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The Roswell Kodak Slides

Screenshot from the Youtube video

When I first came across the story of the two recently discovered Roswell Kodak slides on ufochronicles.com I didn't think too much about it. We've been teased and abused before with Roswell material. The Alien Autopsy video by Ray Santilli from the 90's which most certainly is a hoax has made us all wary. However with this Kodak slide story and each subsequent internet posting I grow more convinced something legitimate is going down and I'm cautiously excited.

We saw the same sort of drum roll and release date hype with other Alien videos. Though I still believe something real is going on with Stan Romanek, the way the "Boo ET" video was rolled out left a bad taste in everyone's mouth and made the release seem profit driven and I don't think Stan and his video ever recovered from that and certainly wasn't taken as seriously as it should have been. With this current Kodak Roswell slide alien it seemed to be the same sort of pre-release hype, but things are looking different here in a good way. Firstly we have a visible, legitimate writer who has possession of the slides. Most importantly here we have more than two slides of the same batch. Art specialists who forensically investigate antique oil paintings and whether a suspected work was produced by a master artist or simply a forgery, use known paintings of the artist in order to establish a precedence of technique and materials. Certain pigments might have been particular to the time and place where the artist lived and certain brush strokes distinguish a master artist across all of his or her works. Here we have a batch of ordinary Kodak slides along with the two alien slides. Experts will have plenty of reference material to establish the date, location, equipment, development and other factors. Given that reproducing authentic early era Kodak slides would be enormously tedious and difficult - we could have expected to see only two slides pop up if this were a low level hoax. On the contrary, we have a whole lot more than two meager slides, we have dozens and dozens and this should bolster the work in the lab to determine if the two alien slides match up and stand up.

Lastly, I'm intrigued by this new YouTube video release which gives us a peak into the 3D recreation of the actual alien in the photograph. Having worked on dozens of ET drawings, my immediate impression of the 3D alien is that it is very consistent with the best of the eyewitness material that has gone before. You never know, maybe hoaxers are just getting better and more skilled at throwing us for a loop but so far this is taking on an air of legitimacy with many clear, transparent facts being offered up in advance of the presentation.

UPDATE: Since posting this report several weeks ago there has been more information forthcoming, including a rather good look at the actual "being" in one of the slides. Unfortunately the being in the slide is rather disappointing. The first impression is that the size looks off. We can see the legs of the woman taking the picture, reflected off the glass casing holding the being. This gives us a size reference and accordingly the being looks utterly minuscule. This usually points to a preserved human with a birth defect that was studied or a mummification process. It doesn't mean it cannot be an ET, but this would be a very, very small being and it doesn't match years of eye witness testimony. However this pans out, in the end I fear we will be tied up with useless speculation because there are just too many ambiguous facets to consider.

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2015/02/the-roswell-slides-and-me-kevin-randle.html

- Agent D

The Petrie Museum "Alien Artifacts" Do Not Exist...

Recently there has been a flurry of articles, blog posts and general excitement over the release of photos of alleged "alien artifacts" recovered from a hidden room within the estate of the late, great Egyptologist Sir William Petrie. It began with a Youtube video and was picked up by multiple different alternative news outlets with great enthusiasm, mainly the editor-in-chief of Intellihub News, Shepard Ambellas. I'm afraid to report that these artifacts are a total fabrication and as far as the curator of the Petrie Museum in London, Dr. Alice Stevenson is concerned, do not exist in their collection. 

Screenshot from the Youtube video

How did I come to this conclusion? I asked the curator of the museum directly. I'm reminded of that scene in The Bourne Identity where Jason spends all this time walking Marie through a complicated set of steps in order to get the information they need from a bank employee. She gets the information they need in a few minutes and, stunned, he asks her how she did it: "I simply asked for it nicely" she replies. Sometimes the most direct route is the most effective. 

Dear Kaye,

Many thanks for your interest in the Petrie Museum. The Museum holds a number of artefacts collected by Petrie during his 1881-1882 work around the Great Pyramid. These are all viewable to the general public here (along with the entirety of the Petrie Museum collection of 80,000 + objects):

http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/

Look up UC16032, UC16034, UC16036, UC16037, UC41397, UC41398

Petrie published his work in 1883: The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.

