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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, hopes, along with the keeper and Phyllis that the New Jersey drone mystery is soon put to rest in the manner of the mysterious cow killings and mutilations of the 1970’s.
Some fifty years ago, long before drones, unexplained cattle deaths were suddenly seen as a national threat and when the reports were subsequently related to flying saucers, the populace was off and running.
The fact that some of the dead cattle showed indications of physical disturbance of their faces and rear areas threw sexual perversion on the dead cow bandwagon and it took on even greater dimensions.
As a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal at the time, the keeper remembers accompanying a farmer out to a Grant County alfalfa/clover field to view three dead cows that, the farmer said, had been perfectly healthy the day before.
As a former farm boy, the keeper knew that if cattle are left too long in a too-rich grazing area they can die from ruptured bloated guts, but he didn’t mention that as the farmer pointed to the damaged cows’ rear areas.
The keeper also knew that the earliest scavengers to dead animals are small and must use natural carcass openings to start the scrounger feast. The keeper didn’t mention that either.
He did however mention in his subsequent Journal report that the farmer said he saw what he thought was a helicopter the night before but he couldn’t be sure as to identity. It could have been a flying saucer.
The immediate problem for the farmer was to get a veterinarian to certify that his three cows had died of mysterious causes so he could collect insurance on them.
The keeper hopes he succeeded and advises calm in the case of the New Jersey drones.
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