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NARRATOR:
For more than four decades,

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award-winning journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

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has reported on the most
mysterious phenomena on Earth.

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From bizarre animal deaths...

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NICK POPE:
She began to uncover connections

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between UFOs
and animal mutilations.

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...to crop formations...

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BILL BIRNES:
Linda brought the idea
of crop circles

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into real science.

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...otherworldly entities...

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WILLIAM HENRY:
Linda is one
of the ultimate authorities

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on extraterrestrials.

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...and alien abductions.

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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Linda realized
that abductions also happened

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thousands of years ago.

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NARRATOR:
Could the groundbreaking work
of Linda Moulton Howe

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provide the ultimate evidence

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of an extraterrestrial presence
on Earth?

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

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always go after the truth.

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The firm truth is,

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we are not alone
in this universe.

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There is a doorway

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in the universe.

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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

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It demands
we question everything

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we have ever been taught.

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The evidence is all around us.

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The future is
right before our eyes.

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We are not alone.

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We have never been alone.

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Los Angeles, California.
February 10, 2024.

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(audience cheering)

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NARRATOR:
Acclaimed
investigative journalist,

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author, and filmmaker
Linda Moulton Howe

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

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HOWE:
I'm one of the few voices

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that kept trying to understand

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about something
that is difficult and complex.

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NARRATOR:
Since the late 1970s,
Linda has been covering stories

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that fall under the category
of what she calls

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"high strangeness"

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and sharing her research
with a public

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eager to learn more about
the unexplainable phenomena

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that other journalists
refuse to touch.

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I've been to multiple
UFO events with Linda.

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And people love her.
They cheer for her.

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People are deeply invested
with Linda Moulton Howe

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because Linda is a trailblazer.

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She put certain things
on the map

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that before were not really
talked about.

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GEORGE KNAPP:
Linda Moulton Howe took on

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the weird topic
of cattle mutilations

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back at a time when it
didn't have much credibility.

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She's taken on topics that other
reporters wouldn't touch

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and changed the world.

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

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in modern journalism because

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she brought the science
and the evidence

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of high strangeness
into the mainstream.

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HOWE:
But I have interviewed at least

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1,600 people in the
human abduction syndrome

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over the last 40 years.

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BIRNES:
For the first time,
everyday people could talk

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about things
like flying saucers,

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alien abductions,

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cattle mutilations,
and crop circles.

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What Linda Moulton Howe
taught us

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

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POPE:
Linda is a hugely influential

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and important figure
in the UFO community.

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

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Linda was and is
an investigative journalist.

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She has a credentialed past,
which includes

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a Peabody,
couple of regional Emmys.

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

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where most of this business
was oriented to men.

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Linda's work is ethical,
award-winning,

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and her ability as a person,

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as a broadcaster
is second to none.

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NARRATOR:
For more than four decades,

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Linda has investigated
almost every aspect

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of high strangeness

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using skills she first honed
as a reporter in Los Angeles.

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HOWE:
From 1966 to 1968,

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I was at Stanford University

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getting a master's degree
in communication.

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And I went to work in hard news
at KNBC in Los Angeles.

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My goal was to focus on science,

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medicine, and the environment.

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This is who I am. I've
always been very left brain.

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Everything I did
was hard science.

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Linda's career was marked

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by multiple awards
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But after a decade
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her career
would take a sharp turn.

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Logan County, Colorado.

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September 1979.

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Linda Moulton Howe--

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now director of special projects
at KMGH-TV,

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the local CBS station
in Denver--

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conducts an
off-the-record interview

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with Sheriff Harry "Tex" Graves.

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For years, Sheriff Graves
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a series of bizarre,
unexplained animal mutilations.

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HOWE:
He laid out something
like 166 Polaroids

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that he had taken himself
as sheriff

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and started going through
and showing me,

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here they take an ear, eye,
tongue, jaw, genitals, rectum.

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Here the animal
was alive long enough

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to bury its head in the dirt

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while these excisions
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"Sheriff, what do you think
we're dealing with here?"

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And he said,
"Linda, the perpetrators

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"of these bloodless, trackless
animal mutilations

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are creatures from outer space."

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Instantly,
my entire body felt like

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it had been hit
with an electric charge.

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That was the turning point
in my entire career.

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From that moment going forward,

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I wanted to understand
how this was possible.

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NARRATOR:
Shortly after
her initial interview

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with Sheriff Graves,
Linda and her crew

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began work on a documentary
about cattle mutilations.

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For the next month,
Linda conducted interviews

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with local ranchers,
law enforcement officials,

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journalists,
and independent investigators.

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The more she learned,
the more she became convinced

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the phenomenon
has an otherworldly origin.

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In those 30 days,

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there was a transmutation
of my very soul

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because everywhere we went

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I'm now confronted with dozens
and dozens of witnesses

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describing beams of light
that had the ability to levitate

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an animal up to something,
and when it is put down,

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there they have found
a mutilated animal.

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No blood.

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No tracks around these animals.

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And I still can remember
a feeling of...

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do I want to continue

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going into what is happening?

