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From : Danny Cox                                             1:330/201.1
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The original document can be found on the web at:
http://www.desnews.com/cit/sun/-home-.htm and appeared in the Deseret
News last Sunday.

The Deseret News is Utah's second largest newspaper.  This is *not*
small-town gossip.

Here is the artice in its entirety:
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Frequent Flyers?  Those aliens do get around.

By Zack Van Eyck
  Deseret News staff writer

  For species that supposedly don't exist, aliens sure do
  get around.

  Extraterrestrial beings and the aircraft they purportedly
  fly have become an indelible part of American and
  world culture. You can't watch TV for long anymore
  without seeing some reference to aliens. It's as if
  they've hired a slick public relations firm to maximize
  their exposure.

  Even Hollywood has a new fixation with ETs. The
  much-awaited "Independence Day," expected to be this summer's
  blockbuster, is unleashing an alien invasion of earth at a
  theater near you this week.

  Of course, everyone knows that humans are the only intelligent
  life in the universe, UFOs don't exist, all crop circles are
  faked by two English blokes, cattle mutilations are carried
  out by laser-wielding coyotes and bigfoot will have a sizable
  bill to pay if he ever returns that rental costume.

  Well, not everyone.

  "My personal opinion, not speaking for Hansen Planetarium or
  Salt Lake County, is that the universe is teeming with life,"
  said Patrick Wiggins, a spokesman for the planetarium.

  "There are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand
  on planet earth. The notion that anybody would say that out of
  that incredible number of stars there is only one planet that
  has life on it, that's ludicrous.  That's egocentric to the max."

  Terry and Gwen Sherman wish some of that teeming intergalactic
  life would find somewhere else to hang out.

  For more than a year now the Shermans' 480-acre ranch just
  south of Fort Duchesne in Uintah County has been a hotbed for
  UFOs and bizarre paranormal activity -- weirdness that even
  the Shermans, who've witnessed the strange happenings with
  their own eyes and video camera, have trouble accepting as
  reality.

  "For a long time we wondered what we were seeing, if it was
  something to do with a top-secret project," said Terry Sherman,
  who reluctantly agreed to speak publicly about the activity
  for the first time. "I don't know really what to think about it."

  The Shermans, their teenage son and 10-year-old daughter have
  seen three specific types of UFOs repeatedly during the past
  15 months -- a small boxlike craft with a white light, a 40-
  foot-long object and a huge ship the size of several football
  fields. They've seen one craft emit a wavy red ray or light
  beam as it flies along.  They've seen other airborne lights,
  some of which have emerged from orange, circular doorways that
  seem to appear in midair.  They've videotaped two of the
  sightings.

  Mystery circles

  They once discovered three circles of flattened grass, each
  about 8 feet across, in a triangular pattern about 30 feet
  from each other.  In a nearby pasture, other strange soil
  impressions have been found -- circles about 3 feet wide and
  a foot or two deep with the dirt in the center perfectly
  flattened.

  One of the flying lights followed Gwen's car on her way home
  from work one night.  And while out in one of the fields with
  the family dogs, Terry heard male voices speaking an unfamiliar
  language. The voices seemed to be about 25 feet above him, but
  Terry couldn't see a thing.  The dogs were frantic.  They
  barked and growled before running off to the ranch house, Terry
  said.

  The Shermans have linked the sightings with the death or
  disappearance of seven of their cows. Four have disappeared
  without a trace. Three others have been found dead and partially
  mutilated.

  "We've seen (the UFOs) enough and we know pretty much what the
  craft look like, and I think it's definitely associated with
  the cattle mutilations -- when we see the crafts and then the
  cattle, we have problems," Sherman said.

  "You talk to a lot of people around here that at one time or
  another have seen something they can't explain. There's been a
  lot of cattle mutilations, and a lot of them weren't reported.
  Several (ranchers) told me that when they had a (mutilation),
  they called the authorities and the authorities couldn't do
  anything, so it was just a waste of time and effort."

  Indeed, the records clerk for the Uintah County Sheriff's
  Department said her department has not received reports of UFOs
  or cattle mutilations in recent memory. Sheriff Ralph Stansfield
  in nearby Duchesne County said he is unaware of any UFOs or
  mutilations being reported in the past 18 months.

  Although the Shermans haven't told officials about the cattle
  mutilations or UFO activity, they have confided in Joseph
  "Junior" Hicks, a retired junior high school teacher from
  Roosevelt who has investigated more than 400 UFO sightings in
  the Uintah Basin since the early 1950s.


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Date : Sat Jul 06, 05:07                                                       
From : Steve Wingate                                         1:330/201.1
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Subj : Cattle Mutilations in Utah 2/3                                        
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  To Hicks, the Shermans' sightings are extraordinary for their
  number, duration and quality. But what they've witnessed is
  hardly unusual for the Uintah Basin, he said.

