the Greek
mainland during the reign of the Emperor Antoninus is a matter
for discussion elsewhere; what matters here is to show that the
phenomenon of cattle mutilations -- a source of ridicule to
some, a growing menace to others, and a wellspring of categoric
denials by officialdom -- have occured at all times during
recorded history and in every part of the world.
The phenomenon that first attracted attention during the
1970's in the United States went on to replicate itself in other
countries with slight variations. Whereas the ubiquitous
"black helicopters" were a mainstay of the U.S. cattle
mutes, they were never reported outside the country. Conversely,
paranormal predators such as the "Moca Vampire" and
the "Chupacabras" seemed not to have been particularly
inclined to visit American farms. But the trail of destruction
left after their depredation is the same.
Setting the Background
As readers of this publication are well aware, the modus
operandi in the traditional cattle mutilations and the
creature-centered ones are completely different. Missing from
the latter are the uncannily precise cuts and incisions that
suggest an advanced form of surgery or at least the use of
equipment not readily available to for use in remote rural
areas. The "creature" mutilations present witnesses
with exsanguinated carcasses and the removal of organs through
orifices so small as to be fantastic. In some cases, such as an
April 1996 case on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, the
creatures show great violence against their prey, ripping flesh,
sinew and bone with demoniac strength. In traditional mutes,
veterinarians and forensic pathologists are able to state that
the animal died with no apparent trauma, and the same parts
(eyes, tongues, ears, anuses, genitalia) are removed precisely,
almost lovingly, one might say. In
"creature"-associated cases, no animal is safe:
domestic and wild animals, avian and mammalian alike, have
fallen prey to the attacks. Traditional mutilations appear to be
centered on cows and bulls of all breeds (Jersey, Hereford,
Angus, Brangus and Holstein, among others), but spectacular
mutilations of horses are not unknown (such as the 1967
"Snippy/Lady" case in Colorado).
Before the onset of reign of terror of the predator known
as Chupacabras and
what might jokingly be called its "world tour" (Puerto
Rico, 1995; Florida and Mexico, 1996; Spain, 1997; Brazil, 1998,
and Chile, 2000) most mutilations had belonged to the
traditional variety: the first "old-school"
mutilation occured in 1974 in Argentina, when farmers
were perplexed by the discovery of two mutilated cows showing
signs of mutilations in the rural community of Utracán at the
peak of a massive UFO wave. Few other cases would be reported
until 1991, when --again in connection with UFO sightings, this
time in Laguna del Pescado, Victoria (Argentina)--more animals
would turn up showing the tell-tale incisions so feared by
cattlemen in the United States.
Reactions to these mysterious animal deaths by government
officials in the U.S. and South America appears to be identical.
The allegations of "predator damage", "lightning
strikes" and common animal diseases are invoked constantly.
During the April 2001 animal mutilation wave in the South
American republic of Chile, the local Environmental Hygiene and
Food Control authority, believed that the way to bring an end to
the increasing number of mutilation reports was to exterminate
over 200 stray dogs living in the vicinity of a municipal dump.
Chilean officials voiced their belief that dogs "develop a
taste for blood" after inflicting bloody wounds on each
other during fights over among themselves. Thus, acting in
packs, canines were going on "cattle-slaying sprees"
in which they were content to drink blood and forego the tastier
flesh of their fresh kills. Eliminating the dog problem did
little toward bringing closure to the cattle mutlations in that
country.
Summer
of High Strangeness, Winter of Discontent
Argentina is a country blessed by nature and cursed by
political and social instability. The world's fifth largest
country, boasting a highly educated multi-ethnic population,
Argentina stocked the world's larders with beef for decades, as
herds in large estancias
(ranchers) covered the grass-covered Pampas (Forty percent of
the country's surface is used as pastureland). The vicissitudes
of politics and economic mismanagement plunged this South
American giant into turmoil in December 2001, sending shock
waves throught the financial markets while deadly riots played
out on the streets of urbane, sophisticated Buenos Aires.
Concomittant with the socioeconomic chaos, the country
experienced an unprecedented wave of UFO and paranormal events,
leading some to recall the uncanny events of the 1960's and
1970's which made Argentina one of the world's leaders in
reports of unusual activity. As bread riots broke out in Buenos
Aires, UFO sightings emerged from the town of Cachi, near the
notorious "hot-spot" of Salta and the site of the 1995
Metán saucer crash site; residents of the city of Santa Rosa in
the province of La Pampa were treated to the site of a strange
cloud which some thought abnormal despite its great beauty; only
days later a "sphere of light" would make its way
across the skies of the city of Rosario on April 1, 2002:
According to Air Force sources who witnessed the event "a
perfect, semi‑transparent sphere measuring between 30 and
50 meters in diameter" moving from Funes to Rosario, was
seen between 20:07 and 20:12, when after stopping abruptly in
its NNE heading, it vanished into the night.
In March 2002, as conditions worsened with the arrival of
autumn in the southern hemisphere, reports emerged from
Payogasta in the Chacahuí region of Northwestern Argentina
about a strange gargoyle-like creature attacking livestock:
newspaper reports described the strange entity as having
"red eyes, sharpened teeth, matted hair and upper
extremities ending long, sharp claws." The entity was seen
by many small cattle farmers in the drought-stricken region, and
all of them agreed on the description and the creature's
incredible speed when running away from humans.
Despite the best efforts of Sheriff Juan Carlos Chávez
of the Cafayete Regional Unit, no traces of the alleged
"Chupacabras" were found, matters being complicated
because it had chosen not to partake of the local cattle.
"According to witnesses, rather than adopting an aggressive
stance, the animal takes off when it sees humans...people are
concerned about what happened in Calama (Chile) ...they fear
their cattle will be attacked."
While western Argentina grappled with economic chaos and
its farmers feared a spate of animal slaughter such as had
befallen their neighbors on the other side of the Andean ridge,
a trio of young motorcyclists from the Cachi region made the
news not for their exploits on the racing circuit, but from
having seen an enormous cigar-shaped UFO measuring "some
100 meters in length" as they drove along National Highway
33 in the late afternoon of May 1, 2002.
The sighting, which occured in the environs of
gargoyle-haunted Payogasta, was made while Martin Oliver, Rubén
Chihan and Antonio Rodo returned from the capital on their
rides. On a segment of road known as the Tin-Tin stretch, the
bikers were faced by the huge "mothership", which
shone like a mirror in the setting sun, flying slowly some two
hundred meters above the ground, giving the appearance of being
made of polished steel. The object took off at a prodigious
speed and vanished from sight. The sportsmen told the newspaper
that they wanted their names "to be included, because for a
long time we've been hearing similar stories from fellow
residents who out of a sense of shame, or sheer cowardice, do
not want their names to appear in the paper."
The three young bikers sighting engrossed their country's
history of sightings of cigar-shaped unidentifed flying objects:
on March 17, 1990, as the Greek freighter Adamastos
heaved and rolled on the reef-encrusted shores of Necochea, a
strange silver cilinder flew over the stricken ship, flew around
it for a few seconds, and then headed out to sea.
Eight days later, a "fireball" blazed through
the skies of Embarcación, a community adjacent to Salta, at
7:20 a.m.. It was described as having a darkened forward section
with a fiery tail measuring some one hundred meters. Journalist
Martin Matamoros was reminded of a similar incident which took
place in 1993, when a similar fireball had hit the ground,
leaving nothing but two scorched circles resembling something
made by "two giant, red-hot washers."
It would be amid this varied paranormal tapestry that the
mutilations would erupt with surprising intensity.
Enter the Mutilators
On April 29, 2002, Diario
La Arena, a small-circulation newspaper from the province of
La Pampa, reported that three bovines had been found mutilated
in the town of Salliqueló of the province of Buenos Aires, just
across the county line, so to speak. The animal deaths appeared
to have occurred in the wake of strange lights having been
reported over the town. The local cable-access channel presented
footage of the mutilated animals which would be picked up by the
nationwide Crónica TV channel
and transmitted to a larger audience. A local veterinarian said
that the incisions on the dead cows were odd ones, and appeared
to have been made by "some sort of heating element."
