[jumpingmice]

Mysterious cattle mutilations have been reported in the US for my whole life (long time!) and probably before. It was a meme for the kinds of people who believe in conspiracies by the US government to conceal the existence of UFOs and aliens on earth, long before it was a plot element of the X-Files 25 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation

[taborj]

I'm always reminded of Dan Aykroyd's line in the 1992 movie "Sneakers". His character, Mother, was huge on conspiracy theories.

"Cattle mutilations are up."