  "I'd estimate over 10 percent of the population of the Uintah
  Basin has seen something," Hicks said.  "I think what's happening
  is we are being visited from beings from another world or some other
  place.  I think primarily it's research and exploration."

  Sightings abound

  Utah's UFO activity isn't limited to the Uintah Basin.

  Controversial film footage of flying discs was taken by a Navy
  warrant officer near Tremonton in 1952. A "fireball" that raced
  above Salt Lake City's skies and drew considerable attention in the
  Nephi area in 1962 is considered suspicious by some UFO
  investigators.

  Pat Roach, a Lehi woman working for Geneva Steel at the time,
  attracted national attention when she went public with her
  account of an alien abduction she said occurred in 1973.

  Bill Lyons, a Mutual UFO Network investigator in Iron County,
  is intrigued by a February 1993 incident in which a man and
  woman saw a dozen UFOs near Hurricane, including an egg-shaped
  craft with telephone pole-size landing gear and a large hot
  dog-shaped craft.  After the sightings, the couple surveyed the
  ground nearby and found a trail of small three-toed footprints in
  the snow.  Other markings indicated a tail might have been dragging
  behind whatever made the prints.

  "The thing that struck me about this sighting was its depth and the
  copious amounts of information," Lyons said. "There was just so much
  detail to it."

  The woman, who lives in Kanab, confirmed the sighting in an
  interview with the Deseret News but did not want her name
  published.

  Ryan Layton, a Davis County resident, has interviewed more
  than two dozen Utahns who claim to have seen UFOs. He knows
  of an Emery County couple whose 16-year-old daughter believes
  she has been abducted repeatedly by an alien with red glowing
  eyes.

  "I know they're out there," Layton said.

  Businessman Paul Pedersen agreed to speak publicly for the first
  time about an event he says occurred in 1964. As Pedersen was
  leaving a neighbor's Emigration Canyon home early one morning, he
  noticed a huge oval-shaped craft in the sky above him.

  "It drifted over and down and then hovered above the driveway,"
  Pedersen said.  "As it stood still, people inside came to the
  portholes and looked out at me.  That kind of unnerved me because it
  was so dark I knew I couldn't be seen by human eyes. . . . They
  looked just like people.  They were silhouetted against this green
  light in the background."

  Pedersen then received a telepathic message from the beings.
  They asked if he'd like to come with them.

  "It was one individual's voice," he said. "I didn't say anything but
  answered by thinking. My thought was that I can't leave, I have a
  wife and two children who depend on me. Their response was, 'That's
  OK,' and the craft just hovered up above the trees and went over the
  mountain behind me."

  Ray Kelsey of West Valley City says he was working in a Wyoming oil
  field in the 1970s when he and 250 others saw a UFO above an oil
  rig.  The rig later exploded. Kelsey said superiors told the workers
  not to report the incident.

  "They were taking something out of the ground, oil or something
  black, but it wasn't a solid stream. It was particles -- like a
  beam," Kelsey said.  "The ship itself had different colored lights
  and was transparent."

  Local filmmaker Trent Harris, who is sponsoring a UFO film
  festival late next month in Bicknell, heard similar stories
  recently while filming in Zion National Park.

  "You can't throw a rock in southern Utah without hitting
  somebody who's been abducted," Harris said.

  No hard evidence

  Hard evidence to support such claims is sorely lacking, however,
  and eyewitness accounts just can't be trusted, according to Barry
  Karr.  He is the executive director of the New York-based Committee
  for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, which
  publishes "Skeptical Inquirer" magazine.

  "There is no good, physical evidence that we are being visited
  by beings from other planets," Karr said in a telephone interview.
  "There's no question that people see things in the sky that they
  can't identify, but that just means at the moment those things are
  unidentified."

  Karr said many CSICOP members are open to the idea that
  intelligent life may exist elsewhere.  They just don't believe
  that life is now visiting Earth.

  "We don't know exactly what they saw," Karr said when told
  about what the Shermans say they've seen. "You can't take
  eyewitness testimony for it.  I have people who have told me
  elaborate stories about what they've seen and you do some
  research and it turns out to be a blimp.  I think it's very
  unlikely that what they're seeing is from another planet."

  UFO paradise

  The Shermans' ranch would be paradise if they were UFO
  researchers, but strange lights in the sky weren't what what
  the couple was looking for when they bought the ranch two
  years ago.  They wanted a quiet place where they could get away from
  it all.  Gwen, a Uintah Basin native, and Terry, who moved here from
  Arizona when he was 17, had no idea what they were in for.



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From : Steve Wingate                                         1:330/201.1
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  In April of 1995, the family got a taste of what was to come.
  Terry stepped out of the house to check on a cow that was
  calving in the field south of the house when he noticed lights
  in the field.  He assumed they belonged to recreation vehicles,
  maybe kids from a neighboring farm riding four-wheelers.

