Cattle Mutilations in Missouri Baffle Investigators and Ranchers

Cow mutilations in western Missouri have ranchers concerned about the loss of their livestock. 

Henry County rancher Lyn Mitchell is baffled by the mutilations of two of her cows within nine days.

Location of cow found July 10

On July 10, 2013 Lyn Mitchell arrived at her ranch in Northwest Henry County, west of Warrensburg, and found a six-year old healthy Black Angus cow lying dead. The cow's udder, anus, reproductive organs, ear, and tongue had been removed with precision, yet no blood or fluids were found on the ground. Her other cattle circled the cow, giving it a wide berth, which is unusual behavior. Lyn found an article on animal mutilations written by Chuck Zukowski, so she promptly contacted Chuck, who lives in Colorado. Zukowski forwarded the case to Kansas City resident and Missouri MUFON Assistant State Director Margie Kay.



Lyn Mitchell's ranch

Kay and a fellow investigator visited the site and took soil and grass samples to be examined by a lab in Colorado. They found a strange black outline around where the cow had been lying on the ground that looked like burnt grass. An unexplained large imprint that looked like a bigfoot print in a cow pie was found by Jordan. It measured 16" long and 8.5" wide. An attempt at getting a casting proved unsuccessful. No samples were taken from the cow, who was badly decomposing and had been moved to a different location.

 

Mitchell said that on the day before this incident she was tending to the juviniles in their pen when she suddenly had the urge to look up in the sky. Although she did not see anything, she took several photos of the sky anyway. She could not explain it, but she felt that something was watching her from above. 

 

Mitchell related that another incident occurred two years prior. A calf was found mutilated with tissue and muscle removed from the jaw, and the tongue removed in December of 2011 in a nearby pasture. At the time, the rancher thought it was just a predator and thought no more of it.

Imprint in cow pie

On July 19, 2013 Lyn Mitchell called Margie Kay to report that yet another of her cows was found dead. Kay and a second investigator arrived just after the sheriff and veterinarian completed their investigations. The veterinarian told Mitchell that the teats had been cut from the udder, the tongue was cut out, and an incision had been made between the front legs with the heart lying outside the body. There was little blood in the chest cavity or heart, which is very unusual. The vet explained that he could not identify the cause of death, but that it definitely was not caused by animals due to the precise cuts on the cow. Kay found no blood on the scene, which would normally be found if the cow had been mutilated at that same location. No tracks from vehicles were found, and the only entrance gate to the property was locked.

Once again, there was a strange black outline on the ground as if it had been burned. Kay, who is a forensic investigator, said that it looked like a chemical burn.  

Cow found on July 19, 2013

Then things got very strange. The witness and both investigators heard a very loud, low flying airplane go overhead, but none of them could see it. The plane was invisible to the naked eye. The three were standing in the middle of a very large field with a good view of the sky in all directions. Then, unbelievably, a second plane flew overhead yet could not be seen. The engines sounded different and had a higher pitch than the first plane. The three decided it was time to leave the area, but Kay promised to return. 

A week later, Margie Kay and Debbie Ziegelmeyer, State Director for Missouri

MUFON returned to the site to continue the investigation. They found high EMF readings in and near where the cow had been found, and the black outline on the ground remained. They checked all of the tires on the farm equipment to see if it matched with the print found a the site but they did not. The three women were standing near the black markings when Kay saw a bright round flash of light on the ground approximately three feet in diameter, blinding her for a few seconds. It was a clear day with the sun overhead, yet the flash was incredibly bright. Debbie and Margie could not find a source for the mysterious light. 

 

Second cow location with burnt outline

The investigators set up two nigh-vision motion-activated video cameras on the property and then packed up to leave. The three women were nearing the vehicles at the gate when a sudden long-lasting gush of 60 - 80 mph wind came up, blowing their hair and themselves. The day was dead calm with no wind, so this event was unexpected. After approximately one to two minutes, the wind stopped and did not return. Debbie and Margie agreed that it seemed as if a helicopter suddenly started up and took off, yet they could not hear or see any type of craft.

Two weeks later, Kay returned to retrieve the two cameras that had been set up on the property. The video showed strange lights moving about the property. When asked, Lynne Mitchell said she had no explanation for the lights. There are no other properties around the area.

