Can Anything But "Aliens" Explain Many Hundreds Of "Impossible" Animal Deaths?

 In 1967 a three-year-old Appaloosa horse named Lady lived on the ranch of Harry King in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, maybe 150 miles south and east of Denver.  This valley was first settled by Mormon pioneers who saw it would be a good place to farm and prosper.  Lady was strong and healthy, since she was only three years old and now fully mature, and of the vigorous Appaloosa line, created by the Nez Perce Indians of Washington, Idaho and Oregon.  Appaloosas provide some of the most enduring and impressive of horses.  On September 8, 1967 Harry King noticed that Lady did not come in as usual near the end of the day.  The next day he found this lovely white female, who weighed about 1000 pounds, sprawled dead on the ground a short distance out in his field.  No bullet holes or typical wounds causing death.  Her flesh was stripped off of her bones "from the neck up."  The remaining exposed skeleton looked gruesome and like it had been cleaned days ago, but Harry knew he had seen her alive 48 hours before.

Around her carcass was a smell like incense.  She lay not far, about a quarter of a mile, from the Kings' house, but they hadn't heard any noise from her being killed.  Nor were there any signs of a struggle or an footprints of who killed her.  Among the odd things was that her tracks did not lead to her still body.  Clear tracks only came within 100 feet of where Lady lay.  There, 100 feet away, she had "jumped around in a circle," apparently before being subdued.   Whoever killed her took her heart, lungs and thyroid, an autopsy showed.  Impossibly, there was no blood spilled at the scene.  An MD who visited the site where she lay was so scared by how completely she had been subdued and how completely her neck and head were stripped and the organs removed that he couldn't eat for a time.  

There were no tracks of a predator in that part of the field--not of coyotes nor wolves, bears, or humans.  There were no vehicle tracks as would have been seen if poachers had decided to down Harry King's beautiful horse and remove her heart and lungs without spilling blood on the ground.  The only explanation of what may have happened based on the physical evidence was that she had been surprised 100 feet away and had jumped around to evade whoever assailed her.  But she had been "nabbed" and then, it would seem, picked up, carried for 100 feet, and then dropped to the place in the field where Harry found her.  

What in the world could have done that to a strong, young, full-sized horse that could go from a dead stop to running 40 miles an hour in a few strides?  It is not hard for a human with a rifle to overpower a horse, but she had not been hit by a bullet.  Yet no human footprints were there.    

This account comes from Linda Mouton Howe's book, An Alien Harvest, pp 1-8.

The only other clue--and it isn't much of a clue--in Lady's vicinity was many reports from neighboring farmers and ranchers of "strange sky lights that summer."  

Thus we have an impossible killing.  Let's go to an impossible escape from killing, reported on pages 30-31 of the same book.  Near Great Falls, Montana, a man reported seeing a hairy, oversized "Bigfoot" six feet away.  He shot it  with his shotgun.  The creature, in the shooter's words, "disappeared in a flash of light."  There was no sign of the Bigfoot left at the scene.  

There appears to have been some sort of supernatural force that performed Lady's killing.

There appears to have been some sort of supernatural force that allowed the Bigfoot to escape without dying of bullet wounds.     

Many hundreds, probably thousands of other cows, deer, and horses have also died in mysterious, not unlike Lady, in the West and Midwest over several decades.  Most have types of cut-marks not made by any known knives, surgical instruments, or predator teeth.  One investigator quoted in an article in the Sept 30, 1974 edition of Newsweek said, "I've yet to see a coyote who could chew a straight edge," since some of the cut-marks he saw were straight as could be. 

