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How Jacques Vallée Helped Create the Myth that Space Aliens Mutilate Cattle

7/4/2018

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​Today is Independence Day, and what could be more American than to take a look at how a Frenchman convinced people across the United States that illegal aliens from outer space were threatening their supply of steak and cheese? Today, we’re going to take a look at how Jacques Vallée helped to invent the myth that flying saucers were mutilating cattle. It’s a sad, dumb story, and the short form is: He put it in a movie, so the public believed it because they saw it on screen.
​Our story starts with Charles Fort, who wrote about cattle mutilations in the thirteenth chapter of part one of Lo! (1931), attributing attacks on sheep in Britain in the 1800s and early 1900s to an unknown species of vampire bat or some unknown type of dog, with an implication—never explicitly developed—that a werewolf was involved. The authorities of the time attributed the deaths to feral dogs, but not everyone agreed. Fort quoted from the Daily Mail in 1905, which had a police officer saying, “I have seen two of the carcasses, myself, and can say definitely that it is impossible for it to be the work of a dog. Dogs are not vampires, and do not suck the blood of a sheep, and leave the flesh almost untouched.” While we would immediately recognize the description as being the same type now (falsely) attributed to the Chupacabra, the Chupacabra myth did not yet exist, so the story was merely one more weird thing in Fort’s chronicle of half-understood weird things, with the specter of the werewolf hanging over what would become the legend of the Chupacabra.
 
John Keel resurrected the story of animal mutilations in 1966, and in September 1967, a horse named Lady was shot, killed, and partially de-fleshed. The story made the papers, and ufologists speculated that the killing of the horse had been the work of space aliens. The ufologists behind the claim were David R. Saunders and R. Roger Harkins in their 1969 book UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong (1969). However, this was a minor anomaly in a field that was more interested in attributing cattle mutilations to the occult. Saunders, however, went on to work with J. Allen Hynek and Hynek’s CUFOS group throughout the 1970s, where he passed on the story of the cattle mutilations to Hynek, who rejected the idea that they were the work of flying saucers.
 
In 1975, at the request of Sen. Floyd K. Haskell, whose constituents complained about cattle deaths in Colorado, the Treasury Department started to look into mutilations, and in 1979 the FBI took over the probe, which determined that they were almost entirely the result of natural decomposition and normal predator and scavenger activity, with a few cases of intentional animal murder by unknown humans. However, the cattle mutilations came at a time when the mass hysteria of the great Satanism scare was ramping up, and the FBI’s report came only after the government had already issued an interim report falsely blaming Satanists for cattle killings.
 
Between these two major points in the history of cattle mutilation we find Jacques Vallée, who in the mid-1970s was deeply involved in ufology and familiar with all of the major works in the field, including both Keel’s book and Saunders’s and Harkins’s book. Vallée was at the time working closely with Hynek, with whom he had discussed cattle mutilations.
 
On September 27, 1975, Vallée met with UFO researchers J. Allen Hynek and Stanton Friedman, along with a few others, at the Hollywood home of ufologist Idabel Epperson. Members of this group had met frequently to discuss UFOs, the occult, science fiction, and parapsychology. On this occasion, Hynek brought up cattle mutilation and announced that the government had solved the problem. Vallée gives the results in his Forbidden Science:
​The conversation moved on to the cattle mutilation episodes in the Midwest. Allen got up for one of his theatrical announcements, telling us, ‘It’s all been solved! Don Flickinger, who’s a Treasury agent with the ATF, says it was all done by a satanic cult. The people involved are known, under surveillance.”
 
“Why are new mutilations still reported every day, then?” I asked: “It’s too easy to blame this on practitioners of the occult.”
​Hynek had gotten advance information from the government investigation which had recently begun. Oddly enough, it was on this occasion that Vallée had begun to notice that his growing belief that Hal Puthoff was correct in attributing a deep reality to psychic phenomena and interdimensional beings had created a wedge with his fellow ufologists, who were still looking for metal spaceships. “My initiation into [Puthoff’s] psychic work has widened the gap between me and my colleagues in the UFO mainstream.”
 