The veterinarian's inspection revealed that the
unfortunate animals' hide had been singed along the borders of
the cuts, and that there was an absence of blood in the veins
and tissue. "It is simply dessicated," he explained
(however, some coagulated blood remained in the victims'
hearts). Also missing from the carcasses were eyes, ears,
larnyxes, pharynxes and salivary glands. Genitalia had been
extracted through a teardrop-shaped perforation on the
abdomen--a pattern which would repeat itself monotonously in
future cases.
Another curious detail picked up by the Salliqueló
veterinarian was that "other animals refuse to come close
to the dead ones, and curiosity is a characteristic trait among
bovines."
Days later, La
Arena's newsroom would be reporting on another set of dead
animals, this time in a field north of the town of Jacinto Arauz.
The cow's owner had found them eight meters away from each other
in an area of dense ground vegetation. Veterinarians Evaristo
Doumoulin and Gastón Granieri were puzzled by the phenomenon.
"In 21 years in this profession I never saw anything like
it," remarked Granieri, going on to cite the litany of
missing organs and strange incisions found on the dead cows.
Large animal specialists were finding themselves increasingly in
demand as reports poured in from other villages and towns in the
Pampas: Macachín, General Acha and Salliqueló were reporting
more bizarre fatalities.
By June 1, 2002, the toll had risen to five. This time a
cow had been found in the "Don Luis" pasture field on
the edge of Provincial Hwy. 18 in the village of Quehué. But
unlike the ealier cases, the animal was showing signs of
putrefaction and all of its blood was present. Birds of prey and
foxes had taken advantage of the animal's death already, in
spite of the tell-tale incisions showing signs of cauterization.
Veterinarian Rodolfo Farinas echoed the words of his colleagues
elsewhere--in eighteen years of practice, he observed, he had
never seen a stranger sight.
Reports came in from General Acha the following day: two
cows belonging to cattle rancher Mario Guinder had been found
500 meters apart in a remote field. In this case, police
officers were stunned by the fact that one of the cows had had a
fetus removed from its womb with uncanny precision, "as
though some type of laser beam had been used," in the words
of an unnamed veterinarian.
The one break in the seemingly endless list of dead
animals and missing body parts was the sudden appearance of a
humanoid entity described as "green dwarf" or
"green midget" making sudden appearances in the
backyards of homes in General Acha. The creature, moving with
unnatural celerity, did not allow onlookers to get a good look
of its features: only its size and peculiar coloration could be
confirmed. The fact that its manifestations were occuring in a
cattle mutilation area led to much speculation both in the town
and throughout the province.
At six thirty p.m. on Tuesday, June 4, Angel Junco, the
foreman of the "La Gilardina" farm, called the Quehué
police station to report the discovery of a dead cow missing the
right half of its jaw, its right eye and all of its udders.
Unlike other cases, the hapless cow had been completely hollowed
out, allowing for its lungs to be neatly removed. Deputy Sheriff
Julio Acosta reported that the animal death must have occured in
the small hours of Tuesday morning, since the foreman had
patrolled the pasture fields the day before without coming
across anything unusual. Adding to the mystery of the "La
Gilardina" cattle mutilation was a report that a resident
of Quehué had seen several intense lights in the farm's
vicinity at around 10:30 p.m. the night before--the second time
that strange lights had been mentioned in connection with the
Argentine mutilations.
The scene of the action made a sudden shift from General
Acha to the community of Cuchillo Có, almost in a straight line
south from the previous communities. Perhaps the phenomenon took
advantage of the greater isolation of this community to increase
the body count a little more: five Aberdeen Angus cows were
found mutilated at the "La Sierra" farm, belonging to
Gregoria Echávez, whose sister had phoned in a complaint to the
police after the five bovine deaths had been confirmed.
Jurisdictional issues had emerged given the farm's location,
with Cuchillo Có's sheriff's office eventually receiving
permission to look into the case.
A strange linearity appeared to be at work in the
mutilations: the phenomenon visited communities almost in a
straight line running from Macachín to Alpachiri and Remecó to
Guatraché and Bernasconi, and another from General Acha to
Cuchillo Có. Adding to this maddening precision was the way in
which the bloodless carcasses appeared to be arranged to form a
giant circle. What strange game was being played?
No answers were forthcoming, not even from Dr. Daniel
Belot, a veterinarian and technical expert for SENASA, the
Argentinean agropecuary authority. While steadfastly refusing to
succumb to the belief that paranormal forces may be at work in
the animal mutilations, Belot suggested nevertheless that the
predators--human or not so--had arrived by air, and that the
victims had been slain elsewhere and subsequently dumped on the
field. "Those who haven't seen [the mutilations] cannot
understand the magnitude of the situation," he told
reporters from El Nuevo Día.
Belot added that samples from the mutilated cows had been
forwarded to the School of Pathology of the University of Buenos
Aires, but that the outcome of these efforts had only resulted
in the confirmation of the inexplicable nature of the incisions.
"The facts occurred, they are very strange and cannot be
disputed, but I don't know what to attribute them to. I wouldn't
want to chance it."
When prompted by another newspaper days later, Belot
remarked that there were better chances to identifiy the source
of the predation thanks to the quick thinking of a police
officer from the town of General Acha. Given the fact that
tissue samples older than 24 hours were generally useless to
forensic pathologists, the policeman had severed a mutilated
cow's head and stored it in a freezer for subsequent shipment to
the University of Buenos Aires.
Another Aberdeen Angus steer was found on Thursday, June
13 outside the village of Guatraché, missing its left eye and
ear, the front half of its tongue, and its rectum. The 20-month
old animal, property of Luis Cano, was inspected by members of
the Guatraché Sheriff's office and veterinarian Alberto Blanco.
The high-strangeness quotient would increase only two
days later, when a 400 kg. steer was found dead within a circle
of yellow grass at the "Las Tranquerías" farm
belonging to Luis Stock Capella. "When I found it,"
said foreman José Ibarra, "there was a circle of yellow
grass measuring some 20 meters across. I combed the field to see
if there were signs of people or cars, and I found nothing. Here
you have to drive in alongside the farmhouse and there are no
tracks...or you have to come in by air," he explained,
echoing the words spoken by Dr. Belot only a few days earlier.
The steer had been relieved of tis tongue, jugular veins and
reproductive organs, but the foreman marveled at the fact that
the animal was lying down peacefully, its body showing no signs
of resistance, since any thrashing around by a large bovine
would have left clumps of ripped-up sod as evidence. As had
happened elswhere in La Pampa province, other cows refused to
approach the fallen animal and even vultures kept their distance
for at least a week.
Reports continued to pour in. On Wednesday, June 12,
several mutilated cows were discovered in pasture fields near
Macachín and Rivera. Some of the dead animals belong to the
landowning Diez family of Arano, some 20 kilometers west of
Rivera. The landowner's son showed journalists a videotape of
the mutilation, which displayed the trademark butchery of the
unseen predators: incisions in the abdominal area revealing the
absence of mammary glands, reproductive organs, anus and
intestines. In nearby Macachín, Pedro Miller found one of his
red heifers spread-eagled on the grass rather than lying on its
side. The carcass displayed the customary incisions around the
mouth and ears.
The Pampas had gone from pasture ground to abbatoir in
less than a month.
The mutilations were engaged in a southward expansion as
two mutilated cows were found near the community of Choele Choel
in the Province of Rio Negro: the dead cows at the "El
Laurel" ranch were missing tongues, eyes, ears, udders and
rectum. As in earlier cases, there were no bloodstains or
vehicle tracks. Veterinarian Carlos Montobbio remarked that the
Rio Negro mutes "were flaccid, showing lax musculature as
if they had only been dead for hours," despite having been
dead for days. Montobbio dismissed the possibility that an
electric scalpel could have been employed, since this surgical
element does not penetrate through cowhide.
