In November 1992, the Fyffe Police Department, Alabama, conducted an investigation into unexplained cattle mutilations in co-operation with neighbouring police and law enforcement agencies.
More than 30 animals were discovered dead in pastures with various internal and external organs missing. The incisions showed a precise surgical cut. In many cases there was evidence of intense heat at the tissue excisions. But although many of the dead animals were found in soft pasture land and in mud, there were no footprints, tracks or marks found anywhere near the mutilated animals. No suspects were found, nor any motives for these incidents of phantom surgery. And no witness or informant came forwardb to offer any credible insight or testimony.
The first documented incident was reported on 20 October 1992 by Albertville cattle farmer John Strawn. The animal was discovered in a wooded area of Mr Strawn's pasture by a neighbour who found it lying on its side. Its entire milk sac was missing with no evidence of blood on the animal or on the ground around where it lay. The neighbour said the neat, oval incision where the udder had been removed appeared to be charred.
Other farmers in the area soon started reporting similar cases over the next two months. The same organs were reported missing, although what was taken varied from animal to animal. In many cases the rectum had been cored out neatly, with no evidence of blood or body fluid present. On female livestock the sex organs had been removed in an identical fashion with clean, bloodless excisions. On male livestock, the sex organs had also been removed, again in oval, bloodless excisions.
In early January, Albertville Police Department's Chief of Detectives, Tommy Cole, reported that his ranch, too, had fallen victim to the mutilators when an Angus steer fell prey to the phantom surgeons. It was at the point that the Fyffe Police Department began working closely with the Albertville Police Department to investigate further the continuing incidents of mutilations.
A week later, the mutilators struck again in Albertville. The following week mutilated cattle were reported near Fyffe, in Grove Oak. A week later the vandals had moved to Dawson, just outside Fyffe. During the first week of February 1993, more than nine cases of cattle mutilation were reported in Marshall and DeKalb counties.
Thoughout the period that the cases were reported, cattle farmers and their neighbours saw helicopters in the vicinity either before or shortly after mutilated cattle were discovered. It is rumoured that MJ-12 teams whose task is to capture alien life forms, use black helicopters.
