From: UFOLAWYER1@aol.com 
To: CAUSupdates@caus.org 
Subject: [CAUS updates] -  Cattle Mutilations Team; Chris O'Brien Report and Tampa Triangular UFO
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 12:08 AM

Dear CAUS Subscribers:

On this Tuesday, CAUS presents three unrelated reports...or are they?

1) Dead Cattle Alert Issued to Solve Mutilation Puzzle

By David Staples

A team of Las Vegas scientists is determined to solve the 100-year-old
mystery of what has been causing cattle mutilations across North
America, says the team's leader, Dr. Colm Kelleher.

The National Institute of Discovery Science is on red alert to jet
around the western US and Western Canada in order to quickly autopsy
a freshly dead, mutilated cow, at no cost to the rancher.

The group--dedicated to studying matters outside the scientific
mainstream--is backed by Vegas businessman Robert Bigelow.

"We are moving in the direction of telling ranchers what might have
caused the death of the animals," Dr. Kelleher says.

In Western Canada in the past four years, cattle mutilations
investigator Fern Belzil says he has heard of 80 such cases and
investigated 45.

The cows die for an unknown reason, then lose certain body parts, such
as one ear, one eye, and the rectum, Mr. Belzil says.  The cuts are done
with "surgical precision."

But Joe Nickell, a writer for *Skeptical Inquirer* magazine, says Mr.
Belzil and the scientists at NIDS are engaging in pseudo-science.

Cattle mutilation stories started in 1897, when a Colorado newspaper
reported the case of space aliens mutilating a calf, Mr. Nickell says.
A member of a local Liars' Club later admitted to planting the story.

The bulk of evidence shows that mutilations are done by predators, Mr.
Nickell says.  Yet mutilation fever rages because the idea that cattle
are being mutilated is a powerful one.  When it takes hold of ranchers,
Mr. Nickell says, they suddenly start looking for evidence that in
fact a mutilation has occurred, instead of relying on common sense,
which would tell them cows die all the time for various reasons and
scavengers come and eat them.

Dr. Kelleher counters: "The ranching community has had that explanation
for 30 years now.  In order to dismiss this phenomenon you need an awful
lot more evidence."

Dr. Kelleher's team, which includes a veterinarian, wants to autopsy at
least 20 cows that died no more than 24 hours previously.

The team has already jetted up to Canada, flying in to North
Battleford, Sask., to autopsy an allegedly mutilated cow at a ranch
that has suffered 25 mutilations in the past 15 years.  Unfortunately,
laboratory error prevented accurate histopathological tests on the skin
tissue, Dr. Kelleher says.

2) Chris O'Brien (tmv@amigo.net; http://home.amigo.net/tmv) CAUS Director of
Investigations, reports from the San Luis Valley:

Well, the vacation is over.  Anomalous aerial craft sighting reports 
continue in November.  Strange how "ufo" sightings seem to cluster 
around obvious heightened training activity by the Air Force; 
especially when they are contemplating conducting aerial sorties 
against Iraq.

The Latest SLV Reports

Sat November 14, 1998 at 9:15 AM Over the Smith Reservoir area-west of
Blanca, CO Alamosa County AN1 (Walkley/O'Brien)
Junne Walkley was returning from dropping her relatives off when,
while driving south on Rd 106, she noticed "a great big silver V"
hovering over Smith Res.  She stopped the car and watched for around a
minute.  She estimated it was about 10 miles away to the East and
estimated its size as a quarter held at arms length.  After watching
for a minute the object appeared to go straight up and out of sight in
"a couple of seconds."  She is amazed nobody else reported the craft.
She is sending a sketch of the object which is similar to the October
18 sighting at 6:15 AM on the West side of the Valley. [Junne and her
husband Virgil are two of my very best and observant skywatchers--tmv]

Tue November 17, 1998, At Sunset over Greenie Mountain FB1 MULTIPLE
OBJECTS Rio Grande County (Walkley/O'Brien)
A relative of the Walkleys, "a strong skeptic," witnesses three 
object hovering over the San Juan Mountains near Greenie ridge.  The 
objects appeared to be reflecting the setting sun and sitting 
"still."  Then, the witness "was amazed" when the objects disappeared 
instantly. [Very similar to the Arimijo three-object video footage 
from January 1996--tmv]

Thur November 18, 1998, 11:15 PM Over Blanca Peak MA1 
Alamosa/Huerfano County (O'Brien)
An ex-career member of the Air Force called to report "a 
multicolored light yo-yoing up and down--like on a string."  Two 
other witnesses were told and they also watched the strange light. 
One witness reported the light stayed there "almost an hour . . . 
before blinking out."

3) CAUS thanks Jason Overholser (jasono@totalufo.net) for this report from
Tampa, Florida:

On November 17, 1998, at about 4:30am a flying V was spotted by numerous
people on the night of the meteor shower.  It was described as being
about 500 ft wide, traveling very fast at about 10,00o ft.

"It looked almost as if it were translucent and made absolutely no
sound" said one witness who supposedly took photos of the craft.

Sources say that it had no lights on it and feel that it would not have
been seen if so many people hadn't been watching the meteor shower that
night.  If I can find anybody with pictures of the craft, I will post them on
my website at www.totalufo.net which is still under construction.

Have a terrific Tuesday and of CAUS...watch the skies!

Peter A. Gersten
Director

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