  That didn't make a lot of sense, though. The ranch is isolated,
  three miles from the main road, and access is cut off by a creek and
  a huge rock ridge.

  "It went clear down here and just above where this cow's
  mutilated," Sherman said, pointing to where that first UFO was
  seen.  "It went over some poplar trees there that are probably
  40 to 50 feet tall.  That's the first time we realized it wasn't an
  RV."

  Gwen didn't see the object that time but had a sighting of her
  own later.

  "It looked like headlights, but they were a little ways away
  from the craft and there was a red glowing thing, about an
  18-inch circle," she said. "It just lit the whole side of the
  mountain up like broad daylight."

  In the months to follow, the Shermans saw myriad lights and
  flying objects, including more than a dozen on one evening.
  Sightings generally occur during a new moon and often when the
  sky is overcast or stormy.  Their most recent encounter took
  place in May during a thunderstorm.

  Terry and his son believe they may have communicated with one
  of the craft.  As they traveled west on the ranch road one
  evening, they saw a lighted object duck behind the rock ridge
  as if to avoid them. Moments later they managed to sneak up on
  the object.  Before it could hide again, they stood and waved
  their arms at it.  The light flashed on and off three times,
  as if signaling them, and then disappeared.

  Cattle mutilations

  Soon after sightings began, the Shermans found one of their
  cows dead in a field.  It had a peculiar hole in the center of
  its left eyeball but was otherwise untouched with no trace of
  blood.  There was no evidence of predators, footprints or tire
  tracks.  A strange, chemical-like odor was present.

  Later, another dead cow was found with a similar hole in its
  left eye and a 6-inch hole, only about an inch deep, carved out of
  its rectum.  The same chemical smell was noticeable.

  Cattle mutilations have been reported across the United States
  since the 1960s, particularly in Western states.  In "classic"
  mutilation cases, the anus is cored out and the cow's udders and
  genitalia are removed, all with laser-like precision and no visible
  sign of blood.  The Shermans, who keep close watch on their cattle,
  believe they may have interrupted the mutilators before they were
  able to finish.

  Then cows began disappearing altogether.

  "We about rode the saddle horses to death looking for cattle
  until we realized" they were vanishing, Terry said.

  One appeared to be lifted from the snow where it stood.  The
  Shermans saw the cow's hoofprints lead into the field, but the
  prints stopped at the edge of the field near some trees.  The
  area where the cow apparently took its last steps was surrounded by
  a circle of broken twigs and branches.  Above, Terry noticed the
  tops of the trees appeared to have been cut off.

  "If it's snow, it's hard for a 1,200- or 1,400-pound animal to
  just walk off without leaving tracks or to stop and walk
  backwards completely and never miss their tracks," Terry said.
  "It was just gone. It was very bizarre."

  The last of the three dead cows was found in January in a clump of
  trees at the edge of the same field.  The cow, which had been seen
  alive by the Shermans' son just five minutes earlier, had a 6-inch
  wide, 18-inch deep hole cored out of its rectum and extending into
  the body cavity.  There was no blood on the cow or the snow, and the
  same chemical odor was apparent.  There was a circle of twigs around
  the fallen cow and the tops of the trees appeared severed.

  Karr is skeptical.  He believes the conclusions of a 1980 New
  Mexico study by retired FBI agent Ken Rommel Jr., who decided
  mutilations there were the work of toxic plants and predatory
  animals.  Rommel's findings are rejected by many New Mexico
  ranchers, some of whom have lost cows to the phenomenon in the
  1990s.

  Hard to deal with

  The cattle deaths and disappearances have been troubling, both
  psychologically and financially.  Even while the Shermans wonder if
  they can believe what they're seeing, their bank account has taken a
  hit.  The mutilators didn't take just any cows, they took the best
  ones, Terry said.

  "I've got a neighbor over here who's reluctant to talk but he
  told me they've had trouble since he was a small kid and he's
  probably 55," Terry said.  "He told me, 'People will think
  you're crazy but you're not.  If you are, then we both have the same
  problem.' "

  Leland Mecham, who lives in nearby Neola, knows the Shermans
  are not insane.  He had two prolonged observations of UFOs, one in
  the mid-1960s and another a decade later.  The second craft he saw
  was gigantic and had rays of colored light shooting out from its
  underbelly.  After it scanned the landscape, it elevated, streaked
  across the sky and was gone in an instant, Mecham said.

  "There's no way it was swamp gas or balloons like everybody
  tries to pass it off," Mecham said. "I was probably as skeptical as
  any man alive, but when I saw these, in my opinion, they had to be
  operated by somebody.  It couldn't be any other way. And I don't
  think there's anything we've got that could move that quick."

  The Shermans may never know the cause or reason for what they've
  experienced, but they know one thing -- they just want it to stop.

Published 30 June, c 1996 Deseret News Publishing Co.



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