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 DronesUFO Hunters: Reverse Engineering
The photos Howe received from Isaac
