04 August 2024

The CARET "Dragonfly Drone" Incident: Another Linda Moulton Howe Farce.

Whenever Linda Moulton Howe appears online or on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory—or any other paranormal radio show—you can be rest assured it’s going to be an off-the-hook batshit crazy dumpster fire of a train wreck.

During the early stages of her career, Howe focused on addressing environmental issues. As Director of Special Projects at KMGH-TV in Denver from 1978 to 1983, she produced impactful documentaries such as Poison in the Wind and A Sun Kissed Poison—both of which exposed high levels of smog pollution in Los Angeles and Denver. She produced others: Fire In The Water, which advocated for using hydrogen as a cleaner energy source and A Radioactive Water, which revealed the dangers of uranium contamination in a Denver suburb's drinking water. Her contributions were instrumental in WCVB-TV receiving the Institutional Peabody Award for institutional excellence in 1975.

At that time, cattle mutilations were happening throughout the western United States, which led to Howe producing a 1980 documentary called A Strange Harvest, which propelled her into the spotlight.

And enabled Howe to party crash the ufology field and its eclectic subculture.

A Strange Harvest postulated that mysterious wounds found on cattle were the result of extraterrestrial beings harvesting body parts and accused the U.S. government of being involved in a cover-up. For her work, she received a Regional Emmy award for Audio Achievement in 1981 and solidified her reputation as a fierce defender of these ideas.

Note that: “Regional Emmy award for Audio Achievement.”

Howe’s proud of that Emmy and its something she and her adherents never fail to remind us. It’s an award for sound achievement, it has nothing to do with the subject matter. But, hey, it sounds impressive and gives her some gravitas.

That said, it was a life changing moment for Howe; presenting herself as the ever-intrepid investigative reporter, she delved further into UFO conspiracy theories and made claims about connections between cattle mutilations, UFOs and government secrecy. While she claimed to have been shown secret documents by a government agent—one such claim was that in 1983, she was shown a secret presidential briefing paper that revealed how aliens created Jesus and placed him on Earth “to teach mankind about love and non-violence.”

So, basically, Howe’s work might have inspired the Ridley Scott Alien prequel, Prometheus.

While Howe won over some in the ufology field, there were critics, including author John Greer, who believed her evidence lacked credibility and was based solely on decaying cow carcasses.

As noted in Howe’s RationalWiki entry, many weren’t impressed with her brand of shoddy journalism, highlighted by her “gullibility and deceptive ‘reports’ have caused even staunch ufologists to give her extremely low marks for credibility.”

Other observations:

UFO Watchdog: “Someone once summed up Howe very well with two words: ‘Media entrepreneur’. While having been a major player in the cattle mutilation mystery, Howe’s credibility has gone way downhill as she sensationalizes everything from mundane animal deaths to promoting Brazilian UFO fraud Urandir Oliveira and the Aztec UFO Crash Hoax while selling alien books, videos and lectures. Howe dabbles in all things strange including Bigfoot, crop circles, alien abductions, and UFOs. Howe also sits on the board of advisors to the Roswell UFO Museum along with the likes of Don Schmitt. See Howe’s site—EarthFiles.com—which she actually charges a subscription for in order to access some stories. Also see Howe turning an explained animal death into an encounter with Bigfoot. A leap not even Bigfoot itself could make.”

Saucer Smear magazine: “The most hilarious web posting we have read in a very long time comes from Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country, dated 9/30/05. Linda Moulton Howe is described as ‘our Dreamland science reporter’. We ask—what, if any, are the scientific qualifications of this pleasant but extremely gullible lady?? Inquiring minds would like to know!”

Here’s a LMH sizzle reel of hijinks and conspiracy theory woo woo:

  • Bigfoot DNA: Howe says Melba Ketchum has proof that Bigfoot exists.
  • Strange Explosions Sweeping the US: Howe describes alleged booms, flashes of light, ominous trumpet sounds.
  • Animal Mutilations Strike Again: Howe says it’s happening in Waddy, Kentucky.
  • The Return of Ezekiel's Wheel: Howe describes recent “eyewitness sightings” of that Biblical thing in the sky.
  • Pyramids Discovered in Alaska and Turkey: According to Howe, they are “immense structures not only built but used in some unknown way for a thousand years.”
  • Unexplained Explosions Now Worldwide: Howe says the world is blowing up, supposedly starting with Clintonville, Wisconsin.
  • Missing Time: Howe scoops “a rare case of documented missing time.”
  • Unknown objects in our skies: What are we NOT being told—yes, there’s an Obama conspiracy to deny UFO presence, according to Howe.
  • Kansas City UFO Wave: Howe says a “remarkable series of UFO sightings” are being debunked by the media due to some kind of conspiracy.
  • The Rendlesham Code: Howe endorses a UFO contactee’s claims of having telepathically downloaded binary code numbers from aliens.
  • Unprecedented Wave of Animal Mutilations: Howe warns of a “massive worldwide wave” of hacked-up animals.
  • Project Serpo: Howe was one of the first to be taken for a ride by this hoax. As of 2017, she is still saying, with a straight face, that Ebens are our allies in some sort of galactic war.
  • Thermo-nuclear war on Mars: Howe uncritically accepts and promotes the dotty ideas of John Brandenburg, thereby disqualifying herself as any kind of science reporter.

