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Black/Unmarked Helicopters
During the early 1970s, reports of mutilated cattle increasingly began to include sitings of black or unmarked helicopters in areas where mutilated cattle were discovered. They have since have become part of several different mutilation hypothesis, including the Cult hypothesis, the Government/military hypothesis, and the Alien hypothesis.

Descriptions of their behavior and appearance vary between reports. Typically, they are described as being being either:


 * Black helicopters flying at low level during the night, without running lights or cockpit lights
 * White helicopters flying at low level during the day, without markings

In some cases, B/UM helicopters are reported as having been seen prior to a spate of mutilations. In other cases they are reported as being seen after mutilations have taken place.

The exact nature and purpose of B/UM helicopter's varies between hypothesis. In most cases, believers speculate that helicopters with special harnesses are being used to ferry cattle to a remote location where they can be mutilated, or that they are mobile mutilation platforms that collect and mutilate an animal without landing (page 13).

These beliefs are often derived from claims that certain marks or injuries have been found on mutilated cattle.

In one case, New Mexico police reported finding ligature mark on mutilated cow; which appeared to indicate that it had been lifted by a harness of some nature, and unexplained fractures to the cows left fore and hind legs; which officers believed were the result of the animal having been dropped from a helicopter after it was mutilated (page 5). An official report made to the FBI confirmed that an unidentified low flying aircraft had been heard in the area prior to the mutilation, and that that the animal had suffered  broken bones and antemortem bruising to the breast/rib area that was consistent with it having been suspended in a harness and dropped to the ground (page 3).

Investigations by the ATF and the FBI recorded numerous sitings of B/UM helicopters in conjunction with cattle mutilations that occurred between 1972 and 1979, but were unable to independently verify their existence, or to conclusively link the sitings to mutilated cattle. Despite this, public perceptions of a link persisted, resulting in several incidents in which ranchers were reported to have fired warning shots at low at low flying aircraft (Page 1).

As a result of continuing public perceptions, the Nebraska National guard was forced to instruct its helicopter pilots to fly at twice their normal altitude in 1974, after a local rancher fired on a utility company helicopter that was inspecting power lines near Grand Island (Page 25); in the belief that helicopters were  involved in a spate of cattle mutilations in the area. Reports indicates that two rounds struck the helicopter's canopy, but that the crew escaped injury.