1 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,280 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,360 In this episode, we're talking about cataly mutilations, the 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,080 unexplained reasons. That's correct. 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,680 Cataly mutilations, the unexplained reasons. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,160 I found this article over nnsl.com. 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,920 I haven't really done too much with this site before, but the 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:27,400 article looks pretty cool actually. 8 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,440 The title says the unexplained reasons behind cattle 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,800 mutilations. When writing about the 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,560 paranormal, it is very important for readers to understand what 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,560 some of the researchers experience. 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,080 This will give everyone a good basis to understand this 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,720 phenomena as we talked about it. It says and the author is 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,880 Raymond Yakila. He's got a picture of the 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,200 fellows. I'm a middle-aged guy, Toledo 16 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:59,440 born Raymond akilahisinterestedinallthingsparanormalsendhimyourstoriesthatsays1954@hotmail.com 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,880 When writing about the paranormal, it is very important 18 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,400 for readers to understand what some of the researchers 19 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,320 experience. This will give everyone a good 20 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:12,080 basis to understand this phenomena as we talk about it. 21 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:13,440 You know, I think that's important. 22 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,640 A lot of times people don't really include their their 23 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,680 personal experience when they have these sightings, whether 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,960 it's UFOs or bigfoots or cryptids or in this case, cattle 25 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:26,160 mutilations. Because he says my first 26 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,200 experience was just on such an occasion. 27 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,560 I should mention that I am a boy from Toledo with little to no 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,480 knowledge of a farm or ranch life in any way. 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,360 The following will give you my observations. 30 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,600 It all started with my meeting with Fern Bazzill from St. 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:51,800 Paul, AB and I did look this up for the address because he had 32 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:56,520 that, he had Alberta, he had the initials as ALTA, which was 33 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:57,920 like, you know, what the heck is that? 34 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,680 Well, we can go to Google pretty quick. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,320 Alberta, of course, is a Providence in Canada. 36 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,280 It's one that's one in from British Columbia. 37 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,840 If you if you're kind of kind of across the provinces there just 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,160 north of Montana, Google says Alberta is a province in Western 39 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,680 Canada that's landscape encompasses mountains, prairies, 40 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,560 desert, Badlands, vast coniferous forest. 41 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,920 It has more than 600 lakes and rich mineral deposits. 42 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,800 In the West, the Canadian Rocky Mountain parks have glaciers in 43 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,080 the Columbia Ice fields. The Walton and Glacier 44 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,400 International Peace Park is a biosphere reserve that straddles 45 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,880 the southern border with the USA. 46 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,680 So you can kind of tell from that description that there's a 47 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,960 a tremendous amount of wilderness up there. 48 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:55,840 Now as far as the this this town goes, the St. 49 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,960 Paul AB Canada he's talking about, it was originally 50 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,560 established in 1896 as Saint Paul de Mitae. 51 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,400 The town was founded as a Mitae colony. 52 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,240 It says it was incorporated as a village of Saint Paul de Mitae 53 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,640 in 1912 and later became the town of Saint Paul 1936. 54 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,920 The town has a rich cultural heritage, particularly related 55 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:20,960 to the Mitae community. I'm assuming those are Native 56 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,000 Americans. It says notable attractions, 57 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:29,600 world's first UFO landing pad, a unique landmark built in 1967 as 58 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,880 part of Canada's Centennial celebrations. 59 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:33,760 That's strange. So we're talking about cattle 60 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,760 mutilations in this particular area and we know they have that 61 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,680 UFO landing pad there. I guess that'll make it easier 62 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,720 for them to mutilate the cattle. The Saint Paul Cathedral, the 63 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,680 mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. 64 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:49,200 Paul, AB located and it gives the address 4625 50th Ave. 65 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,840 So yeah, kind of a neat place I guess. 66 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,800 Anyway, back to the article. He says it all started with my 67 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,120 meeting with with Fern Belzel from Saint Paul, Alberta, a 68 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,200 former champion cattle breeder of Hefford's and cattle 69 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,840 mutilation investigator. He was a gracious man with a 70 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,120 deep respect and affection for cattle. 