Ancient Aliens - The Linda Moulton Howe Files

Episode Date: March 13, 2025

For more than four decades, award-winning journalist Linda Moulton Howe has covered the most mysterious phenomena on Earth. Could her investigations on everything from bizarre animal deaths to crop formations and alien abductions lead us to a profound new reality?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For more than four decades, award-winning journalist Linda Moulton Howe has reported on the most mysterious phenomena on Earth from bizarre animal deaths. She began to uncover connections between UFOs and animal mutilations. To crop formations. Linda brought the idea of crop circles into real science. Otherworldly entities. Linda is one of the ultimate authorities on extraterrestrials. And alien abductions. Linda realized that abductions also happened thousands of years ago.

Could the groundbreaking work of Linda Moulton Howe provide the ultimate evidence of extraterrestrial presence on Earth? If there is any bottom line to this life of mind, always go after the truth. The firm truth is we are not alone in this universe. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone. We have never been alone. Los Angeles, California, February 10th, 2024. Acclaimed investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker Linda Bolton Howe, speaks before a packed room at the annual Conscious Life Expo. I'm one of the few voices that kept trying to understand about something that is difficult and complex. Since the late 1970s, Linda has been covering stories

that fall under the category of what she calls high strangeness and sharing her research with the public eager to learn about the unexplainable phenomena that other journalists refuse to touch. Giorgio Sukolos is an ancient astronaut theorist. I've been to multiple UFO events with Linda, and people love her. They cheer for her. People are deeply invested with Linda Moulton Howe

because Linda is a trailblazer. She puts certain things on the map that before we're not really talked about. Here is investigative journalist, George Knapp. Linda Moulton Howe took on the weird topic of cattle mutilations back at a time when it didn't have much credibility. She's taken on topics that other reporters wouldn't touch and changed the world. This is Bill Burns, a best-selling author and a euphologist.

Linda Moulton Howe is one of the most important figures in modern journalism because she brought the science and the evidence of my strangeness into the mainstream. But I have interviewed at least 1,600 people in the human abduction syndrome over the last 40 years. For the first time, everyday people could talk about things like flying saucers, alien abductions, cattle mutilations, and crop circles. What Linda Moulton Howell taught us is that people who saw strange things weren't crazy. Nick Pope is a former official from the UK Ministry of Defense. Linda is a hugely influential and important figure in the UFO community. Arguably, though, she's not what you would call a euphologist.

Linda was and is an investigative journalist. She has a credentialed past, which includes a Peabody, a couple of regional AMEs. Here is radio host George Nouri from Coast to Coast. Coast A.N. Linda came up through the School of Hard Docks, where most of this business was oriented to men. Linda's work is ethical, award-winning, and her ability as a person, as a broadcaster, is second to none. For more than four decades, Linda has investigated almost every aspect of high strangeness, using skills she first honed as a reporter in Los Angeles. From 1966 to 1968, I was at Stanford University getting a master's degree in communication.

And I went to work in hard news at K&BC and Los Angeles. My goal was to focus on science, medicine, and the environment. This is who I am. I've always been very left brain. Everything I did was hard science. Linda's career was marked by multiple awards and recognitions. But after a decade working in television news, her career would take a sharp turn. Logan County, Colorado, September 1979. Linda Moulton Howe, now director of special projects at KMGH TV, the local CBS station in Denver, conducts an off-the-record interview with Sheriff Harry Tex Graves. For years, Sheriff Graves has been investigating a series of bizarre, unexplained animal mutilations.

He laid out something like 166. that he had taken himself as sheriff and started going through and showing me. Here they take an ear, eye, tongue, jaw, genitals, rectum. Here the animal was alive long enough to bury its head in the dirt while these excisions were taken. Sheriff, what do you think we're dealing with here? And he said, Linda, the perpetrators of these bloodless, trackless animal mutilations are creatures from outer space. Instantly, my entire body felt like it had been hit with an electric charge.