Vallée reported at the time that most mainstream ufologists did not want to investigate cattle mutilations because it was an “ugly subject.” He felt strongly, however, that the cattle deaths did not resemble occult sacrifices. The next year, this ruptured into an open rift when the Treasury agent assigned to mutilations, Donald Flickinger, issued a report (which he had apparently shared with Hynek but not Vallée) alleging Satanists were killing cattle. “Allen [Hynek] finds reassurance (sic) in the report because it places the burden for mutilations on a few hypothetical satanists, thus pushing the topic away from ufology,” Vallée wrote. Ufology did not want to be associated with mutilations, but Vallée had developed a fixation on the idea that cattle deaths were related to UFOs. He even badgered Anton La Vey, the famed Satanist, into admitting that Satanism had nothing to do with the mutilations. La Vey told Vallée that he thought the cattle mutilation reports were a way for the government to distract public attention from more serious social problems of the 1970s. He and La Vey, who were friends of a sort, had also discussed occultism, Jack Parsons, Aleister Crowley, ritual magic, science fiction, and Scientology—Hal Puthoff’s onetime religion. Parsons, you may know, practiced magic sex rites with Hubbard for a time in 1946 before Hubbard went on to found Scientology.
 
It’s probably worth wondering why all these people moved in the same circles. But never mind… That is a story for another day. It is the origin point for the idea of UFOs as interdimensional or demonic entities. Today, though, we are concerned with cattle mutilation.
 
When Vallée interviewed Flickinger in 1976, he learned that the animal mutilations were not as clean and perfect as reported, and he heard that those animals that seemed to have had organs removed had imperfect cuts, the work of a “human surgeon.” “No link to UFOs, either,” Vallée lamented, though I am unclear as to how he determined the surgical skill level of space aliens or interdimensional monsters. For his part, Hynek turned down the opportunity that year to investigate mutilations, and Vallée said it was because the dead animals “scared” him, with the implication that Hynek was afraid of the monsters that were killing cattle. More likely, Hynek found the subject unpleasant and irrelevant to UFOs. He instead joined Steven Spielberg as a consultant on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Upset that Hynek and other ufologists refused to take the subject seriously, or to look beyond Satanists and “witches” for an explanation, Vallée ended up convincing himself anew that UFOs were responsible. Vallée got into a fight about whether cattle mutilations should be mentioned in his book Messengers of Deception.
 
All of this occurred sub rosa to the broader UFO community and the public at large. It was an interesting, but entirely parochial set of events, inside baseball among high level UFO cultists. But Vallée made the UFO theory of cattle mutilation popular with the public in large measure because Rod Serling had died in 1975. Serling had narrated UFOs: Past, Present and Future in 1974, one in a series of UFO documentaries he had lent his voice to following the success of In Search of Ancient Astronauts in 1973. With Serling dead, the producers needed a new voice to update the film for a 1979 re-release designed to capitalize on Close Encounters and renewed interest in UFOs. They turned to Vallée, in part because he was suave and good on camera, and in part because he was rumored to have been the inspiration for the French ufologist in Close Encounters. Vallée reported what happened:
Jay Levey, Bob Emenegger and Alan Sandler have asked me to help them in the updating of “UFOs: Past, Present and Future,” to be re-issued under a new title: UFOs: It has begun. They wanted me to narrate the new footage, and were looking for unpublished data. I recommended adding a section about cattle mutilations.
​By early 1979, Vallée had once again concluded that “Animal mutilations are real but probably unrelated to UFOS,” but nevertheless, he still pushed for the subject to be included in the film. On July 5, 1979, he saw a rough cut of the film:
At Sandler’s production offices Hynek and I reviewed segments of their new documentary UFOs: It has Begun. We will show the first accurate documentation of the cattle mutilation problem, a topic nobody has dared to touch until now.
​Even though Vallée vacillated on the meaning of cattle mutilations and their origins, he was instrumental in delivering to the public the message that they were a part of the UFO phenomenon. And there they remain, despite the manifest lack of evidence for anything unearthly about them. This is a very long way around proving the observation I made back in 2013 that the various parts of the UFO myth have no natural connection to one another but have been artificially attached by ufologists in service of a myth, but it turns out that my observation was actually insight into the unnatural soldering that holds together the creaky UFO myth.
33 Comments
Ken
7/4/2018 09:45:05 am

If aliens in fact are responsible for cattle mutilations, one would expect them to all be very similar if not identical to the way humans slaughter cattle i.e. slit their throats. Unless the aliens are just killing for the fun of it (if they are, then why only livestock?) you would expect them to quickly find the most efficient method of slaughter then stick with it.