71 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,080 He hated seeing animals mistreated and could not 72 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,720 understand them being mutilated. This was something beyond him. 73 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,120 A perfect teacher and mentor. We met at a paranormal 74 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,360 conference where he did a very interesting presentation on 75 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,920 cattle mutilation. Fern was very approachable, 76 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:32,560 friendly and the quality I really liked about him was if he 77 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,720 didn't know, he said so. Very common sense sort of man, 78 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,520 no nonsense and down to earth. During one of our conversations 79 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,360 we talked about my filmmaking background and and asked if I 80 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,240 would like to see a cattle mutilation. 81 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,080 Yes, I replied and this was my entry into the world of 82 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,080 paranormal. Hearing about UF, OS, Sasquatch, 83 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,960 etcetera is different than when you see it in real life. 84 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,400 My first experience finally was something unreal to see. 85 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,160 I received a phone call several weeks later from Fern asking me 86 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,480 to meet him in Saint Paul. My Co worker Carol traveled with 87 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,280 me. Carol grew up on a farm east of 88 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:17,640 Edmonton and she knew many things that about that farming 89 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,680 life and lifestyle. Farming was something I did not 90 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,840 know much about. Fern met us in Saint Paul and 91 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:27,280 from there we headed off to the farm where we met the farmer, 92 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:30,440 his wife and their dog. We were led to the field where 93 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,400 the dead bull lay. The thing both Carol and I 94 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:38,000 remember the most was the eerie silence and not a sound from the 95 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,800 birds which was very unusual. No singing or chirping, they 96 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,400 were just perched in the Grove of the trees near the animal. 97 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,880 It was if they had witnessed something traumatic and did not 98 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,720 know what to say or sing. The farmer and his wife were in 99 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,040 a state of shock as it had as it was hard to fathom what they 100 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,280 were seeing. They explained that the farm dog 101 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,360 never raised an alarm when the mutilation took place. 102 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,640 This was very troubling as dogs are usually the first line of 103 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,840 defense and hear everything but nothing that night. 104 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:15,120 The other important thing we learned is that the predator 105 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,640 animals like coyotes or foxes, Ravens, etcetera, would not come 106 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,440 near the animal when they died like this. 107 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,520 They would not attempt to eat the animal or come near it. 108 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,040 Now, I mean, even if you don't live in a rural, a rural area, 109 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,800 if you have, you know, Turkey, buzzers, vultures, whatever you 110 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,400 want to call them flying around. I mean, you know, those things 111 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,120 are all over the place when something gets killed along the 112 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,400 highway. So it seemed really strange to 113 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,680 me, this 1000 LB, whatever it was, bulk could be laying there 114 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:49,720 and you didn't have any kind of crows or Busters or anything 115 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,680 like that coming down to try to eat off this dead carcass. 116 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,120 That doesn't make any sense. It says. 117 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,200 The air was heavy with uncertainty as Firm began his 118 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,760 investigation. First, he tested the dead animal 119 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,560 for radiation with a Geiger counter. 120 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,960 The readings came back immediately, positive for 121 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,520 radiation where there should be none. 122 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,160 That's, that's a sign right there, man. 123 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:16,320 Fern began to take measurements, take photos, walk around the 124 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,480 deceased animal, observing everything. 125 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,400 All the while the farmer, his wife and dog watched in eerie 126 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,680 silence. And we're not sure what to say. 127 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,040 Hi, strangeness in front of me and I and I didn't know what to 128 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,960 say, neither did Carol. We could only watch. 129 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,760 When Fern finished his investigation, we approached the 130 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,680 animal for a closer look. The first thing that stood out 131 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:43,440 was the absence of blood and no apparent wounds, punctures, 132 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,320 bullet wounds, etcetera, and the strange cuts on the head and the 133 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,080 other parts of the body. In cattle mutilation, cuts on 134 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,800 the head are always on the same side. 135 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,560 One ear is cut, one eye and the tongue are gone. 136 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,600 The second set of cuts on the body were as dramatic as the sex 137 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,600 organs were cut off the bull and if it were a cow, the organs 138 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,520 were also removed methodically. We found out later this was done 139 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,080 by laser and with precision. This was supposedly done in the 140 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,160 middle of the night in a pasture. 141 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,920 Fern did not believe this as the cuts were too straight and not 142 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,080 hurried like a thief in the night. 143 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,520 Who would kill a bull in the middle of the night? 144 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,240 Where was the blood? Where did it go? 145 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,880 There should have been gallons of it, but there was none. 146 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:37,039 Who did it and for what purpose? Now I just want to, I just want 147 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,559 to bring up about this blood and and kind of remind you of how 148 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,960 much is actually there. I I went to grok for this. 149 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:49,080 It says a full grown bull has about 11:50 gallons of blood. 