That was the turning point in my entire career. From that moment going forward, I wanted to understand how this was possible. Shortly after her initial interview with Sheriff Graves, Linda and her crew began to work on a documentary about cattle mutilations. For the next month, Linda conducted interviews with local ranchers, law enforcement, and officials, journalists, and independent investigators. The more she learned, the more she became convinced the phenomenon has an otherworldly origin. In those 30 days, there was a transmutation of my very soul.

Because everywhere we went, I am now confronted with dozens and dozens of witnesses describing beams of light that had the ability to levitate an animal up to something And when it is put down, there they have found a mutilated animal. No blood, no tracks around these animals. And I still can remember a feeling of, do I want to continue going into what is happening? It's not an easy transition to go, as Linda did, from... one moment specializing in hard news to then suddenly go to UFOs and animal mutilations. It is something that some people would regard as career suicide.

I felt like I had no choice but to try to get to what is behind what I learned was happening worldwide. But while she felt strongly that the topic was both compelling and important, Linda was also aware that airing this documentary was the biggest risk she'd ever taken in her career. Here's Linda from her 1980 documentary, A Strange Harvest. Who or what is killing and mutilating these animals? I've traveled to Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado exploring this mystery.

I think that the day before the broadcast was about the most worried that I'd ever been in my life. I knew that what I was reporting was absolutely true, but I was nervous. and I think I was scared. Most everyone in the Western United States heard about cattle mutilations in 1975. On May 25, 1980,

KMGH TV, Denver, premieres Linda Moulton Howe's documentary, A Strange Harvest. This is Officer Steve Benevides from a strange harvest. Now, this looks kind of dry, but if you'll recall, when we first spotted this,

that was just like if you'd taken a pair of scissors and cut out a round piece of paper, you know, like we might do what a kid might do in school. The broadcast draws a record-breaking audience of nearly a quarter million viewers. Almost immediately, calls begin pouring into the station. It was like an explosion. The switchboard for an entire week,

they were just constantly apologizing. Linda, we cannot keep up with the phone calls. And then the mail. I think in that first week that it was something like over 400 letters. During the course of her reporting, Linda became convinced that the forces behind the cattle mutilations were not of this world. But her next investigation would involve the mysterious dealings of the United States government. New York City, March 20, 1983.

Three years after the success of her film, A Strange Harvest, Linda Moulton Howe meets with executives at HBO to pitch a new documentary. So now I have a whole new project. completely different. There's this great story of a UFO landing at Ellsworth Air Force Base in North Dakota. And I had written a script as an example of what I thought we could do. And I called it UFOs the ET Factor. And Jean Abinator was head of documentary,

and she liked the script. And I signed a contract that after afternoon. And that night, Peter Gersten, the attorney for citizens against UFO secrecy, called me and said, I want to talk about something to see if you could incorporate it in your script. Peter Gerston told Linda about an intelligence officer named Richard Doty. Doty was a special agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Curtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. He had classified information about a UFO encounter that he was willing to share with Linda. Richard Dolan is a historian and author of UFOs and the National Security State. In 1983, Doty met with Linda over at Curtin Air Force Base. This was an arranged meeting.

This is when Linda's doing her deep, deep dive into the cover-up and the reality of the UFO phenomenon. He said, my superiors have asked me to show this to you, and he simultaneously opens a drawer, pulls out, a Manila envelope and he takes out, I think it was about 12 pages typed. And I still can feel the strangeness as I'm now looking at all caps, briefing paper for the President of the United States of America

on the subject of unidentified aerial craft. I cannot believe it. I remember it was just like that. It was talking about how our government has been investigating UFOs and ETs for decades. It's all real. I was so agitated at, my God, what is happening here? Why is he showing me such a document?

According to Linda, Doty also promised her access to material that could be used in her upcoming documentary. Doty said, we have film that you would be able to use and gave me names of two people who would call me about a film from a real UFO and that they were going to allow me to put this in the documentary. But when Linda met with executives

at the network to update them on the latest developments, they abruptly canceled her documentary about UFOs. Determined to continue with the project, Linda successfully pitched her special to producers at CNN. But once again, just as the documentary was set to proceed, it was dropped due to internal pressure.

