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CATTLE MUTILATIONS DAviD pErkins, Director of the Department of Research at Libre School in Farasita, Colorado, exhibited a map of the United States which contained hundreds of colored pins identifying mutilation sites. He commented that he had been making a systematic collection of data since l975, and has never met a greater challenge. He said, *The only thing that makes sense about the mutilations is that they make no sense at all." TOM ADAms of Paris Texas, who has been independently examining mutilations for six years, said his investigation has shown that helicopters are almost always obsexved in the area of the mutiliations. He said that the helicopters do not have identifying markings and they fly at abnormal, unsafe, or illegal altitudes. Dr. PETER VAN ARSDALE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, suggested that those investigating the cattle mutilations take a systematic approach and look at ali types of evidence is discounting any of the propounded theories such as responsibiiity by extraterrestri. visitors or Satanic cults. RIchArD sIgIsmuND, Social Scientist, Boulder, Colorado,. presented an argument which advanced the theory that the cattle. mutilations are possibly related to activity of uFos. Numerous other persons made similar type presentations expounding on their theories regarding the possibility that the mutilations are the responsibility of extraterrestrial visitors, members of Satanic cults, or some unknown government agency. Dr. RIcHARD PRINE, Forensic Veterinarian, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LAsL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, discounted the possibility that the mutilations have been done by anything but predators. He said he had examined six carcasses and in. his opinion predators were responsible for the mutiliation of all six. Dr. CLaIRE HibBs, a representative of the State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, said he recently came to New Mexico, but that prior to that he examined some mutiliation findings in Kansas and Nebraska. Dr. Hisbs said the mutiliations fell into three categories: animals killed and mutilated by predators and scavengers, animals mutilated after death by "sharp instruments and animals mutilated by pranksters.