150 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:50,800 Depending on his size and weight. 151 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,480 Blood volume is roughly 7 to 8% of body weight. 152 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,480 At typical bull rate weighs around 1500 to 2000 lbs. 153 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,760 This translates to approximately 40 to 48 liters or 11:50 154 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:07,560 gallons. Now imagine. 155 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:09,880 I mean, I think we can all imagine. 156 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,440 We all know how big a 5 gallon bucket is, right? 157 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,880 So just imagine 2 1/2 of these things full of blood. 2/5 gallon 158 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,800 buckets full of blood. All of it's gone, but none of 159 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,440 it's on the ground. That doesn't make any sense to 160 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,520 me whatsoever. Article goes on and says a 161 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,960 strange and unnatural death. Lots of valid questions with no 162 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,880 answers. The other forces at work here. 163 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,280 A strange harvest. Fern explained the cuts to us. 164 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,240 The ones on the head reflected the health of the animal and the 165 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,880 ones on the body were not clear to him. 166 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,920 Fern told us about an incident that occurred in the earlier 167 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:50,680 investigate. In an earlier investigation 168 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:54,960 where a cow's utter was found, no cow, just the utter. 169 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,520 Remaining herd was checked and no missing cows, but a spare. 170 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,120 But a spare utter. Very questionable. 171 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,560 Not sure what to think. But things happen like this. 172 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,960 So in other words, they just to me, what looks like these things 173 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,800 have just come along. They've just evacuated this cow 174 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:17,480 off the planet and I guess and there's some haphazard way toss 175 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,080 the utter back on the ground after they slid it off. 176 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,080 Nasty, nasty things. The experience brought up many 177 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,000 questions and very few answers. It is originally thought that 178 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,640 old cultists were doing ritual killings, but on reflection, 179 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:35,160 RCMP and other police did not know what to make of it. 180 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,880 It wasn't part of their training or experience. 181 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,120 I think the reason that people automatically default to this, 182 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,520 these occultist theory, or what I say, what I always call them, 183 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,520 the satanic cow tippers, is that what you're seeing here is a 184 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,680 mutilation of this animal. It's almost like a satanic 185 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,120 ritual sacrifice where they're inflicting unnecessary pain on 186 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,760 this animal. Lot of blood involved. 187 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:03,640 We don't know where the blood's going at. 188 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,360 And it's done in a very deceptive, evil way. 189 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,000 It has Satan written all over it. 190 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,800 So I think This is why people a lot of times say it. 191 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,800 Well, it must be some kind of a satanic cult. 192 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,040 Well, OK, I could agree with that, but not a satanic cult 193 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,920 from this planet. It says this is a mystery. 194 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,920 It wrapped up in a mystery. But I will give you my knowledge 195 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,000 about this troubling phenomena. There is a season for cattle 196 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,480 mutilation from April to the end of October. 197 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,600 Strange lights are seen in the sky, unmarked black helicopters 198 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,720 are seen and the killings began. It seems as if it is done in 199 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:44,080 complete silence, except being watched by the farm animals is 200 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,160 in a silent horror movie. Now this thing with the black 201 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:52,520 helicopters, I don't know if this is some kind of situation 202 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,400 where you have our own government inclusion with these 203 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,120 things or if maybe these are black helicopters, simply 204 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,480 camouflaged UFOs. The cuts on the animal were 205 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,120 explained to firm by a veterinarian. 206 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,320 The big problem is how could a kill scene be so clean? 207 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,800 There should be gallons of blood, not a drop. 208 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,960 Remember 10 to 12 gallons of blood for this big, this big 209 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,600 bowl, 2/5 gallon buckets worth at least. 210 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,840 Very strange, the vet said. Very strange, The vet said. 211 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:25,280 Whoever did this kept the animal alive until the heart pumped all 212 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,880 the blood out of the body. Well, or maybe they took this 213 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,200 thing onto a craft somewhere and physically drained the blood out 214 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,960 of the body. There is no noise reported when 215 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,240 this occurs. All done in silence. 216 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,200 What is going on and why is it beyond me and others? 217 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:42,720 Well, yeah. Wouldn't you think this animal 218 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,400 would have been struggling? Fern was a elderly man who I owe 219 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,800 a world of thanks for teaching me to think outside the box and 220 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,640 to look at things in different ways. 221 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,840 I used to ask him who was doing the mutilations. 