I would be very interested in any type of evidence identifying anesthesia with cattle as that would demonstrate a degree of human compassion making those events more likely to originate from a human source than ET. From all the various reports I've read so far involving light beams, burns etc. it seems that those piloting the craft have zero concern for the immediate well being of the bipedal hominids that are in the way at the moment.
It's possible, too, that whoever is responsible for the truly anomalous cattle mutilations is equipped with 'more than human' compassion. It wouldn't take much more compassion than our species generally applies to cattle on the way to the slaughterhouse on our planet.
{it could also be that their comparative indifference to human pain results from their impression that we must not feel pain since we apparently feel no compassion for the pain of other creatures on our planet.}
I hear you on that and am not trying to replicate any western world bias or discrimination at all. I don't really like making the characterizations i did but they do seem to be more accurate than not on the Colares and other South American reports of death and violence by UFO from the 60's and 70's. However, in many of these cases we are in fact dealing with very rural folk; in some cases the descriptions do identify illiterate witnesses who have never heard of UFO's and appear to have limited means of even describing what took place in concrete terms.
Yes, but illiterate doesn't mean stupid.
The whole Chupa thing sounds way too much like something that had grown into a known collective enemy that had moved through the populous in the same way published UFO reporting often causes many in the west to suddenly see UFO's behind every bright light in the sky. In reading witness reports and quotes you really do get the sense that the Chupa had become the scapegoat for many possible prosaic events. I also had the distinct feeling that when there is a major wave of activity the "hysteria" is unavoidable and it doesn't matter where in the world you are at the time.
How many, and which 'prosaic events' could account for the numbers of these mutilations?
Don't get me wrong, I do believe the Colares event was definitely a strange sequence of reports, but they are not documented in any real substantial manner, including by Vallee himself. The net result is that every story that is remotely related gets caught up in the net.
That may be true and, given the typical official sequestering of ufo-related information, it's often the case that ufo researchers have to apply to articles appearing in the popular press at the time of events like these to obtain any witness accounts at all. But I don't think responsible ufo researchers place too much reliance on such accounts
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Either way, she did not seem well equipped to be able to respond accurately to what was definitely an epidemic of surreal proportions. She says in interviews many years later that the big bad gov't told her to keep a lid on things (i can believe that) but to report 16 years later that people died as a result of light beams is altering the historical record in a very substantial manner that casts more doubt than providing insight into the past.
In the case of that medical witness, I'm inclined to believe that she had been warned to keep silent about what she had seen and heard. How many times do we have to hear that ufo witnesses, military and civilian, have been warned -- indeed, intimidated -- into silence before we begin to believe it? I believe it. As for the medical witness having waited 16 years before reporting the two deaths, that too is consistent with an official coverup. Finally, what 'historical record' of those deaths and other injuries would we expect to find in a hospital in a terrorized location in which the police and security agencies were attempting to restore 'order'?
As for pertinent weblinks, I'm pretty sure that all the important ones that lead to good case, or book reads are posted above. That slideshare link I posted for Vallee's Confrontations has a huge collections of some of the classics in UFO literature. It doesn't work well with small devices (iPads) but is easy to move through on your standard interface. Is there a specific case you wanted more info on?
