All language subtitles for Ancient.Aliens.S20E18

NARRATOR:
For more than four decades,

award-winning journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

has reported on the most
mysterious phenomena on Earth.

From bizarre animal deaths...

NICK POPE:
She began to uncover connections

between UFOs
and animal mutilations.

NARRATOR:
...to crop formations...

BILL BIRNES:
Linda brought the idea
of crop circles

into real science.

NARRATOR:
...otherworldly entities...

WILLIAM HENRY:
Linda is one
of the ultimate authorities

on extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
...and alien abductions.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Linda realized
that abductions also happened

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR:
Could the groundbreaking work
of Linda Moulton Howe

provide the ultimate evidence

of an extraterrestrial presence
on Earth?

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
If there is any bottom
line to this life of mine,

always go after the truth.

The firm truth is,

we are not alone
in this universe.

NARRATOR:
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 10, 2024.

(audience cheering)

NARRATOR:
Acclaimed
investigative journalist,

author, and filmmaker
Linda Moulton Howe

speaks before a packed room at
the annual Conscious Life Expo.

HOWE:
I'm one of the few voices

that kept trying to understand

about something
that is difficult and complex.

NARRATOR:
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 a public

eager to learn more about
the unexplainable phenomena

that other journalists
refuse to touch.

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 put certain things
on the map

that before were not really
talked about.

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.

BIRNES:
Linda Moulton Howe is one
of the most important figures

in modern journalism because

she brought the science
and the evidence

of high strangeness
into the mainstream.

HOWE:
But I have interviewed at least

1,600 people in the
human abduction syndrome

over the last 40 years.

BIRNES:
For the first time,
everyday people could talk

about things
like flying saucers,

alien abductions,

cattle mutilations,
and crop circles.

What Linda Moulton Howe
taught us

is that people who saw
strange things weren't crazy.

POPE:
Linda is a hugely influential

and important figure
in the UFO community.

Arguably, though, she's not
what you would call a ufologist.

Linda was and is
an investigative journalist.

She has a credentialed past,
which includes

a Peabody,
couple of regional Emmys.

GEORGE NOORY:
Linda came up through
the school of hard knocks

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.

NARRATOR:
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.

HOWE:
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 KNBC in 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.

NARRATOR:
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.

HOWE:
He laid out something
like 166 Polaroids

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.

NARRATOR:
Shortly after
her initial interview

with Sheriff Graves,
Linda and her crew

began work on a documentary
about cattle mutilations.

For the next month,
Linda conducted interviews

with local ranchers,
law enforcement 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'm 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?

POPE:
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.

NARRATOR:
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.

HOWE: Who or what is killing
and mutilating these animals?

I've traveled
through 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.

NARRATOR:
On May 25, 1980,

KMGH-TV Denver

premieres Linda Moulton Howe's
documentary A Strange Harvest.

Now, this looks kind of dry
right over here.

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 you might do--
a kid might do in school.

NARRATOR:
The broadcast draws
a record-breaking audience

of nearly
a quarter million viewers.

Almost immediately, calls began
pouring into the station.

HOWE:
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.

NARRATOR:
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.

NARRATOR:
Three years after
the success of her film

A Strange Harvest,

Linda Moulton Howe
meets with executives at HBO

to pitch a new documentary.

HOWE:
So now

I have a whole new project.

It's 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 E.T. Factor.

And Jean Abounader
was head of documentary,

and she liked the script,

and I signed a contract
that 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."

NARRATOR:
Peter Gersten told Linda
about an intelligence officer

named Richard Doty.

Doty was a special agent
for the Air Force Office

of Special Investigations
at Kirtland Air Force Base

in New Mexico,
and according to Gersten,

he had classified information
about a UFO encounter

that he was willing
to share with Linda.

RICHARD DOLAN:
In 1983, Doty met with Linda

over at, uh,
Kirtland Air Force Base.

This was an arranged meeting.

This is when Linda's, like,

doing her deep, deep dive
into the cover-up

and the reality
of the UFO phenomenon.

HOWE:
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?

Wh-Why is he showing me
such a document?

NARRATOR:
According to Linda,
Doty also promised her access

to material that could be used
in her upcoming documentary.

HOWE:
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 gonna
allow me to put this

in the documentary.

NARRATOR:
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.

HOWE:
So I'm blocked through HBO.
I'm blocked at CNN.

What in the hell
is going on here?

NARRATOR:
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.

HOWE:
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.

NARRATOR:
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 this time
that both she and her mother

started to suspect that they
were under surveillance.

LAURA HOWE:
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."

-(tires screeching)
-And then the van took off.

But it was kind of scary.

-(phone rings)
-And our phone always seemed

to have the clicking noises
on them.

(crackling static, clicking)

I had a man pull a 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
that I'm doing.

NARRATOR:
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.

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 hoax?
What is happening?"

NARRATOR:
On September 9, 1991,

retirees Doug Bower
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.

HOWE:
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.

NARRATOR:
Once again, Linda Moulton Howe
set out to investigate a mystery

that most other journalists
wouldn't touch.

And she uncovered
what some scientists consider

to be undeniable evidence...

...of an
extraterrestrial connection.

NARRATOR:
Linda Moulton Howe
travels to the location

with the highest 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.

NARRATOR:
For Linda, the experience
convinced her

that hoaxers like Doug Bower
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.

NARRATOR:
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
at 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. Levengood
at the University of Michigan

for laboratory analysis.

What Levengood determined
was that many of these nodes

acted as though
they were subjected to

localized heat at the node,

which caused the water
inside the node,

basically, to blow out,
blast out,

causing the stalk
to flop over the way it did.

IAN HALLING:
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-and pieces of board
and-and rope.