Nothing in the collection, however, matches the descriptions in the video. Petrie worked in Egypt from 1881 until 1925, and his departure to work in Palestine was due to restrictions placed on excavators working in Egypt by the Egyptian Government in the 1920 following the discovery of Tutankhamun. An account of his life based on the known archival material held here and at the Egypt Exploration Society is in Drower, P. (1985) Flinders Petrie. A life in archaeology.

With best wishes

Alice

Dr Alice Stevenson

Curator

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL

Malet Place

London, WC1E 6BT

Tel: 020 76792882

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie/

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/about/our-staff/alice-stevenson

From: Kaye Dee
Sent: 31 December 2014 20:12
To: Stevenson, Alice; Quirke, Stephen; jsnyder@imj.org.il; gitler@imj.org.il
Subject: Question regarding "artifacts"

Greetings,

I am contacting you in regards to an article that recently came out regarding some 'artifacts' found in a secret room in Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie's home. Is there any truth to this or is this a total fabrication? And if there IS truth to it, would you let the public know or would you suppress this information?

http://www.inquisitr.com/1712601/ufo-and-alien-egyptian-artifacts-discovered-in-jerusalem-kept-secret-by-rockefeller-museum/#yt-NYTy58nzEmk

Thank you in advance for your reply,

Kaye

I'm not entirely sure why she suggested I look up those six specific artifacts in the database since none of them have anything to do with my request, but nevertheless it seems as if Dr. Stevenson is sincere in her reply to my inquiry. I would like to note that none of the other three people I included in that email have replied to me. Could Dr. Stevenson be feeding me a line about this? Absolutely. Do I think that's the actual case? Nope, not really. I think that much like the Mayan "alien artifacts" (which ironically kicked off The Object Report Special Reports blog) someone is trying to push this story as being legitimate by throwing out the names of some well known Egyptology museums in the hopes that it will gain traction.

Until any of this can be independently verified, I'm going to place this story in the "hoax" bin. If anyone out there has more to add to this story, we would love to hear from you.

- Agent K

Theories About the Pacific Mystery Lights

Photo taken by pilot "The Flying Dutchman"

By now, many of you are aware of a set of utterly fascinating and unexplainable photos recently taken by the pilot of a commercial 747 and posted to the pbase website. The photos and story told by the pilot have now gone viral across the web and since the comments appear to be closed on the pbase page where this was originally posted I'm continuing the analysis of this event here in this special report. 

Here is the original report by the "Flying Dutchman" in it's entirety:

Last night over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere South of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka I experienced the creepiest thing so far in my flying career. After about 5 hours in flight we left Japan long time behind us and were cruising at a comfortable 34.000ft with about 4,5 hours to go towards Alaska. We heard via the radio about earthquakes in Iceland, Chile and San Francisco, and since there were a few volcanos on our route that might or might not be going off during our flight, we double checked with dispatch if there was any new activity on our route after we departed from Hongkong.

Then, very far in the distance ahead of us, just over the horizon an intense lightflash shot up from the ground. It looked like a lightning bolt, but way more intense and directed vertically up in the air. I have never seen anything like this, and there were no flashes before or after this single explosion of light. Since there were no thunderstorms on our route or weather-radar, we kept a close lookout for possible storms that might be hiding from our radar and might cause some problems later on.

I decided to try and take some pictures of the night sky and the strange green glow that was all over the Northern Hemisphere. I think it was sort of a Northern Lights but it was much more dispersed, never seen anything like this before either. About 20 minutes later in flight I noticed a deep red/orange glow appearing ahead of us, and this was a bit strange since there was supposed to be nothing but endless ocean below us for hundreds of miles around us. A distant city or group of typical Asian squid-fishing-boats would not make sense in this area, apart from the fact that the lights we saw were much larger in size and glowed red/orange, instead of the normal yellow and white that cities or ships would produce. The closer we got, the more intense the glow became, illuminating the clouds and sky below us in a scary orange glow. In a part of the world where there was supposed to be nothing but water.

