NIDS Cattle Mutilation Investigations Across Utah, Nevada and New Mexico
During August 1997, NIDS conducted investigations of suspected UAP-related cattle mutilations across three Western US states, including one case in which a cow displayed strange hemorrhaging consistent with being dropped from a significant height.
Background
The Programme
Beginning in the late 1990s, the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) treated cattle mutilation cases in the American West as a systematic field of scientific investigation rather than a fringe curiosity. The institute maintained a standing protocol: veterinarians, scene photographers and laboratory samples were dispatched quickly to any credible case.
August 1997 Investigations
In August 1997 alone, NIDS investigators examined mutilation cases in Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. One case in particular involved a cow with unexplained internal hemorrhaging patterns that forensic investigators said were consistent with an animal that had been dropped from a significant altitude — findings they could not easily explain with predation or decomposition.
Significance
Coulthart discusses the NIDS programme as an under-appreciated example of professional, laboratory-grade investigation of a phenomenon normally dismissed as folklore. The lack of predator marks, precision of the excisions, and absence of blood at the scene across dozens of NIDS cases are documented in the institute's internal archive.