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Joe Scales
7/4/2018 10:23:50 am

Are we talking about Jacques Vallée the Ancient Alien Theorist, or the real one?

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Machala
7/4/2018 10:37:38 am

The alien/cattle idea persists ( even in a satirical way ) outside the U.S.
There's an ad currently running on SA television for a cell phone provider that features a Ufologist searching at night for a landed UFO. He spot it with two little alien trying to push a cow up the ramp of the 'saucer'. He tries to call his boss but, of course, has run out of phone minutes, as noted by the two unperturbed space creatures who laughingly point out that he doesn't have the right cell phone provider.
The final scene in the ad has the aliens and our intrepid ufologist sitting around a campfire, eating hotdogs. No sign of the cow, however.

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Uncle Ron
7/4/2018 11:20:58 am

What would really be funny, although most viewers would find it in very poor taste, would be the group cooking a steak on a grill. Obviously, the advertisers didn't have the stones to go there.

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Machala
7/4/2018 01:59:17 pm

I'd have opted for the steaks, too, but the client, no doubt, thought the cow was too cute and what with kids watching....

Clete
7/4/2018 11:36:11 am

You would think that a Ufologist when searching for UPO's would also remember to bring a camera. I mean he might have been able to record Alien-Cow inter-species sex. This would certainly have quieted, for all time, critics of Alien visitation.

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Machala
7/4/2018 02:01:35 pm

The final scene had the aliens taking selfies with the Ufologist !

Jean Bush
7/23/2018 03:46:47 pm

You'd also think that farmers would set up cameras in their fields where so-called crop circles spring up, seemingly overnight. Without recorded evidence, all this is pretty moot.

I'll take a hotdog, plain with mustard. Thanks.

V
7/5/2018 01:48:48 am

Persists in a satirical way inside the US, to. The Netflix reboot of the cartoon classic Voltron has a recurring character that is a cow, Kaltiniger (named for one of the producers), whom the main characters obtained by buying basically an old Atari game system (under another name, of course, because copyrights) from a Grey alien at the "space mall."

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Bezalel
7/4/2018 11:17:29 am

" ... he was instrumental in delivering to the public the message that they were a part of the UFO phenomenon. And there they remain, despite the manifest lack of evidence for anything unearthly about them...."

There is no credible evidence to date that UFO's are unearthly either.

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Sabine L.
11/1/2021 09:17:53 am

Interesting tidbit: while Jacques Vallee believes that the UFO phenomenon is real to a certain degree, he does NOT believe anymore in extraterrestrial origins of UFOS. He - and Hynek, too - changed their minds around 1969, which led to mayor fallouts with the majority of ufologists. This is understandable because their concepts of the phenomenon are even stranger than the idea of nuts-and-bolts UFOs from another galaxy. Vallee's concepts are more a philosophical construct of perception and reality.
Whatever you may think about Vallee - he is the thinking person's ufologist, as even debunkers like Klass acknowledge. Vallee cannot be pidgeon-holed easily, and he has debunked many popular UFO incidents with sound arguments. He is one of the very few UFO researchers - which includes believers and debunkers as well - who are not afraid to ask critical questions and change their minds when a scenario is not plausible.
I have no idea about his current believes concerning cattle mutilations. However, he has never argued that technically highly advanced extraterrestrials have developed the strange habit of picking up cattle in order to harvest blood and body parts for unknown medical purposes and then dumping them again. Vallee has actually ridiculed this idea. He rather believed in some factions playing ugly mind games.

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Scott Hamilton
7/4/2018 02:25:41 pm

I just happened to watch "It Has Begun" last week. Two things about the Vallee parts of the movie really struck me:

1. Vallee looks a lot like Peter Capaldi in bad wig, if Capaldi had no ability to engage the camera.

2. It's weird that they didn't change the script to take into account it was going to be delivered in heavily French-accented and stilted English. So Vallee keeps referring to "this country" and it takes constant mental effort to figure out what country he means.

