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Chapter 10 After several years together as investigative partners, Jacques Vallee and I eventually agreed to part company for a reason which I will explain later on, but I, driven by a compulsion I still didn’t understand, continued the work alone. By this time my name was so well known that many people called me when they had problems with cattle mutilations or when they heard about such problems. Often they called about other problems as well. Once I was driving along a country road in Oklahoma when I spotted a cow lying down. I parked the car and I leaped over the fence, being very careful when making my way across a small open pasture. This was, after all, private property, and I wasn’t looking to be shot at by an irate rancher. The cow was lying just at the edge of a wooded area. Because this animal was mutilated in what seemed to be a common pattern I'll try to explain exactly what I saw. Bile rose in my throat as I surveyed the body of the animal. The cow was lying on her side, not moving, her legs stiffly outstretched. That is what made me suspect she was a victim of mutilation as the area had recently had several TIN ta UFO sightings. The first wound I saw was a perfectly round hole about three inches in diameter on her right side. The ear on that side had been sliced off and the right eye had been cut out in a cup shaped incision as if a very large melon scoop had taken a cup shaped dip of flesh right out of the cow’s head. The animal’s rectal area had been excised in what appeared to be a perfect circle, another large scoop which took out the entire rectum and the area around it for about one inch 83 UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL