Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Howe, 'An Alien Harvest'
Linda Moulton Howe's book linking cattle mutilations to extraterrestrials and a government cover-up, following her 1980 documentary 'A Strange Harvest'.
1989 CE · 39.74, -104.99 · status: claim
The account
Howe, a documentary filmmaker, collected rancher testimony and laboratory claims about precise cuts and missing organs. The book became the main text for the extraterrestrial explanation of mutilations.
The sceptical view
The FBI's 1980 Rommel report and veterinary studies attributed mutilations to scavengers and natural decomposition.