So I'm blocked through HBO. I'm blocked at CNN. What in the hell is going on here? Finally, when the UFO footage promised to her by Richard Doty never materialized, Linda came to suspect her project had been shut down by forces within the government. I've been told this is how the CIA, NSA, DIA have been working on UFO material since World War II. They did not want anyone showing anything on television about animal mutilations, human abductions, extraterrestrials, none of it. But it didn't stop me.

It made me more curious. Is it possible that forces within the government were responsible for canceling Linda's documentary projects? According to Linda's daughter, it was right around the time that both she and her mother started to suspect that they were under surveillance. Here is Laura Howmead. I feared for my mother. I remember there were vans sometimes sitting outside of our house. And I would say, oh, the UPS truck's outside again.

She's like, that's not a UPS truck. You know, get away from the window. And then the van took off, but it was kind of scary. And our phone always seemed to have the clicking noises on them. I had a man pull a gun on me, and that was in the gun on me and that was in North Carolina. I'm working at this table and he pulls the chair out and sits down and pulls out a gun and it was so surreal. It was so weird that I don't think I even felt afraid. He says you can't keep doing

what you're doing and when he got up he left me sitting there thinking I have every right in the universe to keep doing the investigations I'm doing. In the aftermath of her canceled documentary, Linda became convinced that there are people within the government who do not want her investigating animal mutilations or anything else that may have an extraterrestrial connection. She also learned to be on the lookout for disinformation, which she would encounter again as she began investigating another mysterious phenomenon. September 18, 1989.

In a feature article, Time magazine explores the mysterious crop circle phenomenon that has been prominent across Great Britain since the 1970s. Media scrutiny of the subject intensifies, exposing similar occurrences across the globe. I remember seeing the very first formations that were being distributed in the New York Times and others with the question marks. What is this? Is there somebody tramping around the earth doing this as a whole? what is happening.

On September 9th, 1991, retirees Doug Bauer and Dave Chorley of Southampton, England, claimed responsibility for the entire Crop Circle phenomenon. And for much of the general public, the mystery was solved. But Linda found this explanation highly unlikely, since these formations had been documented in at least 23 countries. Doug and Dave, they weren't going around the world to all these 23 countries. I knew. Something is happening.

I do not understand, but I want to understand. Once again, Linda Moulton Howe set out to investigate a mystery that most other journalists wouldn't touch. And she uncovered what some scientists considered to be undeniable evidence of extraterrestrial connection. Wiltshire, England, July 1992. Linda Moulton Howe travels to the location with the high-listingable. occurrences of crop circles in the world to investigate the phenomenon up close. Near a site called Milk Hill, she finds herself at a 400 foot long formation which had just appeared in a wheat field.

I made the step into this huge pattern and that was the first time that I saw layer, layer, layer, seven layers. All of these different angles that were coming up from all of these layers over this large, huge pattern. And I have this feeling of a presence that is there. For Linda, the experience convinced her that hoaxers like Doug Bauer and Dave Chorley were definitely not behind the Crop Circle mystery, and she set out to learn more about the phenomenon. Linda has traveled widely and looked deeply into this mystery. She's interviewed a lot of the farmers in whose fields some of the most amazing formations have occurred.

And she's spoken to witnesses who have seen strange balls of light that in some cases people believe have actually caused those formations. One of the most memorable of all time was in the Cherhill area. It was a huge pattern. There were four of us and we ended up feeling that other intelligences are here and that the crop formations were somehow a signal. One of the most peculiar anomalies that Linda observed while examining crop circles had to do with plant nodes. A node in a plant is a structure on the stem where leaves, buds, or other parts of the plant may grow. Linda noticed that many crop circles that the plant nodes within the formation were significantly longer, than the plant nodes outside the formation.

