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“UFO COUNTRY” - THE 1978 ELSBERRY UFO/CATTLE MUTILATION FLAP - Elsberry, Missouri. Beginning in April of 1978 - and peaking in June - the residents in and around the small, rural Missouri farming community of Elsberry reported a “flap” of multiple UFO sightings and, perhaps, dozens of mysterious “cattle deaths and mutilations” believed to be connected somehow to the anomalous lights in the sky being seen at the same time. (Pictured photo 2: the southern skies near the Hammond home in Elsberry where Manford Hammond and others observed UFOs for several nights in June of 1978.) As a result of interest in the rash of encounters and mutilations, UFO Researchers and a frenzied news media descended upon Elsberry and its farms and nearby towns, making the “hotspot” area “UFO Country” for a time. Skywatchers seemed to be everywhere as looking for UFOs became a participatory event that drew seekers from around the region and created a near-carnival-like environment at times. Witnesses reported a variety of encounters during this flap ranging from stationary unknown nocturnal lights to luminous and/or metallic craft with internally-lit windows moving as if under intelligent control. The Elsberry Encounters were investigated on-site by members of the UFO Study Group of Greater St. Louis (a MUFON founding body) as well as researchers from Dr. Harley Rutledge’s Project Identification Field Study. Media outlets from St. Louis actively covered Elsberry’s ‘78 UFO Hysteria and Mutilation Mystery - reporting the stories in a detailed and serious manner, and even providing for scientific analysis of some mutilation evidence. The source of the encountered objects in the skies above Elsberry and the cause of the unusual cattle deaths remain unexplained to this day. Photos by Michael Huntington - July, 2018. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #MichaelHuntington #StrangeTravels #HuntingtonFamily #HuntingtonAdventures #UFO #UFOs #CattleMutilations #UFOFlap #ElsberryUFOFlap #1978ElsberryUFOFlap #UFOCountry #FamousUFOs #MissouriUFOs #UFOStudyGroupStLouis #MissouriInvestigatorsGroup #ProjectIdentification #ElsberryMissouri (at Elsberry, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxn3nuvFUsU/?igshid=r9wpinf0ve81