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A former teacher in the Cherry Creek School District who taught inmates at a juvenile detention center was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday for sexually abusing a teenage
Back in the late 1980s, the FBI declassified into the public domain its files on the matter of what have become known as cattle mutilations. The extremely detailed files revealed how, in the mid-to-late 1970s, the FBI was implicated in a bizarre series of events, in which numerous cattle were found dead under truly shocking and unexplained circumstances and, primarily, in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and elsewhere. Typically, the carcasses of the poor animals were said to have been drained of blood. And, organs were removed by what seemed to have been instruments of some kind. Moreover, on...
There was a time when I thought it was at least feasible that cattle mutilations might be the work of aliens. That, however, was more than a few years ago. The more I dug into the mystery, the more I came to believe that the subject had far less to do with aliens and far more to do with government activity. Within in the field of Ufology, there is an acceptance that the first real animal mutilation case (as ufologists see it) was that of Snippy, a horse found dead under bizarre coincidences. As the Denver Library state of the Snippy affair: “On September 7, 1967, near the town of Alamosa in...