- Source: Diario "Nuevo Día" (Coronel
Suárez, Prov. of Buenos Aires) June 15, 2002
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- Animal Mutilations: Veterinarian Who Examined First Case
Believes Culprits Arrived by Air
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- Doctor Daniel Belot, a SENASA Technician in Salliqueló,
doesn't believe in Chupacabras, but has never seen anything like it...
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- He was the veterinarian who analyzed the first animal
mutilation in the area, in Salliqueló. He has examined over a dozen
cases for which he can find no explanation, and is disconcerted. He does
not believe in the intervention of any agencies other than human, but
he discards nothing in the light of the magnitude of what he has observed.
He is convinced that the perpetrators arrived by aerial means and is certain
that the animals were slain elsewhere and subsequently dumped in the field.
He asks that all strange animal deaths be reported promptly.
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- Dr. Belot is startled, moved and disoriented by the sudden
appearance of mutilated animals throughout the region. In spite of his
considerable professional experience, Belot, who is a technician for SENASA,
claims having never seen anything similar and believes that only those
who have seen any such case can understand the magnitude of the events.
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- The expert has been asked to analyze over a dozen cases,
and common patterns appear in all of them to which no explanation can be
found. Although he is unwilling to forecast the events, he is certain
that more cases will only confuse him more rather than clarifying matters.
The near-certainty that the perpetrator arrives by air, and the certainty
that the deaths have occured 3 to 4 days earlier at a location other than
where the carcasses were found only adds to the state of confusion.
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- His account of the facts and some of his interpretations
merit analysis, since he is an acknowledged professional with a solid reputation
throughout the region, aside from being an official for a national delegation
of SENASA, with the added responsibility and weight that this fact adds
to his pronouncements. Dr. Belot urged our region's cattlement to report
any anomalous case immediately, since he believes that the sooner investigations
take place, there is a greater possibility of reaching a solution, which
is hitherto completely unknown.
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- Belot began his story by recalling that "the cattleman
told me he had a dead animal in a field and his attention had been drawn
to the fact [the animal] seemed to be skinned to the bone on one side,
which I thought was impossible, because it was something I wasn't familiar
with, something utterly abnormal. For that reason I told him that some
animal must have eaten it, which the cattleman completely rejected, saying
that no animal eats in a straight line. Therefore, I resolved to go and
see what was going on."
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- "I was confronted by an unnerving sight," the
professional told NUEVO DIA, stressing that "those who haven't seen
it cannot understand the magnitude of the situation." Belot explained
that "the animal lay on the ground like a hare, and the entire left
side of its face was skinned to the bone beneath the eye. All of its molars
were visible.
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- "When we performed the necropsy we found that it
was missing its tongue, all of its vocal apparatus, which is to say the
larynx and part of the pharynx, and something very odd: there was no blood
inside or outside the animal. It was perfectly clean. That came as an
enormous surprise for us." He confirmed that there was no tearing
[of flesh] of any kind on the animal, therefore discarding the likelihood
that predators would have attacked it. "It is a deed that appears
to have been carried out by humans, but even so it's something very hard
to do."
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- When asked if he was able to come up with any explanation
whatsoever, Dr. Belot confessed that "my curiosity has not yet been
sated, since I've sent samples to the University of Buenos Aires' School
of Pathology and the only response I've received is that how the incisions
were made cannot be determined." The professional stated that he
did not establish the animal's cause of death, going as far as to state
that blood samples taken from other animals to detect strange substances
"have yielded no results so far. The ones I have recieved confirm
that there is nothing strange in the [animals'] blood."
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- Belot, who has analyzed over a dozen of these mutilation
cases, remarked that vital organs were missing in most of them. "
In the first case, which is the one I'm discussing here, the animal was
missing all of its maxillaries, but others were missing testicles and
penises, others were missing ears, others were missing mammary glands,
and still others were missing rectums and vaginas. All of this suggest
some kind of scientific research, but don't ask me why a scientist is
going to conduct research in the middle of different farms without asking
for permission, because I can't imagine why."
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- Belot reiterated his astonishment as to the absence of
tracks around the mutilated animals, wondering how it is possible "for
no other animal to come near." When Dr. Daniel Belot reached the
first animal he inspected, it had been dead for 3 or 4 days, a situation
which has repeated itself in many of the cases he analyzed. "In many
cases they were not yet bloated and did not give off any odor. In others,
they presented normal alterations, which increases the uncertainty."
The cases observed by the SENASA technician occured in the Salliqueló
region, but were later extended to Casbas and Guaminí.
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- Belot acknowledged that in recent days he learned of
the Chupacabras legend. While not dismissing it, he is not a believer.
"The facts occured, they are very strange and cannot be disputed,
but I don't know what to attribute them to. I wouldn't want to chance
it."
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- The professional does not recall having seen perfectly
circular burned grass spots or any alterations near the mutilated animals,
as other experts have stated, explaining that "the only mark I saw
around the animals within a ten meter radius, is that the grass has continued
to grow [...] but no animal will step into that circle, despite the fact
that the grass is in good shape."
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- Two months after the first discovery, Belot points out
that "after some time, the dead animals have already been attacked
by predators. But until recently, they wouldn't come close." Regarding
the behavior of the herd's other members, the veterinarian noted that
"they appear indifferent, looking from a distance without coming
close. What is commonly seen in the countryside is that the rest of the
animals sort of "mourn" the deceased animal, and that has not
occurred in this case."
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- The professional further emphasized that "the animals
were killed elsewhere and dumped there, and that indication I'm inferring
from the way in which the carcasses have been positioned."
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- Translation (C) 2002. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology. Special thanks to Gloria Coluchi.
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