The only cause of this red glow that we could think of, was the explosion of a huge volcano just underneath the surface of the ocean, about 30 minutes before we overflew that exact position. Since the nearest possible airport was at least 2 hours flying away, and the idea of flying into a highly dangerous and invisible ash-plume in the middle of the night over the vast Pacific Ocean we felt not exactly happy. Fortunately we did not encounter anything like this, but together with the very creepy unexplainable deep red/orange glow from the ocean's surface, we felt everything but comfortable. There was also no other traffic near our position or on the same routing to confirm anything of what we saw or confirm any type of ash clouds encountered. We reported our observations to Air Traffic Control and an investigation into what happened in this remote region of the ocean is now started.

Two photos included, hardly edited except for watermark and resize. Note that photos are taken with extremely high ISO (sensor sensitivity) so quality might be a bit poor. Also an overview of our route + marking of the location is included. Now I'm just hoping that if a new island has been formed there, at least it can be named after me as the official discoverer. :) That would be pretty cool!

UPDATE: Added 4 new photos and google-earth map with underwater geography
One of the photos shows our landing lights illuminating the sky ahead since we were afraid we might be encountering an ashcloud. We entered a thin layer of clouds 5 minutes after passing the red glow, but no ash was detected or encountered.

While researching the area the pilot was flying over I noticed that it's nearly the exact location of the Morozko Seamount, a cluster of subsea volcanic vents. So, this could very well have been a subsurface lava eruption of some sort and the fact that there was no visible ash plume could be due to the low, thick cloud cover. However, I still have a few problems with that theory. Firstly, I cannot find any data on these Morozko Seamounts ever erupting now or in the recent past. Secondly, there are clearly white and green lights mixed in with the red and orange lights--as we all know, there's no such thing as green lava.

The second theory is that this is a very large fishing fleet using bright lights to go after squid. We do have evidence that large groups of fishing vessels can be spotted from space, however, fishing vessels use white and amber colored flood lights to attract squid and shrimp. I used to own a boat and I've been squid and shrimp fishing many times myself in the past, so I know this to be true. Red light doesn't work because the red spectrum is absorbed by ocean water, it doesn't penetrate beyond the first few inches of the water surface. So a fleet of fishing boats using red light makes zero sense. Aside from that fact, there were no fishing vessels recorded in that area at that time. Zero.

I noticed someone posted the comment on the pbase page about the US launching a hypersonic test vehicle from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska and perhaps it might be related. This is wrong too because the Kodiak facility is about 2,000 miles away from this pilots location and the Air Force already stated that the vehicle crashed "on the range" which is comprised of 37,000 acres of Alaskan wilderness. Besides, that launch vehicle is approximately 15 feet long with a very limited range and it would never have accounted for the sheer size of those lights. It blew up four seconds after launch, which amounts to a handful of miles at most.

That brings us to the final theory that this was a cluster of USOs (unidentified submerged objects) which could be alien related, military related or a combination of both. It could very well be! We simply don't know at this point, but we do know the visitors are here--and they are multi-dimensional beings. If you want a good breakdown of the BIG PICTURE of what's going on right now, I highly recommend reading our Hybrids Project blog.

Agent K

MILAB CIVIL WAR

image credit: Mad Magazine - Spy vs Spy 

Agent K wandered across an interview on the web that is borderline unbelievable. We have linked the article here to blogger first so we could make a few clarifications about the fact checking of this interview. First, let me say that it is my understanding from dozens of extremely reliable sources both human and ET that contact is imminent and indeed contact is such a grand process, like the collision of two galaxies, it has no real defined edges. Many humans have already interacted with aliens, either in neutral circumstances or through abductions as part of the Hybrid program - so for these people contact is past tense. Yes, we will have a threshold point where contact is obvious to the whole of the planet in one moment and this is coming soon. Real soon.

Who better to know full ET contact is coming and is imminent than the Ultra Black Military of the U.S. often referred to as the MILAB faction. Let's be blunt, there is no doubt MILAB types know ET contact is imminent and we should now be seeing the rats leaving the sinking ship. Perhaps because the MILAB military types have been so vicious and so treasonous they would rather fight to the end rather than face public judgement and literally be cast down from the heavens, as the fallen. This could very well be the case, however some low level personnel and a handful of officers who do not wish to "go down with the ship" - might come forth, come clean, before the ship hits the fan.