Adding to the tally of animal deaths from Rio Negro were
the reports received from Bajo Hondo, some 30 kilometers from
the major port city of Bahía Blanca (a city which features
prominently in Argentinean saucer lore), where four mutilated
cows were remarkably well preserved after being dead for 10
days. Other reports were received from the towns of Algarrobo,
Pedro Luro, Patagones and Darregueira in the Province of Buenos
Aires as well as from distant General San Martín in Patagonia.
Pascual Lavoratornuovo, the owner of one of the animals
mutilated in Sta. Carmen de Patagones, made a terse statement:
"If I must find an explanation for the case, I'm lean
toward thinking that there's something strange [going on],
related to extraterrestrials."
As of June 18, 2002, the body count stood at 60.
According to El
Diario de la Pampa's June 19 edition, fears about possible
radiation in the mutilated carcasses prompted police officers to
report to the sites equipped with a Geiger counters. "There
is only one in the entire province of La Pampa and it belongs to
the Bureau of Mines," said Sheriff Hector García. "We
weren't aware of the possibility [of radiation] and now we know
that there's an agency who can provide us with one. We also know
that in previous years this task was conducted and positive
resutls were obtained from some vehicles (sic)."
The Sheriff was also quick to add that no Satanic cults
were at work in the cattle mutilations. "The cults engage
in satanic rites and the incisions amde by any professional
would leave traces of blood, adn tehre is none to be found here.
I believe that a cult member would be unable to contain the
blood produced during one such incision." Whether Satanic
cults were willing to brave the glacial cold for cow rectums was
a different matter altogether.
The death toll climbed to 160 by June 25, with
veterinarians arguing that this count reflected only fifty per
cent of the cases reported in six of Argentina's provinces. The
mutilation epidemic had already spread to the neighboring
republic of Uruguay, where
two cows had been found mutilated in different locations.
The Experts Weigh In
Veterinarians of the Pampas region were accustomed to
dealing with all of the possible illnesses that can befall beef
cattle--everything ranging from contagious ecthyma to rumen
impaction. The sight of seeing so many animals lying dead in the
Pampan silence surely sent a shudder through some of
them...especially as they realized that a cruel intelligence
appeared to be at work in the mutilations.
This at least was the opinion of veterinarian José
Casiavillani of the municipality of La Adela, whose first media
statement was to say that "there was intelligence"
behind the cattle mutilations. There was no place for assigning
the blame random natural forces or predators-- in an interview
with Radio Manantial, the veterinarian disclosed a curious
discovery. The cattle mutilations in his vicinty appeared to
"be following the same pattern, which we could define as a
circle, if it were possible to see it from above...[beginning]
some 50 meters from the farm house with four dead animals."
The arrangement of mutilated animals in patterns has been
reported elsewhere, such as during the Puerto Rican phase of the
first Chupacabras attacks of the mid-'90s, during which dead
cows had been found aligned in the middle of a rural road, as
though reflecting the maddening logic or madness of the
perpetrator.
Guillermo Videau, a member of the Southern Pampas Rural
Association, was more concerned with the harsh economic
realities than sleuthing for aliens or predators. "For the
mid-sized cattleman, regardless of the causes and the inability
to prevent against them, [the deaths] represent significant
economic losses." Videau estimated that the cows, in
excellent reproductive shape, represented a four thousand peso
loss their owners. The Pampan cattle industry, he explained to
the media, has learned to struggle with climatic uncertainty,
fires and disease, and the animals are quite hardy. "A
single animal slain mysteriously is shocking, but ten of them
represent a cause for alarm."
Raúl Marini, the president of the Rural Association of
the town of Adolfo Ansina, noted that there is
"bewilderment and confusion" among ranchers from the
Salliqueló region. In a June 17 interview with La Nueva Provincia, Marini stated that thre was no official
information forthcoming from the government ministries, and that
the average rancher was thinking in terms of cattle rustlers and
not Martians. "Up to now we were concerned with mundane
events such as cattle rustling, something that we know humans
can do. But these mutilations have us confused." These
sentiments were echoed by Jaime Murphy, head of the Cattle
Ranchers' Association of the Southern Pampas: "We don't
want to be part of the collective hysteria...our knowledge of
the rural areas tells us that all deaths are attributable to a
specific reason, but we've never witnessed deaths as strange as
these."
Three specialists from the School of Veterinary Sciences
of the National University of La Pampa in General Pico visited
the site of a mutilation near Macachín to conduct a thorough
necropsy, according to Argentina's La Nación on June 17, 2002.
"We're trying to find a logical model, a common
pattern," explained Jorge Dubarri, Abel Herrera and Alberto
Pariani. Dubarri, who coordinates the regional SENASA lab,
concurred with his colleagues in the importance of
"reaching a logical conclusion from a scientific
standpoint, because telling ranchers that the causes lay in
extraterrestrial attacks is hardly serious."
La Nueva Provincia also consulted renown large animal
veterinarian Gustavo Santiago, who remarked on the strange
manner in which the animals had been found in the Rio Negro
area. "They were spread-eagled, as occurrs when one
anesthesizes an animal and takes it somewhere else. It's as
though they had been deposited there...the greatest surprise
came when we necropsied one of the animals...thre was no
hemorraging, the blood was uncoagulated and there was no odor,
even though they had been dead for a week." Samples from
the Rio Negro autopsies were sent to the INTA laboratory at
Balcarce for analysis.
Veterinarian Pablo Seeling, with the Police Cattle
Rustling Brigade, looked into the mutilation of a bull whose
testicles and tongue had been removed in Laurencena, province of
Entre Ríos. In a June 26th interview with Paraná's El
Diario, the police vet observed that what was intriguing
about the mutilations continued to be the instrument employed in
the incisions. "I don't want to think about aliens or
anything," he told journalists, "but I wonder how one
could make such a precise incision. I made an incision with my
scalpel right next to the existing one and it was completly
different."
Eduardo Boroni, Dean of the School of Agronomy and
Veterinarian Science of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL),
considered the Entre Ríos mutilations, deploring the fact that
no proper analysis of the animal samples provided by the
authorities had been performed due to the fact that they were
several days old. "In order to have a scientific opinion on
the cause of the animal deaths," he declared, "we must
first conjecture on a given event, hypothesis. This is what is
not happening. There is no clear and definite hypothesis and
under these conditions, one does not know what is being looked
for." The
Skeptics' Corner
Faced with the tidal wave of hypotheses, theories,
official confusion and scientific bewilderment, some parties set
forth "rational" explanations for the events playing
out in Argentina's cattle pastures. Raúl Cardon, Wildlife
Director for the Río Negro province, assured La Nueva
Provincia's reporters that there was a sane and reasonable
explanation for the mutilations: a reclusive feline known as the
gato chaqueño (Chaco
cat).
According to Cardón, the Chaco cat stands fifty
centimeters tall, measures a meter and a half from nose to tail,
has long rear limbs, and rather than having the rounded head
characteristic to felines, has an elongated snout like that of a
fox. "It's a puma with short, small paws and a tall back,
" he explained. Although the wildlife expert had never seen
a specimen, he based his explanation on ranchers' accounts. This
unusual feline pounces on its victims' backs, inflicitng a wound
that enables it to consume teh animal's intestines from above,
allowing the victim to continue to walk until it is weakened by
a loss of blood. Exhausted and drained of blood, the victim
collapses and the feline proceeds to eat the tongue and other
organs. The problem with Cardón's theory is that it overlooked
the glaring evidence found at the mutilation sites.
Other skeptics were far more vocal: Bernardo Cané,
SENASA's director, openly told radio broadcaster Samuel Gelblung
on the Edición Chiche
radio program: "The people in La Pampa must be hitting the
gin pretty hard." Listeners complained that such
carelessness "did not befit his position" and Cané
was forced to issue a fulsome on-air apology (www.lanuevaprovincia.com.ar).
