In the 1970s Montana ranchers began finding dead cows that appeared to have been drained of blood and partially dissected.
UFOs were reported in the area at the same time, and stories of cattle mutilations by aliens soon made the news.
Scoffed at and ridiculed, the so-called mutilations were ascribed to predators, diseases, lightning strikes, and even a hippie cult.
But Keith Wolverton , a no-nonsense county sheriff who personally investigated many of these cattle deaths, ruled out all those causes.
He and others, including veterinarians and animal forensic experts, could not explain how the animals died or how they were dissected.
Wolverton was so intrigued by these incidents that he wrote Mystery Stalks the Prairie to record and preserve what he found.
Decades later there is still no explanation for what happened then, and today there are new reports of animal mutilations in North America and around the world, making this book relevant again.
The new edition includes a new introduction by the author and a transcript of interviews with the author and others, bringing the book up to date.
About author(s): Keith Wolverton was a Captain with the Cascade County (Montana) Sheriff's Department from the 1960s until his retirement in the 1980s.
The events in Mystery Stalks the Prairie represent countless hours of research and investigation on the part of Captain Wolverton and his fellow officers.
He died in 2019.
The new introduction is written by Dr.
Joan Bird, a longtime advocate of the existence of UFOs and related phenomena and the author of Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials (Riverbend Publishing, 2012).
The interview transcribed in the new edition with Wolverton and fellow county sheriff Pete Howard was conducted by Dr.
Richard O'Connor, an anesthesiologist in Helena, Montana, who is active in UFO research.
He started the Jesse A.
Marcel Library for UFO research and discussions in Helena.
The library was named after the Army major who investigated the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash.
For many years Dr.
O'Connor worked with Marcel's son, also a Helena doctor, and often had heard the son tell of his father showing him strange pieces of debris from the UFO crash site.
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Riverbend Publishing Mystery stalks the prairie: unexplained cattle killings and ufos in montana, paperback/keith wolverton
