- Source: Diario La Nueva Provincia
(Bahia Blanca, Argentina)
June 27, 2002
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- **Wild animals are also experiencing strange mutilations**
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- The case is suggestive, because wild boar are highly
distrustful and detect--through their sharp olfactory system--the presence
of strangers. On this occasion, an eight month old boar was mutilated.
This is the second instance of a wild animal being mutilated since the
appearance of a mutilated guanaco in Chubut.
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- While the mutilation count is now reaching 170 and the
cases recorded extend to nine Argentinean provinces, a new ingredient has
been added to the phenomenon: the discovery in Rio Colorado of a wild boar
carcass showing strange incisions. This is the 6th species hit by the phenomenon,
since the mutilated remains of cows, horses, sheep, pigs and even a guanaco
(in the province of Chubut) have been found.
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- Cattleman Nestor Soulé, owner of a rural property
some 55 km from Rio Colorado, in the Department of Pichimahuida, found
the boar speciment last Sunday near a gully. The animal, he explained,
had geometrically perfect incisions and was missing the anus, tongue and
jaw. To the surprise of the rancher and the farmhand escorting him, the
animal was still soft in spite of the -14 C temperature marked by the thermometer.
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- "It's impossible that an animal could remain in
this condition after dead and after the cold, but I was surprised not to
find any tracks nearby," said Soulé, who is aware of the "map"
presented by the animals and the varying forms and conditions of the pasture
surface. The rancher chose not to file a police report, but did put the
boar carcass in his pickup truck to show his neighbor. He later left it
in the wilderness.
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- "Due to its traits, a boar is an animal that is
able to smell any living creature a quite a distance, even thought [the
boar] may be young....this is why it flees at the slightest sign of any
peril," Soulé explained. The rancher thus made clear why this
case is so fascinating and different to the ones involving breeding animals.
"I'm not a researcher or anything similar, and that's why I don't
know what to say, but this is strange and I never saw anything like it
before."
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- **In La Pampa**
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- The carcass of an Aberdeen Angus bovine missing parts
of its body were found last weekend in a field located 2 km from the town
of Embajador Martini, province of La Pampa. The professionals who analyzed
the case verified that it was missing part of its tongue and mammary glands,
and that its left maxillary had been sectioned off. A mysterious situation
also occured to the north of the Pampan town of Rancul at the "Los
Caldenes" ranch, where a cow had died of natural causes in the afternoon
only to be found with incisions on its jaw and missing its tongue the next
day. The province of Entre Rios has also the epicenter of these events:
in a field located 2 km from Rt.11, a rancher found a 170 kg heifer and
a 500 kg. milk cow some 800 meters from each other, both presenting the
notorious incision marks.
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- **In Carhué**
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- Cases involving strange animal deaths are still a subject
for discussion in this city given the fact that mutilations continue to
appear day after day for unknown reasons. The discoveries made by veterinarian
Fernando Lopez are complemented by those of his colleague, Horacio Volpe.
Last week, the professional was summoned by the owner of a rural property
located 25km from Carhue--no personal information mentioned for privacy
reasons--where an 8-9 month calf showing the trademark incisions recorded
in the area had been found.
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- The professional noted that his attention was drawn by
the perfect incisions, the flacidness of the animal --"which seemed
recently dead," he noted -- and the absence of blood. While Volpe
preferred not to hazard a theory, he pointed out that an employee of the
property told him that his brother, who was cultivating during the night,
"saw some intense red lights, as though from a laser, moving very
quickly across the countryside."
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- Veterinarian Omar Fernando Lopez also observed a new
case in a rural establishment close to this city: it involved a pregnant
cow found in the fields of Juan Carlos Robilotte, showing the same incisions,
with the difference that the cow was about to give birth. "There was
a circle [on the left flank, above the udder] through wihch half of the
calf's body was protruding, but I couldn't ascertain if there were any
lesions, since it was in an advanced state of decomposition."
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- ** A Racehorse **
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- A racehorse belonging to the Quarter Horse breed, belonging
to stables near the Rio Negran town of Choele Choel, was found dead with
strange mutilations. "It was as though it had been hollowed out from
within," reported police sources in describing the stud horse, of
considerable economic value.
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- Veterinarian Carlos Montobbio, who certified the case,
reported that the horse was missing an eye and part of its tongue, but
no incisions on the maxillary had been performed. It had also been castrated
and a significant part of its small intestine and rectum had been removed.
The expert dismissed the possibility of an atatck by "yellow-jacket"
wasps: "the surgical incisions presented by the animals cannot be
made by insects," said Montobbio.
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- **Lights Over Carhué**
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- Several residents claimed to have seen strange lights
allegedly related to the presence of UFOs. Manuel Alesso and Raul Blengio,
two rural livestockers owning property in the Paraje Cilley area, 10 km
from Carhué, saw these lights in the same way as did other witnesses
from different parts of Buenos Aires province. "Between 7:30 and 8
p.m., I was touring the fields of Arroyo Venado when I saw two lights to
the northeast," said Alesso. He added that he stopped his pickup truck
and flashed his headlights at the lights. "The light began to shine
even brighter and seemed to descend, which is why I went over to where
Raul (Blengio) was planting and asked him to look. The lights were white,
round and gave off a sort of haze," he noted. He said that behind
the light there was another less shiny one.
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- Raul Blengio added that the lights moved slowly: "The
weren't stars...they were strange moving lights," explained Alesso,
while adding that a third witness accompanying them also saw the lights."I'm
certain they have something to do with the cattle mutlations," he
added. Carolina Montenegro, a young Carhuensan about to graduate with a
devgree in Business Administration, spoke of having a similar experience:
"On Friday night, around nine, I was in the countryside and to my
surprise I saw a small light, orange in color and smaller than a star,
and at the height of said lights there were no other stars to be seen.
As I watched, the light changed colors from orange to red, then to green
and then back to orange until after 5 minutes it became smaller and vanished."
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- Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology. Special Thanks to Proyecto CATENT.
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