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Minnesota MUFON Journal Issue #131 May/June 2008 Minnesota MUFON Journal Issue #131 May/June 2008 UFOs and Lady By Dick Moss, MUFON MN State Dir. During the past few decades, and possibly earlier, cattle mutilations have occurred in many countries. In the United States it seems that the western part of our country has seen the largest number of mutilations. Minnesota Mufon Meetings Countries such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Canary Islands, England, Puerto Rico and others have been some of the locations Sat., May 10 th & Sat., June 14 th where these seemingly random events have also occurred. 1:30pm - 5pm I was told by area high school students long ago that one of the earliest-reported cases of cattle mutilations was about twenty miles New Brighton Family from where I live. A few of them also said that area farmers would not Service Center talk to anybody about what had happened. Some of them thought of 400 - 10th St. NW the events in terms of a demonic paradigm and this, in turn, suggested (located 1/4-mile S.W. a gnawing fear within these people. of Hwy 694 and 35W.) The earliest cattle mutilation reports came from Kansas and PARK FREE! Pennsylvania in the 1960s and cattle mutilations were eventually reported in many states. It was soon evident that mutilations involved The building is designated as the removal of body parts. The usual list includes the tongue, lips, non-smoking. ears, eyes, udders, anus, and sexual organs, in other words soft tissue. See map on back cover While the incisions, removal of body parts, lack of blood both on the (Note: The building has no ground and inside the animals are legendary, several different special security, so you can hypotheses have been proposed as to who or what might be come and go as you please responsible for these events. The usual suspects include testing by and smoke outdoors. There some government agency, satanic cults, and scavengers. Witness is also an elevator.) exaggerations and sensationalism by the press have helped create confusion about the complex nature of the phenomenon. In this Issue: The first reported mutilation in 1967 near Alamosa, Colorado involved • UFO’s and Lady - Page 1 a mare named Lady, although for some reason its often-reported name • Do we collaborate? - Page 2 was said to be Snippy. Lady had been missing for a couple of days but • CE4 Corner – Page 4 was found not far from the house and a photo of the mutilated mare • Secret Law – Page 5 appeared in many magazines at the time. She was a gruesome sight • Secret UN UFO Meetings – Page 6 with virtually every shred of flesh gone from the lower part of the neck • FAA Silences Air Traffic Controllers on up through the face. No blood was seen on Lady or on the ground – Page 9 and there were no signs of scavenging on Lady's body. Also, there were • ET Terror Tactics – Page 10 no tracks of any kind other than those of Snippy's owner, Harry King. • Clinton UFO Endorsement – Page 11 Some accounts maintained that a strong smell of medicine or some • New French UFO Service – Page 11 other organic compound was detected. • Michio Kaku on UFO Science – Pg12 • Minnesota UFO Reports– Page 13 Mundane explanations were offered including such things as a • Keyhoe Interview – Page 14 lightning strike, the work of cults, and government agency testing • MUFON-BlackVault Partners– Pg14 apparently in all of the countries where incidents had occurred. The • UFO Knowledge Test – Page 14 "strangeness index" of the phenomenon was often so high that early • MN MUFON Info – Page 15 speculation of alien involvement was the inevitable first hypothesis. • Meeting Map – Page 16 1 What follows is but one example. Helpful sources for a study of mutilations would be early editions of UFO magazines. If the reader There was a case in New Mexico, investigated by could obtain copies of any of the UFO magazines both the FBI and police, of a bull from which the that were published three or four decades ago it rectum and sex organs had been removed with would be well worth the effort. Used book stores obvious surgical precision that was not consistent seem to be the best place to look. Many early with death caused by predators. The heart and liver authors went on to make important contributions were white and with the consistency of peanut to the UFO literature. Seek them out before the butter. Tests showed that the liver lacked copper. pages become brown and totally brittle. But, it was found to contain several times the usual levels of zinc, potassium and phosphorous. Its blood was a pink color and did not clot after several The Elite Agenda on UFO Disclosure: days. Its hide became brittle. Cattle in the herd Do we Collaborate? became restless and predators typically refused to by Ed Komarek, The Canadian feed on mutilated remains. Observations and test http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008 