In Delaware County, New York a few weeks back, there was the strange story of New York state wildlife experts and hunters trying to figure out how a dead deer wound up in a tree 12 feet off the ground. A man hunting in a remote area stumbled upon the strange sight while lost in a snowstorm on opening day of deer season on November 18th. According to at least one report the deer reportedly had been shot with an arrow.

Many including the Associated Press ran with the bizarre story. The UFO community, always lovers of a good mystery, also picked up the story. Like everything else in ufology a spirited variance of opinion broke out between researchers as to the true nature of the deer incident.

(See New York story and pictures from researcher Linda Howe's site.)

Now the strange story may have happened again. This time the incident occured just outside Winnipeg Canada, a city of 700,000,  just north of the Canadian border. It is here just outside this prairie city, that over the past couple days,  photos of a deer  up a utility pole have been passed around. Like New Yorkers, people here are puzzled at what what might have happened.

As of now, only the local CBC TV and radio station has pursued the story. They have an interview with  a fellow who made a video tape of the 2-year old deer up on the 25 foot pole. He reported that there were many witnesses to the bizarre site, and that Manitoba Hydro had removed the deer with a cherry-picker. "It was pretty shocking," he said. "I had never seen anything like that before."

CBC also had an interview with a conservation officer stationed in the area of the event. He stated that there was a deer trail quite close to the track and that there were plenty of deer.

Click here to listen to part of the CBC Winnipeg interview.

The CBC witness assumed that the deer had been hit by a train, but he still expressed great amazement at how this could happen. Others who have seen the photos have questioned how part of the rear legs are missing from the animal, and how a deer thrown 25 feet up by a fast moving train was not ripped apart. The deer appears to be untouched except for damage to the rear legs.

The original e-mail received by this author turned out be very accurate in terms of location and events. It was dated January 6 (even though the event occured in December) and read as follows.

Ft Garry had a call this AM that there was a deer up a pole- right! Sure enough there was. This is right beside the tracks a few miles west of Headingly station. They figure a train hit it and launched it up there.