Nobody knows. According to the Denver Post:

There by the trough - past the locked gate a quarter-mile from U.S. 350 east of Hoehne - was the calf. Its front legs and torso were gone. Its back legs were hanging by hide to a shattered pelvis and a meatless backbone. [Rancher Tom] Miller thought a pack of coyotes had torn into the calf the night before.

Then he saw the ears: sliced off the head in circular, surgical-like cuts. He noticed that there were no tracks. And no blood anywhere . . .

Colorado Brand Inspector Dennis Williams [said] "I've heard about it. It was weird, to say the least. Totally unexplainable. To me, it looked like that calf had been dropped from a high distance, the way its hips were dislocated and all its broken bones," Williams says . . .

"It's weird and unexplainable," says [rancher Mike] Duran, who lost a healthy 27-year-old Red Angus cow on March 8, her udder and rear end removed with what he describes as "laser cuts, like when somebody cuts metal with a torch."

Apparently cattle mutilations like these are found on a fairly regular basis in Colorado and parts of Mexico. Is this the creepy, meat-oriented version of crop circles?

via Denver Post (Thanks, Nick Lightner!)

Photo by Chuck Zukowski.

Coleman explains that most bones in forests are, of course, picked clean by predators. So that explains why we don't find dead Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) everywhere, as well as the carcasses of creatures like tigers and moose. Still, that begs the question: Where are the bones? Apparently, porcupines eat bones, as well as hoarding them:

One important behavior of some species of porcupines is that they hoard bones of other animals in or around their dens. Porcupines sometimes are found with bones in their living spaces. For example, the North African crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and the Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) of sub-Saharan Africa, especially in areas deficient in phosphorous, will practice osteophagia, or gnawing on bones. These porcupines will often accumulate large piles of bones in their dens . . . In North America, studies of situations in which bones accumulate today and in the past often include porcupine caves. For an intriguing article on what Pleistocene mammal remains were found in one such gathering of bones, see "Bears and Man at Porcupine Cave, Western Uinta Mountains, Utah" by Timothy H. Heaton, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, in Current Research in the Pleistocene, vol. 5, pp. 71-73 (1988).

The odds are more highly in favor of Bigfoot bones and bodies never being found . . . But if they are ever found, Bigfoot teeth or old bones possibly might be discovered near or in porcupine habitation sites . . . We won't know unless we look, and reexamine past and future "unidentified" finds from porcupine caves, digs, and dens.

via Cryptomundo

Bigfoot photo by Douglas E. Egolf.

The ship is of the same type people have been seeing since the 1950s, like the one pictured here. According to my favorite UFO blog, Inexplicata, the incident occurred earlier this week:

The entire town – or at least those who were awake at 0200 yesterday – agree that it was hot, an unbearable heat that kept people from getting a good night's sleep, their eyes wide open under treacherous, menacing and stormy skies. Outside, people drank cool drinks or ate ice cream hurriedly, before these were reduced to sticky confections.

This was the fate of many residents of Joaquin V. Gonzalez, engulfed by nearly 300,000 hectares of soybeans, when at 2:00 a.m., with heat still burning under their skins, they saw a strange, gigantic luminous creature, elongated and weightless, heading southeast to El Tunal, some 35 kilometers from the town. It plowed the dark skies, lighting everything around it, visible to everyone.

The "cigar-shaped UFO" (as it is known to specialists) crossed the Saltan night suspended under a spongy ceiling of clouds, and according to some of the numerous witnesses, "with intermittent, flashing lights and a fixed red beacon". As the object disappeared from view, those who watched the sky as though expecting something more, saw it disappear into the darkness toward El Tunal. Minutes later (some say 5, others 15), all of Joaquin V. Gonzalez experienced an electrical blackout that submerged a 200-kilometer area in the deepest darkness possible.

"It was terribly hot. Some people were eating ice cream while others sat around the outdoor tables of local restaurants," said one witness to Salta's El Tribuno. "Suddenly everyone saw a strange vehicle plow across the sky, completely illuminated, and a little bit later, there was a power failure. The phone lines were also rendered inoperative," said the excited witness. "Things went back to normal at 11:30 a.m., nine hours later."