Dr. Alejandro Martinez, a veterinarian who practiced
medicine in Spain for over a decade in the exciting and bloody
world of bullfighting, dismissed talk of aliens or any
strangeness associated to the mutilations. "It is quite
easy nowadays to immobilize an animal through the use of a small
air pistol containing a tranquilizer dart. Muscle relaxers take
far too long,"he explained to reporters from Buenos Aires' Diario
"Página 12". To kill the animal, he added, it
sufficed to inject the immobilized animal with sodium pentothal.
Nor was he impressed by the alleged absence of footprints around
the animal, stating that cattle rustlers used soft-soled rope
espadrilles which left no traces.
The bullring vet was even more dismissive of the
incisions performed on the animals. "The instrument
employed and which produces exactly the same effects is a
thermocauterizer. It measures 70 centimeters long, is very
simple and has been known for some 50 years. It's mostly used on
fighting bulls or race horses and requires no power source or
fire, since it is a tube charged with ether using a variety of
tips--short ones, long ones--and can be lit with a pocket
lighter, reaching 760 degrees and cauterizing as it cuts. Not a
drop of blood is spilled."
Martinez was also skeptical of the supposed difficulty in
removing a cow's tongue, citing the convenience of the
thermocauterizer in such operations. As for the reticence
exhibited by carrion birds in feeding off the carcasses, he
explained that these avians are usually wary of the presence of
humans around other animals.
Other experts stepped forward to suggest that the
introduction of an insect foreign to the Argentinean ecosystem
could be at work. The mysterious insect in question was the
notorious "yellow jacket" (vespula germanica), which while unable to eat through cowhide, would
be able to feast on the soft parts missing in each mutiation
case. This theory, voiced in the www.viarural.com.ar
website by Francisco Cayol, stated that the insect attacks would
explain the absence of blood found at the sites. This otherwise
elegant hypothesis, however, was spoiled by the fact that
Argentina was undergoing the coldest winter in memory (-11°C
for a low) and such weather was hardly ideal for yellow jackets.
Despite having characterized his earlier radio remarks as
"harmless badinage", SENASA director Bernardo Cané
continued to weigh in as skeptic-in-residence, stating once more
that the subject matter was "neither new, nor Argentinean,
nor a green dwarf nor the petiso
orejudo (a creature of Argentinean folklore) nor the phantom
lights, nor the Goatsucker. It would be better to say that it's
the Ginsucker, if anything...". In an earlier press
conference, Cané had expressed the view that the cattle
mutilations were the work of "rogue surgeons",
bolstering his argument, oddly enough, on one of the landmark
books of mutology: Michel Grainger's Le
Grand Carnage (Paris: Carriére, 1986). Cané also trotted
out the infamous "Rommel Report" as proof that other
minds had worked on the problem and dismissed it (La Nueva
Provincia, 6/25/02). In
the Grip of Strange Forces
While experts continued to do their best to ignore the
UFO/paranormal explanation, ufologist Oscar Alfredo "Quique"
Mario of Projecto Condor decided to look into the matter of the
strange lights reported in two of the mutilation episodes. Mario
expressed a belief that something strange was afoot when police
officials cautioned farmers not to approach their dead animals
without wearing gloves, since some form of unknown radiation may
have played a part in the killings and could have an impact on
humans. "We have eyewitness accounts from local cattlemen
who have seen strange lights at night," he observed.
"One farmer claims having seen a vehicle in the vicinity of
Altaliva Roca only a few days ago...in areas in which animals
ahve been found dead, we have records of strange lights having
been seen at night."
The ufologist cited a 1999 case from the town of Remeco:
"One cattleman claimed seeing two objects in the wilderness
forty three nights in a row. This gives us an idea as to the
permanent and fluid activity of these unknown phenomena."
On Monday, June 16, Mario and members of his team managed
to find a videotape taken a week earlier by a camper in the
Chapalcó region. The tape showed the maneuvers of an object
that appears to rotate on an axis and makes changes in elevation
and position.
While UFO researchers went about their business, an
anonymous woman from the town of Felipe Solá phoned the
newsroom of the El Nuevo Día
newspaper, her voice betraying considerable trepidation. "I
saw three white lights in the sky the night before the mutilated
animal appear. I live in the country and have never seen
anything like it. They moved quickly and made sudden stops. They
were noisless, and were white at first and turned blue, as
though metallic," she explained. "[The objects] were
to the south of my home, and I saw them with my husband and
daughter. They vanished suddenly, incredibly, I don't know
how..."
An ancillary enigma was developing to parallel the cattle
mutilations: the disappearance of thousands of liters of water
from huge water tanks on different farmsteads. Journalist
Rodolfo Borrego inerviewed some of the parties affected by the
inexplicable water loss, verifying that in three separate
incidents none of the huge cisterns had fissures or leaks
through which these prodigious amounts of water could have
vanished. "One of the cases," wrote Borrego,"
goes back to the month of April, when the owner found his
cisterns completely empty on two occasions. There is a third
case that is only
20 days old." Similar losses were reported in the vicinty
of La Adela and Santa Rosa, where ufologist Oscar "Quique"
Mario had already looked into cases involving swimming pools
being relieved of their contents.
Incidents of water rustling, for want of a better name,
have been common in Argentina since the 1950s. Researcher
Antonio Las Heras mentioned similar cases occuring in Capilla
del Monte, Salta, Trelew and Tres Arroyos--locations scattered
far and wide across Argentina. Even more intriguing is that the
water losses appear to occur in the proximity of high-voltage
wires, leading some ufologists to suggest the likelihood that
UFOs draw power and water as part of some type of electrolytic
process aimed at propulsion. In other parts of the country
plagued by mutilations, casual observers remarked that the
enigmatic lights appeared to be following the high-voltage
towers and the new potable water aqueducts installed only
recently.
At 9:00 p.m. on June 20, 2002, personnel at the Puente
Dique bridge over the Rio Colorado saw an object "giving
off a powerful red light" whose intensity waxed and waned
as it moved in bursts. Jorge Martinez, an operator at the
bridge, added: "some say the lights are connected to the
dead animals."
The lights were now appearing elsewhere in the country
and causing physical effects in humans and machinery alike.
Argentina's TELAM news agency reported that two young
girls--Gabriela and Miriam del Valle Salto, ages 7 and 13
respectively, had been hospitalized in Santiago del Estero
(northern Argentina) after having witnessed "multicolored
lights". Other locals attested having seen potent violet
lights in the sky:
one woman said that an intense light shone outside the windows
to her home while the internal lighting system dimmed. The
mysterious lights seen over the town of Fernández Robles
between June 11-14, for example, were able to interrupt
television signals, cause TV sets to shut down "without any
interruption to power supply" or even change channels on
the receivers.
With its history of UFO sightings, Santiago del Estero's
authorities did not hesitate to include a ufologist--Dr. Andrés
Miotti--among the team of experts sent to investigate cattle
mutilations at Quimilioj. The team was headed by judge Jose A. Uñates,
marking the first time that a magistrate had chosen to look
personally into the cattle mutilations.
The strange lights gave rise to much paranormal
speculation. Residents of La Chiquita in northern Argentina
blamed the mutilations on "red magic", an apellation
possibly derived from the color of the strange lights that were
seen hovering at treetop level over darkened fields. Daniel Acuña,
crossing the darkened fields of La Chiquita on his way to work,
saw the lights, which prompted him to remark "it was like
an evil light, which I was told was those who practice red
magic." The luminous presences had been seen prior to the
mutilation of a horse (tongue ripped out, anus and eyes missing)
in the vicinity--a death which deprived a local widow of her
only means of earning a living, since the animal was used to
haul coal and firewood for sale.
Closer to the epicenter of the mutilations, a family from
the town of Smith in the province of Buenos Aires saw lights
"projecting their beams downward" to the surface
around 7:30 p.m. on June 25th, according to an anonymous report
given to Diario El Oeste.
Two hours later, the same family reported the lights again as
they made a "return trip" from wherever they had gone
off to. The sighting was apparently confirmed by reports from
the neighboring villages of Montezuma and Belloq.
The Saddest Cut of All
The saddest cut of all came not from the razor-sharp
knife of a Satanic cultist, or the unknown energy beam of a
mutilating saucer, or even the high-tech portable laser scalpel
wielded by a stooge of the New World Order: it came from SENASA
itself.
