Cattle mutilations baffle Colorado ranchers

Manuel A. Sanchez has ruled out every logical explanation for the fate that has befallen the calves on his ranch in southern Colorado.

Over the past month, he’s found four calves dead in a way that he cannot reconcile with anything in his 50 years of raising cattle: eyes and ears missing, tongues and genitals excised in what appeared to be a series of fine cuts.

In the 1970s, ranchers in eastern and southern Colorado filed more than 200 mutilation reports, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation reports. The agency investigated, even conducting an undercover operation, but to no avail.

“It was such a bewilderment,” recalled Tillie Bishop, a state senator at the time.

Some people suspected satanic cults. Others grew convinced of an otherworldly explanation — space aliens.

But rancher Bill Bledsoe of Hugo, in eastern Colorado, said the deaths weren’t suspicious at all.

“People find a dead animal and think it died strange, but usually it turned out something had been eating on it,” he said. “I think they were just jumping to conclusions.”

Some veterinarians also attributed the mutilations to predators.
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Frustrated by the lack of leads, Sanchez consulted Chuck Zukowski, a Colorado Springs paranormal investigator who runs UFOnut.com.
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