The power failure was confirmed by the EDESA Company, which confirmed the lack of electricity only minutes after the blackout, adding that it was impossible to find the failure, which had occurred at the main power station located at El Tunal. The problem? "A burned-out generator"

UFO expert Luis Burgos told DIARIO POPULAR that "the blackout occurred some fifteen or twenty minutes after the object was sighted over Joaquin V. Gonzalez, and right when it hovered over the generating plant at El Tunal." To Burgos, the protagonist of yesterday's episode was "what we call a mothership, a sort of space aircraft carrier measuring no less than 200-300 meters long, and which usually issues smaller UFOs measuring between 8 and 10 meters in size, which later return to the [mothership]."

via Inexplicata

In New South Wales, Australia, members of the local Church of Scientology are being investigated by a Senate group for allegedly shunting unpopular members into labor camps:

NSW police are now looking into the shocking allegations, which include the use of labour camps known as the Rehabilitation Project Force, for church members who rated poorly on tests using a device known as the electropsychometer, or E-meter. Ex-Scientologist Peta O'Brien told [senator Nick] Xenophon, in a letter tabled in the Senate, that she was forced to spend five hours a day breakingrocks with crow bars to help build a road and carparking area at the church's Dundas base, in Sydney's west. O'Brien alleged Scientologists in the RPF were not allowed to speak until spoken to, were banned from listening to music or driving, and were not given any medical or dental assistance.

Another ex-Scientologist says that pregnant women in Scientology were pressured to have abortions, sometimes to the pont of being locked up if they refused. Another former member of the church says both his young daughters died under suspicious circumstances:

Paul David Schofield claims in his letter tabled in parliament his toddler daughter Lauren died while being babysat in the Sydney church, when she was "allowed to wander the stairs by herself and fell". Church officials not only discouraged him and his wife from seeking compensation, he alleges, but encouraged him to request that no inquest be held. Schofield wrote that his second daughter, Kirsty, died after ingesting potassium chloride kept at his house. "I covered up that this substance was widely used in both the Sydney church's `purification' programs and a similar program at the church's drug rehab organisation," he wrote. "I perjured myself . . . I did not tell the whole truth either to police or the court (to my shame) but omitted details which would have `embarrassed' the church. I knew if I didn't do this I would be heavily penalised by the church for getting it into trouble." Schofield wrote that most Scientologists did not trust non-believers - referred to as wogs - and thought that "wog justice just made people worse".

The Church has responded that the children's deaths were investigated by police at the time. They say their freedom of religion is being threatened.

Senator Xenophon replied:

Religious freedom did not mean the Catholic or Anglican churches were not held accountable for crimes and abuses committed by their priests, nuns and officials, albeit belatedly. In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

via The Australian

Image via Steve Garfield.

We've recently learned the secret behind the Swine Flu Vaccine that is being pushed so strongly on the public. While the vaccine may make you sick, its real purpose is to greatly increase the fast-kill mechanism of the pandemic still to come. Worse yet, the vaccine is being used to target specific groups of people who are simply not welcome in our brave new world.

In the USA these include Blacks, American Indians, and Baby Boomers.

You know you have to read more now.

Some of the hallmarks of a 2012 documentary - or any documentary about "ancient prophesies," really - are the use of British people (they are so believable!) and really bad CGI fire and/or stock footage of explosions. In Ancient Code: the Movie, hastily repackaged with the tagline "Are YOU ready for the real 2012?" we've got both British people and fire, as you can see in the clip below. However, there isn't really anything in this movie about the Mayan calendar. Mostly it's just a New Agey doc about how everybody should be seeking their inner grail and stop yelling at people on the street.

Despite a lack of British people, SyFy Channel's 2012: Startling New Secrets has the virtue of actually being about 2012, featuring interviews with scientists and "experts" in the Mayan calendar. There is a lot of stock footage of fire and volcanoes and floods, and the doc also introduces us to some random guys who think there's a giant hidden structure under ancient Egyptian ruins which will provide a key to surviving the 2012 apocalypse. I was never quite sure how the ancient Egyptians knew about the Mayan calendar, but that's OK because it was fun to see a scene of the "experts" looking puzzled when their examination of the site revealed that nothing was under the ground. But surely the best part of this doc is when we meet the "extreme survivalists" who are preparing to build underground bunkers to survive 2012. Here they are.

Possibly the most bizarre doc in this subgenre is 2012: An Awakening, which purports to be all about the Mayan calendar but is in fact just a collection of featurettes about random things like Bigfoot, Viking Satanists, angels, and Jules Verne. Luckily it has a lot of British people and bad CGI, so it still makes us feel all excited about 2012 even though we don't get to hear about that magical date at all. Instead we learn about some guy who "discovered" an image of a pentagram in some kind of Viking tunnel. Um, how are the Vikings related to 2012?

