“There are many more such accounts - all bubbling quietly below the surface of the UFO rumor-mill…. I am pointing out that this is alleged in some quarters to be a genuine aspect of the bigger UFO puzzle. And if only to lay the matter to rest, someone should launch an in-depth study of the controversy.”

If its sole existence is in the UFO rumor mill, you won’t be ABLE to lay the matter to rest. The people who believe such things will simply choose to disbelieve the in-depth study or accuse it of being a cover-up and the author(s) as men-in-black operatives. Additionally, the people making up the stories in the first place will simply fabricate more outlandish tales at a faster pace than they can be meticulously investigated and disproven. Anyone ever try to argue with someone on the internet, putting in hours of careful research and factual verification, only to eventually realize the other party’s sole source of rebuttal information is stuff they’re making up as they go along?

All that said, here’s one example of an actual, verifiable human mutilation. The only mystery is whodunnit.

Who Mutilated Dominic Marion?
On the trail of a bizarre hospital crime, New Times finds a cryogenically frozen head, a witch hunt for a wiccan and a stumped detective. And still nobody knows . . .
By James Hibberd

Very interesting re the NM case you found. If you click on the first link in the human mute blog post, it takes you to the FBI’s official files on all this. Despite the fact that it was all dismissed as predators, most of the reports in the FBI’s files are from the NM Poilce. There’s some very weird reports there in the official NM police files - tripod landing marks, elevated radiation readings, evidence of return visits to the same farms, animals vanished, substances found at the sites that couldn’t be identified, etc. They’re tricky things those coyotes!

I didn’t hear the C to C show; but certainly there is no definitive evidence of a human mute ever having occurred - only reports, testimony, rumor, etc. That’s why, as per the bllog post, I think it needs someone to really dig into all this and try and resolve it either way. At this stage it’s one of those “limbo” type issues where a lot of people have heard things, but no-one has really tried to nail it once and for all.

Yep, the show-off angle is a key factor in mutes. I think there’s a couple of possibilities - (a) someone is doing it to try and create a mythology of aliens (when in reality it’s something else); or (b) it’s to generate fear and a sense that “they” are invulnerable and untouchable - which is basically true because no-one ever gets caught doing these things.

So, there may be as much of a psychological motive behind these events as any other reason.

The case you are thinking of is that of Zigmund Adamski - today most researchers think it’s unconnected to UFOs, but the Adamski synchronicity re the name, plus a police invesigation where one officer later had a weird ufo encounter still makes some wonder.

Now I know you’re big on barbecues, and your fellow, blackly clad, baldy Nosferatu grandad’s big on blood, but all that piddly fussiness doesn’t somehow smack of the way of the Redferns [wasn't 'RED Fern' also the Venusian family name of the "blood-sucking carrot" in 'The Thing'? But I digress].

What I’m getting at is there’s more than an element of the show-off about the cattle mutilaters, an element of ‘We do this, because we can!’

Hell, what am I saying? It IS you and your grandad!

Now there is the fact that I have mutilation experience. Not conducting the mutilation mind you but when I lived in New Mexico I stumbled on a mutilation while walking my dog. It was a cow, lips and platysma region removed along with genitals. The brand had been obscured by some kind of friction and the corpse was bloodless. My Labrador would not approach it. When team of paranormal investigators came out I thought we were done for because some scavengers had finally come the night before the investigation. But I was vindicated when the cow was 50 rads above ambient radiation on a Geiger counter. Tell me a predator did that… I still have some pictures somewhere, I should put them on my blog.

Jess