# Are aliens mutilating cattle?

Are alien beings behind the cattle mutilations reported in the U.S. and many other countries?
Aliens here refers to extraterrestrial-origin beings – including automatons and biorobots – and anything manufactured and/or controlled by them directly or indirectly.
These arguments have been imported from the structured argument map "What are UFOs?" on Kialo.

## Aliens are the explanation for cattle mutilations.
### Arguments for

* Pro There are over 10,000 cases$^{[addmorebetterrefs]}$ of cattle mutilations, showing great consistency and representing a large number of cases where the likelihood where is humans would be behind these they would most likely have been caught by now but none have been convicted of these mutilations.
* Pro As an explanation, a hoax is not possible anymore due to the evidence, wild animals or natural phenomena are not possible due to the surgically removed organs, a cult or government conspiracy is not possible due to little incentives to do so, high risks, public perception impacts, because nobody has yet been caught and because of the large quantity of cases in many parts of the U.S. and possibly the world. There are also no tracks and no signs of disturbance. This leaves only aliens as a viable explanation.
** Objection No alien abductee is known to have ever reported seeing parts of a cow in the alien craft or to have witnessed them abducting a cow except for possibly one case where a human was reportedly killed and mutilated but with no confirmation, possibly one case (1988 in the Guarapiranga Reservoir, Brazil) where a person was similarly mutilated and with no blood, one case where photos have been taken, and one case where a farmer couple witnessed aliens from an UFO abducting and levitating a cow.
*** Objection They may hide or not show why they mutilate cows and parts of them to abductees. That one human may have been killed in a similar way is just another reason for why aliens is the most likely explanation.
* Pro The cows are consistently cut very straight and clean with a surgical precision that excludes both wild predator animals and not just nonprofessional surgical equipment use but apparently all known human technology.
* Pro There is no blood around the cows even when it is done outdoors and the dead cow is detected shortly after its death. Since this didn't happen just once but consistently many times that excludes explanations like some wild animals doing that and no human technology that can do so is known either.
* Pro So far no perpetrator of these cow killings has ever been found even after decades. No forensic evidence has ever been found at the sites.
* Pro There is lots of evidence of all the claims such as many photos and videos.
* Pro There is one case where a farmer saw an UFO abduct and kill a cow which he drew and photographed. These images fit the conclusion by Australian farmers whose cattle have been mutilated that "It must have something that lifts it up and puts it down and doesn't leave any marks". Moreover, it is consistent with a report claiming Air Force sergeant Jonathan P. Lovette was seen by Major William Cunningham with a long snake-like arm wrapped around his legs being dragged into a silver disk hovering above the ground which pulled Lovette inside to then rise vertically into the sky. Reportedly, after three days, Lovette's nude deceased body was found with all of his organs removed with very high surgical precision. In another case, a farmer couple witnessed aliens from an UFO abducting and levitating a cow. There likely are further cases where people witnessed the events.
** Objection The photos are blurred and nobody has analyzed them.
*** Objection Somebody could however do so and this is not a reason to dismiss it especially since there is little plausible motivation for a farmer to create hoax images and drawings just post this without much attention on one website. In fact, there are several motivations for that person to not do so, mainly likely ridicule by others.
* Pro Often the cows are drained of blood, this can't be done easily if at all.
* Pro In several occasions, cows mysteriously crashed through a roof, including one case that was filmed. In one case, a cow somehow got on top of a roof.
* Pro Often these occur at around the same time a UFO sighting is reported.$^{[addmorehere]}$
* Pro Various specific cow organs are frequently removed so quickly cleanly and targeted outdoors that excludes wild animal predators and makes human causes unlikely. Humans or flies can't do these things within less than an hour for example.
* Pro So far no mutilation has ever been recorded except for one potential case that shows a UFO mutilating a cow (see above).
* Pro These mutilations cause substantial financial harm to farmers. This means it is unlikely they do this to their own cows. Despite of that they did not get compensation for that and no perpetrator has been found despite of investigations and substantial financial interest in finding them.
* Pro The alien explanation is consistent with and would also explain – in the simplest way the many alien abductions and corroborated reported sightings of UFOs with apparently above-human aviation technology.
* Pro Several investigations found in some cases something likely landed near the cow. An investigation led by Gabe Valdez in June 1976 "found that some type of aircraft landed and scorched the grass".

### Arguments against

* Con Motivations why they would do that are unclear and it seems absurd.
** Objection They could do it for entertainment or to demonstrate their capabilities or to produce certain things with biotechnology or to use their organs for things like xenotransplantation or for training of their doctors or to make people interested in UFOs and related subjects sound absurd and stupid to name just a few potential motivations.
** Objection The ruminant digestive system is special and they may need it for some biotechnology or investigate it for it. For example, the cow rumen microbiome could be used for degradation of synthetic polymers.
*** Objection Other animals are also being mutilated, not just cattle, and often only other parts of the cow body get taken.
** Objection We shouldn't assume to be able to know possibly and likely advanced aliens' motivations. For example, these may be due to very advanced technologies we can't yet think about.
* Con If it was aliens, they likely have been here much earlier already and thus could have done these cattle abduction and mutilations long before the current millennia to achieve what they intended to achieve.
** Objection They may need doing so for a persistent time, not just for a while until some objective is reached similar to how humans need to eat food persistently, not just until a few thousand years ago.
** Objection It could have to do with modern human civilization.
* Con Something else could explain it. Hibbs claimed mutilation fell into three categories: Natural causes such as predators, deaths caused by pranksters or deviants, and animals mutilated with "sharp instruments". Wikipedians wrote "Fringe explanations for the mutiliation have blamed satanic cults, aliens, or even mythical monsters", including the alien explanation as a brief subsection under "Other explanations" classified as "fringe".
** Objection The Pros have already refuted this explanation, making it not viable anymore. It is "debunked" so to say.
** Objection Wikipedia is biased.
** Objection They have set the conclusion that it must not be aliens first instead of approaching it neutrally and rationally where the conclusion or classification and assessments only follow after looking at collected data.
* Con It could be inaccurate to attribute it to "aliens" if these UFOs are controlled by humans or if the beings are not extraterrestrial but emerged on this planet in the sense of, roughly described, being created by extraterrestrial aliens.
** Objection The explanation would still be 'aliens' even if humans control alien technology UFOs or if the entities and/or technologies have been developed on Earth by a system originally set up by extraterrestrial aliens.
* Con There is not enough evidence for the existence of aliens for this theory to hold.
** Objection Theories hold also without evidence. They are just confirmed by evidence. This debate is about what the explanation is, not whether there is a proven explanation. Alien activity is the by far most likely explanation consistent with all of the large amount of available data.
** Objection There is enough evidence that so far indicates alien life is viable and likely plentiful in Milky Way galaxy. There is enough evidence supporting claims for UFOs far beyond human technology and claims of alien abductions.