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POPE:
It's not an easy transition

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to go, as Linda did,

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from one moment
specializing in hard news

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to then suddenly go to UFOs
and animal mutilations.

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It is something that some people
would regard as career suicide.

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I felt like I had no choice

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but to try to get
to what is behind

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what I learned
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But while she felt strongly
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was both compelling
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Linda was also aware
that airing this documentary

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was the biggest risk
she'd ever taken in her career.

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

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I've traveled
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and Colorado
exploring this mystery.

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I think that the day
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the most worried
that I'd ever been in my life.

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I knew that what I was reporting
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but I was nervous

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and I think I was scared.

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Most everyone
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heard about
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NARRATOR:
On May 25, 1980,

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KMGH-TV Denver

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premieres Linda Moulton Howe's
documentary A Strange Harvest.

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Now, this looks kind of dry
right over here.

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But if you'll recall,
when we first spotted this,

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that was just like
if you'd taken

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a pair of scissors and cut out

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a round piece of paper,
you know?

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

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NARRATOR:
The broadcast draws
a record-breaking audience

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of nearly
a quarter million viewers.

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Almost immediately, calls began
pouring into the station.

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HOWE:
It was like an explosion.

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The switchboard
for an entire week,

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they were just
constantly apologizing.

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"Linda, we cannot keep up
with the phone calls."

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And then the mail.

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I think, in that first week,

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that it was something like
over 400 letters.

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During the course
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Linda became convinced

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that the forces
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were not of this world.

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But her next investigation
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the mysterious dealings

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of the United States government.

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NARRATOR:
Three years after
the success of her film

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A Strange Harvest,

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Linda Moulton Howe
meets with executives at HBO

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to pitch a new documentary.

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HOWE:
So now

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I have a whole new project.

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It's completely different.

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There's this great story
of a UFO landing

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at Ellsworth Air Force Base
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And I had written a script

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as an example of what
I thought we could do.

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And I called it
UFOs: The E.T. Factor.

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And Jean Abounader
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and she liked the script,

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and I signed a contract
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And that night Peter Gersten,

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the attorney for
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy,

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called me and said,
"I want to talk about something

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to see if you could
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NARRATOR:
Peter Gersten told Linda
about an intelligence officer

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named Richard Doty.

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Doty was a special agent
for the Air Force Office

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of Special Investigations
at Kirtland Air Force Base

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in New Mexico,
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he had classified information
about a UFO encounter

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that he was willing
to share with Linda.

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RICHARD DOLAN:
In 1983, Doty met with Linda

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over at, uh,
Kirtland Air Force Base.

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This was an arranged meeting.

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This is when Linda's, like,

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doing her deep, deep dive
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and the reality
of the UFO phenomenon.

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HOWE:
He said, "My superiors have
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And he simultaneously
opens a drawer,

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pulls out a manila envelope,
and he takes out...

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I think it was
about 12 pages, typed.

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And I still can feel
the strangeness

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as I'm now looking at

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all caps: "Briefing Paper

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"for the President
of the United States

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"of America on the Subject
of Unidentified Aerial Craft."

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I cannot believe it. I remember
it was just like that.

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It was talking about how
our government has been

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investigating UFOs and ETs
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It's all real.

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I was so agitated at--
My God, what is happening here?

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Wh-Why is he showing me
such a document?

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NARRATOR:
According to Linda,
Doty also promised her access

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to material that could be used
in her upcoming documentary.

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HOWE:
Doty said, "We have film
that you would be able to use."

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And gave me names of two people

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who would call me about
a film from a real UFO,

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and that they were gonna
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in the documentary.

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NARRATOR:
But when Linda met with
executives at the network

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to update them on
the latest developments,

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they abruptly canceled
her documentary about UFOs.

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Determined to continue
with the project,

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Linda successfully pitched
her special to producers at CNN.

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But once again,
just as the documentary

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was set to proceed,
it was dropped

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due to internal pressure.

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

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What in the hell
is going on here?

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NARRATOR:
Finally, when the UFO footage

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promised to her by Richard Doty
never materialized,

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Linda came to suspect
her project

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had been shut down by forces
within the government.

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HOWE:
I've been told
this is how the CIA,

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NSA, DIA have been working on
UFO material since World War II.

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They did not want anyone

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showing anything on television

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about animal mutilations,
human abductions,

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extraterrestrials, none of it.

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But it didn't stop me.

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It made me more curious.

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NARRATOR:
Is it possible that forces
within the government

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were responsible for canceling
Linda's documentary projects?

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According to Linda's daughter,

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it was right around this time
that both she and her mother

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started to suspect that they
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LAURA HOWE:
I feared for my mother.

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I remember there were vans
sometimes

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sitting outside of our house.

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And I would say, "Oh, the UPS
truck's outside again."

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She's like,
"That's not a UPS truck."

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You know,
"Get away from the window."

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

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But it was kind of scary.

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-(phone rings)
-And our phone always seemed

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to have the clicking noises
on them.

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(crackling static, clicking)

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I had a man pull a gun on me.

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And that was in North Carolina.

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I'm working at this table,

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and he pulls the chair out

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and sits down
and pulls out a gun.

