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There can be absolutely no doubt at all that one of the most controversial, and some would say outrageous, developments in the field of UFO research surfaced in 1999, when a researcher by the name of Philip Duke, Ph.D., suggested that both cattle mutilations and alien abductions were connected with a nefarious extraterrestrial plot to conquer the Earth by infecting the human population with HIV, and creating a plague-like situation in which the thousands of infected would soon become the millions, then the billions, and, finally, to the point where, as Rick Grimes of The Walking Dead so famously and memorably worded it: “We’re all infected.”

Cattle mutilations, for those who may not be aware of the phenomenon, have gone on for decades. All across the United States, since at least 1967, shocked ranchers have found cows with their organs and bodily fluids extracted via what appears to be highly skilled means. We are not talking about predators in the slightest. Or, it’s more accurate to say that we are not talking about predators as we generally understand the term.

This 1996 photo from NASA shows what many scientists thought were fossilized bacteria from Mars. What if some microorganism like this came to Earth with dire consequences?

According to Philip Duke’s personal hypothesis, so-called cattle mutilations are “logically explainable only as extraterrestrial activities. The mutilation body materials taken, all correspond with sites of HIV transmission or replication (blood) in humans, except for the ear, which may contain a locator device. Circumstantial evidence suggests cattle are mutilated primarily to harvest HIV antibodies and virus from blood in quantity, and to obtain information relating to possible HIV transmission in humans.”

And what, exactly, might be the purpose? Hold onto your hats very tightly as we’re about to go on a wild ride. Duke adds, on the matter of visiting aliens: “We have a whole new wonderful world, teeming with life, just waiting for them. There is only one thing standing in their way—that is us. Attack us openly, we would retaliate, and they would inherit a radioactive biosphere wasteland. No—the smart thing is to secretly destroy our civilization, and with it our means of organized (atomic) retaliation by employing a Biological Warfare (BW) agent. That agent is HIV. When enough people are sick, dying, and dead from AIDS, then alien colonization will proceed openly.”

Is Philip Duke’s controversial scenario one of outrageous fantasy and nothing else? Or, incredibly, is it a warning of a dark and dire future that awaits us all, a future dominated by a deadly virus, the apocalypse and the extinction of the entire human race? Time may one day tell. Although, let us all earnestly hope it doesn’t.