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85 course. There was no sign of footsteps, car tire marks or any other marks of intruders in the area around the cow. The trees and bushes that stood near the cow’s body were fearfully and strangely quiet. No birds, no insect calls, none of the usual bug, animal and bird clatter and movement, no activity at all. Dead quiet, especially in the country, is not pleasant, let me tell you. There was nothing to do but to search for the farmhouse and report this find to to4arata its owner, which I did. During our years of investigative partnership a few of the farmers we had talked with were convinced that somehow Jacques Vallee and I were to blame for what had happened to their cows. I was a bit concerned that my report might cause this farmer to think I was the one who had killed his cow, but that didn’t happen, not with this man, luckily. He knew there had been “flying saucer” activity in the air over his farm and he blamed the mutilation of this heifer upon the UFOs, not upon me. I once interviewed another farmer who lived near Mt. Magazine in Arkansas. He’d had cattle mutilated very close to his farmhouse. He claimed that his other cattle and his dog went “beserkers” in the night. In the morning they walked out to find dead cattle. The offspring of the mutilated cows would not approach them. But that’s not all. The calves of the remaining living cows refused to suck from their living mothers for a few days. Because of the ruckus in the near pasture he had gone out of his house to look around the night before. There had 1 we tat , ™ been UFO sightings in the area for some time. The reports had been made by both teens and adults who lived in the OF ea es 9 Ye OS TD ee ee | Mt. Magazine area. This farmer walked out at night and then stared at a spectacular sight. A UFO rose straight up from Mt. Magazine to light the hills and the river as brightly as if it were day. The ship took a course north over the river. Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator