- Last year I was approached by independent artist and
amateur video producer Matt Debow, he wanted to produce a documentary on
Animal and human Mutilation Cases that have occurred in Brazil, Former
West Germany, Great Britain & the United States. I agreed and we began
scanning the hundreds of photographs that I took or collected as a police
office. There were police reports and the pathology reports from various
veterinarians, state diagnostic labs and the universities which were involved.
I had forgotten about much of what I'd collected over the years. Matt &
I decided to travel to Alabama to interview the farmers, police officers
and newspaper publishers about the cattle mutilations of 1992, 1993 &
1996.
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- Almost ten years ago, I presented The Fyffe Police Department
Press Conference & Report on Cattle Mutilations. Three weeks ago I
returned to Sand Mountain to produce my first documentary on this subject.
I expected to videotape interviews with the farmers from the previous cases
of 1992, 1993 and 1996 and cull what old photographs, videotapes, police
and pathology reports that I'd missed when I was a police officer there.
What I found in addition to these materials, was a brand new series of
cattle mutilations that started three weeks prior to my arrival. We arrived
on Sand Mountain Monday March 25th, 2002 and all hell broke loose. Two
of these recent mutilations occurred approximately 7 hours after I arrived
back there in the foothills of The Appalachians.
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- I couldn't sleep the first night; I had recurring dreams
of seeing hundreds of mutilation photographs. I'd wake up from one of these
dreams; fall back asleep only to have the same dream over and over again.
I awoke the next morning saying to myself "I have to collect as many
photographs and videos of these animals, as is possible." I drove
to Tennessee Tuesday morning to pick up Matt Debow. We drove back to Sand
Mountain and started shooting b-roll, footage of the scenery and area.
That evening we interviewed former Alabama State Trooper & Gadsden
Post Commander Ron Ogletree who had been involved in the cattle mutilation
investigations. A three decade career lawman, Sgt. Ogletree had seen it
all in North East, Alabama. He & Tommy Cole, Chief of Detectives for
Albertville, Alabama; were my lone supporters in Alabama Law Enforcement.
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- What Sgt. Ogletree had to say, floored us. He described
how the Department of Public Safety was planning to place three State Troopers'
SWAT teams on Sand Mountain, complete with helicopters and high tech surveillance
aircraft for one week in hopes of catching the perpetrators of the crime.
Sgt. Ogletree described how the whole operation was called of and how all
of his superiors were immediately re-assigned to other cases instead.
- Ron also described how he was silenced by his bosses
"They said I was out of the UFO business, the cattle mutilation business
and back in the Highway Patrol business".
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- Back then in 1993, even the Army went on the news asking
farmers not to shoot at helicopters, publicly saying that they weren't
responsible for the mutilations. You couldn't buy a high powered rifle
on Sand Mountain. They were sold out. Some local Law Enforcement even went
as far as to visit all the gun stores to determine who had recently purchased
a high powered rifle.
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- At the end of the videotaped interview Ron produced a
stack of documents all in support of my findings as a police officer. He
also produced a number of "smoking gun" documents from the University
of Auburn, The Alabama Department of Public Safety, The State Diagnostic
Labs at Boaz, Alabama as well as a hefty stack of inter-departmental correspondence
confirming the cover up of these crimes by state and local law enforcement
agencies. He also gave us a stack of official photographs of cattle mutilations
that I'd never seen before; it was from a definitive case where the DeKalb
County Sheriff's Department mis-led a victimized farmer, and the public.
This public deception will be one of the corner stones in our documentary.
The next morning Matt Debow & I ventured out to Buck's Pocket State
Park to shoot more scenery (this place is beautiful). On the way back Matt
looked at a pasture and said "What's that?" Matt had spotted
a cow in rigor-mortis lying in the pasture, though we had previously driven
by this pasture, we hadn't seen it on the way in. I wanted to show viewers
what a normal bovine death looked like.
