Cover of Flying Saucers magazine February 1968 with painting by Frank V Cassotta illustrating the case of Snippy the horse mysteriously killed early September 1967 Early example of cattle mutilation with possible UFO involvement Snippy was found on the King Ranch, at the base of the Blanca Massif, missing all the tissue from the tip of her nose to its shoulders. The heart and brain were missing, and a strange medicine-like odor hung above the horse for several days. There were huge 18-inch "giant horse-like tracks" found near the carcass and the press claimed Snippy's tracks ended 100 or so feet from where she was found. The horse's owner, Nellie Lewis, told reporters, "Flying saucers killed my horse,"