 

Near Council, Idaho in 1975 six cows, the Idaho Statesman reported, were found dead, without any sign of predators.  Near Idaho City in July, 1975, deer were found mysteriously dead.  No bullet holes, no signs of struggle, no predator tracks.  Near Cascade Reservoir three animals were killed without any sign anyone had walked or driven in.  They were not shot.  In Sterling, in northeast Colorado, enough livestock was poached that owners began sitting out all-night vigils, waiting for the poachers to return.  None were found.  One night guards reported they saw "three figures glide over a fence at four a.m.," and they called the sheriff.  No intruders were discovered and there were no tracks in wet mud where the "gliding" ones were spotted.   LMH pp 10, 27-28,

These notes are from Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest, taken January 25, 2022 in the library of the Roswell Alien Museum.  Lou Girodo, Trinidad, Colorado sheriff said to her, "Possibly [this is done by those] from outer space."  Another witness did see a ship in the air over a place where animals were killed, shining lights down.  Tim Good wrote, page xv of Harvest,  "glowing lights [and] beams shining down . . . above pastures was a common theme among people I interviewed."

Isn't this as eerie and unsettling a set of deaths as could be imagined?  These few cases could be multipled by hundreds.  A Montana sheriff who investigated many cases wrote a book named Mystery Stalks The Prairie.

The Original Roswell Alien Guy: Mack Brazel

I had a girlfriend who moved to Utah and wasn't thrilled by the Mormon Church.  "Joseph Smith was certain he saw God in a sacred grove in New York," I said to her.  "Yes," she answered pensively as we stood on a street in Salt Lake City, "and isn't it too bad he didn't keep it to himself?"

I burst out laughing outside that non-Mormon church of hers.  That's a clever or at least original idea, and to me a very entertaining one.  As with Mormonism, the Roswell "alien crash" brouhaha was set off by one previously ordinary man, a ranch foreman out in the middle of Nowhere, New Mexico.  Just as my girlfriend wished Joseph Smith had kept his mouth shut, this rancher ended up really wishing he had done the same.  Who was this guy?  I'm convinced his life alone puts the lie to government insistence that no clear evidence of extraterrestrial life exists.

 William "Mack" Brazel was born in 1899 and died in 1963, the same year as General Ramey died.  Ramey was the Texas General who told the press it was just a weather balloon.  A year later Marion Brimberry was an enlisted crewman waiting on the tarmac, one day the next year, to board his plane.  Brigadier General Ramey was standing there with them.  Brimberry overheard an officer ask, "What about it?  What was that stuff?" Ramey answered, "It was the biggest lie I ever had to tell.  [It] was out of this world, son, out of this world."  Witness To Roswell, Thomas Carey & Donald Schmitt (whose name I have been misspelling Schmidt for years!), New Page Books, Pompton Plains, NJ, 2009, p. 214.

    Mack before the crash was a poor rancher, or ranch foreman, since he worked for the H. S. and J.B (Jap) Foster ranch.  The Fosters had large ranches also near Midland and Kent, Texas (Witness, p 75-77).  A great-grandson, Cory Derek , told Schmidt and Carey the Foster brothers also "made a fortune off of oil,"  It appears that many of the mineral rights they held were obtained just after the 1947 incident, and Cory is convinced his relatives were paid off for their silence.  This lends credence to the idea that Mack contacted his bosses before he went to the sheriff in Roswell.  Geraldine Perkins ran a grocery store in Corona and had one of only two telephones in town.  She says Mack used her phone to call his boss, J.B. Foster.  Though the crash was on BLM land, Foster land surrounded it and was of limited use for some time because of military activity.  

    What did Mack tell his superiors?  He believed until he died an alien flying saucer had crashed.  There is indirect evidence he told them that.  Cory Derek once asked his grandpa, "Papa," H. S. Foster's son, but learned nothing.  Cory's uncle was more forthcoming, "Those boys up there told me they were certain without a doubt what they saw was a flying saucer."

    J.B. Foster's daughter, Joann Purdie, believes Brazel contacted her father, saying in a 2008 phone interview he drove up there from Texas, "Whatever he saw or heard for himself, he didn't want to talk about it."   

     "My dad knew it was a flying saucer and never changed his story.  Just as the Army warned and threatened Mack Brazel, they did the same to him."  She encountered Brazel numerous times afterward and he wouldn't talk about it except "He would state that it wasn't any weather balloon." p 77  The second article in the Roswell paper about the incident says "Brazel said he had previously found two weather observation balloons on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any way resemble either of these."

