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In 1897, cattle mutilation by Charles Lear. The cattle mutilation mystery and its association
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with UFO activity didn't get the attention of researcher investigators until the 1970s.
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There is an article on page 2 of the March 1975 April Bulletin
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had lined more on mutilations, discussing the findings of April field investigators,
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Bill Pitt, Lee Spiegel, and Kevin Randall. It was the opinion of April at the time
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that no satisfactory evidence has emerged, which links UFOs to mutilated animals.
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The first mutilation to get the public's attention was that of a horse named Snippy,
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sound by its owners in the San Luis Valley of Colorado on September 8, 1967.
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Shortly after that, in his article on the July August 1968, Flying Salsa Review had lined
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West Virginia's enigmatic bird, John Keele mentions that cow and horse mutilations
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are now common in the midst of sightings of mothman and UFOs in the area around Point Pleasant.
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However, there is a report far earlier than this that, by most accounts, appeared in the April 23rd,
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1897, Yates Center, Farmer's Advocate. This involves a mystery airship caught in the
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act of abducting a cow right in front of prominent Woodson County Kansas citizen Alexander Hamilton,
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not the one on the $20 bill. While the Advocate article remains elusive,
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Reddit user Remsy2907 found an article in what appears to be the Globe Democrat that includes
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the details of and references the Advocate article. According to the Democrat article,
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dated April 26th, and headlined, the airship Steels Hamilton, a farmer who lived near Yates Center,
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said that, last Monday at 10.30 o'clock, April 19th, he and his family stood mute and wonder and
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fright as an airship appeared and proceeded to, in the reporter's words, swooped down upon the
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cow lob and still a two-year-old heifer. Backing up Hamilton's story is an affidavit signed by
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11 prominent citizens, including a sheriff and a justice of the peace stating that they believe
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Hamilton's story to be true and correct. The details of the story are presented in Hamilton's
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words, according to him, we were awakened by a noise among the cattle. He got out of bed,
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went to the door thinking that his bulldog was performing some of his pranks and was astonished
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to see an airship coming down over his cow lob, almost 40 rods from the house. He called his son
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Wall and his tenant, Gid, Pesleyp, and after grabbing some axes, they ran to the corral.
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When there were about 50 yards from the ship, it was no more than 30 feet above the ground.
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Hamilton describes it as cigar-shaped, about 300 feet long, with a carriage underneath,
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made of panels of glass or other transparent substance, alternating with a narrow strip
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of some material. The rest of the craft was dark red. It was brilliantly lit from within and had
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three external lights, an immense searchlight and two smaller lights, one red and one green.
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The searchlight was pointed directly on Hamilton and the others, and then a great turbine wheel,
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about 50 feet in diameter, which was slowly revolving below the craft, now began to buzz.
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The craft rose up, and when it was about 300 feet high, it appeared to be hovering over two
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year old heifer that seemed to be stuck to a fence. They went over to her and saw there was a
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half inch red cable tied in a slip-notter under neck that went up to the ship. They tried to
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free the cow, but were unable to, and they watched as the ship rose up and carried the cow away
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towards the southwest. According to Hamilton, Link Thomas of Coffee County, about four miles west
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of Leroy Kansas, found the hide of the cow, along with its head and legs in his field on Tuesday.
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Hamilton was able to identify it by his brand on the hide. This story got widespread public exposure
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thanks to Frank Edwards' best-selling 1966 book, Flying Saucers' Sirius Business.
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And Jacques Filet included it in his 1965 book, The Anatomy of a Phenomenon, and his 1969 book,
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Passport to Magonia. It seems, however, that the story was a hoax, and how this was discovered
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is told in detail by Jerome Clark in his article Headlined, The Great Airship Hoax,
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published in the February 1977 issue of Fate Magazine. According to Clark,
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the truth about the affair came out in an article published in the January 28, 1943,
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Kansas newspaper The Buffalo Enterprise. A week before, the paper had recounted Hamilton's
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original tale, and this prompted Ed F. Hudson, who had been the editor of the farmer's advocate
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in 1897, to write a letter to the Enterprise. According to Hudson, he had just installed a
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small gasoline engine to replace hand power on his old country-cambo press and invited friends,
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including Hamilton, to watch it operate. Hudson explains the origin of the story.
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Hamilton exclaimed, now they can fly, hence the airship story that we made up.
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Clark says the Enterprise article was discovered in 1976 by an American correspondent
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of 14 times editor J. M. Ricard. Ricard sent Clark a copy, and Clark got a letter
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seeking confirmation, published in the September 16th, 8th Center News. This got a reply from
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Donna Steeby of Wichita, Kansas, who said that her 93-year-old mother, Ethel L. Shaw,
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had heard the story from Hamilton himself. Shaw provided Clark with a statement.
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According to Shaw, when she was about 14 years old, she was at the Hamilton House,
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with Mrs. Hamilton, and their daughter, now, when Mr. Hamilton came in and said,
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Ma, I fixed up quite a story and told the boys in town, and it will come out in the advocate
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this weekend. Mrs. Hamilton was rather shocked by the story, with the girls weren't bothered,
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as we felt it was just a fabricated story. Shaw goes on to say that it seems there were a few
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men around who had formed a club, which they called Ananias, Flyers Club. To her knowledge,
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the club broke up not long after the story was published. She adds that the men who signed
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the affidavit knew it to be a falsehood, but simply went along with it for fun.
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According to Clark, Lucius Farish had an article about the case, published in the April 1966
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issue of fate in which he proclaimed, this case is one of the most astounding to be found on record.
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The editor's note, at the end of Clark's article states,
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Lucius Farish has asked us to convey his apologies to fate readers for his unwitting role in
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publicizing this fallacious incident. Charles Lear is the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators,
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