Lyn Mitchell is distraught over the loss of her cows. She said “I don't understand why someone would want to do this to an animal, or how they accomplished it.” Mitchell said that each cow was worth approximately $2,000, not taking into account the future calves they would have produced. She pointed out that all three mutilated animals were very healthy and the best of her stock.

 

Link to News coverage: https://youtu.be/hh7EBFRKUjY

 

Link to Interview with Lyn Mitchell by Margie Kay https://youtu.be/sAlnd5lQbeM ________________________________

 

A similar cow mutilation near Rich Hill, Missouri occurred on April 10, 2013. This involved a cow with missing udder, female organs, and tongue. Kay investigated this case, and oddly, the rancher reported that the area where the cow was found dead glowed red for three nights. A retired sheriff deputy told Kay that he investigated a similar case in 1993 where three ranchers reported mutilated cattle, and was told to back off the case. The deputy believed that there was a connection to UFOs because the ranchers reported seeing a craft over their fields before the mutilated animals were found.

 

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A cow mutilation near KCI airport was reported to local media January 5, 2012 and was covered by local news channel KCTV 5. Margie Kay saw the news report an immediately contacted the reporter, who put her in touch with the rancher. Kay and investigator Corey Pearce went to the site with the rancher's permission. The veterinarian said that precision cuts had been made on the animal but no blood was found on the site, which is unexplainable. They found a 2” indentation in the hard ground where the cow had been lying before the rancher removed it, indicating that the animal may have been dropped from above. Soil testing revealed that the soil was hydrophobic (non-water soluble). This can only occur if soil has been subjected to high heat. The soil also had high levels of manganese, compared to test samples taken 30 feet away.

Excerpt from KCTV website article:

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) – Kansas City police are investigating a bizarre and disturbing crime involving livestock in the Northland. Someone had entered a private pasture and cut out a cow’s reproductive organs, possibly while the cow was still alive. Rancher Casey Hamilton called police Thursday morning, directing them to a pasture at 120th and Brightwell, just west of Kansas City International Airport. He told them he had separated the 7-year-old cow from the rest of his cattle because she was sick. He had been treating her and said that when he left her at 6 p.m. Wednesday, she was standing and eating. When he returned Thursday at 6:30 a.m., she was dead with two distinct chunks of tissue removed. “For somebody to get a 1,200 pound cow down and do that,” Hamilton said, “they had to know what they were doing with a tranquilizer.” He said there were no bullet holes in her nor signs of rope marks, but there were signs of a struggle. “The cow had struggled on the ground,” said Aaron Brisbane, the veterinarian who examined the animal. Brisbane said he could not determine whether the thrashing came before or after the cow died, but he said there was no legitimate reason for the surgical procedure the animal underwent. Someone had cut out the cow’s udders, bag, mammary glands and vulva. He said  that was the only tissue removed. “The way the cuts were done,” Brisbane said, “someone had to have done this before.” He said it appeared the precise cuts were made with a scalpel. “It was too clean to have been done with a knife or a box cutter,” he said.

Link to News Coverage: https://youtu.be/gl9S693wjVM

In the above cases, the cows were mutilated in a similar manner, there were precision cuts on the animals, and no blood was found in the area. All of the locations are rural, with limited traffic and accessibility, and gates are always locked.

Other similar incidents have occurred in Missouri, and it is believed that Missouri was one of the first states to report animal mutilations in the 1960's. Margie investigated over 70 mutilation reports since from Missouri and other states, as well as Canada.

Kay set up a new website where people can report incidents at animuteinv.blogspot.com.

Anyone with information about animal mutilations is invited to contact Margie Kay at Quest Investigation group and Missouri MUFON at margiekay06@yahoo.com or 816-833-1602.

Real Time Anomalies

We have all read sci-fi books that deal with time travel, but it may be a real phenomenon. I have had some rather strange experiences with time over the years, which opened my eyes to the possibility of time travel. An experience in 2008 made me realize that we all may have the ability to change time as we desire. I am a third-generation psychic with clairsentient, clairaudient, and clairvoyant abilities. I have had some random experiences with time shifts in the past, but recently have noticed that I can slow time down so that I can better observe my surroundings.

