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Tell about Linda Moulton Howe
Linda Moulton Howe is one of the most consequential field investigators in UFO and anomalous phenomena research, having built a primary-source archive spanning five decades. Her 1980 documentary A Strange Harvest — which won a Regional Emmy — established the extraterrestrial hypothesis for cattle mutilations before the topic had any mainstream traction. Her claimed 1983 briefing by an Air Force officer at Kirtland AFB, in which she says she was shown a presidential briefing document describing recovered craft and alien bodies, remains one of the most cited firsthand government-contact accounts in the literature.
Evidence
- According to Howe's own testimony, in 1983 she was summoned to Kirtland Air Force Base by AFOSI agent Richard Doty, who allegedly showed her a document — never photographed or removed — describing crashed discs, alien biological entities, and a secret government liaison program.
- Howe's A Strange Harvest (1980, KMGH-TV Denver) preceded most institutional UAP discussion by decades.
- Her Earthfiles platform, running continuously since 1999, has broken or amplified several stories later corroborated by mainstream outlets: the navy's UAP videos before the 2017 New York Times break, early testimony from military remote viewers, and accounts from pilots and ranchers the mainstream press ignored.
- Whitley Strieber, Dr. Roger Leir, and multiple ranchers across Colorado, New Mexico, and Kansas provided Howe with on-record testimony about recurring mutilation patterns on the same properties, suggesting a systematic rather than random phenomenon.
- Richard Dolan has cited this episode in his 'UFOs and the National Security State' as an early documented instance of controlled disclosure attempts, noting it fits a pattern of government disinformation aimed at civilian researchers.