We have seen several puffs of smoke on the horizon to indicate there are ex-MILAB types coming clean. This is a phenomenon to follow and it is of great importance in just how smooth the disclosure process will be. Oh, there will be disclosure and there will be truth unstoppable. I think there are a few high level cronies who are in absolute, utter denial of the inevitable and they will likely try to hold out until the very end with pistol in hand like Warden Norton from the film The Shawshank Redemption. This isn't a matter of moral judgement as much as it is inevitable fact.

The facts mentioned in this interview are all over the map and in a strange way, this adds credibility to the piece. Anything involving ETs and contact is going to sound outrageous, this has been proven over and over. We have heard of aliens walking through walls, soul-less bodies stored in rows, Reptilians flying through the air, small Gray beings levitating above the ground, abductees seeing dead relatives, even people encountering themselves. What about someone saying the atmosphere on Mars is breathable? Wikipedia states the atmosphere on Mars is 95 percent carbon dioxide and 100 times thinner than Earth's, so nobody could breath Martian air, period. So why would someone say the air is breathable, when it clearly sounds like bullshit? There could be a force field of some sort in play, or some other technology we do not understand and perhaps could not really believe could exist either. The fact Randy just puts it out there, suggests he isn't trying to hide the statement and must be aware Martian air isn't at all breathable nor warm, so something else is at play. There are a few statements in his story, especially his audio link, that I find hard to swallow and I have doubts on some issues. Is it even possible for a human to serve 20 years on Mars considering gravity is only 38% of Earth's. I would imagine that alone would cause long term health issues. The story of the 1000 troops going into a temple to retrieve an artifact activated a bell bottomed flashback to the 1970's show "Land of the Lost" and those Sleestak Reptilians who lived in a cave and had crystal relics in the center and would come out from the walls. The ship sized worm hole is hard to believe for many reasons and people being sliced in two sounds like Captain Kaye might have been reading Andrew Basiago's article - which is another worm hole rumor that sounds great on paper but as usual has no backing evidence. On the flip side the rest of Randy's story gives a good impression and to hear Captain Kaye rattle on about his experience, the guy doesn't slow down or miss a beat - it's all fluid, instant recall with just the right amount of emotional context. 

Super soldiers are nothing new and I would actually be quite surprised if the US government was NOT working on a super soldier. We even had a movie with Kurt Russel about it, so its not such a wild concept. We have also heard through multiple sources, all putting forth the same story that humans are currently experiencing DNA hybrid upgrades so this also is nothing new and yes this is occurring in the general population as well. You, might have advanced DNA and not be aware of it. The MILAB or Ultra Black military program of taking and breaking young children in order to make them into controlled super beings is nothing new and this might have origins from Nazi scientist who came over to the US after WWII in what is commonly known as Operation Paperclip. Whitley Strieber has talked at length about his own horrific memories of being in Texas and encountering MILAB types as a young child and he believes this might have been a prelude to his ability to interact with the Grays.

We don't have to believe every word of these reports and in this case there is no way to verify Captain Kaye is even real, but it does leave us scratching our heads when over the course of a few years we see a handful of interviews like this, all saying basically the same thing over and over. The real evidence of ET contact wont come from politicians or the evening news its going to only take shape inside your head when you read story after story and begin to connect the dots.

Click here for the article

Click here for audio

Reptilians are real

- Agent D

Desert Secrets: A Google Earth Tour of Classified Installations

Our readers may remember a Special Report I wrote in 2013 entitled "Eyeballing the Nevada Test Range Part 1: Area 51 & S-4" which covered a variety of off-limits, classified military installations on the Nevada Test Range, including Groom Lake. I never had a chance to circle back around and write part 2, so I'm considering this KMZ file download an unofficial followup to that article. If you are unfamiliar with loading KMZ files in Google Earth, here's a quick tutorial on how to do that. 

There are quite a few locations listed here, all of which I found after hours of scouring the NTTR, southern California and the White Sands Missile Test Range in south-central New Mexico. If any of our readers discover interesting installations of their own, we would love to hear about it and we would be happy to update the file with new locations. Enjoy!

Agent K

Update: 02/25/15

The KMZ file has been updated with even more locations of interest. Below is an image of the primary list for reference...

