The first alien experiment on horses may go up for auction..

Article Last Updated:12/10/2006 12:50:09 AM MST


Alamosa

"She stands quietly at the back of an empty room inside Dell's Insurance Agency just off the main street. She is little more than bones and big shiny teeth. And she is at the center of a controversy involving an eBay auction, lawyers and ownership rights. ... ... They are the bones of Snippy, a horse that - depending on who you talk to - was A) ravaged by creepy aliens from a UFO in a bizarre animal mutilation experiment 39 years ago or B) shot in the behind by a couple of gun-toting teenagers who were all liquored up.

Another possibility involves aliens beaming themselves across the galaxy in some type of molecular reconstruction vehicle, landing on Harry King's ranch just north of town, shooting Snippy in the buttocks with a rifle and then vanishing back into the stars, although frankly that scenario seems a little far-fetched.

Snippy, a 3-year-old Appa loosa, died in a meadow in the middle of the night early in September 1967. Some people said there was no blood around the carcass. Sheriff's investigators and veterinarians studied the case and determined positively, without question, that Snippy was dead all right.

They didn't agree on anything else. ......"

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