Arkansas’s Cattle Mutilations of the Late 1970s: Investigations, Theories, and Responses
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Arkansas faced a wave of cattle mutilations beginning in 1977 that alarmed ranchers and drew media attention, prompting researchers such as Nancy Owen and Paul Hooks to seek natural explanations instead of alien or occult theories, James Thorne to document cases, and law enforcement to pursue inquiries into the early 1980s and calls for a state task force.