Aliens & Animal Mutilations

We have the unique opportunity to speak with Richard Bonenfant, Ph.D. a retired research scientist and lecturer who is now dedicated to the investigation of phenomena that lie on the fringes of scientific understanding. Prior to his interest in cattle and animal mutilations, Dr. Bonenfant's research career at Albany Medical Center Hospital and the New York State Department of Health was centered on the study of birth defects in newborn children. With advanced degrees in anthropology and psychology, Dr. Bonenfant served as an adjunct professor at Siena College in Loudonville, NY and City College in Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Bonenfant most recently retired from the Veterans' Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, and Richard is likewise credited with publishing several professional articles on near-death experiences. 

Agent D - Richard, I just finished listening to a podcast with Randy Maugan's Off Planet Radio on Animal mutilations and was impressed with the depth of the discussion on the topic in that interview. We will assume the readers here on The Object Report blog have a basic awareness of animal or cattle mutilations and likewise are aware that an ET angle might be involved here. 

Richard - Thank you for your gracious introduction Agent D. Hearing it makes me seem larger-than-life. Actually I come to the subject at hand with only limited knowledge of the phenomenon of animal mutilations. Therefore, my interpretations may appear naive to those more experienced with this ongoing mystery. I plead for patience as research leads me into deeper levels of entanglement with various aspects of this complex phenomenon. My hope is that previous experience as a medical research scientist can add some understanding as to the purpose and method behind these mutilations. Okay, I guess we can now proceed to chip away at the problem.

Agent D - Cattle mutilations and half cat mutilations have been going on for quite some time, and there is an incredible consistency spanning decades where cattle tissue around the mouth and anus is removed very precisely and at times without any traces of blood. Do we have a theory why these two areas of the cow are consistently the focus of tissue removal? 

Richard -That's an interesting observation Agent D. Like most organisms, human beings are consumption machines. We take in food, digest it to sustain ourselves, and remove waste matter that serves no purpose in this process. Of course this is but one functional aspect of existence but a very fundamental one. Without absorbing the nutrition of food, we would soon become extinct. The mouth initiates this ingestion process, the digestive tract sorts out what can and can't be used, and the final segment of this tract discharges waste that is toxic to our bodies. This leads back to your initial question. The organs you mentioned, the mouth and the anus, are the alpha and omega points of the process. Therefore, as an environmental epidemiologist, I would say that whatever agency is responsible for animal mutilations has an interest in what is eaten, absorbed, and discarded by cattle and other animals from the environment in which they live. In other words, it suggests to me a kind of environmental monitoring less the moral implications of the methodology being used.

The techniques and instrumentation used in these mutilations imply a technological sophistication far in advance of current technology. This is immediately evident in what is medically termed exsanguination or the removal of blood from the body. In most cases, the carcass contains little or no trace of blood. It's almost as if some pump-like device had been inserted into the circulatory system in a way that would completely drain the animal of its blood with little or no wastage. This is no mean feat in a clinical setting, let alone in some remote natural environment without the advantage of surgical devices. Then, there is the evidence of laser-like incisions creating portals through which internal tissue and organs are removed. To do this would require some kind of device be inserted into the body cavity which could break down collagen, the main component of connective tissue, such as tendons, ligaments, cartilage, bones, blood vessels and guts in order to remove them from the body cavity through the small portals previously mentioned. This process would basically turn organs to mush from which it would be suctioned out from the body cavity. One example, is the creation of a small aperture in the skull through which an animal's brain are suctioned out from its skull. While I have no knowledge of what is currently being done in highly advanced medical research facilities, I seriously doubt that such capabilities were available over the past duration of animal mutilation events. Therefore, to answer your question more concisely, the only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that the technology necessary to carry out these mutilations lies far in advance of our own.

Agent D - Linda Moulton Howe has been researching cattle and half cat mutilations for over three decades, having been the first reporter to cover cattle mutilations in fact, and she continues to cover these ongoing mutilations from a journalist's perspective. Your approach to cattle mutilations is from that of biological interest - do you feel your findings and theories on cattle mutilations parallel Linda’s perceptions or is there some deviation?

