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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Mystery of
Horse-Saucer
Alamosa, an
autopsy on a horse, believed by its owner to have been killed by inhabitants of
a flying saucer, revealed that its abdominal, brain and spinal cavities were
empty.
The pathologist, a Denver
specialist, wanting to remain anonymous, said the absence of organs in the
abdominal area was unexplainable.
Witnessing the autopsy at
the ranch where the corpse was found were four members of the Denver team of the
National Members Investigating Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
The team included Dr. and
Mrs. Ken Steinmetz, Dr. Herb Roth and Captain Dick Cable of the North American
Air Defence Command Centre in Colorado Springs.
When the pathologist sawed
into the horse’s brain cavity, he found it empty.
“There should have been a
good bit of fluid in the brain cavity,” the pathologist said.
“This horse was definitely
not killed by lightening,” the pathologist said and this was the official
conclusion of Alamosa County authorities.
The Appalcosa’s owners said
they believed the horse was killed by occupants of a flying saucer.
Several others in the San
Luis Valley, where as many as eight sightings of unidentified flying objects
have been reported in one evening, have said they agree.
It all started when Snippy,
a 3 year-old gelding, September 7th, did not return to the Harry King
ranch.
Two days later, King went
looking for Snippy and found the horse dead about a quarter of a mile from the
ranch house. The ranch is 20 miles southeast of Alamosa in desolate mountain
country.
All the flesh had been
stripped from the horse’s head and neck, only bones remained.
King called the owners of
the horse, a Mr. and Mrs. Burl Lewis. Together they investigated the area in
which the horse had been killed.
They said they found areas
where the chico brush had been squashed down some 10 inches within the ground
and discovered what appeared to be 15 circular exhaust marks 100 yards from the
horse.
Another area was
punched with six identical holes, each two inches wide and four inches deep,
they said.
The investigating committee
said several samples were taken from the horse and an object, presumed to be a
tool, Mrs. Lewis said she found September 16th.
Mrs. Lewis said she found
the object on her second visit to the area. It was covered with horsehair and
she said when she tried to wipe the horsehair off, her hand turned red and began
to burn.
The burning persisted until
she washed her hands, she commented further.
Mystery of
Horse Saucer written by Bill Barber
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