Question: which american investigative journalist is noted for her speculations that the U.S. government is colluding with aliens and the creator of the program  "The UFO Report: Sightings"?
Context: Sightings is an American paranormal and news television series that originally aired in the 1990s.  The program began as a special titled "The UFO Report: Sightings" on October 18, 1991, as well as eventual follow up reports, "Ghost Report" and the "Psychic Experience".  The original Concept Creator and Supervising Producer of that hour special produced by Paramount for Fox TV was Linda Moulton Howe, an Emmy Award-winning TV producer and documentary filmmaker of TV specials about science and the environment.  One of her Emmy Award-winning broadcasts was "A Strange Harvest" (KMGH-TV in May 1980), about the worldwide animal-mutilation mystery linked by law enforcement to extraterrestrial biological entities. Identifying unidentified flying objects is a difficult task due to the normally poor quality of the evidence provided by those who report sighting the objects.  Nevertheless, most officially investigated UFO sightings, such as from the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, have been identified as being due to honest misidentifications of natural phenomena, aircraft, or other prosaic explanations.  In early U.S. Air Force attempts to explain UFO sightings, unexplained sightings routinely numbered over one in five reports.  However, in early 1953, right after the CIA's Robertson Panel, percentages of unexplained sightings dropped precipitously, usually being only a few percent in any given year.  When Project Blue Book closed down in 1970, only 6% of all cases were classified as being truly unidentified. Paul Radu is an investigative journalist based in Bucharest, Romania.  He is the director of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.  He is also one of the cofounders of the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism.  He investigates transnational crime in Eastern Europe.  He has received multiple international awards for his journalism.  He believes that journalists should not be activists, but should rather trust that objective journalism is a sufficient contribution to whatever causes one might otherwise advocate.  He teaches at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Summer School of Investigative Reporting.  In 2008, he sat on a Central European Initiative jury to name that year's best investigative journalist; the jury chose Drago Hedl.  In 2009, he appeared on "48 Hours" investigating sexual slavery and human trafficking in Romania.  He has also investigated human trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Linda Moulton Howe (born January 20, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary film maker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories, including her investigation of cattle mutilations and conclusion that they are performed by extraterrestrials.  She is also noted for her speculations that the U.S. government is colluding with aliens. Brian Elliot Ross (born October 23, 1948) is an American investigative journalist who serves as Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News.  He reports for "ABC World News Tonight with David Muir", "Nightline", "Good Morning America", "20/20", and ABC News Radio.  Ross joined ABC News in July 1994.  His investigative reports have often covered government corruption.  He has been with ABC News since July 1994.  From 1974 until 1994, Ross was a correspondent for NBC News. Lisa S. Chedekel is an American investigative journalist.  At the "Hartford Courant" in 1998 she was on the team that provided "clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself", and won next year's Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting with that citation.  Still at the "Courant" in 2006, she wrote stories on military mental health care won some national awards.  She and Matthew Kauffman were finalists for the Investigative Reporting Pulitzer, citing "their in-depth reports on suicide among American soldiers in Iraq, leading to congressional and military action to address mental health problems raised in the stories."  In 2002, she was one of a few American journalists to visit and report from Saudi Arabia.  She continues to write for media publications in the New England region.  In December 2010, she co-founded the Connecticut Health Investigative Team (www.c-hit.org), a non-profit investigative news service focusing on health and safety. Donald L. Barlett (born July 17, 1936) is an American investigative journalist and author who often collaborates with James B. Steele.  According to The Washington Journalism Review (Magazine) they were a better investigative reporting team than even Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.  Together they have won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine Awards and six George Polk Awards.  In addition, they have been recognized by their peers with awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors on five separate occasions.  They are known for their reporting technique of delving deep into documents and then, after what could be a long investigative period, interviewing the necessary sources.  The duo has been working together for over 40 years and is frequently referred to as Barlett and Steele. William Bastone (born July 24, 1961) is editor and co-founder of The Smoking Gun website.  In 1997, Bastone and his wife, who is a graphic designer, created The Smoking Gun.  In 1984, Bastone worked as an investigative journalist for "The Village Voice".  He started at "The Village Voice" as an intern, then worked his way up to being a contributing writer, then ended as a staff writer and investigative journalist.  As an investigative journalist, he was responsible for covering City Hall, criminal justice issues, and writing about five of New York's most famous mafia families.  The SmokingGun.com was then bought by Court TV in 2000, enabling Bastone to quit his job with "The Village Voice".  He also co-wrote a book titled "The Smoking Gun: A Dossier of Secret, Surprising, and Salacious Documents". Copper Green is reported by American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh to be one of several code names for a U.S. black ops program, according to an article in the May 24, 2004, issue of "The New Yorker".  According to Hersh, the task force was formed with the direct approval of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and run by Deputy Undersecretary Stephen Cambone.  Hersh claims the special access program members were told "Grab whom you must.  Do what you want."  The program allegedly designed physical coercion and sexual humiliation techniques for use against Muslim Arab men specifically, to retrieve information from suspects, and to blackmail them into becoming informants. Harry J. Karafin (September 4, 1915 – October 23, 1973) was an award-winning American investigative journalist associated with "The Philadelphia Inquirer".  He was a reporter at the "Inquirer" for 24 years (having worked his way up from copyboy, beginning in 1939), and in the 1950s and 1960s was considered the paper's star reporter as well as the city's best-known journalist, known for exposing corruption (partly through privileged access to district attorney files).  Together with a colleague, Karafin was one of three finalists for the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting.
Answer: Linda Moulton Howe