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several Juarez children showed drawings of what they had seen. The drawings showed round objects, some with a row of coloured lights around the middle. One nine-year-old girl drew a picture of the creature that attacked her dog as she watched. Her draw- ing has several similarities to the creature drawn by Miguel and Madalyne Agosta in Canovanas, Puerto Rico. A team of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) investigators, led by Yolika Stone of El Paso, reported that "the area is very isolated and extremely poor. The peo- ple live in cardboard and tin shacks with no electricity or running water. It doesn't seem that they could have been influenced by something on TV because they don't have act to television. "These children told us that there were two types of beings that appeared from ; a 4 UFOs on various occasions: one short and - — oh —“s —s = - one slightly taller. The beings floated to the The two puncture marks surrounded by a red inflammation, assumed to have been caused ground by a beam of light coming from the by the creature's mouth sucking on Mr José Angel Pulido's arm when it attacked him during the first week of May 1996 in Tlajomulco, Jalisco, Mexico. (Photograph from Telemundo News videotape, with their permission) UFO that hovered one metre from the ground. "The children told us of another incident Pulido's attacker put two puncture holes, each about one-quarter with their school bus. A bright light hit the bus and the bus of an inch wide, in his right arm about two inches above his elbow stalled. The light came from a UFO that hovered over the bus." crease. A third triangle-shaped puncture was evident in Pulido's The UFO was estimated to be 50 feet in diameter. right wrist where he thought his arm had been held while the crea- "The children also told us about their animals. The dogs were ture sucked at the puncture holes. Videotape of the wound shows put into suspended animation. There were also animal mutilations a reddish ring around the puncture holes that looks like a suction of horses, dogs, sheep, goats and cows. Apparently they were bit- mark. Pulido said he felt nauseous for about three days afterward. ten and the blood was drawn out." Some people wonder if the chupacabras is beamed up into an Over the border in Tucson, Arizona, 28-year-old José O. overhead UFO, especially since eyewitnesses in Judrez, Mexico, Espinoza of North Palomas Avenue on the west side of the city, have reported seeing silver, saucer-shaped craft and strange, small encountered a creature in the house in the early morning of 1 May beings since January 1996. 1996. "It had big red eyes, a pointy nose, pointy ears and a wrin- The NBC affiliate in E] Paso, Texas, sent a camera crew to Kled face," Espinoza said. It "mumbled something" at him and investigate. In one of their reports, broadcast 27 March 1996, "hopped away" into his seven-year-old son's bedroom, hopped up “J onto the bed and then out of the open win- dow. Espinoza said the animal smelled like a wet dog and left footprints and handprints all over his house. He called the police who came with an unfortunate attitude of ridicule, examined a handprint on the refrig- erator door and told Espinoza it was his three-year-old son's handprint. Whatever people are seeing in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Costa Rica and southern parts of the United States, there are correla- tions in the historical records of recurring cycles of events involving unknown crea- tures which attack animals. 4 x ‘ Mes, HISTORICAL REPORTS OF STRANGE ANIMAL KILLINGS In the spring of 1975 in Moca, a town in Juan Murati's pit bull dog suffered two puncture holes in its neck, just one month after Juan the northwestern comer of Puerto Rico, the saw the black creature sitting in the tree near his house. This dog, one of five which patrol Vampire of Moca" was on the rampage, Murati's house as protection, survived the attack. "But," Juan asked, "how did anything get killing livestock and scaring residents. On to my pit bull's neck like that without a horrible fight?” The dog had no other marks on its 15 March, the local newspaper, EI Vocero, body and there were no signs of struggle inside the high barbed-wire fence that surrounds appealed to the government to investigate. Juan Murati's home. The first victims of "the Vampire" were i 2 68 + NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1997