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CATTLE MUTILATIONS, BLACK HELICOPTERS, AND THE FBI
t’s most intriguing to note that in the United States the black helicopter phenomenon began in 1973—the very same year in which the United Kingdom was also hit by a wave of helicopter-based incidents, and which prompted the British police force’s Special Branch to launch an investigation. In the United States, things started in the Hawkeye State: Iowa. For the first three months of the year, outraged farmers contacted local law enforcement with strange and unsettling stories: they would wake up in the morning, head to their fields, and find several of their cattle dead. These were no normal deaths, though. The cows’ genitals were gone, as were their eyeballs. Their skin appeared to have been opened with some kind of device employing incredible temperatures, maybe a laser-based device. Organs were not savagely torn out, as they might have been if coyotes were the culprits. Instead, they were carefully cut out. Under cover of darkness, an unstoppable force was causing mayhem throughout rural Iowa. It wasn’t long before those same ranchers had something else to deal with. You have probably already guessed what that was. That’s right: black helicopters. But were the pilots of the craft performing the mutilations? Or were they monitoring the activities of the mutilators, who may not even
