Jean Bilodeaux is the primary investigator for this case and has worked with Littrell since 1995. A freelance writer and newspaper correspondent, Bilodeaux was a former schoolteacher and entrepreneur before she began investigating UFOs in 1992. Since that time she has interviewed more than 250 people who have seen them and has investigated more than 25 cases of cattle mutilations in rural northern California and in southern Oregon. Bilodeaux reports that "Hardly a week goes by without the report of another unexplained sighting of a UFO."