STIGMATA SUPPLEMENT NUMBER ONE - JANUARY 1980 PUBUSHED BV PROJECT STIGMA - P.O. BOX 1094 - PARIS, TEXAS 75460 USA 1. STIGMATA wiU be a quarterly publlcatloii in 1980, beginning with the next issue. No. 8 (Spring 1980). 2. Price increase ; STIGMATA No. 8 will be priced at $1, 00 each, as announced, but the next three 1980 issues will cost $1.50 each. A one-year subscription to the four 1980 issues (#8, 9, 10 & 11) is now $5-00. Those who have already paid their dollar for No. 8 may subscribe to issues 9, 10 & II for $4.00. Back issues of editions 4, 5, 6 & 7 are still available @ $1.00 each. Order from Project Stigma at the address listed above. We ask that foreign subscribers remit In U. S. funds or International Money Order. 3. HELICOPTER REPORT; We regret the de¬ lay in the publication of this report, which we aimounced several months ago. The re¬ port is still in preparation and will appear in the first half of 1980. It will consist pri¬ marily of a catalog of unidentified helicopter accounts In the vicinity of mutilation events. A decision had to be made whether to com¬ plete preparation of the helicopter report right away or to proceed with the publica¬ tion of STIGMATA No. 8, and we have opt¬ ed for the latter. The final word on the pub¬ lication of this mystery helicopter report will appear in No. 8 - honest. Apparently these choppers are yet to be "grounded": Two cattle mutilations occurred in Western Nebraska this year and an unmarked heli¬ copter was seen in the area of both sites, 4. LETTERS FROM READERS are of great interest to us. We hope to publish several in the next and subsequent editions, but we would like to see more of your comments and opinions. If you write to us be sure to specify whether your letter or parts there¬ of is for publication and whether you want us to withhold your name and address. OCCURRENCES, RUMOURS AND THINGS- IN-THE-WORKS: Many readers are aware that, since the publication of STIGMATA No, 7, most of the Interest in the muti¬ lation phenomenon has been emanating from, and directed toward, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, where at least 30 livestock mutilations have been reported. With few exceptions, the classic mutilations have been a phen¬ omenon of the 1970's and of the continen¬ tal United Smtes. Now, with the decade on the wane, an Interesting new perspec¬ tive has been added with the advent of the Alberta (and Sask,) mute wave. We will Inevitably be intrigued by whatever developments await us in the Eighties. -- -Things have been relatively quiet in the U. S. as the outbreak devel¬ oped In Canada. There was a considera¬ ble mute onslaught in Arkansas this year (see STIGMATA No. 7) but they nave ap¬ parently ceased in that state for the mo¬ ment, Otherwise, there have been scatter¬ ed reports in late 1979 from Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and, most recently. In Iowa and Illinois. WeTl update these in STIGMATA No. 8.--Did muti¬ lations occur In the 1880's, in 1910 and in 1911?? We have very few details at pre¬ sent but we hope to learn more and rep^* ort on them in the near future.- —Among items that are rumored to be in the works, however tentatively: an an¬ thology of commentary on the mutilation phenomenon; a bibliography of published materials;