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And it was so surreal.

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It was so weird that I don't
think I even felt afraid.

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He says, "You can't keep doing
what you're doing."

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And when he got up,
he left me sitting there,

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thinking I have every right
in the universe

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to keep doing the investigations
that I'm doing.

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In the aftermath
of her canceled documentary,

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Linda became convinced
that there are people

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within the government
who do not want

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her investigating
animal mutilations

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or anything else that may have
an extraterrestrial connection.

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She also learned to be on
the lookout for disinformation,

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which she would encounter again

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as she began investigating
another mysterious phenomenon.

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In a feature article,
Time magazine explores

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the mysterious
crop circle phenomenon

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that has been prominent across
Great Britain since the 1970s.

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Media scrutiny
of the subject intensifies,

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exposing similar occurrences
across the globe.

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I remember seeing
the very first formations

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that were being distributed
in The New York Times

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and others
with the question marks,

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"What is this?

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"Is there somebody
tramping around the earth

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doing this as a hoax?
What is happening?"

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NARRATOR:
On September 9, 1991,

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retirees Doug Bower
and Dave Chorley

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of Southampton, England
claimed responsibility

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for the entire
crop circle phenomenon.

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And for much
of the general public,

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the mystery was solved.

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But Linda found this explanation
highly unlikely,

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since these formations
had been documented

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in at least 23 countries.

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HOWE:
Doug and Dave, they weren't
going around the world

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to all these 23 countries.

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I knew something is happening
I do not understand.

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But I want to understand.

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

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that most other journalists
wouldn't touch.

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And she uncovered
what some scientists consider

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to be undeniable evidence...

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...of an
extraterrestrial connection.

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NARRATOR:
Linda Moulton Howe
travels to the location

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with the highest occurrences
of crop circles in the world

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to investigate
the phenomenon up close.

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Near a site called Milk Hill,

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she finds herself
at a 400-foot-long formation

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which had just appeared
in a wheat field.

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I made the step
into this huge pattern.

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And that was the first time
that I saw

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layer, layer, layer.

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Seven layers.

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All of these different angles
that were coming up

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from all of these layers
over this large, huge pattern.

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And I have this feeling
of a presence that is there.

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NARRATOR:
For Linda, the experience
convinced her

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that hoaxers like Doug Bower
and Dave Chorley

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were definitely not behind
the crop circle mystery

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and she set out to learn more
about the phenomenon.

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Linda has traveled widely
and looked deeply

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into this mystery.

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She's interviewed

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a lot of the farmers
in whose fields

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some of the most amazing
formations have occurred.

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And she's spoken to witnesses

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who have seen
strange balls of light

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that in some cases,
people believe

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have actually caused
those formations.

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One of the most memorable
of all time

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was in the Cherhill area.

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It was a huge pattern.

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There were four of us,
and we ended up feeling

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that other intelligences
are here,

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and that the crop formations
were somehow a signal.

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NARRATOR:
One of the most
peculiar anomalies

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that Linda observed
while examining crop circles

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had to do with plant nodes.

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A node in a plant

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is a structure on the stem
where leaves, buds

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or other parts of the plant
may grow.

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Linda noticed
at many crop circles

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that the plant nodes
within the formation

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were significantly longer
than the plant nodes

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outside the formation.

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She collected samples
and sent them

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to biophysicist W.C. Levengood
at the University of Michigan

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for laboratory analysis.

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What Levengood determined
was that many of these nodes

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acted as though
they were subjected to

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localized heat at the node,

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which caused the water
inside the node,

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basically, to blow out,
blast out,

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causing the stalk
to flop over the way it did.

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IAN HALLING:
The so-called blown nodes
have actually been expanded

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and blown out by, perhaps,
microwave radiation.

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Now, that's not done

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by people with
sticks and shovels

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and-and pieces of board
and-and rope.

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Very much like
with the cattle mutilations,

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suddenly the crop circle
phenomena took on

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an elevated sort of perspective
in the mainstream community.

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NARRATOR:
For Linda, just as important
as pursuing the truth

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is disseminating her findings
as widely as possible.

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But when she set out to try and
release her research in a book,

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she was turned away
by a publisher in New York.

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HOWE:
I'm saying to the editor,
"I want lots and lots

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"of evidentiary material
in documents and photos.

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"I want it to be a book
that would hold up

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in a court of law," and he said,

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"I'm very interested
in doing your book,

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"but under no circumstances

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would we ever publish
these disgusting animal photos."

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And I remember saying,
"Sir, they're evidentiary.

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"They show there are no tracks.

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"They show the absence
of the blood on the animals.

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"I have pathology reports
that the way that the excisions

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"have been made are not known
to any technology

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by any pathologist
on this planet."

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And he said it again.
"Disgusting."

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And what is always my backup?

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(chuckles):
I have to do it myself.

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MEAD:
My mother has made it a point

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to do everything on her own

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because it would be done
the right way.

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When she started her book,
An Alien Harvest,

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it took her ten years
of research.

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

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NARRATOR:
In 1989, Linda self-published

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the culmination of her research
in An Alien Harvest.