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Vonmazur
7/4/2018 04:07:59 pm

I always thought that LMH held the bag for this myth. Strange Harvest and the hype that she published ??

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Jason Colavito link
7/4/2018 04:38:32 pm

"Strange Harvest" was on TV in May 1980 (and repeated in Sept. 1980) and piggybacked on Vallee's material from the previous year. It was broadcast only locally, on KMGH-TV in Denver, and therefore was seen by fewer people than Vallee's documentary. Howe, however, pushed her own legend for the past four decades and inflated her importance. Basically, Vallee lost interest while Howe rode it to stardom.

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Americanegro
7/4/2018 04:50:51 pm

a. It's not clear what movie Vallee was responsible for putting cattle mutilations into. Also who is the writer to say "people believed it because they saw it on a screen"?

b. This sentence is an abortion gone wrong: "He even badgered Anton La Vey, the famed Satanist, into admitting that Satanism had nothing to do with the mutilations."

He BADGERED someone into saying "We don't go around mutilating cattle"? Who has to be badgered into saying that? What the actual fuck?

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Jason Colavito link
7/4/2018 07:12:14 pm

La Vey enjoyed the PR of making Satanism seem evil and edgy, and he never liked revealing any truth if he didn't have to. Vallee argued with him and got him to admit that he wasn't responsible, even though he liked the PR boost of having the feds blaming him. Read "Forbidden Science" and see for yourself before accusing me of making things up.

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Americanegro
7/4/2018 07:56:19 pm

You have a much different take on 'Ton than I do but no matter. Which of the 3 volumes should I buy and read to settle my misunderstanding?

Jason Colavito link
7/4/2018 08:22:54 pm

It's in volume 2.

A Buddhist
7/5/2018 09:17:57 am

Jason: Would this be Forbidden Science by J. Douglas Kenyon, or some other series of books called Forbidden Science by Jacques Vallee? I ask because this blogpost mentions Forbidden Science only once in a somewhat ambiguous way: "Vallée gives the results in his Forbidden Science". This sentence could be interpreted as meaning "Vallée gives the results in his [book called] Forbidden Science" (and I have no doubt that this is what it refers to), but those who are aware only of the book Forbidden Science, by J. Douglas Kenyon (or are just puzzled by the abrupt appearance of the title Forbidden Science in the blog post), may interpret the sentence as meaning "Vallée gives the results in his [article in another person's book] Forbidden Science".

Jean Bush
7/23/2018 03:49:47 pm

It's just a drama verb.

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orang
7/4/2018 05:02:53 pm

Argentinian cows don't believe you, Jason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WMKqFo6X0

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orang
7/4/2018 05:04:42 pm

Here's another but probably from another country:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZzJGM661D0

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Kal
7/4/2018 10:24:06 pm

Forbidden Science sounds familiar.
Also in the early 2000s, History showed a silly program on the 'Chupa Cabra', which I found grossly hilarious, as they had found the carcass of a dead coyote and were convinced it was one of them.
Then some guy they dug out of a Valle movie claimed the incisions on a dead cow could not have been made by animals, even though the marks on it were clearly from birds picking at the carcass.
In one scene, they even were caught shooing away a crow or raven that was trying to get to the kill.
Then they shwed other clearly expired and rotting animals havbing nothing to do with the goat sucker, 'chopa cabra', which was actually a goblin like creature, not a bloated coyote.
Charming.
And I've seen the aliens with the cattle ad. It was on during the Super Bowl two years back.

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Doc Rock
7/5/2018 12:48:52 am

You have the mind-blowing technology it takes to reach earth from a jillion miles away. But when it comes time to experiment on local life forms it takes place with cows in farmer Bob's pasture in the middle of the night. The vast majority of times you end up with mutilations that look pretty much like what one could expect to see resulting from natural decomposition, processes, scavengers, or a psycho with a set of steak knives.

I guess that the mutilations are the work of the descendants of the aliens who showed up in the past and decided to play architects. The end result being limited to stone structures that look pretty much like one might expect to see produced by a well motivated human society working with technology of the time.

Or maybe the aliens are just being clever. They have been disguising their work to make it look like stuff that a sane person with an IQ above room temperature could understand to be the work of humans or natural processes.

