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77 since we’d become involved with the UFO’s, the cows and the sinister black helicopters which were always swarming at. AL dt Vallee never had any type of problem or visitation in his personal life whether in the United States or in France or at least he never mentioned anything, not even when I was comparing accidents with the Deputy or other UFO observers. He did observe once that he held the theory that the helicopters were a signal that the mutilations had something to do with a covert military operation. He certainly had reservations about the rash of sightings being totally alien in origin. Our first mutilated cow had, as had most all of the other mutilated cows, had had all the blood drained from her body. The farmers and ranchers and other observers body. The farmers and ranchers and other observers reported that strange looking small, black, helicopter- looking vehicles were observed hovering, without lights, in the vicinity of almost every instance of mutilation. The eu maavas farmers were getting nervous, not because of the UFO connection, which most didn’t even believe, but because of the continuing depredation on their cattle herds. They were losing money. Each dead cow was a serious drain on that particular farm’s economic structure. ae 1 eu aoa waa to1oa a4 Many people of the county thought the whole flap to be a hilarious joke of some kind or a figment of the imagination of kooks and crazies. The ranchers may have thought those things as well but they finally banded together to camp out together in groups at night, each man armed with a gun. They couldn’t afford any more of what many called “this kind of tomfoolery.” Sometimes Vallee and I joined them in their vigil in a slightly different way. Nightly we drove the loaned Mercedes across the roads and highways of the area, looking for evidence of mutilations in progress. We stayed for two days on our first field trip and my adrenaline level Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator scene, an element which had taken over in both of our lives over the whole melee.