This post is mostly to preserve a record of the FBI's involvement in the cattle mutilations phenomenon. Although the post will not include all documentation, it will highlight a few pages from the files of the FBI about the phenomenon.

Thanks for the freedom of information act, many of these once classified papers, can now be obtained and/or viewed on the FBI's website.

I can remember that cattle mutilations was hot topic back in the late seventies and most of the eighties. There were numerous TV shows and a lot of news coverage about the topic. Many people, including the ranchers themselves, were very concerned about what was going on and wanted some answers. It is only natural that at some point the FBI got involved.

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