And then there's 2012: Mayan Prophesy and The Shift of the Ages. It's full of great stock footage of dust storms and traffic jams, plus random moments where metal songs play and a voice notes portentously that there have been a lot of earthquakes lately. Its main assertion? "December 23rd, 2012 is indeed the end of something." Well it's hard to deny the truth of that! If you don't believe me, listen to these British people talking about how 2012 is obviously important because of X-Files.

And let me leave you with this awesome moment of 2012 metal, from the introduction to the same film:

Thanks to Bonnie from StarWars.com and Peter from Slashfilm for both suggesting Fire in the Sky. Vote on which movie listed below you think is the most scary, or suggest other ideas in comments.

The Mracek family, living in the house, say they have to extinguish several small fires, up to 60 a day, of plastic bags, pictures as well as sockets though they have been disconnected from electricity supply. Moreover, window panes, electric bulbs and thermometers are cracking in the house and once water in the aquarium started boiling all of a sudden . . . "We are only waiting where it will start burning again. Our son has moved to his grandma, but we must stay here to be able to extinguish fires. It is our house, we built it ourselves and everything was all right for ten years. We cannot let it burn down," Hana Mrackova told the daily.

Apparently paranormal experts have been brought in, as well as a geophysicist and operators from the local Prague telecom and energy companies. But here's the good part. Though the family doesn't want to leave the house they built, the mayor of their town has promised they'll be given another place to live in a few weeks if the haunting continues:

Strašice Mayor Jiri Hahner is concerned about the paranormal phenomena in the house . . . "We do not want to fall for occultism. We will try to explain it in a scientific way. However it is hard as these phenomena are really unexplainable," Hahner [said]. If the situation does not improve within three weeks, the municipality will offer them another housing since it is dangerous to live in the house, he added.

If the weird events continue, he's contemplating having the house torn down.

Hey, I have ghosts in my shower who say they won't leave until the City of San Francisco remodels my bathroom. You hear that, Mayor Gavin Newsom? You think you're better than the mayor of Strašice or something?

via Prague Monitor (via Bonnie!)

Says researcher Marc Micozzi:

Our data show that anomalous perceptions parallel other forms of environmental sensitivity, such as having pronounced or longstanding allergies, migraine headache, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, irritable bowel, even synesthesia (overlapping senses) and heightened sensitivity to light, sound, touch, and smell. Women make up three-quarters of this sensitive population but there are other markers as well: being ambidextrous, for instance, or recalling a traumatic childhood. The more we look at the people who say they're psychic, or who have recurring anomalous experience, the more it seems there's a mix of nature and nurture that predisposes them.

Hmmm, I feel as if I'm being haunted . . . by pseudo-science!

via Science Blog

According to the This Man website, set up to bring together the people who have dreamed about him:

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc.

Here are a few more pictures drawn by people who have seen "this man."

And here's a typical "this man" dream:

The first time I had a dream about this man I was having a hard time at work. I had a dream about getting lost in a huge and deserted shopping mall. Suddenly this man appeared and I started running away from him. He chased after me for what seemed like an hour until I found myself against a wall in the kids' area in a supermarket. At this point he smiled at me and he showed me the way out towards the cash desks and I woke up. Ever since that night this man has appeared in all of my dreams and he always gives me directions to get out of the dream and wake up.

Other people dream about "this man" flying with them, comforting them after a tough day, or even taking them out to dinner and having sex with them.

What could be causing this? The site advances several theories, but my favorite is the "dream surfer" theory:

According to this theory this man is a real person, who can enter people's dreams by means of specific psychological skills. Some believe that in real life this man looks like the man in the dreams. Others think that the man in the dreams looks completely different from his real life counterpart. Some people seem to believe that behind this man there is a mental conditioning plan developed by a major corporation.

In fact, it turns out that this theory is the closest to the truth. This website is actually the creation of a sociologist and marketer named Andrea Natella. He runs a company called Guerriglia Marketing which stages "subversive hoaxes" and creates weird art projects that are mostly about pornography, politics, and advertising.

I think ThisMan.org has to be Natella's greatest masterwork. It doesn't smack of artsy pseudo-intellectual "politics" like a lot of his other art does. It's just cheesy and a little bit scary. There really is something uncanny about the pictures of the man and the fake stories from people who claim to have met him. Sweet dreams!

via ThisMan (Thanks, Meredith!)

