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Colorado Bureau of Investigation attributes most mutilation reports to predators

Name: Colorado Bureau of Investigation attributes most mutilation reports to predators
Start: 1975
Location: Denver, CO

When: 1975
Where: Denver, CO
Sources: 2 public sources

An office of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which reviewed the 1975 mutilation reports Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

During Colorado's 1975 wave of cattle mutilation reports, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation took up the cases at the governor's direction and in December reported 203 suspected cases, attributing all but 11 to predators. An Elbert County sheriff disputed some findings.

Sources

PressThe Mysterious History of Cattle Mutilation (opens in a new tab)History.com (Adam Janos) / 2021-04-27
OtherFair and square (Ranchland News article by Monty Gaddy, reposted) (opens in a new tab)Ranchland News (copy hosted on UFO Strange Harvest blog)

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