Richard - Let me just say at the outset that this interview probably would not be taking place were it not for the investigative journalism of Linda Moulton Howe. She almost single handedly alerted the general public to the mysterious mutilations that were taking place in the western prairies. Through her archival website, she continues to accumulate a wealth of data not only on various forms of animal mutilations but also on other strange and unexplained phenomenon that we should all pay attention to, especially those in the scientific community. For just as Stanley Prusiner, the 1997 Nobel prize laureate, once remarked, “While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.” With regards to your question, I would say that our views concerning animal mutilations are in very close alignment. In fact, while preparing a follow up article to “Significant Observations Relating to Animal Mutilations,” Ms. Howe graciously provided me with a reference to an abductee’s observation from her 1989 book Strange Harvest. This abductee reported witnessing the mutilation of a young calf by aliens aboard their craft. While doing this I soon realized that Ms. Howe’s archive of abductee accounts may contain a treasure trove of data to other professional investigators who take the time to review these accounts from their various perspectives. The only variations readily evident in our views stems from differences of focus. Ms. Howe presents compelling evidence that these mutilations are the result of alien intervention while my limited research attempts to determine why these mutilations may be carried out. We concur in the sense that mutilations are being purposefully carried out with a high degree of technological precision. I suggest that a possible motive for these mutilations may be to monitor a quiet epidemic of neurological pathologies related to prion diseases. I believe Ms. Howe holds a slightly different view. It doesn't matter who’s correct, what matters is that we diligently work towards finding the reason behind these atrocities regardless of what it might be.

Agent D - I've always had the inclination that the tissue from cattle is used in an ongoing study of man made pollution and the effects of this global pollution on animals, particularly mammals. During the last decade or so the idea of an ongoing Human ET Hybrid project has gained traction - do you have any evidence or leads that would suggest the study of non-human animal tissue could in some way be connected to this ongoing ET-Human genetic program?

Richard - Up to very recently I would have responded that, from my limited perspective, I couldn't see any direct connection between the animal mutilations and the accepted ET-Human hybridization program. But while working on a follow up article to my Prion proposal, I came across something that has changed my mind. This article intended to demonstrate the link between UFO activity and cattle mutilations in a convincing way. When I began to investigate one particular account, that of abductee Judy Doraty, I discovered a direct connection between gray aliens, cattle mutilations and human abductions. This connection will be reviewed in great detail in my forthcoming article. So my answer to your question is yes, I believe there is indeed a connection between these two types of activities.

Agent D - The insensitive way the animal mutilations are being carried out seems to be in keeping with the M.O. of the Grays from what we have heard from other eyewitnesses, and perhaps this is in itself a small clue the Grays are involved to some degree. It has been noted before on the Off Planet Radio show - and this is quite subtle - whomever is carrying out these dissections and studies is leaving the carcass behind in an almost deliberate manner versus simply disposing of the evidence which logically might have prevented humans from being aware of animal mutilations from day one. Is there possibly a read between the lines message to us here through their choice to put the carcass back? 

Richard - The question of why aliens dump mutilated carcasses in the vicinity of where they were abducted comes up quite frequently. Certainly, the carcasses could be disposed of in a way that would not bring attention to what is being done to them. It seems to me that there could be at least two reasons why they do so. The first one is that they simply don’t care and are contemptuous of any consequences. But, that does not explain why the carcasses are discarded so near the location where the animals were captured. Assuming cattle and other animals are dissected within some surgical area within UFOs, it is highly unlikely that simply dumping their carcasses after a mutilation would result in their being deposited so close to the point of capture. Therefore, a logical argument could be made that the way carcasses are disposed is indeed intentional. In consequence, it would be just a matter of time before we humans would come to associate the presence of UFOs with the mutilation phenomenon. The question now arises; why have they chosen to do so? Our curiosity would certainly be evoked and lead us to focus greater attention on the matter. Of the two possibilities, I would lean towards the view that their actions are indeed intentional and directed towards awakening our awareness. Once again I remain cautious about attributing human motives to alien behavior. However, if it is intentional, they certainly have gotten our attention.

Agent D - Richard, do you remember the moment or circumstance when you decided to take a step forward from the silent majority and become directly involved with the study of cattle and animal mutilations?