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HALLING:
The book Alien Harvest
was the first time

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that an investigative reporter
had brought together

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the documentation in book form
that detailed

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with over 300 illustrations,

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maps and diagrams,

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documents that detailed the link
between animal mutilations

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and non-human intelligence.

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And it's still
a very widely sought

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and widely referenced book.

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

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which had a lot of physical,
straightforward evidence.

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And those three books, I think,

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are almost as important
as the TV programs.

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

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and amassed
more than a decade worth

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of investigations
on bizarre animal mutilations,

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unexplained crop formations,

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and another
mysterious phenomenon

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that had captured
her attention: alien abductions.

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that had captured
her attention: alien abductions.

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NARRATOR:
In the 1990s,

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Art Bell's paranormal-themed
radio talk show

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Coast to Coast AM

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boasted 15 million
listeners nightly,

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and Linda Moulton Howe
considered it the perfect outlet

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for sharing her investigations
with the public.

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...as you pointed out...

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NARRATOR:
Linda's regular appearances

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as both a guest and a host

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spanned 28 years,
making her tenure on the show

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longer than both Art Bell's

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and current host George Noory's.

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Linda's done some great reports
over the years.

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They run the gamut from, uh,

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strange sightings
to abduction cases.

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You name it.

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Anything paranormal
that you've heard in your life,

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Linda's covered it
on Coast to Coast.

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NARRATOR:
While Linda was able to reach
millions of listeners

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on Coast to Coast,
she still felt

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she needed her own means
for disseminating information

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directly to the public.

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HOWE:
What was coming into me
in that period of time

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were hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of letters.

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I could open them,

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but I realized that I didn't
have any vehicle at all

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in which to interact
with the world.

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And then I just said it
out loud: "Earthfiles."

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I want to do Earthfiles.

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And that is how it began.

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NARRATOR:
On November 28, 1998,

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Linda launched Earthfiles
as an archive

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for her many years of research

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and created a website so that
she could share the details

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of her investigations
with the public.

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Almost ten years later,

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in 2007, she started
an Earthfiles YouTube channel,

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where she could report live
on her latest findings.

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ANNOUNCER:
This is Earthfiles.

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The award-winning news site
with the latest updates

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in science, environment,
and real X-files.

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She's got over a quarter million
followers worldwide.

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She writes the program,
she edits it,

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she produces it, she does
all the research. It is her.

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And you can almost describe
Earthfiles

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as her magnum opus, really,
because this will ultimately

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live on as her archives.

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NARRATOR:
Earthfiles and Coast to Coast
have provided Linda

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a much wider audience with which
to share her research,

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but of even greater value to her
is hearing from the public.

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And even before
she had these outlets,

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Linda was contacted frequently
by people who alleged

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to have been abducted
by extraterrestrials.

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As the decade of 1990 turned,

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I got a handwritten letter

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from a woman named Linda Porter,

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and she sent drawings.

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And it was about her

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coming into a relationship
with extraterrestrials

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in which they seem to be
wanting her

497
00:28:22,917 --> 00:28:25,417
to become, like, a spokesperson.

498
00:28:25,583 --> 00:28:28,958
NARRATOR:
Linda investigated
Linda Porter's account

499
00:28:29,167 --> 00:28:32,917
and included it in her book
Glimpses of Other Realities.

500
00:28:33,083 --> 00:28:35,833
BIRNES: The Linda Porter story

501
00:28:36,042 --> 00:28:40,125
was one of the biggest stories
Linda Howe ever wrote about

502
00:28:40,208 --> 00:28:45,250
because it wasn't
a crop circle or a cow.

503
00:28:45,375 --> 00:28:46,542
Here's what it was:

504
00:28:46,708 --> 00:28:50,667
a human being
encountering creatures

505
00:28:50,833 --> 00:28:53,708
from another realm,
another reality.

506
00:28:55,708 --> 00:28:57,458
HOWE: That was the first time
in my work

507
00:28:57,625 --> 00:29:01,917
as an investigative journalist
that Linda Porter and others

508
00:29:02,083 --> 00:29:05,333
all of a sudden began
to be contacting me

509
00:29:05,542 --> 00:29:08,917
about experiences they had
with extraterrestrial beings.

510
00:29:09,125 --> 00:29:13,250
They were coming to me to say,
"Here are my drawings,

511
00:29:13,375 --> 00:29:15,000
here is what I have seen."

512
00:29:15,208 --> 00:29:17,167
NARRATOR:
Author Whitley Strieber

513
00:29:17,333 --> 00:29:19,333
became one of the most
high-profile

514
00:29:19,458 --> 00:29:21,167
alleged alien abductees

515
00:29:21,250 --> 00:29:22,917
when he wrote
about his encounter

516
00:29:23,083 --> 00:29:27,917
with extraterrestrials
in his 1987 book Communion.

517
00:29:28,083 --> 00:29:30,750
But before he told his story
to the world,

518
00:29:30,917 --> 00:29:33,667
he told it
to Linda Moulton Howe.

519
00:29:33,875 --> 00:29:36,250
Linda is a very
open-minded person,

520
00:29:36,458 --> 00:29:39,792
and you don't feel uncomfortable
sharing weird stories with her.

