- Argentina: Five Cows Mutilated in Crucesita Tercera,
Nogoyá
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- ** An on-site report by VISION OVNI ***
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- A report by Silvia Pérez Simondini, Andrea Pérez
Simondini and Nestor Gaioli
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- Crucesita Tercera in the department of Nogoyá
is located some 50 kilometers from the provincial capital. Its habitual
peace and quiet were disrupted by reports from a livestock owner involving
the apparition of mutilated animals on his property and neighboring ones
as well.
- Another situation that added further mystery to the event
was the total emptying of a nearby lagoon.
- News of these events reached Diario UNO in the city of
Paraná, which attracted the locals' curiosity.
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- VISION OVNI traveled immediately to the area, contacting
Juan Carlos Vergara, head of the cattle theft office. He very kindly gave
us not only details of the case, but also put us in touch with veterinarian
Pablo Seeling, who has great experience in these cases.
- We know that only [mutilation cases] reported as of 2002
have been catalogued in our country, and the reported number is trebled
by the reports that were not made known to the authorities. We quickly
agreed with Dr. Seeling in this matter, confirming that he personally believes
to have dealt with 50 such cases in Nogoyá, and that they were really
in excess of 200.
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- The Cases
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- Police officers located the cows, which featured the
same affected organs characteristic in these cases: absence of reproductive
organs, ocular organs and tongue. The verdict rendered by veterinarians
in these cases has always been the same no explanation.
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- The anmals' owner, retired bank officer Gustavo Cabañas,
says that the field was under his care and that he had left behind a herd
of cows and calves. A few days earlier, he had toured the entire field,
finding that everything was in order and corect (we should remark that
Cabañas visits the field every day from very early in the morning
until mid-afternoon), incuding the water level of a lagoon, which contained
a considerable amount of water, despite the predominant drought. When he
found this body of water to be dry only hours later, the cattleman was
shocked. This new state of affairs prompted him to relocate the livestock
to another field, and it was in this process that he found the dead animals.
He promptly contacted the cattle theft authorities and the sheriff of Crucesita
Tercera. The sheriff was stunned to find that a new mutilation case had
occured only a few meters away from his office. Vision Ovni carried out
the initial research work in this case.
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- Mr. Firpo, the property's owner, allowed us to enter
the premises to see the animal for the first time. It was in the woods,
and displayed partial injuries, such as the removal of the left eye, incisions
to the anus and vulva, partial incisions to the tongue. We found curious
that the charateristic incision of the jaw, with exposed bone, was not
present.
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- Fly larvae were begining to develop in its mouth and
flies were found on the wounds. No samples were taken, as the animal had
been dead for more than 72 hours. A distended abdomen was also observed.
Also curious was the absence of rigor mortis, with natural flexibility
of the extremities.
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- As for the vegetation: a survey of the area did not turn
up footsteps or broken branches in the vicinity nor up above. There was
no evidence of carrion animal activity. The dead animal showed signs of
a struggle, as evidence of kicking and an attempt to cause injury with
its horns were detected. An issue of blood from its nose was also evident,
suggesting that the animal died during the process of receiving the wounds.
No signs of electric conductivity in the ground were noticed, a variable
that has been present in toher cases.
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- The cattleman's dog, who was coming into contact with
the mutilated animal for the first time, refused to come any closer. The
carcass was found in a north-to-south position.
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- This case in Crucesita Tercera makes clear that the phenomenon
has not ceased occurring in Argenina, and that it is a source of great
concern to livestock farmers and the authorities, as there is an abundance
of hypotheses and a dearth of answers. It is perhaps time for the authorities
to make experts and resources available to researchers in order to make
headway in this subject. The experts exist, so do the resources. All that
is needed is the will to implement them. Admitting that the subject is
unknown is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is a way of reaching the
truth.
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