In the summer of 2006, I started noticing bright blue-white lights darting around one of the trees in my back yard. I watched the lights off and on for a few months while sitting in the hot tub on our back deck. One evening in the middle of winter while wondering what the lights were, a voice said, “Why don’t you ask them?” Although I was shocked that I got a response to my question, I decided to ask the lights directly what they were and got an answer! I received telepathic communication from a male voice who identified himself as the “Spirit of the Tree.” He stated that that the tiny lights that darted about the tree were “Tree Sprites.” When I questioned him further, he told me that the Tree Sprites were the energy of the tree and that they told it when to grow new limbs and leaves, when to go dormant for the winter, and when to die. I noticed that in the winter the lights seemed to form patterns of new limbs that appeared as a dark line with a white glow around them. Sure enough, in the Spring new limbs grew in the exact same locations.

After that experience, I began to watch the sprites more closely. I noticed trails following the lights, and that the orbs moved more slowly at times. The tiny dots of light would appear for three to four seconds, rather than for a half a second as they usually did. I pondered this for a while, then realized something that could be particularly important. Perhaps the lights were not actually moving more slowly— but rather I changed my time perspective, and as the observer it just appeared to me that the lights moved more slowly. Then I remembered some odd experiences I had in the past that could be related to this phenomenon. 

 In 1976 during my freshman year at CMSU in Warrensburg, Missouri an event happened that I have never found a good explanation for. My boyfriend walked me across campus to my dorm one evening, and while walking we noticed that a girl in front of me had on the exact same type of white jacket that I did. As we approached and passed her, I turned to look at her, and she and I stopped momentarily in disbelief.  She and I looked exactly the same, as if we were twins. We both had on the exact same jacket, jeans, and shoes. We both had the same purse, too. The only thing different was that she was carrying some books and I had none. We were both so shocked that we did not say a word to each other but walked away in different directions. I do not know why we did that—today I certainly would have stopped and talked, but for some reason neither of us said anything. The next day several of my friends mentioned seeing me in a bar in downtown Warrensburg the night before. They wanted to know why I would not talk to them or respond when they called my name. They would not believe me when I told them that I was not in the bar that night but had band rehearsal and went home at around 10:00 PM. This proved that there was either another person on campus who looked exactly like me and was perhaps my actual twin sister that no one knew about, or I time traveled to a different time. I am still perplexed by this event.

In the year 2000, I approached a street that leads to my house when I saw a car exactly like my grey Sonata come to a stop at the stop sign, then turn right onto 23^rd Street in front of me. I was shocked to see that it was my car with my license plate, and I was driving it the car. Obviously, I had time-traveled somehow, but had no desire to do so at the time and have no idea how this occurred.

 In 2003 the most profound event concerning time travel occurred. My husband and I and a friend of ours went to the Bahamas for vacation. As we approached the island in a small plane, I noticed a sudden change in energy. Something was not quite right but I did not know what it was. I asked the flight attendant if we were anywhere near the Bermuda Triangle, and she said we were in it. I had reviewed a map prior to our departure and was sure that we were not going to be in the triangle during the trip. No one else could feel the shift in energy. I started to feel strange and got more and more ill as the days went by. At one point, we were on a tour when I became extremely ill and had to be taken back to the hotel. As I lay in bed, I passed out and could feel my body floating up and thought that I was dying and leaving my body. 

All of a sudden, it felt like I slammed down into something, and opened my eyes. I looked down to see that I was standing in my 11-year-old body looking up at my mother! My mother, brother and sister were in the basement room at my Grandparent’s house. I screamed, and my mother and sister, who were standing in front of me asked what was wrong. I realized what was going on—I was time-traveling in my own body!  Being sick must have had something to do with it.  I spent approximately three or four minutes with my family, told them what was going on and made observations about their appearance such as the glasses they wore and the red rash my brother had around his lips from eating too much tomato sauce, my mother’s bright red lipstick, and items in the room I had forgotten about. It was just too much to be a dream.   

