PART 9

In the 1970s, as director of special projects for the Denver
CBS-TV affiliate, Linda Moulton Howe had produced 12 documentaries, most of them dealing with scientific,
environmental and health issues. But the one that attracted the
most attention was Strange Harvest, which dealt with the then-
widespread reports that cattle in Western and Midwestern states
were being killed and mutilated by persons or forces unknown.
Most veterinary pathologists said the animals were dying of
unknown causes. Farmers, ranchers and some law-enforcement
officers thought the deaths were mysterious. Some even speculated
that extraterrestrials were responsible. This possibility
intrigued Howe, who had a lifelong interest in UFOs, and Strange
Harvest argues for a UFO mutilation link.

In the fall of 1982, as Howe was working on a documentary on an
unrelated matter, she got a call from Home Box Office (HBO). The
caller said the HBO people had been impressed with Strange
Harvest and wanted to know if Howe would do a film on UFOs. In
March 1983 she went to New York to sign a contract with HBO for a
show to be titled UFOs-The ET Factor.

The evening before her meeting with the HBO people, Howe had
dinner with Gersten and science writer Patrick Huyghe. Gersten
told Howe that he had met with Sgt. Doty, an AFOSI agent at
Kirtland AFB, and perhaps Doty would be willing to talk on camera
or in some other helpful capacity about the incident at
Ellsworth. Gersten would call him and ask if he would be willing
to meet with Howe.

Subsequently arrangements were made for Howe to fly to
Albuquerque on April 9. Doty would meet her at the airport. But
when she arrived that morning, no one was waiting. She called his
home. A small boy answered and said his father was not there.
Howe then phoned Jerry Miller, Chief of Reality Weapons Testing
at Kirtland and a former Blue Book investigator. (He is mentioned
in the October 28, 1980, "Multipurpose Internal OSI Form"
reporting on Doty and Miller's meeting with Bennewitz.) She knew
Miller from an earlier telephone conversation, when she had
called to ask him about Bennewitz's claims, in which she had a
considerable interest. Miller asked for a copy of Strange
Harvest. Later he had given Howe his home phone number and said
to contact him if she ever found herself in Albuquerque. So she
called and asked if he would pick her up at the airport.

Miller drove Howe to his house. On the way Howe asked him a
number of questions but got little in the way of answers. One
question he did not answer was whether he is the "Miller"
mentioned in the Aquarius document. When they got to Miller's
residence, Miller called Doty at his home, and Doty arrived a few
minutes later, responding aggressively to Howe's question about
where he had been. He claimed to have been at the airport all
along; where had she been? "Perhaps," Howe would write, "he had
decided he didn't want to go through with the meeting, and it was
acceptable in his world to leave me stranded at the airport-until
Jerry Miller called his house" (Howe, 1989).

On the way to Kirtland, Howe asked Doty, whose manner remained
both defiant and nervous, if he knew anything about the Holloman
landing. Doty said it happened but that Robert Emenegger had the
date wrong; it was not May 1971 but April 25, 1964-12 Hours after
a much-publicized CE3 reported by Socorro, New Mexico, policeman
Lonnie Zamora. (Zamora said he had seen an egg-shaped object on
the ground. Standing near it were two child-sized beings in white
suits.) Military and scientific personnel at the base knew a
landing was coming, but "someone blew the time and coordinates"
and an "advance military scout ship" had come down at the wrong
time and place, to be observed by Zamora. When three UFOs
appeared at Holloman at six o'clock the following morning, one
landed while the other two hovered overhead. During the meeting
between the UFO beings and a government party, the preserved
bodies of dead aliens had been given to the aliens , who in turn
had returned something unspecified. Five ground and aerial
cameras recorded this event.

At the Kirtland gate Doty waved to the guard and was let
through. They went to a small white and gray building. Doty took
her to what he described as "my - boss' office." Doty seemed
unwilling to discuss the Ellsworth case, the ostensible reason
for the interview, but had much to say about other matters. First
he asked Howe to move from the chair on which she was sitting to
another in the middle of the room. Howe surmised that this was to
facilitate the surreptitious recording of their conversation, but
Doty said only, "Eyes can see through windows."

"My superiors have asked me to show you this," he said. He
produced a brown envelope he had taken from a drawer in the desk
at which he was sitting and withdrew several sheets of white
paper. As he handed them to Howe, he warned her that they could
not be copied; all she could do was read them in his presence and
ask questions.
end of part 9


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