521
00:29:39,958 --> 00:29:43,125
I don't think that either of us
was too deep into

522
00:29:43,333 --> 00:29:46,417
the abduction material
when we met back in 1986.

523
00:29:46,542 --> 00:29:47,917
But nobody was.

524
00:29:48,083 --> 00:29:50,000
But she didn't have
any problem with my story.

525
00:29:50,208 --> 00:29:52,208
She just wanted to know more.

526
00:29:52,375 --> 00:29:56,208
NARRATOR:
As with animal mutilations
and crop circles,

527
00:29:56,375 --> 00:29:59,833
Linda immersed herself
in the abduction phenomenon,

528
00:30:00,042 --> 00:30:03,167
and it led
to a major revelation.

529
00:30:04,208 --> 00:30:08,000
HOWE:
I've interviewed, now,
more than 3,000 people

530
00:30:08,083 --> 00:30:09,833
in the abduction syndrome.

531
00:30:10,042 --> 00:30:12,333
Right from the beginning,
I was confused

532
00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:14,958
about the various
physical descriptions.

533
00:30:15,917 --> 00:30:17,625
The standing up reptiles,

534
00:30:17,792 --> 00:30:19,833
the standing up Greys,

535
00:30:20,042 --> 00:30:22,833
and the Nordic blondes.

536
00:30:22,917 --> 00:30:27,167
We have tall whites,
ten to 12 feet tall.

537
00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:30,333
That's biblical.
Those are like the giants.

538
00:30:31,708 --> 00:30:33,917
POPE:
The cases that Linda looked into

539
00:30:34,125 --> 00:30:37,458
allowed us to tell
a much deeper,

540
00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:40,375
richer story about multiple
races, different agendas

541
00:30:40,542 --> 00:30:43,250
and programs that are going on.

542
00:30:43,375 --> 00:30:46,250
The idea that humanity
may be the subject

543
00:30:46,375 --> 00:30:50,583
of some extraterrestrial program
of some sort.

544
00:30:51,625 --> 00:30:54,125
NARRATOR:
Could it be that there
are multiple intelligences

545
00:30:54,292 --> 00:30:56,500
that have been interacting
with our planet

546
00:30:56,708 --> 00:30:58,167
for thousands of years?

547
00:30:58,375 --> 00:31:01,625
As far as
Linda Moulton Howe is concerned,

548
00:31:01,792 --> 00:31:04,167
the answer is a resounding yes.

549
00:31:04,375 --> 00:31:07,875
And as evidence,
she points not only to

550
00:31:08,042 --> 00:31:10,667
the accounts
of alleged alien abductees,

551
00:31:10,833 --> 00:31:12,583
but also another group of people

552
00:31:12,583 --> 00:31:14,208
who have confided in her:

553
00:31:14,208 --> 00:31:17,542
government whistleblowers.

554
00:31:27,167 --> 00:31:29,625
The black pyramid
was determined to be

555
00:31:29,792 --> 00:31:33,000
some type of
a power generation system.

556
00:31:34,042 --> 00:31:35,125
NARRATOR:
For decades,

557
00:31:35,292 --> 00:31:37,958
government
and military insiders have

558
00:31:38,083 --> 00:31:39,958
shared their
extraterrestrial encounters

559
00:31:40,125 --> 00:31:41,750
with Linda Moulton Howe.

560
00:31:41,917 --> 00:31:44,750
And through
her Earthfiles podcast,

561
00:31:44,875 --> 00:31:47,000
Linda has been able
to get their stories

562
00:31:47,167 --> 00:31:50,542
out to the public without
exposing their identities.

563
00:31:51,542 --> 00:31:56,167
A man who heard my July 2012
Coast to Coast AM broadcast

564
00:31:56,292 --> 00:31:59,292
about the underground
dark pyramid in Alaska

565
00:31:59,458 --> 00:32:03,500
called and told me that
his once military pilot father

566
00:32:03,667 --> 00:32:07,875
had secretly flown
in a civilian Huey helicopter

567
00:32:08,042 --> 00:32:10,500
to the underground pyramid site

568
00:32:10,708 --> 00:32:13,917
between Nome and Mount Denali.

569
00:32:14,083 --> 00:32:15,792
He said his father was told

570
00:32:15,958 --> 00:32:19,083
that the black pyramid
was more secret

571
00:32:19,208 --> 00:32:23,500
than the Manhattan atomic bomb
project in World War II.

572
00:32:23,667 --> 00:32:26,375
Linda Moulton Howe learned
how to cultivate sources,

573
00:32:26,542 --> 00:32:28,875
protect sources.
And, as a result,

574
00:32:29,042 --> 00:32:30,833
people would share
information with her,

575
00:32:31,042 --> 00:32:32,500
sensitive information,

576
00:32:32,625 --> 00:32:34,500
that they didn't know
what else to do with.

577
00:32:34,625 --> 00:32:38,167
DOLAN:
People go to her,
they trust her.

578
00:32:38,333 --> 00:32:41,125
A lot of these military guys--
they really single her out.