I remember thinking that I did not know how much time I had so I should use this time to tell them about anything important. I told my sister not to go in the water when we would take a vacation to Corpus Christi a few years later because she would be stung by a man-o-war jellyfish that would set off Lupus in her body. The three of them did not believe a word I was saying. I then noticed the smell of pipe tobacco that I had not smelled since my grandfather died in 1972 and realized that this might be the only opportunity I would have to speak to him again. 

Next, I ran up the stairs to talk to my grandmother, who was sitting at the kitchen table as she usually did. She died in 1985 and left me a letter but I never found it. I asked her where she would leave the letter for me in the future and she knocked on the kitchen table and said she would leave it inside the table. Then I went into the living room to visit my grandfather, who was sitting in his favorite easy chair and smoking a pipe. I told him what was going on and he said he believed me. We talked for a few minutes and then suddenly I was transported back to my present body with a hard slam that hurt. I had an instant migraine headache and became nauseous but recovered by the next day and was glad to get out of the Bahamas and go home. I asked my family if they remembered me doing anything strange at age 11 but my sister and mother did not recall anything. However, my brother did remember it and even remembered the rash he had from the tomatoes. My grandmother's letter never showed up, but I suspect that someone else in the family found it and kept it.

I had a locational astrology chart done at the suggestion of my father after he heard about my experience. I did not believe in astrology but ordered the chart anyway. When the chart arrived, I was shocked to see that I should never go to the Bahamas and that if I did go there it would mean death or a life-changing experience if I survived. Boy was that chart accurate. At that point, I began to take astrology more seriously.

A similar event occurred a few years later when I was ill at home. I again time-traveled to my 15-year-old self, but once again, my mother did not believe what was going on. This only lasted for a couple of minutes, then I slammed back into my body at home at the present time.

In 2005 I drove to Columbia, Missouri to speak to an annual meeting of state insurance adjusters. I was running a little late because my computer crashed the night before and I had to stay up all night to redo my presentation. The drive from Independence to Columbia usually takes two hours and 15 minutes or longer driving at 60 miles per hour. I remember wishing I could get there faster, but luckily arrived in time for my talk at 9:00 AM.  We had computer problems, so I did not start my talk until 10:00 A.M.  I left at exactly 12:00 PM to commute back home and called my secretary on my cell phone to tell her I was leaving and to expect me at 2:30 P.M.  The entire trip was uneventful, and everything seemed to be normal. However, I arrived at the office at 1:00 P.M., and we noticed that only one hour had passed since I left Columbia. I had somehow time-jumped, skipping 1 ½ hours of travel. My secretary was stunned and so was I. This was physically impossible unless you take in to account the possibility of a time anomaly.

In the spring of 2006, I drove down a busy main road to pick my husband up at an auto repair shop. I was running a few minutes late and wanted to get there fast. During the drive, the cars around me suddenly slowed down to a crawl— it was like watching them move in slow motion. Even a person and a cat walking on the street seemed to be moving in slow motion while I seemed to be moving at a normal speed and felt perfectly fine. This lasted for a full two to three minutes, and upon arrival at the shop everything went back to normal speed. It was at that point, that I began to wonder if these anomalous time events were something that I could create or control.

The most recent events began to occur in 2016 when I noticed fast-moving objects in the skies. I have been seeing these objects for many years, but began to pay more attention to them, and wished that they would slow down so I could observe them better. This proved to work, and now I can clearly view high-speed UFOs. I recently released a book called “The Fast Movers” along with Bill Spicer and Wayne Lawrence that goes into more detail on this subject.

Location of time anomaly in Nebraska
Note the location of the MO River

An odd time experience occurred twice when I drove to Omaha, Nebraska from Kansas City. Both times I noticed an old looking sign that said the town of Percival was one mile ahead, then approached an exit that had the town name on it. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw a highway patrol car behind me. Then about 30 minutes later, I again saw an exit sign for the same town. When I arrived at my destination, I was 30-40 minutes late. This exact scenario repeated itself during both trips to Omaha. In this case, I wonder if I did not pass through a portal and have what is called a missing time experience, where I lost time. The signs looked incredibly old, like something from the 1950s. Fred Zewe, Assistant State Director for Nebraska MUFON, told me that someone he knows had a very odd experience with a green fog and missing time near the same location.