    'I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon."

 

  All around him were families who owned their ranches and lived on them, but his bosses lived in Texas.   Brazel had a wife whose name I don't know and a daughter, Bessie Brazel Schreiber, a son Bill and another son Vernon.  He was 47 when his 15 minutes of fame landed on his ranch.

 Role of Timothy "Dee" Proctor

    After the crash he told the newspaper he originally found material in his fields on June 14, not early July.   Schmidt says any responsible rancher would tell us there is not way Mack would have left discard wreakage of balloon material, any type, lying in the field because cattle and sheep, like goats, will eat anything in their path.  Not good for the herd to leave it lying around.  p 46    The Mogul balloons had their own reward notice from NYU.

   Witness p. 34-35

Taken into custody by the Army for 4 or 5 days, 

    denied access to a phone,

    given physical exam

    rigorous questioning

    intimidation  p 41

42 six witnesses saw Brazel be taken under military guard to newspapers and radio stations to retract his claim of finding a flying saucer

      Seen driving a new truck in Roswell not long after

    Moved to another part of NM where he mysteriously had the money to open a business.

    Lived 16 more years

 

    1959   Howard Scoggin of Las Cruces  Witness p 73 (interviewed 1999)  Howard went to a restaurant with a friend, who pointed out Mack alone at another table.  Scoggin walked up and asked him about 1947.  "Without saying a word, the rancher clenched his fist . . . grimaced, and slowly rose out of his chair.  Fearing for his personal safety, the surprised and now wary Scoggins backed away while Brazel slowly stalked past him . . . leaving his food on the table.  "It was like watching one of those werewolf movies when Lon Chaney turns into the hairy monster," recalled Scoggin.

 

 

    Witness, p 74  Radio station Bob Wolf happened to bump into Mack at a festival in Corona "mere months before he died."  While chatting Wolf brought up 1947.  "He looked as though he had seen a ghost," Wolf told researchers Carey and Schmidt in 1992.  "Those people will kill you if I tell you what I know," Brazel burst out.  He "stormed away" and soon left the gathering.  Wolf hadn't seen him for years and didn't see him again.  Note Mack said "kill you," not "kill me," though he was clearly afraid of what they would do to him. Little did he know "those people" wouldn't have very many weeks of opportunity to kill him before life itself did that job via "a massive heart attack" (Witness p 73).

   So here we have the end of the story:  raw fear, aversion to saying anything substantial, abruptly he breaks off the talk when "the subject" comes up.  

List of who says they saw 1947 Roswell alien bodies

    Phillip Corso

    Mack Brazel

    friends of Dee Proctor    p 47

        "Jack:" Sydney Wright, two sons of Thomas Eddington rancher, 

       one of rancher Truman Pierce's daughters

     R Loveridge

     Walter Haut

     Military police Cassidy

     Military police Lida

    Sgt Rowlette

    Harry Telesco

    James Sain       baker's dozen

    Also a female archaeologist who wandered onto the crash site right before military arrived

   Melvin Brown

    George Wilcox sheriff  last half dozen listed on Carey pp 233 - 236

    B Rickett

    Ed Easley

UFO Wide View: What Good Reason To Vaporize That We've Been Stalked By Non-Earth Visitors?

First let's says that maybe the following are only half-good reasons.  Yet if you ask, "Any hints that extraterrestrials have already visited us on Earth?" I'd say the list could run to at least 117 items.  Let's aim for 17 here.

1  There are drawings from many cultures, suggestive of space ships, going back for centuries or millenia.

2  Speaking to the UN, President Reagan said, Isn't an alien force already working among us?  Oh, well, he was speaking figuratively.  Or he meant The Devil.  Yet he could have said "an evil force."

3  Another time he said in a speech, I wonder how it would unite mankind if we learned a common enemy faced us all.  Maybe he meant the flu or cancer?