The National Health and Agroalimentary Services released
the findings of the report commissioned to the Universdad
Nacional del Centro at Tandil on July 1, 2002. A finer piece of
fiction could not have emerged from the keyboards of the world's
most talented novelists.
In a tone reminiscent of the Condon Report of the late
1960's, the SENASA Report placed the blame on a small rodent
known as the hocicudo rojizo (red-muzzled mouse) that occupies a niche in the
rural ecosystem and whose nutritional habits--traditionally
earthworms and insects--had undergone a radical change, turning
it into a carrion eater. In a SENASA press release, director
Bernardo Cané stated:"We were able to establish that the
cows died of natural causes as customarily occurs this time of
year," adding that "their carcasses were subsequently
mutilated by various predators."
The press release went on to quote Cané as saying:
"at the start of the study, we did not discard the
possibility of human involvement, but it has been proven that
there was none, because of the lack of narcotizing elements. It
was also proven, in recently slain animals, that the incisions
are not so precise as they are serrated,
and the studies tell us that the animals died of natural causes
and not due to provoked attacks," adding at the same time
that "all public agencies concur in this assessment."
The Argentine media did not hesitate to circulate
photographs of the adorable oxymycterus
rufus with the ominous heading "el
depredador" (the predator), promptly causing peals of
laughter throught paranormal and UFO circles from Argentina to
Spain. The fix was in: as far as Argentina's troubled government
was concerned, the animal mutilation wave of 2002 had been
brought to an end. But at least one latter-day Galileo was
willing to echo the Italian astronomer's historic "eppur si
muove."
In a news item for La
Voz del Interior in the city of Córdoba, Dr. Jaime Polop, a
specialist in rodent ecosystems, politely challenged SENASA's
findings. "It's hard for me to believe in such an attack by
rodents on dead cows," he said, citing that the red-muzzled
mouse can ingest between ten to twelve grams of nourishment a
day, meaning that the concerted effort of hundreds of these
rodents would have been required. This was in itself unlikely,
since the red-muzzled rodent was not found in abundance
throughout southern Argentina and then only near streams and
rivers. The fact that scarce population of this field mouse had
become a carrion consumer was perhaps as startling as the
mutilations themselves. Conclusion
In 1970, a sixty-six year old Brazilian farmer, Pedro
Trajano Machado, and his son Eurípides were on the
Palma Velha farm in the district of Alegrete, engaged in their daily
chores with farm animals. The Machados had succeeded in fencing
in eighteen bovines, separating a red Jersey cow from her month
old calf, which was allowed to roam the pasture field some five
meters away. While the farmhands cleaned down the cow, they
noticed that the other animals were becoming restless, pacing
their containment area and vocalizing their discontent. Before
long, the red Jersey became uncontrollable, mooing loudly. The
Machados paid no mind to the situation, since after all, these
were free-range cows unaccustomed to being penned. But Pedro
Machado looked over his shoulder to see that something strange
was happening, involving the month-old, 20 kilogram calf in the
pasture.
To his astonishment, the farmhand discovered that the
calf was suspended in mid-air about one meter off the ground,
and in an upright position, vocalizing loudly. He called his son
to witness the astonishing phenomenon, and it suddenly became
all the weirder: the calf began moving away, parallel to the
ground, as though pulled by a magnet.
The dumbfounded farmhands could not believe what happened
next: after drifting horizontally for twenty meters, the calf
began rising vertically into the air, vanishing completely from
view in 3 or 4 minutes. Throughout this time period, the calf
did not change position, that is to say, it remained in the same
upright posture it maintained while on the ground. Curiously,
the calf stopped mooing once the vertical ascent began.
No anomalous conditions were reported: no unusual noises,
lights, winds, or objects had been present on the otherwise
pleasant tropical day. What is perhaps most shocking is that
father and son simply shrugged and returned to the work at hand,
showing signal indifference for the phenomenon in a land where
the paranormal forms part of the day's business.
Thirty-two years later, the paranormal has come to form
part of Argentina's everyday reality as well, turning it into a
place where strange lights and solid craft in a stunning array
of colors and configurations sail the night skies unchallenged
and where unknown mutilators deprive an embattled population of
valuable livestock during one of the coldest winters on
record--a curious coincidence, when we think back on the
depredations of the Chilean Chupacabras in 2002--and empty the
contents of enormous water tanks for reasons that are equally
unclear. Perhaps no relationship exists between any of these
phenomena--the mutilations, the water theft and the odd lights--
but their synergistic effect is undeniable.
Saucers
Over Guantánamo: A Story About Cuba by
Bob Pratt The
story that I was working on about UFOs seen in Cuba didn't work
out. It
started in early May when Scott Corrales picked up a story from
Ovnivision, which got it from Terra Net in Chile, about an
American researcher named Mike Birds having visited Cuba and
learned about some UFO happenings there. Scott passed it on to
his network of people, one of them being me. I passed it on to
half a dozen others who I thought would be interested. One of
them passed it on to still others. One of THEM responded with an
email to both my guy and me, even though he didn't know me. It
included an attachment of an email he had sent to some friends
on September 23, 2000, saying a flurry of UFOs were seen over
the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in 1958 or 1959, AND that
jets were sent up to intercept them. In doing so, he said, they
encountered huge mother ships. If
true, that would be astounding. I immediately replied by email
asking if he would mind if I shared that info with others. He
replied saying that was all right, but I decided I would rather
interview him first to get more details. It turned out we live
not too far from each other and we set up a luncheon meeting at
a local restaurant. Let's
call this man Bud. Bud said he was 10 or 11 at the time this
happened. His father (a high‑ranking officer on the base)
and mother had been out for the evening, attending the opening
of an enlisted men's club on another part of the base. They were
driving home late that night on a lonely two‑lane road
that went through hilly country. The father was driving. As
they came around a curve in the road they saw a
disc‑shaped object hovering just above a field on their
right, on his mother's side of the road. It was 30 to 50 feet in
diameter and 50 to 100 yards away from them. It was glowing
brightly but the light was not blinding. They could see windows
in the craft and what appeared to be people passing back and
forth beyond the windows, although no features could be seen.
This was all observed while the car was stopped. A short time later the craft began to move slowly away and
then shot upward into the dark sky. There was no sound heard
from the craft as it hovered or later moved. Bud
said he was in his room at home and knew nothing about this at
the time, but when his folks came home he heard his father
sternly warn his mother not to say anything about the incident
to anyone. Curious,
the next day Bud asked his mother why his father had spoken so
sternly to her, and she told him what they had seen. He said she
described the craft as "two pie plates joined at the
edges." A
day or two later he asked his father about the UFO and his
father claimed he didn't know what Bud was talking about. But
the next day when his father went off to work, Bud talked to his
mother again and she readily acknowledged that it really had
happened just as she had said earlier. Bud
said this happened at a time when UFOs were seen frequently
around the base for several months.
Many people had seen them and that people (his friends as
well as adults) talked openly about it. Furthermore, he said, it
was no secret that jet fighters were sent aloft from the Naval
Air Station at times to intercept UFOs. He said a base newspaper
published stories about pilots chasing UFOs and circling around
huge mother ships hovering high in the sky as smaller UFOs
returned to it. The mother ships were estimated to be 800 to 900
feet long. Bud says he remembered those measurements because
aircraft carriers that came to the base were about 800 feet
long. "I remember thinking the mother ships were as big as
aircraft carriers," he said. This
was just before Fidel Castro and his rebel army overthrew the
dictator Fulgencio Batista. When Bud's father's tour of duty
ended in 1959, the family moved to New York State. Bud said when
his new schoolmates asked him about life in Cuba, he was
surprised that no one knew anything about the UFOs. Some
years later, Bud said, he again asked his father about that
night and again his father denied knowing what he was talking
about. Eventually
the father retired, and he and Bud's mother settled down at a
home in Long Island for six months during the summer and in
another home in southern Florida the rest of the year. Some
years later, after he had grown up and was out on his own, Bud
visited his parents and had rented a videotape of the movie
Communion to watch with them. Bud said that in one scene a UFO
comes down slowly out of the sky and settled in a wooded area,
and as they watched this scene Bud's father suddenly blurted
out: "That happened to us in Cuba!" "My
mother nearly fell out of her chair," Bud said. "She
said, 'THAT'S the first time he's ever talked about it!'" Both
of Bud's parents died several years later. Bud's
father had a longtime friend, another naval man 15 years his
junior, who was also at the base at that time. This man is now
retired and lives in California. Bud said he visited him last
year and asked if he remembered the UFOs.
