Ah, yes, the ever-popular "dang hysterical people seeing trouble where there ain't none" theory. This time, like most always, it's utter crap.
Of course, I do make allowances. Not every cow was killed by ET. Satanists probably did some, but not the really, really strange ones (whoever thought a Satanist would be part of a "normal" cow mutilation?); predators probably did some, or gnawed on a couple of the carcasses after the aliens dropped 'em back down, but I tend to side with New Mexico State Police Officer Gabe Valdez on this one when he told Jim Marrs: "If it is predators, then we have predators with super powers. It is hard to believe that predators can pull a steer's heart out through a small hole in it's neck. And I have seen that."
When the cattle first started showing up dead, of course law enforcement and state officials wanted to quell what could easily develop into a full-blown panic, so all kind of "natural" deaths were suggested, such as predators like coyotes and stuff and diseases like blackleg. What looked like they could be cuts, people said, could have been from predators or scavengers chewing on the animal; I believe one sheriff even used the word "varmints." Don't worry, farmers, the pros are all over this one.
I'd like to point out the animal teeth typically leave ragged marks on a body, not neat, straight, occasionally cauterized lines. Disease would show up in an autopsy. And autopsies aren't always right, such as in this little anecdote from Alien Agenda.
Hide samples from mutilated cattle were always coming back to Sheriff George Yarnell of Elbert County in Colorado with the diagnosis that it had been predators who killed the cattle. He was getting upset about this because he knew that wasn't the cause, so he cut a flesh sample of his own (from a dead cow...hopefully) with a hunting knife and made a cut in it so he could identify it later.
This piece of flesh was sent to the chief of the CBI, Carl Whiteside (hey, this guy sure shows up a lot, don't he?), and he in turn sent it to Department of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University, where all the other samples had been sent. And--this is so beautiful--the piece of flesh that this guy Yarnell cut with a hunting knife off a cow was apparently cut by predators.
Well, we don't know what this guy did in his free time, but still...I don't think that's what they had in mind when they said "predators" did it....
The point is, when a lab guy was confronted about how that flesh was really taken, he only said, "We're human. We make mistakes."
Yeah, so maybe you are (maybe). But that human never did explain why all the samples kept coming back saying that predators had done the slicing.
And maybe some cows died of disease and were later gnawed upon by scavengers. Sure. But saying all or most of them were killed by disease is basically calling the ranchers who owned these cattle stupid or uninformed. They know what disease and scavenger-marks look like--the better ones do, anyway, and the better ones were the ones who didn't buy the predator/blackleg business. It seems that people were just putting the "hysteria over normal events" theory out there because the events weren't normal, they knew it, and wanted to stop the panic from spreading.
Disease? What about those cows who the farmer or rancher saw earlier in the day who were perfectly healthy and then showed up dead that afternoon or night?
But I forgot. "We're human. We make mistakes."
But there is a theory to go along with that: Some humans were involved. Humans in the government.
That's next time on SkyWatch.
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