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This episode explores the controversy surrounding mystery helicopters reported during the livestock mutilation wave of the 1970s.

In Part Two of The Choppers... and the Choppers, we examine the growing controversy surrounding the mystery helicopters reported throughout the livestock mutilation wave of the 1970s. Investigators, law enforcement officials, ranchers, and journalists searched for conventional explanations. Were the helicopters connected to drug smuggling? Military exercises? Government surveillance operations? Or something else entirely? Drawing from contemporary reports, official statements, and rare research documents, this episode explores military denials, alleged FAA investigations that seemingly vanished from the record, and the competing theories that attempted to explain why unidentified helicopters repeatedly appeared near cattle herds and mutilation sites. As reports spread across Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Michigan, Maine, and beyond, one question became impossible to ignore: Why were these aircraft showing up before, during, and after mutilation events? This episode also introduces the chronological catalog of mystery helicopter encounters that would become one of the most intriguing and controversial aspects of the animal mutilation mystery. Be sure to check out, 🛸 The Trifecta…

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