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- I drove out into the pasture and flagged down the farmer
who was digging a hole to bury the animal. He shut down his John Deere
and got out. I introduced myself and I asked for permission to videotape
his cow. The farmer had lost two animals, I asked what killed them; "grass
tetanus killed one. That other one, I don't know what killed it".
- I asked for permission to videotape him burying the animal.
The Farmer said "No, if anything ever comes of this I don't want to
be part of it". A bell went off in my head; I asked myself "Why
would he care about that". Matt & I found out when we approached
the cow.
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- There was a large circular incision around the tail,
rectum and birth canal. There was a small, fifty cent piece sized hole
on the udder next to one of the teats. The incisions at the rear of the
animal were the same "stepped and notch" incision that I had
seen so many times before. The farmer made us hurry up so he could bury
his animals. The farmer knew who I was, and as we got ready to leave he
asked me: "How did you know to be here?" Matt asked the farmer
if he knew who I was and the work that I'd done." The farmer said
"Oh yeah". In the eyes of that farmer I must be a suspect. I'd
never stumbled upon a mutilation before, not even when I had been a cop.
This was a little too close for comfort.
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- When we got home that evening the man who owns the house
where I was staying got out of bed, he wanted to talk. Three hours after
I had driven off Tuesday morning to pick up Matt, he said a black turbo
helicopter had circled his house twice, flying very low.
- I'm glad I didn't see it. I wouldn't want to be the one
telling you I did. We all looked at each other and started cracking up,
but it put us into a daze. It might've been a coincidence, but we seemed
to encounter a lot of coincidences.
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- Thursday, March 28, 2002, we interviewed former police
officer and coroner P.T. Williams who had lost a bull in 1993. Though his
animal's ribs were snipped clean, the police told him it was the work of
predators. P.T. knew better. That was 1993.
- Friday March 29, 2002 Mr. Williams' wife called me on
my cell phone, P.T. got on the line and said "You'd better get down
here; I've got something for your movie". The day after we interviewed
him, P.T. Williams found his last bull mutilated. Judging from its condition
the animal had been down for at least two days. It had occurred around
the same time as the other animal that we stumbled across, near Buck's
Pocket. Two fresh mutes in two days, a black helicopter. DÈj¦
Vu, but this time I felt it possible I was being set up; but by whom or
what I couldn't tell you. I put Matt on a plane back to California with
all the videotape we'd shot, he was spooked and didn't want anyone to know
what we'd accumulated until he was back in California.
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- I called up three cops I knew and told them what was
going on. They told me to have somebody with me at all times, that people
would start blaming it all on me. I took their advice and spent all that
day with riding a local cop. Then I got back to work. The next day I began
calling on local farmers who had lost animals and began the search for
more photographs and videotapes of mutilated animals. I learned of another
case that had happened two weeks prior to our arrival. In total we collected
over one hundred new photographs plus eight new videotapes including these
two new cases we videotaped and photographed. Comparison to other cattle
mutilations documented by law enforcement in forty-eight (48) other states
since 1963 shows that these newer cases recently documented here in northeast
Alabama (2002) are part of a national problem.
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- In over ten thousand (10,000) reported cases of livestock
mutilations reported since 1967, the organs and tissue taken are usually
the same. Sex organs removed, tongue cut deep into the throat and removed.
Individual eyes and cars or sometimes both have been excised. The jaw stripped
to the bone in a large oval cut and all tissue cut clean. Rectums are cored
out, almost like a stovepipe had been inserted and all the tissue and muscle
has been pulled out. Everything having to do with input, output or reproduction.
Ninety percent of the cows (female) had given birth to a calf within two
weeks of being discovered mutilated. Why are recent and expectant mothers
so desired by these phantom surgeons?