Very much like
with the cattle mutilations,

suddenly the crop circle
phenomena took on

an elevated sort of perspective
in the mainstream community.

NARRATOR:
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.

HOWE:
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 pathologist
on this planet."

And he said it again.
"Disgusting."

And what is always my backup?

(chuckles):
I have to do it myself.

MEAD:
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,
An Alien Harvest,

it took her ten years
of research.

She doesn't like to stop unless
she gets to what she wants.

NARRATOR:
In 1989, Linda self-published

the culmination of her research
in An Alien Harvest.

HALLING:
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,

documents that detailed the link
between animal mutilations

and non-human intelligence.

And it's still
a very widely sought

and widely referenced book.

HOWE:
I followed with Glimpses Volume
I and Glimpses Volume II,

which had a lot of physical,
straightforward evidence.

And those three books, I think,

are almost as important
as the TV programs.

NARRATOR:
Linda's books provided hard
facts and compelling theories

and amassed
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.

that had captured
her attention: alien abductions.

NARRATOR:
In the 1990s,

Art Bell's paranormal-themed
radio talk show

Coast to Coast AM

boasted 15 million
listeners nightly,

and Linda Moulton Howe
considered it the perfect outlet

for sharing her investigations
with the public.

...as you pointed out...

NARRATOR:
Linda's regular appearances

as both a guest and a host

spanned 28 years,
making her tenure on the show

longer than both Art Bell's

and current host George Noory's.

Linda's done some great reports
over the years.

They run the gamut from, uh,

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.

NARRATOR:
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.

HOWE:
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: "Earthfiles."

I want to do Earthfiles.

And that is how it began.

NARRATOR:
On November 28, 1998,

Linda launched Earthfiles
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 ten years later,

in 2007, she started
an Earthfiles YouTube channel,

where she could report live
on her latest findings.

ANNOUNCER:
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
Earthfiles

as her magnum opus, really,
because this will ultimately

live on as her archives.

NARRATOR:
Earthfiles and Coast to Coast
have provided Linda

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.

NARRATOR:
Linda investigated
Linda Porter's account

and included it in her book
Glimpses of Other Realities.

BIRNES: The Linda Porter story

was 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.

HOWE: 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."

NARRATOR:
Author Whitley Strieber

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.

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.

NARRATOR:
As with animal mutilations
and crop circles,

Linda immersed herself
in the abduction phenomenon,

and it led
to a major revelation.

HOWE:
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 standing up reptiles,

the standing up Greys,

and the Nordic blondes.

We have tall whites,
ten to 12 feet tall.

That's biblical.
Those are like the giants.

POPE:
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.

NARRATOR:
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.

The black pyramid
was determined to be

some type of
a power generation system.

NARRATOR:
For decades,

government
and military insiders have

shared their
extraterrestrial encounters

with Linda Moulton Howe.

And through
her Earthfiles 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 AM 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 Nome and Mount Denali.

He said his father was told

that the black pyramid
was more secret

than the Manhattan atomic bomb
project in World War II.

Linda Moulton Howe 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.

DOLAN:
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.

HOWE:
I have had so many people

who have come to me
from military backgrounds,

from classified backgrounds,

and they had to show me IDs
'cause 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 DD214 and ID.

NARRATOR:
Linda has gained
incredible insight

from the whistleblowers
who have shared their stories

with her over the years.

And in one instance,

the account of a military
insider led to the discovery

of a previously
unknown phenomenon.

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.

NARRATOR:
Salas was stationed at
the Malmstrom Air Force Base

in Montana and was in a 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.

ROBERT SALAS:
All of a sudden...

(alarm blaring)

...we hear these horns go off,
a lot of horns,

which... we knew
what that meant:

that it was a problem.

So we looked over at the board.

This was a bank of lights.

And the missiles started going

from operational
to no-go in seconds.

We lost all ten
right in rapid succession

while this object
was still up there.

NARRATOR:
The information shared
by Lieutenant Robert Salas

struck a chord with Linda,

as she had 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.

He 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.

NARRATOR:
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.

SALAS:
That interview
from Linda inspired

other witnesses to come forward.

I've been told this
by those witnesses.

One is David Schindele.

David Schindele 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.

HOWE:
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
Anomaly 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.

NARRATOR:
Linda Moulton Howe has been
instrumental in bringing

what were once
considered fringe topics

into the mainstream.

Today, she is considered

one of the foremost authorities
on the UFO phenomenon,

and she has also
become a prominent voice

in the call
for government disclosure.

NARRATOR:
At the National Press Club,

a panel consisting
of former Congressional members

gathers for the Citizen
Hearing on UFO Disclosure.

BAILIFF:
I do hereby affirm...

ALL:
I do hereby affirm...

BAILIFF:
...that I will tell the truth...

ALL:
...that I will tell the truth...

NARRATOR:
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 and the
Senate were talking about UFOs

or extraterrestrial disclosure
or any of these topics.

And it's very, very possible
that without that

we would not have
the UFO disclosure movement

that we have today.

NARRATOR:
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 Grusch.

I was informed in the course
of my official duties

of a multi-decade
UAP crash retrieval

and reverse engineering program.

NARRATOR:
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.

NARRATOR:
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.

MEAD:
She will always be searching
for the truth.

She does it for herself,
for people, for mankind.

HENRY:
Linda is doggedly
fighting against

the status quo
and breaking down doors,

opening new windows
of-of consciousness

and understanding to humanity.

BIRNES:
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
Linda Moulton Howe

and says,
"Hey, this is not fantasy.

It's real."

And she showed the evidence.

TSOUKALOS:
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.

NARRATOR:
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 put 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.

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