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Linda Moulton Howe | |
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Born | Linda Ann Moulton (1942-01-20) January 20, 1942 (age 82) Boise, Idaho |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Colorado (B.A. cum laude) Stanford University (M.A.) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, documentary filmmaker |
Children | Laura Kathleen Howe Hannah Elizabeth Howe Mead (granddaughter) |
Website | Earthfiles.com |
Linda Moulton Howe (born January 20, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and documentarian. She is best known as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories. She is well known for her investigations of cattle mutilations, and her conclusion that they are of extraterrestrial origin. She is also noted for her 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 Linda Ann 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 1964 pageant that year in Atlantic City. Howe received her 1965 B.A. cum laude in English Literature from the University of Colorado. In 1966, Howe was awarded the Stanley Baubaire Scholarship for her Master's Degree work at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. She received her Master's 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.
Work
One Idaho state director of MUFON called her "the most preeminent UFO investigator in the world", although Howe has said she regards herself as a television producer and investigative reporter. Howe's work includes speculations about what she terms "unexplained" phenomena, such as cattle mutilations, crop circles, UFO sightings and alien abduction.
In 1979, Howe started work on a documentary film entitled A Strange Harvest which alleged that strange wounds found on cattle were the work of extraterrestrials who harvested body parts required for their survival or research, and that the U.S. government was complicit. Howe became known as a "staunch advocate" for these ideas, and began to speculate about alleged connections between cattle mutilations, UFOs and supposed government conspiracies, saying "I am convinced that one or more alien intelligences are affecting this planet". Although Howe claimed she was shown secret documents after being taken into confidence by an agent of the government, author John Greer wrote that Howe presented no evidence for such claims other than "the very ambiguous evidence provided by rotting cow carcasses".
Howe also wrote about crop circles, proposing that they showed evidence of some mysterious energy in the form of "visible light phenomena" seen in some photographs of the crop circles. Joe Nickell, noted skeptic and Senior Research Fellow for The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, described Howe as a "credulous journalist" in a 2002 article in Skeptical Inquirer magazine. According to Nickell, photos that Howe published purporting to show mysterious energy are simply misinterpretations of photographic accidents, such as a camera's wrist strap reflecting the flash, or circular artifacts caused by floating dust, errors that Nickell calls "the stock-in-trade of ghost hunters".
In 2013, Howe spoke as part of a "Citizen Hearing on Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race" event held at the National Press Club, saying she believed "alien technology appears so advanced" that "space and time could be bent by outer space travelers, therefore allowing extraterrestrials to visit Earth".
Career
Howe 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).
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. It was first broadcast in October 1991, which became the Sightings series on Fox.
In 2005, Howe participated in the Canadian documentary, Star Dreams, produced by Genesis Communications Corp. about crop circles. In 2006, Howe was the on-camera field investigator of a Montana cattle mutilation for a Canadian television special, Best Evidence. She traveled to England for interviews at Cardiff University for Earthfiles and Premiere Radio Networks.
Howe is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM and has been interviewed on 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; the NBC network special, Mysterious Origins of Man, and the History Channel television series Ancient Aliens.
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 and Excellence In News awards for her news website Earthfiles.com.
On February 20, 2016, Howe was honored at the LAX Hilton with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Conscious Life Expo and The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens TV program, one of THC’s most popular series in which Linda has been interviewed for each of nine seasons.
In April 2013, Howe was honored with the first Lucius Farish Foundation award for excellence in research and productions concerning the UFO phenomena at the 26th Annual 2013 Ozark Conference in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
In 2010, Howe was honored with the Courage In Journalism Award at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C. at the X Conference by Paradigm Research, a group whose mission is to "advocate in all ways possible for an end to a government imposed truth embargo of the facts surrounding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race".
In addition to her television productions, Linda produces, reports and edits the award-winning science, environment and earth mysteries news website, Earthfiles.com, honored with a WebAward for News Standard of Excellence, a W3 Silver Award in the news category, an Award for Standard of Excellence presented by the internet’s WebAward Association and Encyclopaedia Britannica Award for Journalistic Excellence.