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An Anonymous Nerd
7/5/2018 07:32:22 pm

"the FBI took over the probe"

I can't be the only one who noticed this line, or realizes why it's funny in this context, can I?

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Clete
7/5/2018 11:39:22 pm

That is kind of funny given the stories around about that time about J. Edgar Hoover and his "close" associate Clyde Tolson.

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An Anonymous Nerd
7/6/2018 07:35:39 pm

The joke, which I guess no one agreed was a joke! Sorry!, was that the other thing aliens seem like to do besides mutilate our cattle was probe our rectums.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Tom
7/6/2018 01:49:10 pm

A new star is born! And now commences shining brighter and brighter across the wide firmament of American UFOlogy on the Internet.

Frank Stalter, producer and host of the weekly YouTube program UFO News Network Sunday — a veritable “60 Minutes” of UFOlogy — will interview on Sunday, July 12, the newest hero of UFO Disclosure and genuine scientific confirmation of ET, Kevin Knuth, Professor of Physics at Albany State University.

https://youtu.be/BAYj2468exI

Dr. Kevin Knuth joins us on July 12 to talk about the reaction to his article calling for a closer scientific look at UFOs, his exoplanet hunting efforts and how ET might get here from there.

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Dude
7/8/2018 10:49:05 pm

I have doubts Vallee convinced Americans that aliens were responsible for cattle mutilations. But Jason likes making a name for himself calling out people. I think Vallee saying he didn't think it was aliens shows that he evolves on subjects. I don't remember anyone back then pointing to Vallee as the guy that convinced the public...or really anyone that did. South Park probably has helped create this myth too then...so what's the point? Vallee isn't reliable or that"cool"? I don't think I was convinced by this write up or that history is up for revision.

Linda Moulton Cow is a different story...she's more spinster of a good story than investigator. She is entertaining, and with her age I think she's probably just pushing hearsay anymore.

Chris O'Brien has probably done the best job investigating this, and is pretty solid on his theory of mad cow disease being the motive. And he even claims an alien encounter, but says cow mutilations are not aliens. I'd like to see Jason reveal these stories...instead of the what seems to be a focus on trying to chop at people. A balanced approach promoting the good work being done, would make his criticisms seem more thoughtful.

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7/9/2018 02:41:27 pm

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Christopher O'Brien link
7/10/2018 10:47:10 am

Thanks for the shout out (of sorts) Duder. Obviously, Jason hasn't read the only exhaustive, objective book on the subject, Stalking the Herd (excuse the shameless self promoting plug). I go to great lengths tracing back all the various memes/theories as to who or what was responsible for the waves of mutilations from the '70s through the '90s. The evidence trail is fascinating when examined closely. IMO Jason is placing way too much importance on the very few public comments made by Vallee over the years re: the mutilations. The "Snippy"case was definitely the ground zero/typhoid Mary where we first find UFOs linked w/ an unexplained livestock death. But, having said this, Linda Howe has unquestionably and without question, singlehandedly placed this questionable meme forefront in the culture. Any and all evidence of possible "ufo involvement" perhaps constitutes 5% to 10% of the data. The other 90-95% (after factoring out the sizable percentage of misidentified scavenger action) suggests a more homespun, down-to-Earth explanation. If Jason is really interested in this subject he'll take me up on an offer to be sent a review copy. careful what you wish for! :0

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John butler
7/10/2018 03:54:57 pm

Come'on given the time that has passed and organs it is reported as cut out/off why don't we recognise people were/are using the mutilated animals to help them survey contamination. Radioactive or otherwise. The farmers generally get compensation. Sometimes in very isolated areas the survey teams travel by helicopter - hence the lights in sky rumours, later prompting UFO rumours. Sometimes the survey teams have lifted and later dropped the animals, making carcass dropsite bloodless - I dunno why, sick / bored people? Disinfo operations?

I guess not everyone got the memo on who to claim compensation from. Those that did get the memo never wanted to expose the truth as it likely would have dropped the value of the stock grazing upon their land at market. Think what happened to all the grazing animals in Scandinavia after the Ukrainian reactor meltdown.

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Vince De Mars
5/5/2019 12:52:11 pm

Dear Mr. Colavito,
Did you read the book "The-37th-Parallel" by Ben-Mezrich?
Kind regards, Vince

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