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716 the striking photographs. The Arkansas Lawman had confided i in me that he was the only person in that particular Sheriff's Department who believed that there was a connection between the UFO sightings and the mutilated cattle. The pictures he had taken of a mutilated cow had been of considerable interest to Vallee. The rolls of photographs of the dead cow had been taken from every conceivable angle; the head, backbone, each hoof, stomach, tail. Each and every anomaly had been photographed in distant shots, up close and at medium range. What was strange had become evident only after the pictures were developed. Every single shot showed a bright piercing ray of white light beaming from the sky and striking the various parts of the animal. The light was visible from every angle and it appeared in each photo. We decided that one photograph with such a laser-like beam of light could have been coincidence. We were positive that the ray of white light appearing in every single photograph was no coincidence. It was as if the beings above had made an effort to leave their signature on each picture. The Bentonville Deputy Sheriff, who was sympathetic to our investigation, directed us to a farm where a fresh mutilation had just taken place. The crew and I were able to make a tape of Vallee and the Deputy talking about the cow which had already been moved from the field. Several years later, on the anniversary of his first call to investigate the scene of a mutilated cow, that particular Deputy Sheriff, whom I had come to think of as a friend, found one of his own cows mutilated. Later he was bitten by a poisonous snake and then resuscitated. I was sorry to hear that he had been fired from his job in the County Sheriff's office. During this period before his dismissal, I had talked to him by telephone rather frequently. Most of the time as we talked, our line would go dead. We agreed that there was a diabolical element stemming from the UFO Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding wanted to talk first to the Deputy Sheriff who had taken all