Richard - You caught me unprepared on this one! I guess it would be fair to say that I've been interested in UFOs since first reading about them in comic books and various other magazines as a teenager. However, at the time more pressing matters prevented me from taking an active role. Even then my interest in UFOs and particularly in human abductions led me to feel that there was little I could do or contribute beyond what was already being done by such prominent investigators as John Mack, Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and a number of others who where active at the time. After retiring I made a deliberate effort to read the accounts of various individuals who had actually undergone an abduction experience. During this process I came across the account of one particular abductee that greatly impressed me. I was touched by the genuineness, intelligence, and I dare say even virtue of her testimony. Out of respect for the privacy of this person, I choose not to mention her name. Anyway, after reading even more about her experiences as well as those of other abductees, I decided to do something to get the attention and respect of the abduction community. To do so I focused on what I knew best, namely the study of environmental epidemiology to make sense of animal mutilations. What followed were several months of intensive research in which I attempted to make the case that mammals were being subjected to an silent epidemic of prion related diseases. And furthermore, that these mutilations were the result of some alien agency monitoring of the spread of these diseases. I guess that was the point were I jumped in. So here we are.

Agent D - Most people think of cats and or cows when we say animal mutilations, but these activities are not just happening to cats and cattle, they appear to be happening to other animals as well, is this correct?

Richard - Absolutely! During my initial analysis I broke the species into two categories; domestic and wild animals. For example, Domestic included family pets such as cats and dogs, farm animals such as sheep, goats, cattle and horses. Everything else fell into the wild category; some examples include elk, deer, bison, badgers and foxes. But more and more, wild mutilated animals are being found all the time. Recently, I was even alerted that mutilated seals, and dolphins have been found in the coastal regions of the northern United Kingdom, especially in Scotland and Ireland. The only common denominator was that they were all mammals. But, this may be about to change. The Director of the the U.K.’s Animal Pathology Field Unit (APFU) has recently told me that birds have now joined the mutilated community after a large flock of seabirds were found decapitated in this same region of the U.K. I would venture to say that as time goes on the list of mutilated species will become even larger.
 
Agent D - The new buzzword associated with animal mutilations on the web is Prions. Rik, can you give a "Prions 101" introduction to our readers who have never heard of this term before?

Richard - Now that’s a real challenge; in how many words or less? Let's begin by stating that prions are protein chains found in our cells. We don’t know their purpose but they are likely to serve some function. Recently, scientists discovered that these prions proteins have a rogue double. While rogue prions are similar in form to their functional counterparts, they contain a mutation in their protein chain which converts normal prions into dysfunctional ones simply by contact. So over time there is a geometric increase in the dysfunctional prions which lead to a plaque build up in the brain. This plaque destroys neurons creating dark lifeless islands giving the brain’s overall architecture a sponge-like appearance. Thus, neurologists refer to prion related diseases as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). TSEs are generally recognized by which areas of the brain they affect; the cerebral cortex in cases of classic Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, the brain stem in cases of Scrapie and Chronic Wasting Disease, the thalamus in cases of Fatal Familial Insomnia and the Cerebellum in cases of Kuru Disease. Mutated prions have been found in both humans and other mammals. Mammals also suffer from prion related diseases. The most common are known as Chronic Wasting Disease in deer and elk, Scrapie in sheep, Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy in cats, Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy in minks, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in cattle...etc. The problem is that these diverse brain diseases were always believed to be confined to the species in which they were found. However, in the late 1980s and early 90s British scientists discovered that Mad Cow Disease had somehow managed to cross this species barrier. A version of Mad Cow Disease had mutated to humans through the ingestion of infected meat. 