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- All of this has been accomplished on these of animals
with no evidence of blood present at the incision. In some cases the entire
blood supply of the animal had been drained, yet without cardio-vascular
collapse. The tissue was often so devoid of blood that it was bright white
in color, with a blue tint. On P.T. Williams bull (March 27, 2002) the
blood had been sucked out of the animal through the jugular vein where
we found a large lesion.
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- One thing that was never explained was how only hide
deep incisions were made without disturbing internal organs, or why the
incisions didn't cut the animal's hair. I think I've finally figured how
it's done.
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- The animal is cut from the inside out. The first cut
is the deepest; a puncture is made for insertion of a mechanical cutter;
between the animal's hide and the internal bones and organs. Hide-deep
incisions. With the cutting edges of this tool, the tissue is incised.
This would either perforate the hide so it can be easily pulled away like
tearing a coupon from a coupon book, or the top of your check as you tear
it from your check book. With the cutting edge facing "out",
rather than from "within" towards the internal bones and organs,
you would not hurt anything. From the top side, before (or as) the hide
is cut, you might see an incision that resembles the pattern left behind
by a seamstress' "pattern maker" (A toothed wheel on a handle
for marking dress patterns on fabric) or maybe even, pinking shears? Pinking
shears on a wheel?! Now miniaturize that, add heat to soften the tissue,
cauterizing the incision, preventing fluids from escaping. Cutting from
the inside out only hide-deep, hair doesn't get cut. The cutting edge seldom
extends above the flesh. Imagine miniature shark teeth pushing up from
inside the animal's hide. On animal's I've examined, there often seems
to be apparent shredding of connective tissue between the muscle and the
newly absent hide. This circumstantial and physical evidence may indicate
the past presence of a foreign object within the animal cutting as it plows
through the connective tissue.
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- Pathology reports from many tissue samples I've provided
to multiple veterinarians, have often (but not always) confirmed that temperatures
of at least 300 degrees Fahrenheit or possibly more has been applied to
mutilated animals I personally investigated with the Fyffe Police Department...
Forensic analysis of these animals by veterinarians, scientists at major
universities and by Alabama State Diagnostic Laboratories definitively
proved that these were crimes, not the work of possums, coyotes, birds
or "blow flies". Unless we've got radioactive coyotes and possums,
the predator explanation is forever history.
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- We've got two choices; it's either the aliens or your
tax dollars at work. Take your pick.
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- We still don't know who is responsible for these crimes,
but recent revelations prove that our local and Federal governments were
and still are, covering up the truth. In 1993, Alabama State Trooper and
Gadsden Post Commander Sgt. Ron Ogletree, and my other partner, Albertville
Police Department Chief of Detectives were both told by their superiors
that they were no longer to make any statements to the press about cattle
mutilations.
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- Chief of Detectives Cole (also a victim of the phantom
surgeons) also received a visit from the National Security Agency (NSA).
An NSA agent from Redstone Arsenal presented his credentials to Tommy Cole
and told him the best thing he could do was "stay out of it".
Tommy's response to the agent was that if another helicopter appeared over
his farm and it didn't have tail numbers on it he would "shoot it
down". The NSA agent told him that would be "very dangerous to
confront these people" and that Tommy could "get into a lot of
trouble". Tommy responded: "I don't care, at least then I'll
know who it is". You can't scare Tommy Cole, but you can silence him
if you're his boss. Chief Detective Cole met the same fate as Alabama State
Trooper Gadsden Post Commander Sgt. Ogletree. In 1993 while a surprised
reporter from the Boston Globe looked on, Tommy took me aside and said
to me "I can't do it; I can't talk to the media anymore". Tommy
Cole had been silenced by his boss, Chief Benny Womack. Why I don't know.
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- This silencing even hit the Alabama State Department
of Agriculture's Diagnostic Laboratory near Albertville, under the direction
of Alabama State Veterinarian Lee Alley. When Tommy Cole & Carried
a freshly mutilated cow to that lab, we had Dr. Rick Sharpton do a necropsy
of the animal. Dr. Sharpton agreed with us that this mutilated animal was
the work of somebody with a sharp edge. Maybe even scissors he said. He
was quoted in the newspaper. Lee Alley made him reverse what he'd previously
said, on "Sightings" which broadcast nationwide. Dr. Sharpton
then resigned under fire.