results like these hardly suggest a mundane /03/29/02311.html explanation. There has been quite a bit of debate recently within For at least some cattle mutilations, though, there the UFO/ET community as a whole and exopolitics is video evidence that birds and predators do pick in particular about cooperation with mainstream away at soft tissue on a dead animal and the areas media’s seemingly orchestrated UFO/ET disclosure that are eaten seem to take the shape of a circular process. Some folks believe that they need to tone hole. However, it has been claimed that no other down the extraterrestrial angle so as to play into the animals will approach one that has been mutilated. mainstream media’s disclosure or propaganda An organic or medicine-like odor is sometimes operation as an initial first step toward public noticeable at mutilation sites. recognition of exopolitical realities. In Lady's case, over a dozen irregularly-shaped Other folks believe collaboration with mainstream black spots were found on the nearby ground and a media is similar to collaboration with an occupying bush had somehow been flattened around which power and that collaboration only strengthens the was a twenty-foot wide smoothed-out circular area. occupier’s position and weakens the resistance to A Geiger-counter sweep found that there was an occupation. I am reminded of the struggle during area of radioactivity surrounding Lady. It was at its World War Two in occupied France between the largest intensity a ways away from Lady and it Resistance and Nazi collaborators. decreased as the instrument was carried towards her. The radioactivity increased again as it was Some of the French people decided to collaborate moved away from the horse. If these readings were with the Nazis and accepted occupation as a reality accurate they indicate something about the that was there to stay and decided to cooperate so distribution of radioactive sources within the craft as to ease their suffering under occupation. Other itself. Some of Lady's tracks were also found near French people argued against his and created the her body and it appeared that she had, at some resistance that eventually helped free their country point, been jumping around in a circle before from the tyranny of the Nazi occupation. walking to the spot where she died. Over the past several months there seems to have There are many articles concerning Lady. In been a shift in tactics by the mainstream news and addition to entire books and chapters in others, entertainment propagandists in regards to UFO/ET there have been many magazine and newspaper realities promoting a more open acceptance that articles plus videos during past decades that have UFOs are indeed real and that what they really are provided information about the animal mutilation is unknown. phenomenon. They are ongoing events of wonder and amazement and Texas has experienced at least This would represent a change of propaganda a few in recent months. policy instituted at the highest levels of government and supported by the special interests that control government and who own most of the mainstream media. These new developments encourage more 2 people in our field to seek to cooperate with those psychological and technological attack. Fortunately that maintain the UFO/ET cover-up in the hope there is hope because the universe seems to be a that this is a first step toward full eventual very diverse place where evolutionary processes of disclosure. competition and cooperation play out in many diverse ways just as here on earth. The apparent shift of tactics by the propaganda press from flat out denial and ridicule to a more I have taken it upon myself to identify and focus on benign acceptance of UFOs is sure to continue and those extraterrestrial races that favour cooperation expand the debate between those that favour over competition and predation. I am well aware of collaboration and those that favour resistance. It is the predatory ET races and their treasonous global certainly a step in the right direction that much of entrenched autocratic allies. However I feel hope the mainstream media seems to be cutting back on and salvation from such an enveloping dark future the use of depreciating words and phrases like, lies with the more cooperative and ethical races “UFO buffs“, believers, crackpots, amateurs, particularly the celestial humans in which we seem conspiracy theorists, lack of evidence, lack of to have much in common. credentials etc. we should not let our guard down. The propaganda game may only be moving from The best that I can tell is that some of the celestial denial to spin where the occupiers continue to humans, the same as recorded in ancient religious remain in the driver’s seat gaining strength as more texts in both the east and in the west, are not party collaborators hop on board.
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