This new infection now became internationally recognized as an entirely new TSE in humans. Its defining characteristic was an early onset, (28 instead of 68 Years) accompanied by a wide range of behavioral problems and the distortion of the senses, particularly that of touch. From that initial awakening, scientists soon came to realize that similar trans-species infections were also taking place in a wide range of other mammals such as mink, deer, elk and many more. The question then became; What’s causing this violation of the species boundaries in TSEs? There presently is no answer to that question. Epidemiologist only know that something very “scary” is taking place. What makes this silent epidemic of prion diseases so dangerous is that prions are nearly indestructible. Since they have no genetic material like RNA or DNA, they are immune to radiation and most traditional means of eradicating infectious diseases. They can even survive traditional incineration and autoclave sterilization. So we have no means of either treating or eradicating TSEs. Cattle and other mutilations could be a rather harsh means of monitoring the spread of TSEs throughout the world's mammal populations. There are a number or reasons for taking this view, the primary one being that many mutilated animals are decapitated and even when they are not, a number of cases have small holes in their skulls from which their entire brains have been removed. It’s also very likely that other organ systems and tissues are involved of which we have no knowledge. Therefore, I feel the Prion Hypothesis offers a starting point in the search for determining why the entire phenomenon of animal mutilations is taking place.

Agent D - The resistance of prions to eradication through traditional means does sound rather disturbing to say the least. Speculating here, do you have the impression we've been alerted to something that could have detrimental effects on homo sapiens down the road and we have benefited in a round about way from the cattle mutilations and the subsequent investigations? 

Richard - Yes, I do think that and you’re absolutely right in your estimate of the situation. A number of problems are nested within it. First and foremost, the medical community must become better informed about the seriousness of the matter in order to focus their attention on the nature mutated prions. It’s critical that we learn how abnormal prions are able to convert normal prions to their own mutated form. We must also investigate how prion diseases have managed to cross the species barrier in so many different types of mammals. In addition, we must do a better job of detecting TSE infected animals and containing them in a way that will prevent their spread. For example, at present we incinerate infected domestic livestock without addressing the issue of how recycled animal byproducts continue to promote the spread of TSEs. Prions have managed to survive this process. The recycled protein supplement added to cattle feed not only reinfects cattle, it also infects wild animals that scrounge left over feed from fields and feed bins. What will society do if TSEs spread to other livestock we consume like chickens, pigs, and other animals products? I suggest that our medical authorities immediately ban this practice. This is a problem of our own doing not something introduced by some alien agency. The only involvement by aliens that I see, is that they are acutely aware of the nature and extent of TSEs and may be waiting to see how we respond to the crisis. Their unwanted intervention appears to represent a kind of global environmental monitoring of something of great significance. I myself only came to understand the full extent of this potential epidemic through the investigation of animal mutilations. Early on I could only see that UFOs and aliens were the most probable cause of these mutilations. However, my research clearly suggests that such a wide range of domestic and wild animal mutilations must represent something of significance. Furthermore, the fact that aliens discard mutilated cattle so near the point where they were captured may be an indirect way of alerting us of the problem. However, what they are doing must also serve their own interests in ways we cannot currently understand. I cannot help but wonder if this potential epidemic is not part of the warning many abductees are often subjected to regarding some eminent environmental catastrophe. Let’s hope not, but there is no question that humans are indirectly responsible for the spread of prion diseases and we must find the courage to address it without further procrastination.  

Agent D - Rik, this has been a very intense, revealing discussion on animal mutilations and you've delivered a lot of new information to us. My final question to you - do you see the animal mutilations continuing into the future and more mutilations occurring as human pollution intensifies?

Richard - Like so many things in life, the spread of prion related diseases is a complicated problem that will not be quickly or easily solved. It may be but one aspect of a far more complex problem relating to how human activity has altered a long standing equilibrium in the natural world. I feel that global warming, commercial exploitation of natural resources, and our species attitude that all things on this planet are subject to the fulfillment of human needs are all involved. Advance entities must surely be aware of how we have disrupted this fragile architecture. Yet, I really don’t know if they will intervene on our behalf. I tend to doubt it. We humans have a tendency to attribute benevolence, malevolence or indifference to non-humans based on our perceptions of how “we” should be treated. But we must accept the premise that their behavior and activities may have purposes beyond our understanding. Based on logical speculation, I believe that we will witness greater numbers of animals being mutilated in the future. So far, these events have largely been limited to mammals, but I suspect that the mutilations will soon spread to birds, and sea life of all kinds. So yes, I see the mutilations continuing in a more diverse range of animals. Lets hope I’m wrong. Regardless of how things turn out, we should try to empathize with the animals being mutilated. There is extensive evidence that they too experience fear, pain and suffering

- Agent D