I do not know if being psychic or being a UFO contactee has anything to do with having these experiences. Or maybe I have been using a part of my mind that is not fully trained yet, and I have tapped into a valuable resource that with practice can be controlled at will. The one common thing having to do with two of the times I was driving is that I had the desire to get somewhere quickly. What was different about those times though, compared to similar events that did not result in time travel, I have not yet determined.

I would like to hear from others who have experienced similar events.  Please contact me at margiekay06@yahoo.com if you’d like to share your experiences.  

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Margie Kay is the ASD for Missouri MUFON and Director of Quest Paranormal Investigation Group. She is the author of 13 books. Visit www.margiekay.com for more information. 

Want to Know More about UFOs in Missouri? Look no Further.

In case you were wondering if there have been any significant UFO sightings in the State of Missouri, look no further. The following is a list of books that cover the subject. And watch for a new book coming out in 2021 by Missouri MUFON field investigators who will publish their best cases.

The Kansas City UFO Flaps
By Margie Kay, 2017, Un-X Media Publishing

Kansas City is a major UFO hot spot and has been since the early 20th century. In this book, veteran UFO and paranormal investigator Margie Kay presents many of the fantastic UFO sightings and close encounters which occurred during UFO flaps in the greater Kansas City area, focusing on the nationally covered 2011 - 2012 flap, the October 2011 mass sightings and close encounters, and possible abductions. Kay also covers the infamous and unexplained Kansas City Lights, which are still going on to this day. Margie also presents her theory as to why Kansas City has multiple unexplained paranormal events. Kay is a MO MUFON investigator. 

The Fast Movers: Evidence of High-Speed UFOs/UAPs
by MO MUFON Investigators Margie Kay and Wayne Lawrence, and Bill Spicer, 2020, Un-X Media.

New Evidence that UFOs are among us…Prepare to be amazed at stunning proof the UFOs not only exist, but they are among us on a constant basis. In this collaborative effort, three seasoned UFO investigators share their independent investigations, experiences, and opinions, along with photographs of multiple high-speed UFOs that Kay coined "The Fast Movers." These objects are normally invisible to the naked eye, but can be captured on film, and with practice, the viewer can learn how to see them.The reader will learn techniques for capturing these extremely fast-moving inter-dimensional craft using the Quantum UFO Observation Technique with a video or still camera, and find out how to see the craft using Quantum Telepathy or Remote Viewing with the naked eye. See photos taken by Bill Spicer and Wayne Lawrence along with other witnesses, including NASA and the U.S. Navy. The proof is undeniable, and the conclusion is clear - we are not alone, and THEY ARE HERE.

 

"UFOs in Missouri: True Tales of Extraterrestrial and Related Phenomena
By Lee Prosser, 2011, Schiffer Publishing LTD.

See the state of Missouri as you never have before — as a hotbed of UFO activity and paranormal phenomena. From time slips and vortices to extraterrestrials and inter-dimensional beings, the Show Me State appears to be a haven for all things supernatural. Hear about residents who have been "implanted" or experienced missing time. Learn what to say to an extraterrestrial and how to call down a UFO. Visit the many sites of UFO sightings, including Excelsior Springs, Harrisonville, Marshfield, and Northview. Travel to Missouri's own Bermuda Triangle — Joplin, Springfield, and Branson. New perspectives on UFOs, mysterious phenomena, intriguing tales, and scary UFO revelations are just waiting to be explored, as the extraterrestrials beckon. Will you answer their call?

Weird Missouri: Your Travel Guide to Missouri's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
by James Strait, Mark Moran (Foreword by), Mark Sceurman (Foreword by) 2008, Sterling

GET WEIRD!"Best Travel Series of The Year 2006"--"Booklist""" What's weird around here? Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman asked themselves this question for years. And it's precisely this offbeat sense of curiosity that led the duo to create Weird N.J. and the successful series that followed. The NOT shockingly result? Every "Weird" book has become a best seller in its region! ((Series Sales Points)) This best-selling series has sold more than one million copies...and counting Thirty volumes of the Weird series have been published to great success since Weird New Jersey's 2003 debut

The Cape Girardeau 1941 UFO Incident
by George Dudding, 2015 GSD Publications

A Southern Baptist Minister is drawn into a bizarre, strange, and intriguing mystery when he agrees to lend a hand at an airplane crash outside the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri during the Spring of 1941 just before the United States enters World War II. There is something strange about the whole incident and the reverend finds himself taking part in a possible military and government cover-up. The events that night will haunt him and his family for years to come.

