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Chapter 9 Starting in 1977 there was a rash of UFO sightings and reports of widespread mutilation of cattle in Arkansas. The flying saucers appeared over cars, followed children walking in country lanes, and left dogs cowering near their master’s homes, begging to be allowed into the houses. One girl, who was curling her hair with a curling iron, received a serious electrical shock when a UFO swooped 1 1 over her house. Arkansans report that goats, cats, dogs and other animals were frightened acting and restless in the places where the UFO’s were seen. It was a phenomenal event with national coverage in the media. The range of cattle mutilations was the largest ever reported up to that time. In less than one month’s time I was in Arkansas, interviewing citizens. It was fascinating work. When Vallee called I told him of some of the things I’d observed. He always listened with interest but rarely commented. I ee a a os ee | suppose he was taking notes. Over the years we worked together he must have taken a whole library’s worth of notes. I told him what had been told me. “On the night the film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind premiered in Arkansas there were strange events everywhere in the state, particularly UFO sightings. The mutilations have started and are continuing. Cows have been dying for weeks, + »” Jacques.” Vallee told me the day he would return to Tulsa and he asked me to pick him up at Tulsa International. We planned then for the two of us to drive straight on over to Arkansas te a a4 Fi a 74 AN INVESTIGATIVE TEAM and from there to begin our work on our first case together.