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56 Calf-rustling aliens
An example of cattle mutilation at Morrill Farm, Piermont, New Hampshire, September 27, 1978 (Loren
Coleman/Fortean Picture Library)
Thomas E. Bullard came upon a letter Hamilton
had written to a Missouri paper, the
Atchison County Mail (May 7, 1897), cheerfully
confessing that there was no truth to the
story.
Many years later, psychologist Susan Marie
Powers studied the claims of a woman who
claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials
on a number of occasions. Once, while
aboard a UFO, the occupants would lasso a
cow, take it inside the craft, and extract blood
from it. “I watched [as] the blood went into a
tube and then into a big tank,” the woman reported.
“The cow’s eyes would glaze over.
Then I knew she was dead. We would fly back
and drop her in the pasture with the other
cows. The little people do not eat meat. They
take the blood home with them” (Powers,
1994).
Another abductee, a Texas woman named
Judy Doraty, related under hypnosis her alleged
observation of a levitation of a calf into
a UFO one night in 1973. The gray-skinned
humanoid crew cut up the animal while still
alive, apparently as part of its study of the effects
of pollution on earthly creatures. Myrna
Hansen told a similar story under hypnosis, of
an abduction in New Mexico in 1980, during
which a calf was brought into a UFO and mutilated
while still alive.
According to ufologist Linda Moulton
Howe, a rancher near Waco, Texas, came
upon two greenish humanoids with almond
eyes and big, egg-shaped heads as they were
carting away one of his calves. Terrified, he
fled the scene. When he had recovered his
nerve a couple of days later, he, his wife, and
his son went to the scene. There they found,
in Howe’s words, “the calf’s hide pulled back
over the skull and folded inside out on the
ground. . . . About a foot from the empty
hide was a complete calf backbone without
ribs” (Howe, 1989).
In July 1983, Ron and Paula Watson, a
Missouri farm couple, spotted a landed UFO
in a pasture. A bipedal “lizard-type creature”—known
to ufologists as a reptoid—
stood nearby. Through binoculars the Wat-