579
00:32:41,292 --> 00:32:44,125
They know she's
very, very smart,

580
00:32:44,292 --> 00:32:46,417
very dogged in her persistence.

581
00:32:46,583 --> 00:32:49,708
And she will track a story
down to its conclusion.

582
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,458
HOWE:
I have had so many people

583
00:32:52,625 --> 00:32:54,958
who have come to me
from military backgrounds,

584
00:32:55,125 --> 00:32:57,125
from classified backgrounds,

585
00:32:57,292 --> 00:33:00,583
and they had to show me IDs
'cause I've made that clear.

586
00:33:00,708 --> 00:33:02,000
If you want to talk to me

587
00:33:02,083 --> 00:33:03,458
from a military point of view,

588
00:33:03,583 --> 00:33:07,625
you must at least show me
a DD214 and ID.

589
00:33:09,167 --> 00:33:11,708
NARRATOR:
Linda has gained
incredible insight

590
00:33:11,833 --> 00:33:13,750
from the whistleblowers
who have shared their stories

591
00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:15,875
with her over the years.

592
00:33:16,042 --> 00:33:17,708
And in one instance,

593
00:33:17,875 --> 00:33:20,917
the account of a military
insider led to the discovery

594
00:33:21,083 --> 00:33:24,125
of a previously
unknown phenomenon.

595
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,833
In her regular
half-hour science segment

596
00:33:33,042 --> 00:33:34,500
on Art Bell's Dreamland,

597
00:33:34,667 --> 00:33:36,625
Linda conducts an interview

598
00:33:36,792 --> 00:33:40,292
with former Air Force
First Lieutenant Robert Salas,

599
00:33:40,458 --> 00:33:43,417
who tells an incredible story.

600
00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:01,625
NARRATOR:
Salas was stationed at
the Malmstrom Air Force Base

601
00:34:01,750 --> 00:34:03,667
in Montana and was in a charge

602
00:34:03,875 --> 00:34:09,625
of a launch control facility
when, on March 24, 1967,

603
00:34:09,792 --> 00:34:11,167
multiple Air Force personnel

604
00:34:11,333 --> 00:34:13,167
witnessed a large UFO appear

605
00:34:13,333 --> 00:34:15,167
over the Minuteman
missile system.

606
00:34:16,208 --> 00:34:17,000
ROBERT SALAS:
All of a sudden...

607
00:34:17,167 --> 00:34:18,583
(alarm blaring)

608
00:34:18,750 --> 00:34:22,250
...we hear these horns go off,
a lot of horns,

609
00:34:22,375 --> 00:34:24,875
which... we knew
what that meant:

610
00:34:25,042 --> 00:34:26,875
that it was a problem.

611
00:34:27,042 --> 00:34:28,750
So we looked over at the board.

612
00:34:28,917 --> 00:34:31,792
This was a bank of lights.

613
00:34:31,917 --> 00:34:33,292
And the missiles started going

614
00:34:33,458 --> 00:34:36,833
from operational
to no-go in seconds.

615
00:34:38,042 --> 00:34:41,500
We lost all ten
right in rapid succession

616
00:34:41,625 --> 00:34:43,542
while this object
was still up there.

617
00:34:44,917 --> 00:34:47,667
NARRATOR:
The information shared
by Lieutenant Robert Salas

618
00:34:47,875 --> 00:34:49,833
struck a chord with Linda,

619
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,250
as she had heard
a very similar account

620
00:34:52,375 --> 00:34:56,333
nearly two decades earlier
from her own brother.

621
00:34:56,458 --> 00:35:00,833
In November of 1975,
late at night,

622
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000
the phone rang.

623
00:35:02,125 --> 00:35:03,833
It was my brother.

624
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,375
He was in the U.S. Air Force

625
00:35:05,583 --> 00:35:08,792
stationed at Malmstrom
Air Force Base in Montana

626
00:35:08,917 --> 00:35:10,875
on a Minuteman missile site.

627
00:35:12,042 --> 00:35:13,375
Everybody-- including him--

628
00:35:13,542 --> 00:35:17,000
see 300-feet diameter,
estimated,

629
00:35:17,125 --> 00:35:19,167
orange fluorescent light.

630
00:35:19,375 --> 00:35:23,167
It was right over
one of the Minuteman missiles.

631
00:35:23,333 --> 00:35:26,833
So, I have that
as a personal experience

632
00:35:27,042 --> 00:35:28,625
with my own brother.

633
00:35:31,583 --> 00:35:34,417
NARRATOR:
To many, Linda's interview
with Robert Salas

634
00:35:34,542 --> 00:35:37,292
reinforced the notion
that the government knows

635
00:35:37,458 --> 00:35:41,292
much more about UFOs than
it is sharing with the public

636
00:35:41,458 --> 00:35:44,833
and emboldened other witnesses
to come forward with details

637
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,458
of similar incidents.

638
00:35:46,667 --> 00:35:49,208
SALAS:
That interview
from Linda inspired

639
00:35:49,375 --> 00:35:51,375
other witnesses to come forward.

640
00:35:51,583 --> 00:35:53,667
I've been told this
by those witnesses.

