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Dead Horse Riddle Sparks UFO Buffs –Pueblo Chieftan



By THE CHIEFTAIN STAFF



ALAMOSA (C-SJ) - The death of a horse in the San Luis Valley during early September appeared Friday to have sparked a renewed interest in unidentified flying objects throughout the West.



In Houston, Tex., a group of UFO enthusiasts left Friday night for the San Luis Valley to inspect the dead horse and also to investigate many reported UFO sightings in the valley........



Snippy the Appaloosa is dead, and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from clear.



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It’s long been an enduring murder mystery, a shocking and horrific puzzle that has never satisfactorily been solved to this day. Something or someone has been killing our herd animals for a long, long time. The remains of the de-sanguinated carcasses, with organs and body parts missing are the only clue left behind for farmers, ranchers, scientists and policemen to puzzle over. The specifics may vary from case to case. But there seems to be a pattern suggesting these are something more than random attacks on livestock.The majority of these types of animal mutilations occur in North America. Although sheep, horses, goats, deer and elk have also been reported mutilated with similar precision across the globe it is cattle mutilation which attracts the most attention.The attempts to explain the phenomena range from the mundane to the supernatural. Deaths have been blamed on predators, natural decomposition, secret cult activities, clandestine government agencies and even crytptids down the years. Yet one theory has prevailed since the first modern cases were reported. It is that some form of extra-terrestrial intelligence is involved.Livestock mutilations actually date back centuries and have been reported by people like Charles Fort in the past. But it wasn’t until the late 1960s that they hit the headlines on a global scale.Perhaps the first recognised modern ‘mute’ case is that of ‘Snippy’ which occurred on September 9th, 1967 near Alamosa, Colorado on the Harry King ranch. The victim was not a bovine but a horse. ‘Lady’ (the real name of the horse) failed to appear for water. Two days later Lady’s remains were found in a pasture.She was discovered lay on her side with her skin stripped bare from the neck and shoulder. The cuts seemed surgical and precise. There were no tracks near the body, no traces of blood, a series of burns were found on the ground at the scene and there was a distinct smell of formaldehyde in the atmosphere. The brain, lungs , digestive organs and heart were missing from the carcass. Within two weeks the bones had turned black.The local sheriff was unimpressed and decided it was all simply caused by a lightning strike without ever setting foot on the ranch.However this was far from the end of the story.The horse's owner, Nellie Lewis, accompanied by Harry King, visited the spot where ‘Lady’ had been found. She reported finding a flattened bush and what seemed to be exhaust marks. She also said she smelled a strange, sweet odour, "like incense”. There were even reports of radiation detected near the body by a forestry official after Lewis claimed to have picked up a piece of horse flesh at the scene which burned her hand.On another check six indentations forming a circle three feet in diameter were supposedly found in the brush approximately 2” across and 4”deep. Amongst all of this mystery, UFOs were being sighted in the surrounding areas. More animals, both horses and cows, were found mutilated in the same area just a few weeks later in a similar condition, sometimes only a few hours after ranchers had checked on them. Nellie Lewis became convinced that this strange death of her horse was the work of extra-terrestrials and due to the disinterest of the authorities used her connections with the local paper.On October 5, 1967 the press picked up on the stories and incorrectly dubbed it the “Snippy” case (One of Lady's parents was named Snippy). The story was soon spread both nationally and internationally.Dr Robert O. Adams, head of Colorado State University's Veterinary and Biomedical Science School examined the case. He made it clear there were 'No unearthly causes, at least not to my mind.' Inspecting the corpse and noting a severe infection in Snippy's hindquarters, he speculated that someone had come across the dying horse and slit its throat to prevent further suffering. He believed that scavengers had inflicted the rest of the damage to the horse.Mrs. Lewis argued that Adams' conclusions were flawed because of his failure to explain the lack of blood, the radiation, and the many other strange facets of the case.The 1970s were the decade when ‘cattle’ mutilations became a unique phenomenon in their own right across America. Farms and ranches saw numerous deaths of cattle under what seemed to be highly mysterious circumstances. By the end of the century it was estimated that well in excess of 10,000 and perhaps as many as 100,000 cattle mutilations had occurred.A common pattern was developing:1) No obvious visible cause of death.2) Body parts appeared to have been removed with surgical precision;.3) Cattle were systematically drained of blood, seemingly through small holes punched in their jugular vein.4) Internal organs removed (especially the sex organs seemed to have been cut away).5) In some cases evidence of residual radiation or animal tranquilizing chemicals were (allegedly) found.6) Some animals were found with broken legs and backs pushed into the ground. Suggesting they had been dropped from above.7) No footprints found near the carcasses.8) Unidentified aircraft and lights were often seen in the areas where the mutilations occurred.Over the winter of 1974 and into spring of 1975 hundreds of cattle were found dead in strange circumstances across 22 of the Southern and Western States of the US.Also in 1975, an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Donald Flickinger, investigated reports of a nationwide Satanist cult network engaged in animal and human sacrifice. He found nothing to support these claims.