FORTY-FIVE CATTLE KILLED MYSTERIOUSLY:

     IS TELSA LABS AT FAULT?

submitted by John Burrows


A Beaver City Veteranarian examines 45 dead cattle, alledgedly struck by lightning.
is Telsa Labs testing a Death Ray?

Chickasaw: On June 15th forty-five cattle were suddenly and mysteriously killed on a farm near New Hampton. Leon Zeien, owner of the 1,500 acre farm where the bovine bodies were discovered, expressed disbelief over his loss. With only 105 cattle to his name, the deaths mean a reduction in his herd by almost half (Des Moines Register, June 17, 1997, 3A). A second "strike" the following night killed 14 pedigree dairy cows on Andrew Millet's farm near Beaver City.

     The Zeien steers were discovered late on Sunday night by his son, Jeremiah Zeien, who was out riding horseback. The younger Zeien said some cows were heaped together under a tree, others scattered around.

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A researcher at Tesla's Wardenclyffe Project takes notes
amid a shower of electrical energy disbursement.
(Photo Courtesy Tesla labs.)
     At first, thinking they were sick, he examined the animals and found blood spattered everywhere and the beast's faces contorted horribly. The eyes were melted and their tongues lolled out...some had been bitten through by the animals in what must have been horrible agony. Millet's steers showed similar signs of distress.

     There were no reports of severe weather on either evening and two such events occurring in as many days in one Iowa county seems a statistical impossibility. Yet county officials point to lightning as the culprit in the deaths. A local Iowa State University Extension veternarian confirmed that lightning strikes are a common cause of livestock deaths, but admitted, "Forty Five at once seems more than a little unusual."

     Locals are suspicious that the cattle deaths are not the result of a natural meteorological occurrence, but rather the result of technical malfeasance. Millet, whose losses are estimated at close to $35,000, contends that a project funded by Tesla Research Labs may be responsible. "They got some kind of tower they're building over there, not too far from the Zeien place, and you can see it real clear from my roof. We all thought it was gonna be a water slide or rolly coaster. But it's some kind of science thingamajig and they ain't telling what it is." Millet went on to say, "Its a mighty fine tower, though. I understand Branstad's handing out tax subsidies to just about anybody who asks. You ask me, we need some kind of good neighbor agreement from those Tesla people. A binding legal contract that would hold up in court. I ain't saying that they should be thrown in jail if they don't bring you over a basket of cookies, but by god, they ought to be kept from poisoning our air, stealing our water, and killing your goddamned cows!" The Governor's Office had no comment on the state subsidized electrocution of Iowa's cattle, but stated that neighborhood development should not be left up to the citizenry. The spokesperson at the Governor's Office, who refused to reveal her name, explained during a phone interview, "We have duly elected public officials to make those decisions, people should relax and trust us to do our jobs, that's what they put us here for. This nonsense about good neighbor agreements is a lot of hogwash."

     By accessing the Tesla Research Labs website, I learned that the tower is a nearly exact reconstruction of Nikola Tesla's famous Wardenclyffe Tower experiment. As it turned out, the project administrator is our own Dr. Leonid Rosenwietz. Because of his long-standing affiliation with this periodical, he agreed to a short telephone interview.

     "The purpose of the tower is two-fold," he told me. "First, it is a kind of cosmic telegraphy center designed to communicate digital information not only with points across the globe, but also with the outer planets. The second purpose is to create and store electrical charges to be later distributed either through the air or down the metal column extending into a massive hollow in the earth."

     When asked if the discharge through the air could be harmful, Dr. Rosenweitz said, "Not at all. What we are doing here will benefit everyone everywhere, and to suggest otherwise is ludicrous. We are not developing a 'death ray'. This will provide a low cost, non-polluting alternative to electricity produced by burning coal. This elaborate apparatus will, when complete, provide every imaginable regulation in the control of energy. We are eager to advance Technology in the creation of alternative and renewable energy sources, particularly at this juncture when the political interplay between the Utility Company Lobbyists and elected officials is so crucial. There is also considerable pressure from outside agitators, most notably that miserable bunch of college age liberals at the Iowa Citizen Action Network."

     Millet wasn't convinced by what I'd learned from Rosenweitz. "All I know is that all through May and June there's been freaky weather and thunder when there ain't no storms. I been watching that thing, and I seen a light show that would put our Jaycee's Fourth of July Fireworks to shame. All kind of colored lightning spraying out of it, going way up into the sky."

     I decided to take a look at the tower myself. At the gate I was detained and my camera confiscated by men in black paramilitary garb. I was given a press kit with two photographs, and a spokesperson from the Tower Project answered my questions about the lightning bolts reported by Farmer Millet.

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The BCWP main research building. The Wardenclyffe Tower appears on the right handside.(Photo Courtesy Tesla labs.)
     "Tesla Labs respectfully declines to publicly comment, except to say that the project is not yet complete. No electrical discharges were performed outside the lab. Because the tower is composed of a unique combination of conductive metal alloys, it naturally attracts lightning. Outside of natural phenomenon, we can not possibly account for the wild imaginings of the local populace."

     The imaginings are not completely without historical basis. In 1934, on his 78th birthday Nikola Tesla claimed he had "perfected a method and apparatus which would send beams of particles through the free air of such tremendous energy that they could bring down thousands of enemy planes from 250 miles away, causing armies of millions to drop dead in their tracks." (New York Times, July 11th, 1934, 18:1,2) This technology was never implemented during his lifetime, but may be the real motive for what is happening in Beaver City. If the construction of a death ray were not enough, local residents are also leery that communication with the "outer planets" might be going on in their own back yard. Given the rapid increase in UFO activity throughout the state, their concerns may indeed be well founded.





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