The longtime friend replied, "Oh yes, we used to see
them all the time." "And
the mother ships?" Bud asked. "Oh yes," the man
replied. *
* * That's
the basic story Bud told me. There were many more details, and
the story about his mother and father may have been true. But I
now believe the other things probably did not happen, at least
the way Bud told me. I asked if I could talk to the old friend
in California and Bud said he doubted the man would want to say
anything. Bud
is an intelligent man now in his 50s who says he has lived or
traveled in 22 countries. If his printed rQsumQ is correct, he
has several degrees, including a master's in international
affairs. He is a little vague as to what he does now. He says he
does "intelligence" work in "mergers and
acquisitions," meaning he checks out people and companies
that are targeted for buyout by other companies. For some years
he lived and worked in Australia but had returned to Florida to
handle his parents' estate. I
met with him for a long lunch twice and he seemed quite
interested in the paranormal and in conspiracies, especially
government cover‑ups of various kinds. A
friend of mine vouches for Bud's integrity. My friend was a
neighbor for some years and knew Bud and his parents well. He
doesn't think Bud would pull anything on me. Between
the two lunches I began looking for other Cuban UFO incidents
and, among other things, came across a UFO report by a man named
Chester Grusinski. Mr. Grusinski told Flying Saucer Review that
he was a sailor aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin D.
Roosevelt and that a UFO was seen one night in September 1958
while the FDR was on a shakedown cruise out of Guantanamo. He
said he was one of about 25 men on deck who saw the object
approach the ship. Using
the Internet, I found some sites that gave me names and email
addresses for about 75 people who had either lived on the
Guantanamo base or served aboard the FDR during the time these
incidents allegedly occurred. About
30 people replied, most of them men and women who had been young
dependents on the base in the late 1950s or early 1960s and went
to the base school about the same time that Bud did. None of
them ever heard of any UFOs being seen on or near the base, nor
did anyone ever hear of any planes being sent aloft after UFOs. One
woman remembered nothing about UFOs but asked her mother (the
father was based at the naval air station from the
mid‑1950s to the early 1970s). The mother said she was
certain no planes were sent up after UFOs because she and her
husband socialized with officers of all ranks and believes she
would have heard something of that nature. On
the other hand, two women (students in those days) said there
was always talk about flying saucers. "Platillo volador,"
one called them. The other woman checked with her brothers and
none of them remembered anything about UFOs. "This story
has popped up before," she said, "and I don't know of
anyone that was at the base during the times we were there
1957‑1965 that is aware of these happenings." One
man said that as a boy he delivered both of the base's two
newspapers in those days, hung out at their offices and read
everything in both papers, He said never read or heard anything
about UFOs. Still
another man stated: "I strongly suspect someone is pulling
your leg on this one... I've never heard of that story and was
indeed on‑base during that time period.
I am highly suspect of the claim ... about sending jets
aloft to intercept the UFO's, as the Gitmo NAS did NOT have any
jet‑powered aircraft until October 21, 1963 (the day
before the Cuban Missile Crisis began)." Several
people suggested that older boys on the base might have been
pulling Bud's leg and the stories that Bud heard back then is
what he remembers today, although it is possible that his
parents' encounter did happen. Regarding
the Chester Grusinski story, I received an email from a former
FDR crewman who said: "I was on that cruise, going aboard
the day of the ship's departure on that Gitmo cruise. I was a
radarman in OI div. In our division, we also were the ones that
stood the look out watches, and I can assure you that the only
thing flying were mosquitoes, and navy jets." Since
I do not know Mr. Grusinski or the former radarman, I don't know
what the truth is there either. I
informed Bud by email on July 30, 2002 that I have set his story
aside for the time being because I cannot get any confirmation.
I also relayed to him the replies of some of the others who had
lived at Gitmo at the time. I haven't heard from Bud since then. One
benefit of this whole thing is that I found two Cuban UFO web
sites, learned about several interesting UFO cases in the
Matanzas area in the 1950s and one or two in later years (but
nothing about Guantanamo), and I did make contact with several
UFO researchers in Cuba. Bob
Pratt October
11, 2002
A
Chronology of Cuban Cases by
Dr. Sergio Cervera, CIFA 1930:
According to Mrs. Arcadia Alvarez, her father, Dr. M.T., was a
captain in the Cuban Navy. As he drove down the road from Güines
heading toward Havana after midnight, his car's headlights
illuminated a little man some three feet tall standing in the
middle of the road. Thinking it was a lost child, Dr. M.T.
stopped to offer assistance. Getting closer, he tried to pick up
the child in the dark of night only to find it was impossible to
move, as though it were made of lead. Startled, the captain
continued his journey. Toward 1951, Dr. M.T. would witness a
brilliant light landing near a bridge in the vicinity of Cojímar. 1947:
During a meteor shower between the months of February and March,
Mrs. Mercedes Villa witnessed a "brown object shaped like a
cigar" at around nine o'clock at night. The strange object
had "upswept wings like those of a butterfly" and
descended until it halted abruptly and made a 90 degree turn,
vanishing from sight. It came from the east and headed south. It
projected no lights whatsoever and appeared to be illuminated by
the lights of the city of Havana. The UFO halted for some 3 or 4
minutes before making the turn. 1947:
According to information provided by Dr. Francisco Jover Jiménez,
a historian from the city of Remedios, "I was sent for by
the local authorities in the City Hall in order to examine a
young lady from the Dolores neighborhood. The young lady was
extremely nervous after complaining of what had befallen her
only a short distance away from where she was doing laundry.
Engaged in her tasks, she claims having seen a large
light coming toward her, issuing from an object shaped like
"two large plates, when use one to cover the other."
The object, according to the young lady, landed without making
any noise whatsoever. A normal sized man, standing some two
meters tall and wearing a bright white suit with a light on his
forehead, emerged from the object and approached her. With the
fingers of one hand extended toward her, he pointed toward the
ground and asked: "Terra?
Terra?". The young lady says she fainted to the ground
and after regaining her senses, noticed that both the strange
object and the being had vanished. 1947:
The crew of a Cubana de Aviacion Douglas DC‑3 out of the
Rancho Boyeros airport was frightened by "an intense green
light in the shape of a ball" tha headed straight for their
airplane but peeled off before colliding. Captain Sigfredo de
los Reyes recieved a radio call from another pilot who had just
taken off from Camaguey, advising him to be on the lookout for a
green ball that appeared to be headed right toward Reyes'
aircraft. 1953:
Mr. Servando de la Cruz reports that in his hometown, the
village of Candonga in Oriente province, a strange light
startled 50 onlookers with an hour‑long celestial dance at
around 11:00 p.m one evening. 1953:
Cuban army lieutenant Waldo Martinez Arbona witnesses a powerful
greenish light flying over his jeep as he drove along the
Trinidad‑Topes road. The object landed 200 meters along
the road, and the jeep's electrical system failed. The following
day, soldiers returned to the site and found a burned circle of
grass measuring 15‑20 meters across. 1957:
Passengers on a ferry between Castillo de Jaguas, Real de
Cienfuegos and Cayo Carenas saw an enormous luminous object in
the sky around 7:30 a.m. 1957:
A manager for the San Agustin sugar mill aboard a Piper Cub
aircraft was flying at 3000 feet over the village of Cieneguita
when he realized there was an enormous silver object underneath
his plane, comparable in size to a Constellation airplane. The
manager dove the Piper Club down toward the object for a closer
look, but it pulled away at astonishing speed. 1959:
Mr. Pablo Rodríguez states that he had been fishing near the
shores of Havana one morning around 8:00 a.m. with a friend. He
noticed that the sea "began to bubble like soap suds".