She collected samples and sent them to biophysicist W.C. Leavengood at the University of Michigan for laboratory analysis. What Leavengood determined was that many of these nodes acted as though they were subjected to localized heat at the node, which caused water inside the node, basically to blow out, blast out, causing the stock to flop over the way it did. Ian Holling is a crop circle investigator. The so-called blown nodes have actually been expanded and blown out by perhaps microwave radiation. Now, that's not done by people with sticks and shovels and pieces of board and rope.

William Henry is an author and investigative mythologist. Very much like with the cattle mutilation, suddenly the crop circle phenomena took on an elevated sort of perspective in the mainstream community. For Linda, just as important as pursuing the truth, is disseminating her findings as widely as possible. But when she set out to try and release her research in a book, she was turned away by a publisher in New York. I'm saying to the editor, I want lots and lots of evidentiary material in documents and photos. I want it to be a book that would hold up in a court of law. And he said, I'm very interested in doing your book, but under no circumstances would we ever publish these disgusting animal photos? And I remember saying,

sir, they're evidentiary. They show there are no tracks. They show the absence of the blood on the animals. I have pathology reports that the way that the excisions have been made are not known to any technology by any pathologists on this plant. And he said it again, disgusting. And what is always my backup? I have to do it myself. My mother has made it a point to do everything on her own because it would be done the right way. When she started her book at The Alien Harvest, it took her 10 years of research. She doesn't like to stop unless she gets to what she wants. In 1989, Linda self-published the culmination of her research in An Alien Harvest.

The book Alien Harvest was the first time that an investigative reporter had brought together the documentation in book form that detailed with over 300 illustrations, maps and diagrams and documents that detailed the link between animal mutilations and non-human intelligence. and it's still a very widely sought and widely referenced book. I followed with Glimpses Volume 1 and Glimpses Volume 2, which had a lot of physical, straightforward evidence. And those three books, I think, are almost as important as the TV programs. Linda's books provided hard facts and compelling theories

and amassed over more than a decade worth of investigations on bizarre animal mutilations, unexplained crop formations, and another mysterious phenomenon that had captured her attention. Alien Abductions. In the 1990s, Art Bell's paranormal-themed radio talk show, Coast to Coast A.M., boasted 15 million listeners nightly, and Linda Moulton Howe considered it the perfect outlet for sharing her investigations with the public. Linda Moulton Howe reports on all kinds of strange occurrences, things that are inexplicable otherwise. Now, Linda, welcome. Thanks, Art.

Well, for the first time since the mid-1970s, as you pointed out. Linda's regular appearances as both a guest and a host spanned 28 years, making her tenure on the show longer than both Art Bells and current host, George Norris. So we've all heard stories of the Secret Space Program, but when Linda hears stories of this, she starts to investigate. Linda, tell us about the Secret Apollo programs. Well, this is the closest I've gotten to somebody who seems to have firsthand eyewitness testimonies

that would confirm the truth that non-human entities, friendly, neutral, and unfriendly are interacting with Earth, the moon, Mars, and beyond, and they have been for centuries, according to insider leaks. Wow. Linda's done some great reports over the years. They run the gamut from strange sightings, to abduction cases, you name it.

Anything paranormal that you've heard in your life, Linda's covered it on coast to coast. While Linda was able to reach millions of listeners on coast to coast, she still felt she needed her own means for disseminating information directly to the public. What was coming into me in that period of time were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of letters. I could open them, but I realized,

that I didn't have any vehicle at all in which to interact with the world, and then I just said it out loud, Earth Files. I want to do Earth Files, and that is how it began. On November 28, 1998, Linda launched Earth Files

as an archive for her many years of research and created a website so that she could share the details of her investigations with the public. Almost 10 years later, in 2007, she started an EarthFiles YouTube channel where she could report live on her latest findings. This is EarthFiles, the award-winning news site with the latest updates in science, environment, and real X-Files. She's got over a quarter million followers worldwide.

