{"product_id":"mystery-stalks-the-prairie-unexplained-cattle-killings-and-ufos-in-montana-9781606391228","title":"Mystery Stalks the Prairie: Unexplained Cattle Killings and UFOs in Montana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMystery Stalks the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1976 by Keith Wolverton, a sheriff's deputy in Cascade County, Montana. He wrote the book to document numerous incidents of cattle mutilations and UFOs that he had investigated--and that could not be explained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMystery\u003c\/i\u003e became an instant classic--the first book to seriously examine cattle mutilations and related UFO reports. Nearly a half century later, \u003ci\u003eMystery\u003c\/i\u003e remains the touchstone for similar investigations around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated and expanded edition features a new epilogue by Wolverton that describes his research since the publication of \u003ci\u003eMystery, \u003c\/i\u003eand a 2016 interview with Wolverton and Pete Howard, another Montana sheriff who investigated cattle mutilations and UFOs and who witnessed \"men in black\" confiscate radar evidence of a UFO.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introduction to this edition by Joan Bird, author of \u003ci\u003eMontana UFOs and Extraterrestrials\u003c\/i\u003e, describes the enduring importance of \u003ci\u003eMystery; \u003c\/i\u003ethe status of UFO reports and cattle mutilations; and a little-known cattle mutilation on Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation in 1947 that included tribal elders describing earlier visits by extraterrestrials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Wolverton was a Captain with the Cascade County (Montana) Sheriff's Department from the 1960s until his retirement in the 1980s. The events in \u003ci\u003eMystery Stalks the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e represent countless hours of research and investigation on the part of Captain Wolverton and his fellow officers. He died in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new introduction is written by Dr. Joan Bird, a longtime advocate of the existence of UFOs and related phenomena and the author of \u003ci\u003eMontana UFOs and Extraterrestrials\u003c\/i\u003e (Riverbend Publishing, 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interview transcribed in the new edition with Wolverton and fellow county sheriff Pete Howard was conducted by Dr. Richard O'Connor, an anesthesiologist in Helena, Montana, who is active in UFO research. He started the Jesse A. Marcel Library for UFO research and discussions in Helena. The library was named after the Army major who investigated the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash. For many years Dr. O'Connor worked with Marcel's son, also a Helena doctor, and often had heard the son tell of his father showing him strange pieces of debris from the UFO crash site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverbend","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50372297720082,"sku":"9781606391228","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3b0319bb-b9b6-49fd-8511-64fcf32faae0.jpg?v=1728545289","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mystery-stalks-the-prairie-unexplained-cattle-killings-and-ufos-in-montana-9781606391228","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}