Linda Moulton Howe
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| Type | Person |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Howe |
| On the Timeline | 23 events, 1948–2021 |
Linda Moulton Howe (born 20 January 1942) is an American television producer and investigative reporter best known for her 1980 documentary on cattle mutilations, A Strange Harvest, and for decades of reporting on UFOs and related claims through her website Earthfiles and the radio program Coast to Coast AM. She was also one of the best-known targets of Air Force disinformation in the 1980s.[1][2]
Early life and education
Howe was born in Boise, Idaho. She won the 1963 Miss Idaho title and competed in the Miss America pageant. She earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Colorado in 1965 and a master's degree in communication from Stanford University in 1968.[1]
Television career and A Strange Harvest
From 1978 to 1983 Howe was director of special projects at KMGH-TV in Denver, producing documentaries on environmental subjects. Her 1980 documentary A Strange Harvest, about the wave of cattle mutilations in the western United States, suggested that the unusual wounds were caused by extraterrestrials. It won a regional Emmy Award. In 1982 she received Colorado's Florence Sabin Award.[1][3]
The Kirtland documents
In 1983, while developing a documentary for HBO provisionally called UFOs: The ET Factor, Howe was approached by Richard Doty, who presented himself as an Air Force intelligence agent and offered access to government records. At Kirtland Air Force Base he showed her a document he described as a briefing for the president, describing alien visits, crash retrievals and a secret "Project Aquarius", and promised film that never materialised; the HBO project collapsed. Doty later acknowledged in the 2013 documentary Mirage Men that he had deliberately misled her as part of a disinformation effort.[1][4][5]
Later work
Howe's books include An Alien Harvest (1989), Glimpses of Other Realities (two volumes, 1993 and 1998) and Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles (2002). In 1999 she founded the Earthfiles website, where she reports on UFOs, crop circles, animal mutilations and environmental science. She was a frequent guest and fill-in host on Coast to Coast AM, appearing with Art Bell from 1991 and George Noory from 2003, before ending her regular appearances in 2019.[1][6]
Criticism
Skeptic Joe Nickell called her a "credulous journalist", and writers on the subject have noted that her mutilation claims rest on ambiguous evidence from decomposing carcasses. Supporters value her long record of interviews with people who say they worked on secret projects.[1][3]
On the UAP Timeline
- White Sands blown-window crash claim (1948) (1948) — An anonymous source claims a disc crashed at White Sands with its occupants dead from a blown-out window.
- Fort Polk crash claim (1953) (1953) — An Army source says he saw an egg-shaped craft crash-land at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
- Garrison, Utah crash and burial claim (1953) (20 May 1953) — An anonymous Air Force official claims a craft crashed and was buried near Garrison, Utah.
- Roswell-area helicopter crash claim (1954) (12 April 1954) — An Air Force helicopter trainee says he was sent to a desert crash near Roswell in 1954.
- Hill AFB landing claim (1958) (1958) — An anonymous military source claims a UAP deliberately landed at Hill AFB.
- Navy reserve pilot's Wright-Patterson saucer claim (1962) (1962) — A Navy reserve pilot says he saw a saucer at Wright-Patterson in 1962.
- Cedar Breaks radar site crash claim (1966) — A radar technician reportedly saw a disc crash at a Utah radar site linked to Area 51.
- Camp Pendleton Marine's crash-site claim (1967) (3 July 1967) — A Marine says he flew to a crash retrieval site in the desert in 1967.
- Great Lakes shoot-down claim (1973) (June 1973) — A Navy instructor claims a UAP was shot down by a missile and secretly moved by rail to Great Lakes.
- Spread of the Bennewitz disinformation (1980s Undefined) — Doty's fake document spreads to the public and into books and media.
- GE contractor taken underground claim (1982) — A man's daughter says he was blindfolded and taken underground at Wright-Patterson.
- Fort Hood hidden opening claim (1982) — An Air Force captain describes a pilot seeing a hidden opening in the ground at a Texas airfield.
- John Lear's source Mike (1989) (January 1989) — John Lear says a source was flown to an underground site to photograph a saucer and autopsy.
- Bill English and Grudge/Blue Book Report 13 (January 1989) — Bill English claims he saw a memo saying Blue Book officials knew of crash recoveries.
- Project Blue Heaven claim (1990) — A physicist claims he worked on Project Blue Heaven at Edwards AFB.
- White Sands tracking-camera saucer claim (July 1991) — A retired sergeant says tracking cameras recorded a saucer resting on the White Sands range.
- Navy linguist and the Soviet crash report (July 1991) — A Navy linguist says he decoded a Soviet report of a crash split between England and Germany.
- Dan Morris testimony (30 August 1996) — Air Force Sgt. Dan Morris says he was part of a group gathering UAP information.
- Hill AFB glowing disc (2010) (15 December 2010) — Two alleged Hill AFB workers report a glowing disc above the flight line.
- Antarctic Navy flight engineer's account (30 January 2015) — A Navy flight engineer says he saw an entrance to an underground site near the South Pole.
- Area 29 and Omega operations claim (30 May 2018) — A remote viewer claims targets were linked to 'Omega' operations involving advanced propulsion.
- A.D.A.M. project (July 2018) — To The Stars Academy launches the A.D.A.M. project to study claimed exotic materials.
- Alaska pyramid claim (28 September 2021) — DeLonge says he was told of a large pyramid beneath Alaska.
References
- Linda Moulton Howe — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy (2006) — Google Books · books.google.com · archived copy
- Cattle mutilation — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Mark Pilkington, Mirage Men (2010) · books.google.com · archived copy
- Mirage Men — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Linda Moulton Howe Announcement", Coast to Coast AM (2019) · coasttocoastam.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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