She writes the program. She edits it. She produces it. She does all the research. It is her. And you can almost describe Earth Files as her magnum opus, really, because this will ultimately live on as her archives. Earth Files and Coast to Coast have provided Linda with a much wider audience with which to share

her research. But of even greater value to her is hearing from the public. And even before she had these outlets, Linda was contacted frequently by people who alleged to have been abducted by extraterrestrials. As the decade of 1990 turned, I got a handwritten letter from a woman named Linda Porter. And she sent drawings. And it was about her coming into a relationship with extraterrestrials in which they seem to be wanting her to become like a spokesperson.

Linda investigated Linda Porter's account and included it in her book, Glimpses of other realities. The Linda Porter story is one of the biggest stories Linda Howe, ever wrote about because it wasn't a crop circle or a cow. Here's what it was. A human being encountering creatures from another realm, another reality. That was the first time in my work as an investigative journalist

that Linda Porter and others all of a sudden began to be contacting me about experiences they had with extraterrestrial beings. They were coming to me to say, here are my drawings, here is what I have seen. Author Whitley Streber became one of the most high-profile alleged alien abductees when he wrote about his encounter with extraterrestrials in his 1987 book, Communion. But before he told his story to the world, he told it to Linda Moulton Howe.

Here's Whitley. Linda is a very open-minded person, and you don't feel uncomfortable sharing weird stories with her. I don't think that either of us was too deep. into the abduction material when we met back in 1986, but nobody was. But she didn't have any problem with my story. She just wanted to know more. As with animal mutilations and crop circles, Linda immersed herself in the abduction phenomenon, and it led to a major revelation.

I've interviewed now more than 3,000 people in the abduction syndrome. Right from the beginning, I was confused about the various physical descriptions, the The standing up reptiles, the standing up grays, and the Nordic blondes. We have tall whites 10 to 12 feet tall. That's biblical. Those are like the giants. The cases that Linda looked into allowed us to tell a much deeper, richer story about multiple races, different agendas, and programs that are going on.

The idea that humanity may be the subject of some extraterrestrial program of some sort. Could it be that there are multiple intelligences that have been interacting with our planet for thousands of years? As far as Linda Moulton Howe is concerned, the answer is a resounding yes. And as evidence, she points not only to the accounts of alleged alien abductees, but also another group of people who have confided in her,

government whistleblowers. Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 28th, 2024. The Black Pyramid was determined to be some type of a power generation system. For decades, government and military insiders have shared their extraterrestrial encounters with Linda Moulton Howe. And through her Earth Files podcast, Linda has been able to get their stories out to the public without exposing their identities. A man who heard my July 2012 Coast to Coast A.M. broadcast about the underground dark pyramid in Alaska, called and told me that his once military pilot father had secretly flown in a civilian Huey helicopter

to the underground pyramid site between Noam and Mount Donali. He said his father was told that the black pyramid was more secret than the Manhattan atomic bomb project in World War II. Linda Bolton Howell learned how to cultivate sources, protect sources, And as a result, people would share information with her sensitive information that they didn't know what else to do with. People go to her. They trust her. A lot of these military guys, they really single her out.

They know she's very, very smart, very dogged in her persistence. And she will track a story down to its conclusion. I have had so many people who have come to me from military backgrounds, from classified backgrounds. And they had to show me IDs because I've made that clear. If you want to talk to me from a military point of view, you must at least show me a DD-214 and ID. Linda has gained incredible insight from the whistleblowers who have shared their stories with her over the years.

And in one instance, the encounter of a military insider led to the discovery of a previously unknown phenomenon. November 24, 1996. In her regular half-hour science, segment on Art Bell's Dreamland. Linda conducts an interview with former Air Force First Lieutenant, Robert Salas, who tells an incredible story. One of the guards said it was outside the front. Solis was stationed at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana and was in charge of a launch

control facility when, on March 24, 1967, multiple Air Force personnel witnessed a large UFO appear over the Minuteman missile system. All of a sudden, we hear these horns. go off loud horns, which we knew what that meant. It meant there was a problem. We looked over at the board. This was a bank of lights, and missiles started going from operational to no-go in seconds. We lost all ten of right in rapid succession while this object was still out there. The information shared by Lieutenant Robert Sala struck a chord with Linda,