An enormous metallic disk suddenly emerged from the water,
hovering in the air for a few minutes, and then vanishing at
high speed. Moments later, at a depth of a few meters, they saw
"black-clad figures looking like frogmen" pass near
their boat, although their origin could not be ascertained. 1959:
Sergio Cervera witnessed a "silvery light that changed
colors to reddish‑orange" from the Havana waterfront
at 8 p.m.. He photographed the object with an Argus C‑3
camera whose film was developed in the Prensa Libre newspaper's
lab, but was never published. 1960:
"Flying saucers" reported over the U.S. naval base at
Guantanamo in eastern Cuba on April 21. 1963:
FIdel Castro accuses the U.S of sending the Goodyear Blimp to
spy over Havana's La Cabana fortress. Anti‑aircraft guns
opened fire against the alleged zeppelin, which flew low and
vanished abruptly at high speed. The object "had a series
of lit windows on its sides". The object in question could
not have been the Goodyear Blimp, since it flies at low speed
and would have been brought down by the artillery barrage. 1971:
Two "fireballs" flew over Havana on January 31, being
witnessed by countless numbers of onlookers and giving rise to
all types of speculation. The two enormous reddish balls were
visible for over half an hour, with the appearance of one being
followed by the other. Both grew in size and turned to a
yellowish hue similar to that of the sun. The Academy of
Sciences of Havana subsequently stated that it was simply a
meteorological phenomenon. Dr.
Virgilio Sánchez Ocejo of the Miami UFO Center has included the
following mid-20th century cases: 1957:
Oriente Province. Bacuranao. Hour: 4.a.m. Date: Winter. Two
sport fishermen, Raul and Luis, observed a "enormous and
shining UFO, target‑pink color", came out from
undersea creating white foam waves. The UFO illuminated clouds,
flying over the witnesses boat, creating an "artificial
rain" with drops of salt water.
1957:
Oriente Province. Guantßnamo. Hour: 9.p.m. Date: December. A
detachment of soldiers (Batista soldiers fighting Castro)
commanded by Captain Fermfn Fernandez, the Lieutenants Pablo
Rosa and Jose Tamargo, observed a yellow light lower
perpendicularly in the sky, appearing like an enormous
silver‑plated disc that landed a short distance away from
them them. Surprised by the sighting, the soldiers retreated.
The three officials created a semi circle and opened fire with
their .45 caliber
Thompson machine guns. Amazingly, the bullets never struck the
metallic structure of the UFO. "It had an area that
repelled the bullets." Then, the UFO began to illuminate
itself with a yellow light, rising and disappearing into the
sky. "Also,"
writes Dr. Sánchez, "there is a legend or mythology
in that area named La Luz
de Yara (The Yara Light). This "ball lighting" is
supposed to be the soul of the chief Indian Hatuey. During the
Spanish conquest, Diego Velazquez pursued and killed Hatuey in
that province. Every
year, a lot of people (especially fishermen) witnessed the light
at sea and inland over a hill. [Fidel] Castro tried to stop this
religious belief, sending a gun boat and shooting at the
"light" without any luck. Soldiers were the ordered to
blow up the hill where the light appeared with the same result.
Local people and fisherman still report seeing the light."
Three
Cattle Mutilation Reports: Argentina 2002 Courtesy
of Linda Moulton Howe
I. CATTLE
MUTILATIONS: ALIEN INTERVENTION OR TERRESTRIAL BIOLOGICAL
EXPERIMENT? By
Dr. Luis Alberto Reinoso Recent
journalistic accounts on cattle mutilations have posed a number
of questions in all environments. Researchers of the UFO
phenomenon are well aware of the global background on this
subject and its relationship to the mysterious unidentified
black helicopters and alleged UFOs. The
start of the mutilations wave is centered around Texas, but the
phenomenon extended throught the USA. Mr. Thomas Adams, founder
ot Project Stigmata in the city of Paris, Texas, estimated that
the number of mutilations produced ranged between 3000 to 10,000
in 30 states of the union and part of Canada between the 1960s
and 1980s. In Alberta (Canada) 30 animals suffered mutilations
in their sexual organs, eyes, tongues, ears and rectum, in which
a sophisticated, highly precise technology was employed. The
cattle did not show signs of blood around them. This phenomenon
extended further to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, the Canary
Islands, parts of Europe and Australia. The
cases which occured in our own country number over 70 animals in
18 Buenos Airean and Pampan locations (Carmen de Patagones, Rfo
Negro, La Pampa, Bajo Hondo cercano a Bahfa Blanca; Algarrobo
distrito Villarino; Darregueira; Gral. San Martfn; Villa Mirasol;
Ingeniero Luigi; Salliquelo; Tres Lomas; Casbas; etc.). In
most of these cases, "the manner and technique of the
incisions practiced on the animals makes it evident that they were carried out with
a surgical instrument or laser beam. The animals' ears, tongue,
part of the udders, eyes and vulva have been mutilated, and give
the sensation of having been deposited
on site, because there are no traces of blood around
them. These Argentinean cases are similar to the ones which
occured in the USA in
the 60s, 70s and 80s. We
dismiss the possibility of cult involvement and alleged alien
participation. What is happening here has a whiff of
bacteriological warfare experimentation‑cattle is being
used in biological experiments. In the USA, during the '70s, a
considerable percentage of the mutilated cattle was infected by
chlostridium bacteria, which can cause gangrene and malign
edema. Senator Frank Church of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, while investigating biological warfare, reached that
the conclusion that the CIA has stockpiles of this bacterium in
its possession. Since
1979, researchers employing the Freedom of Information Act have
discovered that several departments of the Federal Government
(CIA, FBI and the Department of Energy) have sponsored
experiments on U.S. citizens themselves, using them as guinea
pigs. Apparently, cattle is being employed in biological tests
due to the similarity of the animals' ocular membrante with that
of a certain ethnic group, and would would more precisely be
directed against a war in East Asia. Stories
here speak of "lights" or "flying saucers",
while in the USA they were associated with black helicopters,
which are silent‑only a buzzing sound can be heard. This
corroborates the hypothesis of secret experimentation aimed at
applying certain viruses for biological warfare. The
fact is that the mutilations are here, and that there is
"something illegal" behind them. Someone must be
responsible, and Argentina has turned into a vast "Area
51" or experimental facility for some world power that
believes that we do not exist as a nation.
II. IBARLUCEA
PRINTS CASE: Report
made on October 10, 2002 Probable
date of the event 18 to 22 September 2002. Investigation
performed by Grupo EDOVNI Rosario (Estudio de los Ovnis) EDOVNI
Photographic Material Dr.
Reinoso: For the "mas alla del limite" show, we are
here with Dr. Facchia. Well, could you tell us what happened
here on your premises? Dr.
Fracchia: Well, it was surprising that while I was cleaning out
a water tank, which has a tower, I was able to see‑since
beyond a certain distance one cannot notice it, yet from that
height it was clearly visible, to the extent that we began to
approach the crop circles that can be seen, and it was truly
beyond the norm, because it is the first time in over 20 years
that we've been here in this area. Dr.
Reinoso: Are the circles perfect? Have you made any
measurements? We see that there is some sort of "H"
here. Could you describe it, please. Dr. Fracchia: Yes, along with another group, and having Mr.
Angel Tavella as our professor, in astronomy, we have met here
precisely to take some measurements. The measurments taken were
exact, directed by a person with specialized knowledge, such as
Mr. Luis Batista, an air force officer who knows perfectly well
what it means to take angles and measurements. With him and the
help of Ms. Norma Illezca, we took measurements of a diagram
which I have said is at your disposal, since the exact
measurements have already been taken, above all those of the
second circle, the one we've dubbed the second, but they are
three concentric circles with a very distinctive "H"
and a long branch oriented practically with a small eastward
deviation, of a few degrees running North‑South. And
[another] branch, shall we say, located toward the West, if one extends its, makes perfect
contact with, shall we say, the main branck of the "H"
in the inner circle. What is distinctive is that the grass is markedly burned or damaged, for want of a better description,
among the grass that can be seen as perfectly green. Guillermo Mamanna: Mr.
