- Source: IFOR (Investigadores del Fenomeno Ovni de Rufino)
By Juan José Mecchi, Norberto Mollo and Leonardo Mollo July 7, 2002
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- ANIMAL MUTILATIONS NEAR RUFINO: THE COLONIA TRES ARBOLES
CASE
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- A mutilated calf was found on a field located 10km SE
of Rufino, owned by one Mr. Caunedo and currently leased by Mr. Camilo
Lisiardo.
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- Mr. Lisiardo habitually tours the field in order to
observe the state of his cattle. On June 28, he noticed that his herd was
doing well. When he returned on Monday, July 1, he noticed a dead calf
in a rather remote section of the field. Its body presented strange mutilations.
IFOR got in touch with Lisardo on July 2 and were immediately taken
to the site.
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- On site, they found the carcass of a small calf lying
on its left side with its head pointed toward the southeast. They immediately
became aware of a clean cut running from its nose to the throat. The lower
maxillary and a small portion of the upper maxillary were completely clean,
as though the animal had been dead for several months. It was also noticed
that its right eye was missing and the orbital cavity was completely empty.
Its belly, particularly around the navel, featured a circle almost 4 cm
in dameter. Its hindquarters showed signs of predation, but Lisardo, who
had seen the animal a day earlier, had detected a well-delineated circle
in the anal region with the extirpation of said organ. The presence of
the tongue was not detected through the lower maxillary.
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- IFOR returned to the site on Wednesday the 3rd with veterinarian
Hernando Brandino, who made a full examination of the animal, stating that
the animals hindquarters had been predated by carrion eaters. After careful
observations, posing a few hypotehses and making incisions with a knife,
he was able to corroborate the similarity between the existing cuts and
the ones made. While he did not altogether discard predator action, he
leaned toward the evidence that said incisions could be due to the action
of a sharp instrument. He was also alerted by how clean the lower maxillary
looked, which would be the case in an animal that been dead for a long
time.
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- This find, which can be included in the long list of
mutilations recorded in different parts of the country, since it follows
the same patterns, cannot be linked to the observation of lights or other
anomalous phenomena, since these have not been detected. >> >Regarding
this specific case, we respectfully disagree with the >explanation
provided by SENASA that names the Common Red-Muzzled >Mouse
(Oxymycterus rufus) as the cause of thes mutilations for >several
reasons: among them, should this rodent exist in our >area,
its population density would be too low to provoke such >depredations.
On the other hand, there is no evidence that these >rodents can make
such straight and perfect incisions. > > >>> Detail of the
head mutilations. A straight incision can be >>>seen
along the neck and running to the nose. The lower >>>maxillary
is completely skinned and the tongue and an eye are >>>missing.
> >In the case involving this mutilated calf, it is very likely
that the >incisions were made by an edged instrument. What remains
to be answered >is who or what did it and to what end.
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- IFOR
- Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU)
- Special Thanks to Alicia Rossi.
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