·         Secret extended Apollo missions: On 29 November 2018 Howe web-published a 3-part essay about Apollo missions 18, 19 and 20, which, she alleges, were carried out in secret and involved contact with aliens. Her information came from one Jon Harold Lavine, who claimed to have been one of the astronauts involved. On the same date Howe talked for two hours on this topic on Coast to Coast AM. She later retracted but characterized Lavine as a victim of MKULTRA memory-substitution rather than what he actually is—a fraud.

Along the way, Howe crossed paths with the infamous Air Force Office of Special Investigations officer Richard Doty. But that’s a story for another day.

In 2007, as Howe clicked through her inbox, she discovered a dozen photos of peculiar objects. This piqued her curiosity and sparked a desire to uncover their origins and purpose.

And, well, this is how the entire embarrassing situation started.

Howe later learned that from the span of 2006 to 2007, a plethora of individuals scattered across the United States claimed to have witnessed the same anomalous UFO. Described as a saucer-shaped object with thin wires protruding about 30 feet into the air, it measured at only 25 feet in diameter and two feet thick, making it impossible for any human pilot to control. Dubbed “Dragonfly Drones,” these objects baffled observers with their peculiar movements and seemingly remote operation.

Rumors swirled about their origins—were they extraterrestrial beings spying on our planet? Or perhaps a clandestine venture by the government's covert space program? The unexplained phenomena captured the imagination of Howe, who dove deeper into the mysteries surrounding the dragonfly drones. She would later learn that the pictures—all of them—were captured at the Big Basin in California, specifically in the Redwoods area.

Based on her vast experience in the UFO field –no, no—Howe’s history of willful gullibility, deceptive ‘reports and plain and simple shoddy journalism, she felt the photos were authentic and she believed the eyewitness reports.

Enter Isaac. That name has an interesting connection and I’ll talk about that in a bit.

Following the script, not long after getting the photos, Howe received a phone call from a man known only as Isaac. Not surprisingly, Isaac was connected to a top-secret government project known as CARET: Commercial Applications Research for Extraterrestrial Technology; the project was based in Palo Alto, Calif., and he had information on the Dragonfly Drone UFOs. 

Shortly after receiving the photos, she received a phone call from a person who said he had secret information about the dragonfly drones. He wouldn’t give his real name and only used the name Isaac.

In short, Isaac’s account was a modified version of Bob Lazar’s claims: A few hundred scientists, including Isaac, were attempting to reverse engineer alien or nonhuman intelligence technology—the Dragonfly Drones. Howe first talked about the Dragonfly Drones during a 29 May 2008 C2C AM appearance. Of course, Howe firmly believed the Drones were part of the CARET program; she would later present photos and documents from Isaac. Again, she was certain this was a black project program overseen by the government.

However.

A few months before, on History Channel’s seventh episode (season one) of UFO Hunters, Bill Birnes and the crew were in Colorado, where they met with Colorado MUFON—Mutual UFO Network—and they discussed the very same Dragonfly Drone UFOs. After some scripted antics, Colorado MUFON and the UFO Hunters felt that the Dragonfly Drones were some sort of psyops program or what have you. Titled “Reverse Engineering,” the episode was first broadcast on 19 March 2008.

It was interesting—and perplexing—that alleged UFO sightings from California ended up in the hands of Colorado MUFON instead of the California groups.

Oh well.

Flash forward to 15 Dec. 2008 and it’s the second season’s thirteenth episode of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles called “Earthlings Welcome Here.” Throughout the previous episodes, there are mysterious drones—later found out to be reverse from Terminator tech—appear and Sarah goes to a UFO Experience Conference, searching for a shadowy blogger named . . . .

Abraham.

The Old Testament, anyone? Abraham? Isaac?

Both “Abraham” and “Isaac” have knowledge of UFO drones—both drone projects reverse-engineered from advanced tech.

Yes. It was a viral marketing for TSCC. The link is here:

It should be noted that despite the truth behind the Dragonfly Drones and that it’s been known since Dec. 2008—people still believe they are here and real.

If someone at TSCC wanted to stir things up within the UFO community—sending photos and having a mysterious informant—choosing Linda Moulton Howe was a stroke of genius.

She’ll never learn.

She’ll keep falling for hoaxes and what have you for years to come.

 Be seeing you.

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Gaia Article on the Dragonfly Drones

Dragonfly Drone UFOs solved

UFO Hunters: Reverse Engineering





The photos Howe received from Isaac


Drone photos from the episode.


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