as she has heard a very similar account nearly two decades earlier from her own brother. In November of 1975, late at night, the phone rang. It was my brother who was in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. On a Minuteman missile site, everybody, including him, see 300 feet diameter estimated, orange fluorescent light. It was right over one of the Minuteman missiles. So I have that as a personal experience with my own brother. To many, Linda's interview with Robert Salas reinforced the notion that the government knows much more about UFOs

than it is sharing with the public and emboldened other witnesses to come forward with details of similar incidents. That interview from Linda inspired other witnesses to come forward. I've been told this by those witnesses. One is Dave Shindell. Dave Shindell was a captain in the Air Force stationed at Minot Air Force Base, who in 1966 relieved a crew like mine,

whose missiles had been shut down during a UFO encounter. These cases, having to do with UFOs at our nuclear missile sites, happened in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and ongoing, as far as I know. Fast forward to the modern day, It's just been revealed that Robert Salas has briefed the United States Congress about his story and has also told it to the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomily Resolution Office. Congress has mandated the DOD and the intelligence community to report on this alleged link between UFOs and nuclear facilities.

The testimony of Robert Salas is a key part of that. So Linda's reporting back in the 90s laid the groundwork for what's happening now. Linda Bolton Howe has become instrumental in bringing what were once considered fringe topics into the mainstream. Today, she is considered one of the foremost authorities on UFO phenomenon, and she has also become a prominent voice in the call for government disclosure. Washington, D.C. April 29, 2013. At the National Press Club, a panel consisting of former congressional members gather for the citizen hearing on UFO disclosure.

I do hear by affirm. I do hear by a firm. But I will tell the truth. I will tell the truth. Over the course of five days, the panel receives sworn testimonies concerning UFOs from former military personnel, government officials, and esteemed UFO researchers, including investigative journalist, Linda Moulton Howe. There is no doubt that the United States government since World War II and the FDR and Truman administrations has known about the extraterrestrial interactions with Earth and that their policies of denial in the alleged interest of national security are still in effect.

Linda is very clearly one of the shining stars of the UFO Disclosure Movement. She presented herself as one of the ultimate authorities on extraterrestrials and especially about the U.S. government's cover-up of the existence of extraterrestrials. Back in 2013, no one in Congress in the Senate were talking about UFOs or extraterrestrial disclosure or any of these topics. It is very, very possible that without that we would not have the UFO disclosure movement that we have today. In July 2023, the House Oversight Committee held a congressional hearing to record testimony about UFO activity from three notable whistleblowers. Retired Navy

pilots Ryan Graves and David Fravor and former Air Force intelligence officer David Grush. Here's David Grush. I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program. Many believe that Linda Moulton Howe laid much of the groundwork for this landmark event. But as far as Linda's concerned, we have a long way to go. To still be living a classified reality with no truth, that government after government knows, that to me falls into the category of an incomprehensible darkness.

Throughout her career, Linda has faced ridicule, intimidation, and even threats to her life. But none of it has deterred Linda from her commitment to revealing the truth. The firm truth is, we are not alone in this universe. She will always be searching for the truth. She does it for herself, for people, for mankind. Linda is doggedly fighting against the status quo and breaking down doors, opening new windows of consciousness and understanding to humanity.

What Linda did was she humanized people that you would think are crazy. These are real people with real experiences, and this is what they saw. And so, along comes to Linden Hau and says, hey, this is not fantasy, it's real. And she showed the evidence. Linda's work is not done. She knows, and we all know that Linda is on the right track. Her legacy is that of a pioneer, and we should all be so lucky if we only do a fraction of what she can do. If I don't report this, who will?

If there is any bottom line to this life of mine, it's always go after the light, which for me is you tell the truth. From unexplained animal mutilations to extraordinary crop formations to stories of underground alien bases, Linda Moulton Howe has investigated the most mysterious phenomena on Earth and puts them in the public eye. Could it be that they are all pieces of the same puzzle? Perhaps through Linda's daring inquiries, we are getting closer to seeing the full picture, which will reveal a reality far different than we ever imagined.