The Cattle Mutilation Controversy

Researcher, Christopher O’Brien joins Dr. Rita Louise on Just Energy Radio where he delves into they mysterious phenomena of cattle mutilation.  Is it a secret government operation or the work of extraterrestrials?

In I989, after a decade in NYC where he attended CUNY and went on to become a professional designer, musician and actor/model, Christopher O’Brien moved to the San Luis Valley, in South-central Colorado. From 1992 to 2002 he investigated and/or logged over 1000 paranormal events reported in the San Luis Valley—located in the South-central Colorado/North Central New Mexico region of the Rocky Mountains. Working with law enforcement officials, ex-military, ranchers and an extensive network of skywatchers, he documented and reported on what may have been the most intense wave of unexplained activity ever seen in a single region of North America. His ten-year investigation resulted in the three books of his “mysterious valley” trilogy, The Mysterious Valley, Enter the Valley, and Secrets of the Mysterious Valley. His field investigation of UFO reports, unexplained livestock deaths, haunted sites, Native American legends, cryptozoology, secret military activity and the folklore found in the world’s largest alpine valley, has produced one of the largest databases of unusual occurrences gathered from a single geographic region. He is currently working with a team of specialists installing a high-tech video surveillance and hard-data monitoring system in and around the San Luis Valley. His latest book Stalking the Tricksters (Adventures Unlimited Press 2009) distills his years of field investigation and research into an ingenious unified theory of the paranormal that has garnered notice throughout the paranormal research and investigation community. He is currently finishing up Stalking the Herd — a comprehensive look at the unexplained livestock death (“cattle mutilation”) phenomenon slated to be published in November 2013. 

Media Projects

O’Brien has been a guest on hundreds of national and regional radio programs including appearances on Coast-to-Coast AM. He has helped develop, supplied footage, field-produced and appeared in four segments of the Paramount television program Sightings, has provided visual elements and has/will appear in over ten episodes of the H2 series program Ancient Aliens, He has also appeared in and field-produced segments for Inside Edition, Extra, UFO Hunters, Weird or What, Jessie Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory (associate producer), Encounters, Unexplained Files, Showtime’s Sci-Friday Chronicles; the TBS documentary “UFO: The Search; the BBC2 programs Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, UFO: Conspiracy Road Trip, Nippon TV’s Special Research 2000, the Discovery Channel’s two-hour documentary, Billion $ Secret with Jane’s Defence Weekly’s Nick Cook, the TV series Exploring the Unknown, UFO Files, Encounters, The Unexplained, Secrets of:, Profiles in Ufology, Unexplained Mysteries and in the English documentary film Mutilation Files and other shows and documentaries. At home in front or behind the camera, O’Brien field-produced and directed television segments for the nationally syndicated paranormal news-magazine Strange Universe. O’Brien also produced History, Mystery and Greed: the story of Snippy the Horse, and co-produced Dead Whisper. He is a consulting producer and writer/researcher for Stage 3 [Television] Productions and operates his own production company WizardWing.

 His investigation and research have been featured in the AP, UPI, Denver Post, Pueblo Chieftain, the New Mexican, the Rocky Mountain News, the Albuquerque Journal, the Deseret News, The Red Rock News, Phenomenon, (France) OVNI (Spain), Borderline (Japan). He was a perennial guest lecturer at Adam’s State College from 1994-2002. Since 1993, he has written articles for Fate, Open Minds, UFO Universe, World Explorer’s Magazine, Leading Edge, CyberWest, Western Spirit, Crestone Eagle, Phenomena, Zeitgeist and UFO Encounters. An entertaining speaker, O’Brien has captivated conference and seminar audiences around the USA with his unique insight into some of our culture’s last remaining mysteries. He hosted his own regional Colorado/New Mexico radio show, Mysterious Valley Report 1996-1999, and published the bi-monthly Mysterious Valley Report 1993-2000 and has been a co-host on the popular GCN Network radio program The Paracast since 2009.

Media Awards

Chris co-wrote an action/adventure film screenplay, Heavy Waters, inspired by his field-research which was judged Honorable Mention in the Southwest Screenwriter’s Guild Contest and co-produced, edited (and was featured in) It Could Happen Tomorrow which swept the 2012 International UFO Congress Film Festival EBE Awards for “Best Feature Film” and also the coveted EBE “People’s Choice Award.”

A keyboard player/music-producer and professional videographer, he also produces reproductions of classic Maya art for his brother’s company Tierra Maya at his home near Sedona, AZ and is a guide for First-Class Charter and Tours in Sedona, AZ.