Personal life
She has a daughter, Laura Kathleen Howe, from her marriage (1968–1986) to Larry W. Howe. Her father was Chet Moulton, Idaho's Director of Aeronautics from 1946 to 1971 and recipient of many aviation honors. Her mother was Mabel K. Moulton. Her brother is James Moulton, an aviation simulator instructor at Lockheed Martin. Her granddaughter is Hannah Elizabeth Howe Mead born on October 10, 2014.
Filmography
- Guilty Madonnas — Medical
- Borrowed Faces — Environmental
- A Poison in the Wind — Environmental
- Sun Kissed Poison — Environmental
- Fire In The Water — Environmental
- A Strange Harvest (1980)
- A Radioactive Water — Environmental
- A Prairie Dawn — Science and Technology
- Information's Electronic Future — Science and Technology
- Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms
- Strange Harvests 1993
- Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms
- Earthbeat — Environmental
- The Mole: World of Chemistry — Science
- UFO Report: Sightings
Bibliography
- Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms. Linda Moulton Howe Productions, 1989, ISBN 0-9620570-1-0; 2nd Edition expanded in text, illustrations and documents: 2014, ISBN 978-0-9620570-0-7
- Glimpses of Other Realities. Linda Moulton Howe Productions
- Vol. I: Facts and Eyewitnesses. 1993, ISBN 0-9620570-5-3
- Vol. II: High Strangeness. 1998, ISBN 0-9620570-3-7
- Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles. Linda Moulton Howe Productions, 2002, ISBN 0-9620570-6-1
References
- ^ Peter Knight (2003). Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-1-57607-812-9. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ Michael Barkun (4 May 2006). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-0-520-24812-0. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- Nancy Lusignan, Editor (1 September 1998). Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture. Purdue University Press. pp. 415–. ISBN 978-1-55753-115-5. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
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has generic name (help) - Richard Landes (6 July 2000). Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. Taylor & Francis. pp. 731–. ISBN 978-0-415-92246-3. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- "(www.nexusmagazine.com) Bio: Linda Moulton Howe". Archived from the original on 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- ^ "Winner of miss Idaho fits 1974 Contestant Composite". Idaho State Journal. University of Northern Colorado. June 17, 1974. "Miss Bacon is the fourth Boisean to win the state title in 25 years. Her predecessors have included . . . Linda Moulton Howe, 1963, Los Angeles TV producer and winner of an Emmy certificate for documentary work; . . ." Archived online with clickable newspaper image.
- "Reporter says truth about UFOs is out there - She says ET life exists but Feds are covering it up". Deseret News, November 30, 1998. Associated Press. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- John Michael Greer (2009). The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation. Llewellyn Worldwide. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-0-7387-1319-9.
- Brian Regal (15 October 2009). Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia: A Critical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-0-313-35508-0.
- Joe Nickell (29 September 2010). The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 69–. ISBN 0-8131-3707-1.
- Ratner, Ellen. "Ex-Lawmakers' Extraterrestrial Hearings Blast Off". Talk Radio News Service. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- "Citizen Hearing on Disclosure". National Press Club. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- John Doe (2013-05-17), The Citizens Hearing on Disclosure April 29th Linda Moulton Howe **HD**, retrieved 2016-03-12
- Hepp, Jeff (November 19, 1980). "Howe discusses various mutilation theories". The Mirror. University of Northern Colorado.
- Nichol, Robert (2000-01-01), Star Dreams: Exploring the Mystery of the Crop Circles, retrieved 2016-03-12
- "laexpo". www.consciouslifeexpo.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- "LINDA MOULTON HOWE". Ozark Mountain UFO Conference. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- "Paradigm Research Group Awards". www.paradigmresearchgroup.org. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- Clark, Jerome (1993). Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Inc. ISBN 0-8103-8843-X. Page 43; "A Strange Harvest, a 1980 TV documentary produced and written by Denver filmmaker Linda Moulton Howe . . ."
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