Bridges is channeling the weirdo genius that made "the Dude" in The Big Lebowski such a terrifically memorable (and quotable) character. Starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor, The Men Who Stare At Goats is about a longterm Army project to bring psychic powers into combat - especially in the War on Terror.

Here we see Bridges' character trying to teach rough-edged military types about how love and wholeness will allow them to become "warrior monks" who will end all war. I love the way all the men are clutching at bouquets of flowers as they consider the possibility of walking through walls and predicting the future in order to rid the world of Al-Qa'ida.

The Men Who Stare At Goats hits theaters November 6.

First the evidence:

I'm loving the "scientist" excuse, come on people that's the oldest trick in the book. If I saw this this report in NYC I'm pretty sure I'd recognize it as code for "get the hell out, run run run." But what if it's not just a mere alien ship? Taking a cue from last week's FlashForward, don't the two illusions appear slightly similar?

This strange figure in the sky appeared at the end of the episode when the little town in Africa was subjected to a flash forward. Did the tower induce the incident? We don't know just yet, but the people of Moscow should head outside and check for odd buildings under the optical illusion...or flee.

[via NY Daily News]

UFO blog Inexplicata has followed up on last week's report that a cow was spotted flying above Rosario, Argentina, until it was swallowed up by a flying saucer. The photo witnesses captured was a bit on the blurry side:

So Silvia Pérez Simondini and the UFO researchers at Visión Ovni have taken it upon themselves to analyze the photos further:

THE BOVINE
1) Objects shown in the images do not display digital manipulation in the adjoining pixels.
2) There is a correspondence between brilliance and angle regarding the light source (the sun)
3) In non-destructive super-resolution processes applied to the image, the animal turned out to be a bovine with its right side toward the camera, its head hanging to the left.
4) It can be deduced that the animal photographed in the air was either lifeless or in a deep stupor, judging from its observed condition.
5) We have managed to see its hooves, tail and head.
6) The 3d analysis is self-evident.

THE OBJECT:
1) In the opinion of this analyst, it had a diameter of between 8 to 10 meters and perhaps some 2.40 to 3 meters tall.
2) Some sort of beam was captured by the camera, and we perhaps cannot appreciate it in its entirety due to some sort of camouflage, subsequently corroborate by the account.
3) Applying filters, we can see that the UFO emitted perhaps high-ionization heat in its upper and lower sections.
4) Volumetric analysis shows that it was a disk-shaped object whose brilliance corresponded to that of the sun.
5) It is surrounded by some sort of triangular element and another circular one, or otherwise, plasma that the camera did not record in another shape.
6) I highlight that the resolution of the images generates a lot of noise in the captures and implies a greater processing time.
7) Insects were present in the photo shoot, but not in these 4 main ones.

There you have it. There's no sense in denying it any longer. Time to go home and lock up the cattle.

Argentina: Cow Abducted by UFO - An Analysis [Inexplicata]

Inexplicata has the full story. A woman was traveling in the Rosario region of Argentina, when suddenly the cow incident occurred. She told Telenoche:

We went to have some mate with the kids, we were looking at the island and we were surprised to see some strange white thing flying. It was large. We made a close up with the camera and it was a cow flying, and above it, there was something like a flying saucer suspended in the air. It wasn't a helicopter or an airplane. It seemed as if the cow was being sucked up by the flying saucer. Then they both vanished. I want to believe that's what it was. To me, it was a UFO. I experienced it.

The evidence is incontrovertible.

via Inexplicata

According to the folks over at Inexplicata:

The witness happened to be taking photos of aircraft taking off from the Juan Santamaría Airport in Alajuela, Costa Rica. When he downloaded the files to his computer, he noticed an interesting object among the clouds.

OK, so we have an "interesting object" that demonstrates the requisite blur of alienness. Also, that giant red circle around it also makes it seem totally Venusian or whatever.

Yup, I think the aliens are landing, and they're respecting our human custom of dropping down into airports rather than British grain fields.

via Inexplicata

Texas A&M oceanographer Benjamin Giese has just completed extensive research into the 1918-19 El Niño, which computer simulations demonstrate to be as intense as ones that blew through the Pacific in the early 1980s and late 1990s. Previously, it was believed that these recent, intense El Niños, which caused hurricanes and droughts throughout the Pacific region, were caused by global warming. Giese says this clearly isn't the case, since the intense 1918 El Niño was not affected by climate change.