222 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,880 He never said aliens were responsible, but pointed his 223 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,440 right hand into the sky. One more story about Fern. 224 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,400 He had met a man from Las Vegas who owned an environmental 225 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,760 company that could analyze the soils, chemicals, etcetera. 226 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,040 He wanted to help Fern with his investigations and requested 227 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,400 that anything that needed to be analyzed be sent to him. 228 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,880 Fern sent him a piece of cowhide where the laser had cut the 229 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,360 animal for analysis. The answer came back that the 230 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,920 cut is from a laser, but there was no carbon footprint and we 231 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,360 don't have those kind of lasers on earth. 232 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,960 Fern has since passed. The cattle mutilations continue 233 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,000 to this day. We are nowhere near the answer. 234 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,440 Fern passed on to me that mutilations are not confined to 235 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,280 cattle, but other animals like horses, sheeps, goats, foxes, 236 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,160 etcetera. There have even been reports of 237 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,920 a human found in Argentina with mutilation cuts like cattle. 238 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:51,800 Yeah. And you know what? 239 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,400 You wonder about all the missing people. 240 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,200 What's going on with these folks? 241 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,960 I mean, we're talking about the ones where the corpses have been 242 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,400 returned. What happens when the corpses 243 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:02,480 aren't returned? Whether it's cattle, sheep, 244 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,520 people, whatever. Really scary stuff. 245 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,880 Yeah. Very good article. 246 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,960 Kind of really I think looks at this from a very human 247 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:15,400 perspective. I did find the bio on this. 248 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,760 Fernard Belzel sounds like he was quite a guy. 249 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,360 Family remembers rancher, community member, cattle 250 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,440 mutilations investigator Fernard Belzel passed away on July 1st 251 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,400 at the age of 88, but not without leaving a profound 252 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,200 impact on the community of Saint Paul. 253 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,160 Fern was born in Saint Paul to parents Ernest and Maria where 254 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,200 he grew up on the family farm and attended the Belzel School 255 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,880 down the road. Fern later attended college at 256 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,000 Saint Jean, Edmonton, but his education was interrupted by the 257 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,560 start of the Second World War. In the late 1940s, Fern met his 258 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,480 wife to be Doris to hours. The pair was married at the 259 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,480 Saint Paul Cathedral and had two children, Doug, who recently 260 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,480 passed away, and Ron. Dad is blessed to have shared 52 261 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,600 years together with my mom before she passed away in 2003. 262 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,480 Belzel said in his father's eulogy. 263 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,960 They accomplished a great deal together as a team and served as 264 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,880 fine examples for us to follow. Fern was very committed to his 265 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,880 life in agriculture and it showed in the form of numerous 266 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,120 awards, including the 1975 San Francisco Supreme Stock 267 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:19,080 Championship for Best Female and the Family and the Farm Family 268 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,240 Award presented by the Government of Alberta in 1953 to 269 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:25,600 the Ernest Bilzo family, an award that still sits in Ron's 270 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,520 office today. All his life he was a very 271 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,800 forward thinker. He was very successful in the 272 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,480 cattle business, said Ron. He was very good to me. 273 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,200 I was very fortunate to have a father like him who basically 274 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,800 taught me everything and put me in the right direction. 275 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,320 Ron said his father had a number of other interests, including 276 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,400 hockey, baseball and motorcycles, and it was Fern's 277 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,840 work as a cattle mutilations investigator that really 278 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,840 consumed his free time in his later years. 279 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,520 No matter where it was, he jumped in his truck and go. 280 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,600 Ron said there's no doubt that he did the most research for the 281 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,040 cattle mutilation thing. He had discovered some 282 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,600 interesting things from, well, it's hard to say evidence 283 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,000 because there was a lack of evidence, but by process and 284 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,480 elimination, he was able to learn a lot about the phenomena. 285 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,800 Fern became involved with the subject of cattle mutilations at 286 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,640 the turn of the Millennium. The Saint Paul and District 287 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,640 Chamber of Commerce, with whom Ron was involved at the time, 288 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,360 purchased a display of UFO artefacts for the Landing Pad 289 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:25,440 Tourist Information Center and set up a free UFO hotline for 290 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,240 anyone who wanted to report a sighting. 