In similar news, much ado has been made about the "arrival" of "Mad Cow Disease" in the U.S. As dire and newsworthy as this sounds, I doubt that BSE is a newcomer. I think it's been incubating within our population for a long time. Some scientists have even proposed that the infamous "unmarked helicopters" seen in the vicinity of cattle mutilations might be part of a clandestine government effort to trace the spread of BSE. The modern cattle mutilation phenomenon began in the late 70s -- more than enough time for a contagion like BSE to infiltrate the U.S. and take up residence in our spinal tissue.
But why, ask debunkers, would the government use such secretive and costly methods? Why doesn't it simply buy its own cattle-land for research purposes instead of terrifying ranchers and spawning horror stories about Little Gray Men? Because the horror stories are integral to maintaining secrecy. By conducting tests in the open, the government (or whatever agency is responsible for cattle "mutes") would effectively signal its ignorance and lack of control. Citizens would ask questions. They might even panic.
What better way to avoid public accountability than take the study "deep black"? Sure, ranchers are going to wonder what the hell's going on. But since the underground study hasn't admitted to anything -- indeed, it's circumvented Congressional oversight entirely -- it can maintain its activity with impunity.
Stories of alien experimentation are bound to arise unassisted. The "alien invasion" meme is incredibly potent. Given its myriad psy-ops applications, it would be foolish not to exploit it. Eventually, in the hands of well-meaning researchers such as Linda Moulton Howe, a merely terrifying top-secret attempt to track a brain-destroying disease becomes the grisly handiwork of ufonauts every bit as cool, unsympathetic and inscrutable as H.G. Wells' Martians.
Or maybe there really is an alien element behind some cattle mutilations. Perhaps the government is using genuine alien experimentation as a cover for more mundane research -- or possibly as an attempt to reverse-engineer the aliens' own agenda. Or -- and this is truly freaky -- aliens and terrestrial biologists are working together. Maybe diseases like BSE really are the culprits, and the aliens have a sincere, ongoing interest in it. In this case, maybe the aliens are OK. Better a bunch of anonymous livestock than us, right?
But there are reports of human mutilations, too. Paranoia? Hoaxes? Disinformation? Whitley Strieber claims that close-encounters with apparent nonhuman beings have taken a decided turn for the malevolent lately. If true, maybe the intelligence behind the "mutes" -- human or ET (or both) -- is proceeding with the next stage of its project.
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