Weirdly, however, he draws a connection between this intense El Niño and the 1918 flu epidemic, which killed up to 100 million people across the globe. That epidemic, dubbed the "Spanish Flu," was caused by the H1N1 virus that today we call Swine Flu and fear may blow up into another pandemic that makes the 1918 experience look gentle.

It's not clear why he thinks that there's a connection between the 1918 El Niño and flu, other than pure chronology. He says the drought in India, caused by El Niño, might have contributed to the flu deaths. And there's a hint in a release about his research that it might have to do with the low temperatures in North America caused by the El Niño situation.

Honestly it sounds a lot like divination to me - if El Niño is bad, it means we'll have a pandemic! Really? But what about the fact that last time we had an El Niño, we didn't have a super-slick system for dispensing vaccines (which reminds me - get your freakin flu shot).

You might say that Giese is just suggesting a link between the two events, but not a causal connection. But if that's the case, what exactly is his point? Either the link is causal, because El Niño made the pandemic worse; or the link is not causal, in which case deaths from El Niño were unrelated to deaths from H1N1. The release about Giese's work from Texas A&M feels like a shameless effort to create sensationalistic headlines. Especially when the authors of the release include this gem:

Could the events of 1918 be a harbinger of what might occur in 2009?

Um, hi. "Harbinger" is not a scientific concept.

Giese research will be published in a forthcoming issue of Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The thing is, it will all make sense to you if you just understand the new law of time. According to the Galactic Research Institute:

It is a comprehensive whole system discovery which demonstrates that time is the universal factor of synchronization. The principle formulation of the Law of Time -T(E) = Art, Energy factored by Time equals Art - accounts for the intrinsic elegance of all natural phenomena.

The corollary formulation of the Law of Time states that the velocity of time is instantaneously infinite, a factor which accounts for telepathy and various paranormal phenomena. Yes, time is faster than the speed of light! And we must investigate the mind in order to understand time.

In its essence, time is a frequency expressed as a mathematical ratio constant, 13:20. This constant defines a whole new realm of reality, the synchronic order. This is the fourth dimensional realm where synchronicity is the norm and can actually be mapped out by mathematical codes based on the ratio constant 13:20.

By means of this constant it can be demonstrated that the present civilization is not coordinated by the universal frequency of synchronization, but by an artificial timing frequency which is a major factor contributing to the present global crisis.

Rooted in an irregular 12-month calendar and a mechanistic 60 second/60 minute timing program, this artificial timing frequency (12:60) drives the human species ever farther from the natural order with alienating effects on human consciousness. In this analysis, the evolution of the human species is dependent on a return to the natural timing frequency.

For this reason the primary social application of the Law of Time is the Thirteen Moon/28 day calendar. By making the Thirteen Moon/28-day cycle the harmonic (13:20) standard of everyday time measurement, replacing the irregular twelve-month global standard, the Law of Time establishes a new foundation for the reformulation of the human mind and its systems of knowing.

Can you believe you went this long without understanding the mathematical formula behind the creation of art? Obviously we're going to need a very different calendar if we're ever going to solve the problem of human consciousness. Here's another diagram to really solidify your understanding. I'm pretty sure that this means we'll be traveling through time pretty soon. Or at least through space, which is kind of like the "urban" version of time.

via Galactic Research Institute

If you live in or around Pensacola, it just got harder to be a creationist who wants to see giant statues of dinosaurs. Dinosaur Adventure Land, which was packed with educational exhibits devoted to unmasking the lies of evolution, will be no more. No longer will children be taught how dinosaurs walked the earth 6000 years ago. All because park's owners, Kent and Jo Hovind, owed the IRS just under half a million dollars in employee taxes.

According to the Pensacola News Journal:

[Kent Hovind] was found guilty in November 2006 on 58 counts, including failure to pay employee taxes and making threats against investigators.
The conviction culminated 17 years of Hovind sparring with the IRS. Saying he was employed by God and his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes, he claimed no income or property.

Now the government is finally going to get those back taxes by seizing what remains of their theme park.

The Hovinds were also the founders of Creation Science Church, which seems (if the website is to be believed) to be devoted to a creationist interpretation of the Bible, really awesome dinosaurs, and super excellent paper airplanes. As the Dinosaur Adventure Land website explains:

Dinosaur Adventure Land is a theme park and science museum that gives God the glory for His creation. It has rides and fun-filled events and activities, each involving a physical challenge, a science lesson, and a biblical truth.

