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Animal mutilations linked to UFOs?

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Christopher O'Brien

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[Mike Freebury is working w/ previous Paracast guest Philip Hoyle and other members of the Animal Pathology Field Unit (APFU) on the perplexing Wales/UK border region sheep mutilation outbreak—Chris]


A Walsall man has told BBC WM that aliens and UFOs are responsible for a string of animal attacks in the UK. Mike Freebury, a member of the Animal Pathology Field Unit, has investigated the mystery of 'cattle mutilations' for a number of years.

The phenomenon, first reported in America in the 1970s, involves the unexplained deaths of rural animals. The bodies are often discovered with missing limbs and organs, removed with surgical precision. Mike says that the illegal attacks are also happening in Britain - and UFOs are responsible.

"Certainly, in my opinion, the UFOs are something that relates directly to the animal mutilations," he told BBC WM presenter Brett Birks. [Besides circumstantial anomalous light sightings, where's your proof, Mike?—Chris]

"They're often seen around the areas where mutilations are taking place. I think that the animal mutilations are possibly some sort of sampling programme being carried out by the entities that are propelling these crafts." Mike is part of the Animal Pathology Field Unit (APFU), an organisation dedicated to researching animal mutilation in the UK. "We have carried out a number of surveillances on Dartmoor," he said.

"We were never able to catch the perpetrators in the act but we have seen some very strange craft of unknown origin. UFOs. We have them on film. We've managed to get frame-by-frame analysis of them done. It appears that these things were appearing literally within a second and then gone."

British attacks

In rural Britain, dead sheep are being found by famers with mysterious - and gruesome - injuries. Mike says a "highly active" area in the UK includes Shrewsbury, Dartmouth and parts of Wales. "We're talking about some fairly remote areas," he said "These injuries to the animals - the animals are invariably killed - are very specific. If you've seen some of the bodies that I've seen, it's just absolutely incredible.

It's plainly evident that these (attacks) are not carried out by natural predators. "The flesh appears to have been cauterized indicating some sort of thermic lance or micro-sonic wand has been used. We're talking incredible technology. There is never any blood."

No arrests

Mike says they're have been 40,000 estimated cases in America since the 1970s. [I'd like to know where he came up with this number!?—Chris] The number in the UK remains unknown. "You do have to question - how is it that somebody has not been identified?" he said.

"(How is it that) somebody has not been arrested or charged with these crimes? There's never been a single prosecution. And it's the same in this country. "It's plainly evident that these (attacks) are not carried out by natural predators."

Project Corridor

The APFU are currently conducting a survey called Project Corridor, an attempt to quantify the number of attacks in Shropshire. Mike explained:

"(The attacks) are a crime. They're a crime under the Criminal Damage Act. I would say to you that the farmers themselves seem to accept that not only is there a problem but in many cases they are describing what appear to be craft of unknown origin flying over their land and they are pointing the finger at them for carrying out these attacks."

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Story from BBC NEWS:
 
I'll happily stand corrected if I'm missing something. I'm in NW England, I listened to and enjoyed the Paracast interview with APFU. The next couple of weeks after the interview saw a flurry of news articles about animal mutilations. National news sites, newspapers, regional sites and local newspapers all ran the stories in a minimal way. Conspiracy sites featured threads. It wasn't major news, but it was certainly out there in the public domain.

As a guy living just a few miles away from these alleged incidents, I had an interest. I looked into it. I cross referenced the news stories...checked the quotes etc. Every article I could find linked back to a source from APFU. I couldn't find a single independent source that corroborated the accounts.

The evidence presented by APFU is lacking substance in my opinion. Lots of reported hearsay. 2nd and 3rd hand accounts reported by APFU.

I guess time will tell...
 
The only thing I have found that links cattle mutilations and UFOs is that they are both strange occurrences that seemingly have the flavour of non-human intelligence. It's my opinion that shoe-horning the two into each other only weakens an inquiry into one of them. Both are legitimately strange enough on their own. I don't want to deprive anyone of the fun of meta-conspiracies and so forth, but perhaps a serious effort to look into cattle mutilations could have been made before it was painted with he very muddy UFO brush.

If it turns out they are connected then eventually that would be discovered either way. If not, then people will have been barking up the wrong tree.
 
While I am not a historian in the field, I believe Linda Howe first linked mutilations to UFOs, claiming that farmers, ranchers and local law enforcement pointed the finger at UFOs when she first started to investigate the phenomenon.

I personally find it difficult to believe that various government organizations (across multiple countries) are responsible for the mute phenomenon, all the while farmers are wielding rifles at night to take a shot at whatever is destroying their livestock.
 
While I am not a historian in the field, I believe Linda Howe first linked mutilations to UFOs, claiming that farmers, ranchers and local law enforcement pointed the finger at UFOs when she first started to investigate the phenomenon.
Actually, it was Nellie Lewis, the owner of "Snippy the horse"—the first widely publicized unexplained livestock death who forged the link. The headlines that September 1967 featured her quote "flying saucers killed my horse!." Linda is almost singlehandedly responsible for all the subsequent "Aliens musta done it" hyperbole that has shaped pop-cultural thinking about the subject.
 
Actually, it was Nellie Lewis, the owner of "Snippy the horse"—the first widely publicized unexplained livestock death who forged the link. The headlines that September 1967 featured her quote "flying saucers killed my horse!." Linda is almost singlehandedly responsible for all the subsequent "Aliens musta done it" hyperbole that has shaped pop-cultural thinking about the subject.

You implying Nellie Lewis and LMH invented the idea of a UFO-mute link? If so, I disagree. It's ranchers and farmers by the thousand, around the world, who claim they observe UFOs in connection with their cattle being mutilated. They told LMH this in the 1970s/80s (to her initial disbelief) and they still claim this today. They're not influenced by "pop-cultural thinking." It's what they see, and experience. There's a direct link at least with some of these events, if not all.
 
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