291 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,800 It was that UFO hotline that led Fern to into his position as a 292 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,040 respected cattle mutilations expert. 293 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,960 The chamber office called my office not knowing what to do 294 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,520 because a rancher in Saskatchewan called to report a 295 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,320 mutilated animal. Ron said in his father's eulogy, 296 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,000 adding that he called his father to go check it out. 297 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,680 Dad was very impressed with what he observed. 298 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,680 His curiosity drove his desire to find out whom or what was 299 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,560 responsible for the death of the animals. 300 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,720 Didn't take long for Fern to gain a good deal of notoriety 301 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,080 and in the coming years he would be featured in a number of 302 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,359 television documentaries and magazine articles from sources 303 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,400 including CB, CS, the 5th Estate, the Space Channel, the 304 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,400 American National Geographic Society magazine, as well as 305 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,920 numerous other newspapers and radio stations. 306 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,200 He received numerous calls and emails from farmers, 307 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,200 researchers, authors, curiosity seekers, publicity seekers from 308 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,839 all over the world, Ron said of his father. 309 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,880 The whole experience was troubling to him because no 310 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,480 answer could be found for lack of evidence beside the affected 311 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,400 animal. Ron said that a Fern would 312 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,720 always end up with more questions and answers at the 313 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,920 scene of a mutilation, but always did his research to help 314 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,280 reach the best possible hypothesis. 315 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,400 That was a problem. There was always a lack of 316 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,640 evidence. It was a perfect crime every 317 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,720 time. How often do you have a perfect 318 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,600 crime? Every time that tells you 319 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,880 something? Ron said, adding the cases would 320 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,080 often include missing pieces of skin that were never recovered 321 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,040 or strange behavior in the animals. 322 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,920 The Fern could not accept that there was no explanation. 323 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,600 There was one that he visited where the animal was in the 324 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,920 middle of a canola field. How would there be an animal in 325 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,160 the middle of a field when there are no tracks getting there? 326 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,120 Those are the indisputable pieces of information. 327 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,400 That's the kind of stuff he would read into. 328 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,520 That's what propelled him because my dad was a very 329 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,480 curious guy. Ron pointed out that it came as 330 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,160 somewhat of a surprise to see his father embrace his role as a 331 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,560 cattle mutilations investigator, as he had no predisposition to 332 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,200 believing an extraterrestrial life. 333 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,960 It doesn't fit into people's notions about how the world 334 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,280 exists, and my dad was not predisposed to believing 335 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,480 anything extraterrestrial. He said it was very difficult 336 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,280 for him to even consider something like that, but made 337 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,440 him think about it because he wasn't seeing any other options. 338 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,640 The town of Saint Paul went as far as to cover all of Ferns 339 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,080 mileage as a cattle mutilations expert as he served as an 340 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,760 ambassador to the town's best known for its UFO landing pad. 341 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,600 He did a lot for the town. The town used to pay his 342 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,440 expenses for traveling around because he was good for business 343 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,320 in town, Ron said, adding that his father never charged the 344 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,560 farmers for his investigations. He had a soft spot for helping 345 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,240 out the farmers. That was one of his big things. 346 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,040 Just sounds like a really cool guy. 347 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,520 Both these articles, his obituary and the article read 348 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,560 before just gives you a very, I think clear insight into the 349 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,320 kind of people that that are investigating these things. 350 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:22,960 These guys aren't in it for the money. 351 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,600 They're just trying to find answers to what's going on. 352 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,040 And I, to me, the cattle mutilation thing is kind of the 353 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,560 third reel. Nobody really wants to talk 354 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,040 about it too much. I think it scares a lot of 355 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,240 people off because they don't like the idea of these ET 356 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:42,040 aliens, whatever they are, being tagged as some sort of evil 357 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,080 animal abuser class. And other people just find the 358 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,600 whole thing, well, frankly too scary to even get into. 359 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,400 But it's part of it. It's part of this whole UFO 360 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,400 phenomenon. I think it's an important thing 361 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,720 that should be investigated thoroughly. 362 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,160 If you like the show, don't forget to like, follow, 363 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:59,760 subscribe. Until next time. 364 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,760 This is UFO warning over and out.