Learn about dinosaurs, principles of science, and even how to make a paper airplane that can fly over 300 feet! Handle our real, live creatures and take the Leap of Faith swing. Enjoyable and educational for all ages, it is specifically targeted for kids under a million years of age!

But don't worry – other creationist dinosaur parks live on. In fact, in recent years, creationist groups have seized control of previously science-friendly dino attractions. The famous Cabazon Dinosaurs in California, featured in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, were recently purchased by a creationist group. Now their website includes helpful information on why Darwin was wrong. The park owners write:

Through our exhibit, Mr. Rex's Dinosaur Adventure™ At the World's Biggest Dinosaurs™, we hope to help the young and old explore what is known and not known about dinosaurs, man and the creation of the world in a practical, factual and fun way.

There also remains the Creation Museum in Kentucky, toured by SF author John Scalzi, who had quite a bit to say about it, as well as having a great Flickr set of crazy dioramas from the displays there. The Creation Museum is so hip that it even has a blog, which recently announced that the museum is sponsoring a car that will be racing at the Kentucky Speedway. But will the car have a velociraptor painted on the side? You know, one that lived like 5000 years ago?

Dinosaur Adventure Land image via bak2new. Timeline image from Creation Museum via Scalzi. Cabazon Dino pic via slworking2.

Over at Earthfiles, Linda Moulton reports that investigators Paul Jones and Andrew Pyrka were checking out a bird-shaped crop circle in June. When an angry farmer kicked them out of his fields, they started to drive away. But then they saw this shiny, orb-like thing floating in a nearby field. Could it have been the author of the crop circle they'd just been investigating? Jones wanted to find out, so he started filming it.

It looks sort of like a mini-helicopter, but matched reports they'd heard from locals about "orbs" that seemed to hang around areas where circles had been laid down. When the shiny thing continued to float in the field, Jones sent Pyrka out to pursue it. But when Pyrka got to the orb he couldn't see it anymore. Was it just a trick of the light. Staying in cell phone contact with Pyrka, Jones was able to guide him until he was standing precisely under the glowy thing Jones was filming.

Moulton writes:

Andrew Pyrka was very confused. He was looking all around him, but could not see anything in the sky in any direction! So, Paul began trying to guide Andrew by phone closer and closer to the silver craft above him. At one point, Paul yells in the phone, "Andrew, you're so close, put your arm up and see if you can feel anything."

Andrew Pyrka lifted his left arm straight up toward the sky. "Instantly, when I put my arm up, there was a huge jolt of electrical current that went down my raised arm. I don't think I touched anything solid," he told me, "but I definitely interacted with some kind of strong field the UFO must have been giving off. But why couldn't I see it where I was, while Paul could not only see it, he videotaped it for another fifteen minutes?"

Why indeed? And why was Pyrka able to withstand a "huge jolt of electrical current"? It's just another one of those UFO mysteries.

via Earthfiles

Central Argentina is full of people who tell stories of strange lights that accompany outbreaks of cattle mutilations. In the past, scientists have blamed the mutilations on rats or downed power lines. But local UFO researchers say that this latest rash of mutilations are clearly not caused by animals.

According to UFOlogist Quique Mario:

A veteran farmer stated, "The lacerations are not normal. There are no signs that the animal even tried to fend off an assailant. Rather, it appears to have fallen asleep on the ground." . . . [The definitive scientific] report, which was not circulated at all, was the one furnished to CEUFO by an official with the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of La Pampa. After a year of experiments and comparisons, they ruled that THE INCISIONS WERE MECHANICAL – that is to say, produced by an element having nothing to do with the teeth of rodents or carrion animals.

For a long time, report the researchers, animals would steer clear of the bodies of mutilated cattle. But now the mechanically-altered cows are starting to look tasty to animals again, and ranchers report that carrion-eaters will go after the corpses of mutilated cows that have been sitting out for a week or more.

Could this be the work of aliens? Perhaps aliens who are learning to make their mutilated cows tasty for everybody again? No one can say for sure. But now that cattle mutilations are on the rise again, Central Argentinians are coming forward with stories. A rancher from Embajador Martini, Province of La Pampa, recalled an incident from 2007:

At 14:00 hours, I witnessed a stampede produced by a circular beam of light, measuring 2 meters in diameter approximately, issued by an object that traveled at a normal altitude and speed, shaped like two soup-bowls joined at their edges.

Looks like our floating soup bowls are back. So if you're in Central Argentina, please keep your cows in the barn tonight.

via Inexplicata