Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe, born January 20, 1942, is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor best known as a ufologist and advocate of conspiracy theories that cattle mutilations are of extraterrestrial origin and speculations that the U.S. government is involved with aliens. She is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Early life and education
She was born as Linda Moulton in Boise, Idaho. Howe entered the 1963 Miss Boise pageant for college scholarships and went on to win the 1963 Miss Idaho crown and scholarships, and participated in the Miss America Pageant that year in Atlantic City. Howe received her 1965 B.A. cum laude in English Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1966, Howe was awarded the Stanley Baubaire Scholarship for her Master’s Degree work at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. She received her Masters Degree in Communication from Stanford University in 1968, where she produced a documentary film for the Stanford Medical Center and her Master’s Thesis, «A Picture Calculus,» at the Stanford Linear Accelerator.

Career

Howe has devoted her documentary film, television, radio, writing and reporting career to productions concerning science, medicine and the environment. She has received local, national and international awards, including three regional Emmys, a national Emmy nomination and a Station Peabody award for medical programming. While she was Director of Special Projects at KMGH-TV, Channel 7, Denver, Colorado from 1978 to 1983, her documentaries included Poison in the Wind and A Sun Kissed Poison which compared smog pollution in Los Angeles and Denver; Fire In The Water about hydrogen as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels; A Radioactive Water about uranium contamination of public drinking water in a Denver suburb; and A Strange Harvest (1980) and Strange Harvests (1993), which explored animal mutilation mystery. Another film, A Prairie Dawn, focused on astronaut training in Denver. She has also produced documentaries in Ethiopia and Mexico for UNICEF about child survival efforts and for Turner Broadcasting
in Atlanta about environmental challenges in the television series Earthbeat.

In addition to television, Howe produces, reports and edits the award-winning science, environment and earth mysteries news website, Earthfiles.com. She also reports monthly science, environment and earth mysteries news for Premiere Radio Networks Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and weekly news updates for Dreamland Radio at Unknowncountry.com.

In 2005, she traveled to Amsterdam, Hawaii, and several other U.S. conferences to speak about her investigative journalism. She was interviewed for the Canadian award-winning documentary, Star Dreams, about crop circles.

In 2004, Howe was on-camera television reporter for The History Channel’s UFO Files documentary investigation of an August 2004 cow death in Farnam, Nebraska. She also traveled to Florence and San Marino, Italy, to speak about her «earth mysteries» investigations. She also produced and reported Earthfiles segments for Comcast Cable broadcasts in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In 2003, Howe traveled to England to report about the proliferation of crop formations and small, mysterious lights there and in other European countries. She also investigated aerial light phenomena in Brazil. In 2002, She traveled to Norway to join astronomers, physicists and engineers in the study of «thermal plasmas of unknown origin» in the Hessdalen valley (see Hessdalen light). In 2001, she traveled to Hong Kong and Laos to report for The Discovery Channel television series, Modern Mysteries of Asia.

A few of Howe’s other television productions have included The World of Chemistry for PBS; a two-hour special Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms in association with WATL-Fox, Atlanta. Howe was Supervising Producer and Original Concept Creator for UFO Report: Sightings financed by Paramount Studios and the Fox network in Los Angeles. Its first broadcast was in October 1991, which became the Sightings series on Fox.

Howe has traveled widely for research and productions. She wrote the book Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles, 2nd edition, September 2002, about accounts and research regarding biophysical and biochemical changes in affected cereal crops by complex energy systems; An Alien Harvest about animal mutilation; Glimpses of Other Realities, Volumes I and II about U.S. military, intelligence and civilian testimonies concerning «unidentified phenomena interacting with earth life».

Howe was also asked to speak as an investigative reporter at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and has been interviewed on a Larry King Live special, CNN; The O’Reilly Factor, Fox; Sightings and Strange Universe, Fox; NBC’s The Other Side; Britain’s Union Pictures, ITN and BBC; The Discovery Channel special Evidence On Earth; and the NBC network special, Mysterious Origins of Man.

Film and television background

Howe reported news and produced the weekly live news program, Inquiry, at KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, 1968–1974; produced and wrote House Call with Timothy Johnson, M.D., WCVB-TV, Boston, 1974–1978; Director of Special Projects, KMGH-TV, Denver, 1978–1983; Owner Linda Moulton Howe Productions, 1983 to present; produced, wrote, directed and edited three documentaries for UNICEF, including UNICEF’s 40th Anniversary in New York City, 1984, and New Hope in Child Survival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1985; produced, wrote, directed and edited The Mole for World of Chemistry series, PBS, Washington, D.C., 1986; produced, wrote, directed and edited Information’s Electronic Future in Denver, Colorado, 1987; Director of International Programming for Earthbeat, WTBS-TV, Atlanta, 1989–1990; produced, wrote, directed and edited Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms, and was Producer and Live Studio Host for a Roswell UFO Crash special audience event for WATL-TV, Atlanta, 1990; Supervising Producer and Original Concept Creator, UFO Re
port: Sightings, Paramount Studios/FOX Network, Los Angeles, 1991; produced, wrote, directed, edited Strange Harvests 1993, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994; segment productions TN, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, History Channel, 1995-2007.

Criticism

Joe Nickell, noted skeptic and Senior Research Fellow for The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, described Linda Moulton Howe as a «credulous journalist» in a 2002 article in Skeptical Inquirer magazine regarding her belief in the genuineness of visible light phenomena allegedly witnessed and photographed in crop circles.

Awards

Howe was an honored medical producer in Boston’s WCVB Station Excellence Peabody Award. As Director of Special Projects at the KMGH-TV station in Denver, Colorado, she received the Aviation & Space Writers Association Award for Writing Excellence in Television, a Chicago Film Festival Golden Plaque for A Radioactive Water, Colorado’s Florence Sabin Award for «outstanding contribution to public health» and several dozen other local and regional awards, including Emmys. She also worked as Director of International Programming for Earthbeat, an environmental series broadcast on Turner’s WTBS Superstation, in Atlanta, Georgia.