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Cattle Mutilations involve the alteration of animal corpses by an unknown agency.

Overview

A rancher stumbles across the body of one his prized cattle:

Funny, the cow was in good health and seemed fine yesterday.

Still, cows die. Hmm. That's weird. There should be tracks.

No tracks. No people tracks, no coyote tracks, no vehicle tracks . . . not even any cow tracks. How'd the cow get here?

Blood. Or rather, no blood. Cow's missing an ear. Belly looks okay, but there's definitely something wrong farther back. Should be blood around.

Never seen anything like that before. The wound's a perfect circle, and some of her innards are gone!

What could have done that?

In the 1970s, scenes like this were played out across the United States. The situation got so bad (and the economic losses significant enough) that a federal investigation was conducted.

Theories in the public included UFOs, Satanic cultists, and covert government testing, perhaps of biological weapons.

Conventional explanations suggested normal predation and scavenging.