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Animal Mutilations —The Unsolved Mystery— Animal Mutilations —The Unsolved Mystery— According to leading investigator Linda Moulton Howe, the strange phenomenon of animal mutilations is no closer to being understood three decades after the first cases were reported. The mystery deepens as the deaths continue unabated worldwide. inda Moulton Howe is an award-winning film producer and a leader in the field of ufology. She has received local, national and international awards, including regional Emmies and a national Emmy nomination for her docu- mentaries, including her film, A Strange Harvest, which explored the world- wide animal mutilation mystery which has haunted the US and other countries since the late 1960s and continues to this date. She is also the author of many books and films in the ufology field, including An Alien Harvest, A Strange Harvest and Glimpses of Other Realities, Vol. 1. In 1992, Linda was voted the international MUFON award, honouring her contributions to advancing the understanding of complex alien-life-form phenomena. Today, Linda continues to write, produce and speak at national and international conferences and symposiums. She also produces and reports for television and radio, including news for the nationally syndicated radio program, Dreamland. Contact Forum (CF): I know you are an award-winning film producer. Please tell Contact Forum readers how you went from producing films to getting involved in cattle mutilations and the UFO phenomenon. Linda Moulton Howe (LMH): I graduated from Stanford University in 1968, with a Masters degree in communication, where I made documentary films. I went right from Stanford into the documentary unit at MGM in Los Angeles, working on science projects. When I was at Stanford, all my work and my Master's degree film were in medicine and science. My career, right from school, was focused on science. When my husband was at Harvard working on a degree, I produced all of the medical programming for Timothy Johnson, who is now the Medical Editor for the ABC network and often substitutes for Nightline's Ted Koppel. When my husband and I moved to Denver, Colorado, with his company, I took the position of Director of Special Projects at the CBS affiliate in Denver. There I was in charge of doing documentaries, live shows and news, all in the area of science, medicine and the environment. I held that position from 1976 to 1983. It was in 1979, while Director of Special Projects at Channel 7 (CBS), that news was emerging again about strange and unusual animal deaths, referred to as "animal mutila- tions". I decided that since so many were happening in Colorado and surrounding states, I wanted to find out what was really happening. When I began the research in September of 1979, I honestly thought that I was in an environmental contamination story. I personally was shocked to talk with sheriffs, ranch- ers and fellow journalists who had been covering the story and hear them tell me—off the record—about their encounters with football-field-sized orange-glowing lights in pastures where they found mutilated animals, or brilliant beams of light coming down from some- thing in the sky, which they could not identify, in pastures where they found these muti- lated animals. Two deputy sheriffs out in Elizabeth, Colorado, where they had had dozens and dozens—literally, almost 200—mutilations over a two-year period, had been patrolling out on some country roads in an area where there had been a lot of mutilations. One of these deputies, Bill Waugh—whom I feature in my documentary film, A Strange Harvest, and the book I did 10 years later, An Alien Harvest—told me about the night he and the other deputy saw this orange-glowing light coming straight at their police car. They were so convinced that this light was on a head-on collision course with their front window that he hit the brakes. They both ‘hit’ the doors the way officers are trained to do, and rolled An interview with Linda Moulton Howe Extracted from CONTACT FORUM January/February 1996 (Volume 4, Number 1) An interview with Linda Moulton Howe Extracted from CONTACT FORUM January/February 1996 (Volume 4, Number 1) NEXUS - 67 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1997