UFO Pony Deaths

Daily News, Durban, South Africa

UFO link with Pony Deaths

London Bureau

LONDON, Friday. Men in masks using metal detectors and a geiger counter yesterday scoured a remote Dartmoor valley in a bid to solve a macabre mystery.

Their search centred on marshy grassland where 15 wild ponies were found dead, their bodies mangled and torn.

All appeared to have died at about the same time and many of their ear had been inexplicably shattered. To add to the riddle their bodies decomposed to skeletons is only 48 hours.

Yesterday's search was carried out by members of the Devon Unidentified Flying Objects centre at Torquay, who are trying to prove a link: with outer space.

They believe flying saucers may have flown low over the area and created a vortex which hurled the ponies to their deaths.

Animal experts confer they are baffled.

John P. sac, head of the four-man team said: "If a spacecraft has been in the vicinity there may still be detectable evidence.

"We wanted to see It there was any sign that the ponies had been shot, but we found nothing. The incident bears an uncanny resemblance to similar events reported I n America

"There have been strange cases of animals found dead with bones smashed or their bodies drained of blood."

A spokesman for the local livestock protection society said: "We have spent many hours dissecting and examining what was left of the carcases. The ponies had broken bones and torn arteries.

"Whatever happened was fairly violent. We are keeping an open mind. We are fascinated by the UFO theory:"

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