Editing Cattle mutilation (section)

===1979 Public meeting===
[[File:Sen Harrison Schmitt.jpg|thumb|right|Harrison Schmitt, U.S. Senator]]
On April 20, 1979,  U.S. Attorney R. E. Thompson and US Senator [[Harrison Schmidt]] held a public meeting about cattle mutilations.  The meeting was attended by about 80 people. One attendee was [[Paul Bennewitz]], who approached Valdez and reported having seen unidentified lights over Kirtland Air Force Base.<ref name="autoMM">Mirage Men,Ch 11, p. 87-88</ref>

On May 2, 1979, Valdez told press that two drugs had been found in the remains of a mutilated bull found in Torrance County on February 15.<ref name="SF82_drugged">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-santa-fe-new-mexican-police-find-dru/127526346/ | title=The Santa Fe New Mexican 02 May 1979, page 9 | newspaper=The Santa Fe New Mexican | date=2 May 1979 | page=9 }}</ref>  Valdez reported one drug, [[Chlorpromazine]] (''Thorazine''), was used to tranquilize and immobilize the animal, while a second, unnamed drug was used to "clog the blood and remove it through the jugular vein."<ref name="SF82_drugged"/>  Valdez told papers "We know this stuff is made here, and it isn't from outer space.  Whoever is doing it is highly sophisticated, and they have a lot of resources.  They're well organized".<ref name="SF82_drugged"/> Valdez was described as "the state's chief information source on mutilations, having worked on 32 cases... in about three years".<ref name="SF82_drugged"/>

On June 14, 1981, investigators found a mutilated cow at the Gomez ranch with a large amount of [[Chaff (countermeasure)|radar chaff]] nearby.<ref>O'Brein</ref>