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- In 1993 I think I was the only one who wasn't officially
told to shut up. So I held a Press
- Conference. That was nine years ago and these same crimes
still plague the farmer. The number of cases grows and now I'm told of
almost 1,000 cases in The United Kingdom.
- There's more cases than I can ever follow up on, which
means at least documentaries on cattle mutilations. It was Jacques Vallee
who first brought cattle mutilations to the public's attention in "UFOs:
It Has Begun" aka "UFOs: Past, Present & Future" with
Rod Serling, Jose Ferrer & Burgess Meredith. This was back in 1974.
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- The first animal mutilation case I could find occurred
near on Sand Mountain, near Geraldine, Alabama. Two young boys watched
a daylight disk hovering over some distant trees. They went to where they
saw this UFO, and found a mutilated cow and a burrow. That was 1963. When
I interviewed Marian Strickland in 1991, she told me of finding a mutilated
cow in the Corona Desert of New Mexico, back in 1952. So who knows when
the first mutilation occurred? A retired Lockheed engineer recently told
me of a mutilation in Tennessee in the late 1940s.
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- Tommy Cole thinks its Uncle Sam. Media Entrepreneur Linda
Howe is convinced it's the aliens. Retired Sgt. Ogletree thinks it's the
work of a Satanic Cult, he believes that because he was told that's who
was doing it. A private special briefing was held at the DeKalb County
Sheriff's Office in 1993. Law Enforcement officers and detectives from
two counties and various police agencies were invited by DeKalb County
Chief of Detectives, Mike James to attend a special briefing. It was put
together by Mike James, Marshall County Sheriff's Detective Tom Price and
F.B.I. agent Glenn Slaughter. They produced an eyewitness named David Pratt,
who worked in a jewelry store in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. Pratt told
the assembled law enforcement officers that he'd belonged to a satanic
cult who used helicopters to mutilate cows for their ritual sacrifices.
It convinced most of the attending cops that a cult was responsible for
the mutilations. Several wild goose chases ensued, including one where
Sgt. Ogletree participated in searching for the body of an alleged, "Blue
eyed, blond hair" infant said to have been used in a ritual sacrifice.
Nothing was ever found, much man power expended only to be thrown off the
trail.
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- The Fyffe Police Department was not invited to attend
this special briefing, I wonder why not? It was a smoke screen used to
pacify local cops and give them a reason not to talk about it to the public.
Marshall County Sheriff's Deputies even told one farmer that "We know
who's doing it, but we can't tell you who it is". This enraged the
farmer who called me up to tell me about it. I felt like I was in a movie.
I'm starting to feel that way again. As a matter of fact, I AM in the middle
of a movie! A movie of Matt Debow's and mine.
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- We are wrapping up production with a few more interviews
to shoot then we'll be editing it all together for a fall release. We really
could use some help from everyone out there. Specifically we are looking
for original photographs and videotapes of mutilation cases for our documentary:
"Trail of Terror: Animal & Human Mutilations". If you or
anyone you know has original film and/or motion picture/video/digital footage
of animal and/or human mutilations, ritual sacrifices etc. and would like
to see it included in "Trail of Terror", Please contact me or
Matt Debow at the POCs listed below.
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- Together I know we can make a difference by making the
most comprehensive documentary ever produced on this continuing mystery.
Thanks to all for their continued interest in this growing story. It should
be the responsibility of all law-enforcement, journalists, media producers
and publishers to join together to find an answer to this problem that
is adversely affecting so many cattle farmers at home and abroad.
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- Sincerely,
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- Ted Oliphant
- tedoliphant@hotmail.com
- P.O. Box 138
- Port Costa, CA 94569
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