"Snippy" horse mutilation (1967).

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'Snippy' was an Appaloosa horse (actually named Lady) found dead and stripped of flesh on the neck and head in Colorado's San Luis Valley in September 1967. The widely publicized case is generally…

'Snippy' was an Appaloosa horse (actually named Lady) found dead and stripped of flesh on the neck and head in Colorado's San Luis Valley in September 1967. The widely publicized case is generally credited with launching the modern cattle-mutilation-meets-UFO narrative. The death is a documented event, but its cause remains contested, with predation and decomposition among prosaic explanations.

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2002 Argentine cattle-mutilation wave.San Luis Valley hotspot.The 1970s Cattle Mutilation Wave.