MO41: The Bombshell Before Roswell
By Paul Blake Smith, 2016, W&B Publishers

MO41, The Bombshell Before Roswell” by Paul Blake Smith, might well be the most exciting, shocking, and impactful event – and now book subject - not just in American history, but all of human history. Did three extraterrestrials really crash-land their circular spaceship on a farm just outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in mid-April of 1941? Was this stunning recovery then taken to a secret hiding place beneath perhaps the most recognizable building in the world? Was an aspect of the scientifically examined alien craft’s propulsion system applied to the U.S. nuclear weapons program to help win World War II? The serious, amazing pre-Roswell claims and quotes, rumors and insights, opinions and documented facts are all examined here, in proper chronological, easy-to-read order, the only book to ever comprehensively explore perhaps the wildest nonfiction story of all time.
The results make up a case that could win in a court of law, or at least in the court of public opinion. You, the reader, decide!

UFO Cold Cases: Missouri: Secret USAF Files, 1952-1968, Declassified
By Dave Toplikar, 2018, davetoplicarbooks.com

Warning: These cases might upset your reality. Straight out of Project Blue Book, these are UFO cases the U.S. Air Force couldn’t explain — real-life X-files from Missouri.They baffled the military and were labeled as "unknowns." Using outside analysts and military personnel, the USAF treated these reports of strange lights, flying saucers and other UFOs seriously. From the late 1940s through the late 1960s, Project Blue Book received more than 12,000 reports. Most were explained away as common everyday objects: planets, tricks of light, balloons, birds, meteors, helicopters or planes. But not all could be identified — 701 reports are still listed as “unknown.”

My Trip to Mars, the Moon and Venus, Buck Nelson, 1956, self-published. 

"We Met the Space People: The Story of the Mitchell Sisters," Helen and Betty Mitchell (Address delivered at the Buck Nelson Convention, June 28, 1959), Saucerian Publications. Out of print, however there is a good article about Buck Nelson here.

UFO Landing in Southwest Missouri in 1978 Investigated by Ted Phillips

On the morning of October

Still from a documentary reenactment

8, 1978 a family in Jenkins, Missouri saw an unidentified object in their field approximately 285 feet from their house. They also noted a similar object in the sky at a much further distance. The larger object did not move from 7:00 am when they first noticed it, until 9:00 am. The farm owner left his house to do some chores and noticed that the object suddenly rose up to a height of 30 to 50 feet above the ground. The family came out of the house to watch the object, which then bean to move to the west, ascend rapidly, turn twice, join with the second airborne object, and gradually fly away and out of sight.

The landed object was described by the farmer as an oval or egg shape which appeared white in color while it was on the ground but more silver in color and reflective once it arose. Its size was judged to be four to five feet wide and three to four feet in width. One area of the object was darker in tone, which made it easy to see that the object was rotating at about once every two seconds.

The witnesses immediately called the sheriff's department.

A deputy sheriff arrived that afternoon and took pictures and soil samples. The deputy observed in imprint in the ground which measured 4 1/2 feet long and 3 1/2 feet wide.

The farmer and deputy noted that the grass at the site where the object was first observed was noticeably swirled. Physical trace evidence investigator Ted Phillips with MUFON investigated the site and noted that the ground had been depressed and the grasses swirled, but not burnt or dried out. To Phillips, the ground appeared as a spot which was over-fertilized. The soil moisture was normal. The force bearing down on the ground was not great as measured by penetrometer tests. Phillips found no radioactive heightened readings.

As time went on there was noticeable deterioration of the grasses at the location.

 

Sources: 

MUFON Journal #135, May 1979

MUFON Journal #141, November 1979

Joplin(MO) Globe, October 24, 1978.

International UFO Reporter Vol. 3 # 12, December 1978 via www.nicap.org