641
00:35:53,875 --> 00:35:56,417
One is David Schindele.

642
00:35:56,542 --> 00:35:59,333
David Schindele was
a captain in the Air Force,

643
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:01,917
stationed at
Minot Air Force Base,

644
00:36:02,083 --> 00:36:03,417
who, in 1966,

645
00:36:03,583 --> 00:36:05,792
relieved a crew, like mine,

646
00:36:05,958 --> 00:36:07,208
whose missiles
had been shut down

647
00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:10,167
during a UFO encounter.

648
00:36:11,375 --> 00:36:14,125
HOWE:
These cases
having to do with UFOs

649
00:36:14,250 --> 00:36:16,333
at our nuclear missile sites

650
00:36:16,417 --> 00:36:20,833
happened in the '60s,
the '70s, the '80s

651
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,250
and ongoing, as far as I know.

652
00:36:23,417 --> 00:36:25,667
Fast forward to the modern day,

653
00:36:25,833 --> 00:36:28,333
it's just been revealed
that Robert Salas

654
00:36:28,458 --> 00:36:30,833
has briefed
the United States Congress

655
00:36:31,042 --> 00:36:32,167
about his story

656
00:36:32,375 --> 00:36:35,000
and has also told it
to the Pentagon's

657
00:36:35,125 --> 00:36:37,917
All-Domain
Anomaly Resolution office.

658
00:36:38,042 --> 00:36:42,458
Congress has mandated the DOD

659
00:36:42,583 --> 00:36:44,042
and the intelligence community

660
00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:46,875
to report on this alleged link

661
00:36:47,042 --> 00:36:50,583
between UFOs
and nuclear facilities.

662
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,833
The testimony of Robert Salas

663
00:36:54,042 --> 00:36:56,167
is a key part of that,

664
00:36:56,333 --> 00:37:00,417
so Linda's reporting
back in the '90s

665
00:37:00,583 --> 00:37:03,792
laid the groundwork
for what's happening now.

666
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,292
NARRATOR:
Linda Moulton Howe has been
instrumental in bringing

667
00:37:08,458 --> 00:37:10,667
what were once
considered fringe topics

668
00:37:10,875 --> 00:37:12,292
into the mainstream.

669
00:37:13,250 --> 00:37:15,167
Today, she is considered

670
00:37:15,333 --> 00:37:18,500
one of the foremost authorities
on the UFO phenomenon,

671
00:37:18,625 --> 00:37:21,667
and she has also
become a prominent voice

672
00:37:21,792 --> 00:37:25,375
in the call
for government disclosure.

673
00:37:36,208 --> 00:37:37,583
NARRATOR:
At the National Press Club,

674
00:37:37,750 --> 00:37:40,958
a panel consisting
of former Congressional members

675
00:37:41,083 --> 00:37:44,792
gathers for the Citizen
Hearing on UFO Disclosure.

676
00:37:46,125 --> 00:37:47,250
BAILIFF:
I do hereby affirm...

677
00:37:47,375 --> 00:37:48,458
ALL:
I do hereby affirm...

678
00:37:48,625 --> 00:37:49,667
BAILIFF:
...that I will tell the truth...

679
00:37:49,875 --> 00:37:51,167
ALL:
...that I will tell the truth...

680
00:37:51,333 --> 00:37:53,208
NARRATOR:
Over the course of five days,

681
00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:57,417
the panel receives sworn
testimonies concerning UFOs

682
00:37:57,625 --> 00:38:00,833
from former military personnel,
government officials

683
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,667
and esteemed UFO researchers

684
00:38:03,833 --> 00:38:07,417
including investigative
journalist Linda Moulton Howe.

685
00:38:07,542 --> 00:38:10,708
There is no doubt that
the United States government,

686
00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:15,458
since World War II and the FDR
and Truman administrations,

687
00:38:15,583 --> 00:38:18,500
has known about the
extraterrestrial interactions

688
00:38:18,667 --> 00:38:21,500
with Earth and
that their policies of denial

689
00:38:21,708 --> 00:38:24,333
in the alleged interest
of national security

690
00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:26,417
are still in effect.

691
00:38:27,708 --> 00:38:29,458
Linda is very clearly
one of the shining stars

692
00:38:29,625 --> 00:38:31,917
of the UFO disclosure movement.

693
00:38:32,958 --> 00:38:35,417
She presented herself as one
of the ultimate authorities

694
00:38:35,625 --> 00:38:37,667
on extraterrestrials
and especially

695
00:38:37,833 --> 00:38:39,542
about the U.S. government's
cover-up

696
00:38:39,708 --> 00:38:41,917
of the existence
of extraterrestrials.

697
00:38:42,042 --> 00:38:43,833
Back in 2013,

698
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,500
no one in Congress and the
Senate were talking about UFOs

699
00:38:47,667 --> 00:38:50,708
or extraterrestrial disclosure
or any of these topics.

700
00:38:50,875 --> 00:38:53,500
And it's very, very possible
that without that

701
00:38:53,625 --> 00:38:55,917
we would not have
the UFO disclosure movement

702
00:38:56,083 --> 00:38:57,583
that we have today.