4  One time that Reagan did not mean the flu or the Devil, he told that, while campaigning for governor of California, he saw a metallic, non-airplane-looking object flying alongside his plane, matching its movement.

5  For years "Area 51," a secret government area in Nevada north of Las Vegas, was just a rumor.  Did it actually exist?  What was there?  Well, in an interview President Obama answered the first question.  He spoke of it and then pointed out it was likely the first time a high official had publicly confirmed Area 51 existed.  He didn't spell out what else he knew about it.

6  The US gov keeps coming quietly to civilian researchers to tell them they have clear extra-terrestrial evidence, and now they want to cooperate with a film or TV show giving this evidence.  In his book Managing Magic, Grant Cameron details how this has happened about ten or twenty times over 50 years.  Each time the government agents back off and don't share their evidence.  In most cases, the insiders say there are those on the inside who want to keep it hid and those who want to tell the public.  "The people have the right to know!"  "The people can't do ---- about this!"  Cameron concludes their intent is to spill the beans, one bean at a time.  One reason they don't care to spill them all at once is that government would have to admit it is not in control.  Another possible reason is that there are numerous non-Earth races in our corner of the Milky Way, and they're not all friendly.  Maybe it's like emailing the ducks that duck hunting season has started.  Let's say "numerous" means 27, just to throw out a number that stimulates my imagination.  Or terrifies me.  Our corner of the galaxy is kind of a big place, eh?

7 Thousands of UFO sightings in about a hundred countries fit into a limited set of patterns.  Common elements are saucer-shaped or cigar-shaped vessels moving at high speed without visible means of propulsion, or triangle-shaped sets of lights in the sky that simply vanish.

8  A classic case of #7 is Socorro, NM policeman Ronnie Zamora seeing a non-airplane-shaped vessel on April 24, 1964.  He, per Wikipedia, which does not coddle UFO reports, "heard a roar and saw a flame in the sky to southwest some distance away—possibly a 1/2 mile or a mile." Believing a local dynamite shack might have exploded, Zamora said he discontinued pursuit [of a speeding car] and investigated the potential explosion. Zamora claimed to have observed a shiny object, "to south about 150 to 200 yards", that he initially believed to be an "overturned white car ... up on radiator or on trunk". The object was "like aluminum—it was whitish against the mesa background, but not chrome", and shaped like the letter O. Zamora claimed to have briefly observed two people in white coveralls beside the object, who he later described as 'normal in shape—but possibly they were small adults or large kids.' Zamora claimed to hear a roar and see a blue and orange flame under the object which then rose and quickly moved away."  When [backup] arrived, Zamora led him to examine some burning brush. When other police officers arrived they noted patches of smoldering grass and brush.^[2]   '

No good explanation of this has been found, though some have blamed New Mexico State students doing a fancy prank.  If they can teach that "blue flame rose and" flew off, stuff, I'll enroll.  Since it was 5:45 pm daytime, nobody's blamed the planet Venus.  I'm quite sure you could write a book, "Cops and UFOs" that would run 100 cases.  Montana sheriffs couple cases alone.  City cop in Exeter, New Hampshire had a flying object he could not identify come down so close to him that he ducked and drew his pistol before it lifted away.

9  Unexplained and unexplainable reports from at least 100 military observers from Chile to Iran to France Vandenberg Air Force Base to nuclear installations in Maine, Montana and North Dakota, to the Navy off the San Diego coast in 2004--all these indicate a recurrent pattern.  Some of the 2004 Navy pilots, led by David Fraver, believed they had chased vessels run by non-human intelligences.

Another time we'll review the "body" story.  

Or the "chopped up cows and horses" story.  And deer and ...

Or the "Skinwalker" story from my home valley, the Uinta Basin in Utah.  Conveniently I moved out of there in 1960.  Then just to make sure, I left again in 2004.  Grant Cameron said, "It's not just that one ranch [near Roosevelt, Utah].  It's the whole area."  That should make any Vernal, Utah native like me sleep more soundly.