Fraccia, you had verified [the existence of] certain wells or
depressions in some very particular areas. Could you elaborate
on this? Dr.
Fracchia: Yes, we have noted upon making measurements that the
circle was not perfoect in certain places. In other words, it
was homogeneous. On average, we calculated 27 cm more or less.
Upon noticing that on that spot the grass was not totally
damaged or burned, but there was some green left. Using a ruler
we have, a long stick, we've noticed that there are small
depressions in that area, leading us to believe that for this
reason, the print did not maintain its homogeneity in that spot. Guillermo
Mamana: So you're
saying that the width of the burned area is an average of 27 to
28 cm? Dr.
Fracchia: Exactly. That's correct. Another thing we did is to
consult with local residents, people who have a zoo to which
many school children come to learn about various kinds of
aniumals. They remarked that they noticed that Thursday or
Friday not of last week, but the one before, because it wasn't
last Sunday but the one before, that we observed these details,
that around 2 or 3
in the morning they heard the birds making uncommon songs or
cries. . Reinoso:
Uncommon? Dr.
Fracchia: Utterly uncommon. And the barking of the dogs was
incessant. The chickens, which are of different breeds, were
crowing in a completely unusual way. They notice that when a
weasel appears‑an animal dangerous to
[chickens]‑they crow for a while and the crowing scares
away the weasel. On
this occasion they crowed for a long time. The school is some
500 to 600 meters distant. Guillermo
Mamana: And from
this nearer zone, were any lights seen or dog barks heard? Dr.
Fracchia: No, not in that sense. We haven't had any reports,
only making the remark to Mr. Lambertuchi here (who is the owner
of the zoo). They were the ones who commented it to me. What we
did hear was about a neighbor who witnessed something similar
last year...two cirlces on his 3 hectare property, similar to
the ones we observed here. Dr.
ARMANDO FRACCHIA, 71, is a specialist in vascular disease.
III. VETERINARIAN'S
REPORT ON THE CATTLE MUTILATION IN CORONEL ARNOLD (PROVINCE OF
SANTA FE) Dr.
Nora Biassi Registration
914 "The
area is a gully crossed by the Saladillo creek. The pasture is
natural, rarely supplemente with balanced nourishment or
bundles, because the natural pasture suffices, as a rule and
this is clearly visible with pastureland that is 50 to 60 cm.
High. The general state of the cattle is good, there are many
Aberdeen Angus females with their young. Let us bear in mind
that this is calving time, and there are many other animals
which are Heresford mixes. But
I wish to stress that the general condition of the herd is good. I
asked the herd's owner what type of heatlh regimen he follows
and the tells me that he vaccinates against thrush, brucellosis,
antiparasitic agents, external and internal alike, also
vaccinations against "mancha"
and keratpo‑conjunctivitis. Aside from the animals owned
outright, he purchases calves for fattening : "What I want
to say with all of
this is that the animals did not die of hunger, thirst or common
diseases." "When
we entered the field we found three calf carcasses in the same
pasture field. Two of them were identifiable as male and female
and the other was unidentifiable due to its advanced state of
decomposition." EXAMINATION
OF THE FEMALE: "It
was in a lateral right recumbent position, presenting an
incision in the right‑hand mandibular area shaped like a
horseshoe, with no traces of musculature over the bony areas.
Nor does it show signs [of having a] tongue, nor right ocular
globe. The brain lacks encephalic mass (brains) and the mammary
gland was not extracted from the abdomen, but at the level of
the outer sexual organs the absence of the vulva is noticieable.
In its place was found a skin incision in the shape of a nearly
perfect circumference, absence of the vulva, vagina, uterus and
ovaries. The anus and rectum are also missing. According to the
owner [the animal] weighed 180 kgs alive and also has a
brand‑mark. EXAMINATION
OF THE MALE: "It
was located 80 mts. Away from the former. Its position is
lateral right recumbent, presenting an incision shaped like a
horseshoe at the level of the rig mandibular area, lacking
tongue, eye, or brains. In the anal area we notice the absence
of the anus and rectum. At the level of the sexual organs we see
that the perinaeum (the region between the anus and the
testicular pouch) shows a circumferential incision and it can be
seen that the testicular pouch does not present testicles and
the prepuce shows no penis. Conclusion: the penis and testicles
were extracted through that hole mesuring 12 cm. in
circumference. This
very same animal presents a missing strip of hide at the level
of its ribcage, measuring 10cm in circumference. No traces of
blood were found in any of the cuts. THE
THIRD ANIMAL IN QUESTION: It
is a calf that died of natural causes 15 days earlier. It only
presented a head, spinal column and some ribs. No viscerae we
present; the cranium had dried brains within it. This animla
presents tooth marks on several bones. Aware that there is a
large number of foxes in the area, I would daresay that this
carcass was the victim of carrion animals such as foxes, "mulitas",
etc. Putting
forth some conclusions, I think that what happened here is not
related to anything paranormal. I consider that the hand of Man
is visible here. How
do they do it? They
must be a team of several trained individuals. In the first
place, the immobilize the animal with some dart, using a
myorelaxant such as SUCCINYL CHOLINE, which in high doses
produces respiratory failure, heart attack and death. This is
the reason the wounds do not bleed. I do not know if any tests
have been performed to detect this type of toxin, but if so,
they must not have detected anything, because choline forms part
of the organism's natural endogenous components, functioning as
a neturotransmitter substance. It is the drug that kills without
a trace, causing respiratory failure and [making it seem like]
natural death. Once
the animal is dead, the task group performs the incisions and
extracts the organs. This task can be done within 10 minutes
plus 15 minuts for the skeletal myorelaxant to act: a total of
20 to 25 minutes. Another
question we should ask is: who are they, and why do they do it? The
answer would be found in some type of service belonging to a
foreign power, which takes samples from different parts of the
bovine body for bacteriological testing. In another age they
used the atom bomb (but this isn't convenient, since the effects
of radiation mus be taken into account). They later used the
hydrogen bomb [translator's note‑author means Neutron
Bomb] which kills everything that lives but leaves materials
intact. And now ANTHRAX is fashionable.
And what is anthrax? It is a bacterium that attacks
bovines and human beings, causing GANGRENOUS TUMORS, "MANCHA"
OR GANGRENE, a
bacterium that can cause devastation in cattle in 24 hours. And
many will ask, why do they do this here, and don't experiment on
their own cows? It
is known that cattle mutilations have occurred in the USA and
other parts of the world, and that the anthrax bacterium is
cosmopolitan, in other words, in every different place or region
it has differente characteristics. The military power wishing to
have the best bacteriological weapon, and the best antidote,
needs to have samples from different parts of the world. WHY
DOES SENASA REPORT IN SUCH A WAY? Over
the course of time and the events, various theories were put
forth to give an interpretation to the mutilation phenomenon.
Some veterinarians who researched the cases in person ruled much
more coherently than SENASA itself, and said that thye found no
explanation whatsoever or that they had never seen anything like
it. At first, SENASA believed that the mutilations were the work
of carrion animals: hawks, vultures, foxes, etc. They later said
that yellowjacket bees were involved, and as their final and
definitive verdict, that the red‑muzzled mouse was to
blame. The
truth about this is that people are very tired of being lied to.
That country folk are well able to distinguish between an animal
that dies naturally and becomes prey to carrion animals. And it
is shameful that agencies like SENASA should publicly make
foolish pronouncements about bees and carnivorous mice, which
they do not believe themselves. What
is tragic is that the government must be informed of what is
occuring and has given a green light to these groups which act
with impunity in our Argentinean Pampas. And if they don't know
it, they are equally guilty by omission.
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