703
00:38:58,583 --> 00:39:00,500
NARRATOR:
In July 2023,

704
00:39:00,625 --> 00:39:04,167
the House Oversight Committee
held a congressional hearing

705
00:39:04,333 --> 00:39:07,083
to record testimony
about UFO activity

706
00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:09,375
from three notable
whistleblowers:

707
00:39:10,417 --> 00:39:14,333
Retired Navy pilots
Ryan Graves and David Fravor,

708
00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:16,875
and former Air Force
Intelligence Officer

709
00:39:17,042 --> 00:39:18,500
David Grusch.

710
00:39:18,708 --> 00:39:21,583
I was informed in the course
of my official duties

711
00:39:21,750 --> 00:39:25,250
of a multi-decade
UAP crash retrieval

712
00:39:25,458 --> 00:39:27,292
and reverse engineering program.

713
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,708
NARRATOR:
Many believe
that Linda Moulton Howe

714
00:39:29,875 --> 00:39:33,292
laid much of the groundwork
for this landmark event.

715
00:39:33,458 --> 00:39:35,500
But as far as Linda's concerned,

716
00:39:35,625 --> 00:39:37,333
we have a long way to go.

717
00:39:37,542 --> 00:39:40,875
To still be living
a classified reality

718
00:39:41,042 --> 00:39:42,333
with no truth

719
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:45,125
that government
after government knows--

720
00:39:45,292 --> 00:39:47,333
that, to me,
falls into the category

721
00:39:47,542 --> 00:39:50,917
of an incomprehensible darkness.

722
00:39:52,750 --> 00:39:55,833
NARRATOR:
Throughout her career,
Linda has faced ridicule,

723
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,167
intimidation,
and even threats to her life.

724
00:39:59,375 --> 00:40:01,667
But none of it
has deterred Linda

725
00:40:01,875 --> 00:40:04,333
from her commitment
to revealing the truth.

726
00:40:04,542 --> 00:40:06,792
The firm truth is

727
00:40:06,875 --> 00:40:08,833
we are not alone
in this universe.

728
00:40:09,917 --> 00:40:14,083
MEAD:
She will always be searching
for the truth.

729
00:40:15,083 --> 00:40:19,375
She does it for herself,
for people, for mankind.

730
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:23,333
HENRY:
Linda is doggedly
fighting against

731
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:26,292
the status quo
and breaking down doors,

732
00:40:26,417 --> 00:40:29,500
opening new windows
of-of consciousness

733
00:40:29,708 --> 00:40:31,458
and understanding to humanity.

734
00:40:32,542 --> 00:40:35,042
BIRNES:
What Linda did was
she humanized people

735
00:40:35,208 --> 00:40:36,500
that you would think are crazy.

736
00:40:36,625 --> 00:40:39,333
These are real people
with real experiences,

737
00:40:39,542 --> 00:40:40,792
and this is what they saw.

738
00:40:40,958 --> 00:40:43,667
And so, along comes
Linda Moulton Howe

739
00:40:43,792 --> 00:40:46,708
and says,
"Hey, this is not fantasy.

740
00:40:46,875 --> 00:40:48,375
It's real."

741
00:40:48,583 --> 00:40:50,792
And she showed the evidence.

742
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,208
TSOUKALOS:
Linda's work is not done.

743
00:40:56,417 --> 00:40:57,583
She knows and we all know

744
00:40:57,708 --> 00:41:00,500
that Linda
is on the right track.

745
00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:04,208
Her legacy is that of a pioneer.

746
00:41:04,375 --> 00:41:06,500
And we should all be so lucky

747
00:41:06,583 --> 00:41:10,375
if we only do a fraction
of what she can do.

748
00:41:10,542 --> 00:41:15,333
If I don't report this,

749
00:41:15,417 --> 00:41:16,458
who will?

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00:41:16,583 --> 00:41:19,375
If there is any bottom line

751
00:41:19,542 --> 00:41:21,167
to this life of mine,

752
00:41:21,375 --> 00:41:23,333
it's always go after the light,

753
00:41:23,542 --> 00:41:27,792
which, for me,
is you tell the truth.

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NARRATOR:
From unexplained
animal mutilations

755
00:41:32,708 --> 00:41:35,375
to extraordinary crop formations

756
00:41:35,542 --> 00:41:38,542
to stories of underground
alien bases,

757
00:41:38,708 --> 00:41:41,667
Linda Moulton Howe
has investigated

758
00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:44,750
the most mysterious phenomena
on Earth

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00:41:44,917 --> 00:41:47,708
and put them in the public eye.

760
00:41:48,917 --> 00:41:52,625
Could it be that they are all
pieces of the same puzzle?

761
00:41:52,750 --> 00:41:55,917
Perhaps through
Linda's daring inquiries

762
00:41:56,083 --> 00:41:59,000
we are getting closer
to seeing the full picture,

763
00:41:59,208 --> 00:42:02,667
which will reveal
a reality far different

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00:42:02,875 --> 00:42:05,833
than we ever imagined.

765
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,167
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