The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes Budd Hopkins, the world's foremost UFO abduction researcher, to discuss his fourth book Sight Unseen. Hopkins presents his most provocative finding: that alien abductions routinely involve a technology of invisibility, allowing craft and abductees to remain unseen even in crowded urban environments from Tokyo to New York City. He details six cases establishing this as a recurring...

Art Bell opens with co-author Whitley Strieber discussing their book The Coming Global Superstorm and the upcoming film The Day After Tomorrow. Strieber describes newly discovered evidence of flash-frozen plants in Peruvian ice cores dating back 5,200 years, pointing to a catastrophic climate event that unfolded in minutes rather than decades. The two discuss the urgent need for paleoclimatology r...

Art Bell interviews Professor Bryan Sykes, one of the world's leading geneticists and professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford, about his book Adam's Curse. Sykes presents a startling thesis: the Y chromosome, the genetic element that makes men male, is deteriorating and will eventually cease to function in roughly 125,000 years, spelling the end of the male sex as we know it. Sykes...

Art Bell opens with a discussion of extreme weather patterns, the political firestorm surrounding the upcoming film The Day After Tomorrow, and a NASA attempt to muzzle scientists from commenting on climate change. Callers weigh in during open lines on topics from chemtrails and time travelers to immortality and the Sonora Aero Club before the program shifts to the economy. Art welcomes Joseph Mey...

Art Bell welcomes George Green, a former Air Force serviceman and financial insider who claims direct contact with extraterrestrial beings. Green recounts seeing a disc-shaped craft inside a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base in 1958, and later describes encounters with Pleiadians during a visit to Billy Meyer's compound in Switzerland. He discusses telepathic communication and a book he says was di...

Colm Kelleher , administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, joins Art Bell to discuss black triangle sightings, NIDS case patterns, and Art's own Pahrump encounter after a climate segment with co-author Whitley Strieber . Strieber discusses The Day After Tomorrow film and a NASA memo prohibiting employees from commenting on the climate change movie, a directive reversed during t...

Art Bell interviews Sir Charles Shults III, a former Martin Marietta aerospace engineer and weapons systems specialist, about his analysis of Mars rover images that he believes reveal fossilized marine organisms. Shults describes finding structures resembling sand dollars, sea urchins, crinoids, shark teeth, and even squid in photographs returned by the Spirit rover. He notes that many specimens d...

Art Bell speaks with journalist and attorney Michael Fumento about the biotechnology revolution transforming medicine and agriculture. Fumento details breakthroughs in biotech drugs like Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis, anti-angiogenic cancer treatments that starve tumors by blocking blood vessel growth, and cancer vaccines now entering advanced clinical trials. He explains how gene therapy has al...

Art Bell sits down with author James Gardner, who presents a provocative hypothesis that the universe was deliberately engineered by a superintelligent being in a prior cosmic cycle to be life-friendly. Gardner argues that the physical constants of nature function as a cosmic equivalent of DNA, encoding a program designed to yield life and ever greater intelligence. He points to the precise fine-t...

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing expert, for a wide-ranging discussion on predictions that appear to be coming true. Dames points to a record-breaking X-48 solar flare from November 2003, which he identifies as the "shot across the bow" he had long predicted would precede a catastrophic solar event he calls the kill shot. Dames reveals a ne...

Art Bell welcomes Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, for a sobering examination of global oil depletion and its consequences for industrial civilization. Heinberg explains that worldwide oil production will likely peak between 2006 and 2016, after which no amount of investment can reverse the decline, and that 24 of the world's 44 major oil-producing nations have already passed their pr...

Art Bell is joined by University of Washington professor Peter Ward, author of Rare Earth, who argues that while microbial life may be common throughout the universe, complex multicellular life is extraordinarily uncommon. Ward explains that building anything beyond bacteria requires a planet to maintain stable conditions for billions of years, a feat most worlds fail to achieve. Ward outlines the...

Art Bell opens with a tribute to Elena's haunting motorcycle photo tour through the abandoned zones around Chernobyl, urging every listener to view the images. He covers news ranging from the Madrid bombing suspects' suicide standoff to NASA's scramjet reaching 5,000 miles per hour, then launches into open lines with a passionate segment opposing broadband over power lines, warning it will cripple...

Art Bell sits down with physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute's remote viewing program, who reveals for the first time how the CIA program truly began. Targ describes how retired police commissioner Pat Price identified the leader of the SLA from a mug book and psychically located the actual kidnap car used in the Patty Hearst case. Targ recounts the pivotal moment...

Art Bell welcomes back John Lear, son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, for a wide-ranging conversation about his decades in ufology. Lear recounts his aviation career, including setting a world speed record in a Learjet and racing at Reno, before describing how Bud Hopkins' book Missing Time launched his UFO research in the mid-1980s. The discussion turns to Lear's provocative claims about the natur...

Dr. David Race Bannon joins Art Bell to discuss Interpol and the secretive Archangel unit after a first-hour warning about broadband over power lines, known as BPL. Joined by Jim Haney, president of the American Radio Relay League, and Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, Art explains how BPL would blanket the entire shortwave spectrum with interference, destroying ham radio, citizens band, emergency commu...

Art Bell interviews Nick Cook, aviation editor for the prestigious Jane's Defence Weekly, about his decade-long investigation into antigravity and zero-point energy documented in his book The Hunt for Zero Point. Cook describes gaining access to top-secret military facilities in both the United States and the former Soviet Union during his 18-year career as a defense journalist, and shares his ass...

Art Bell interviews Benjamin Baruch, a chartered financial analyst and certified public accountant who claims God speaks to him in an audible voice. Baruch describes his professional career managing pension plans and endowment funds, where he achieved returns in the top one percent of money managers. His life took a dramatic turn in late 1996 when, after nearly a year of daily prayer seeking guida...

Art Bell speaks with Michael Horn, the authorized American media representative for Swiss contactee Billy Meier, about what many consider the most significant and controversial UFO case in history. Horn traces Meier's story from his first alleged encounter at age five in 1942 through decades of reported face-to-face contacts with beings he calls the Plejaren, extraterrestrial humans from a system...

Art Bell welcomes Jim Motavelli, editor of E/The Environmental Magazine and author of Feeling the Heat, for a wide-ranging discussion on global climate change. They examine recent alarming reports from NASA, the Pentagon, Fortune magazine, and Woods Hole about the possibility of abrupt climate shifts, including the potential shutdown of the Atlantic conveyor belt that could plunge Europe into sudd...

Art Bell welcomes Professor Jan Newcomb Hodges, a robotics pioneer who built the first mobile robot to enter the damaged Three Mile Island reactor in 1979. Hodges explains how his decades of work in robotics, including systems for bomb squads, space exploration, and the stealth B-2 bomber program, led him into particle physics and frequency research as he sought faster computing systems beyond the...

Columbia University physicist and mathematician Dr. Brian Greene , author of The Fabric of the Cosmos, joins Art Bell to discuss physics of the universe, time, wormholes, string theory, and parallel universes. Art returns after two weeks spent constructing a massive ham radio antenna in the Nevada desert and opens with wide-ranging commentary on current events, including the Haitian political cris...

Aaron Donahue , a remote viewer trained by Major Ed Dames who identifies as a Luciferian, joins Art Bell to discuss Luciferian thought, remote viewing, lottery predictions, and peak oil. Art begins with open lines covering a purported classified CIA document about biological immortality, spontaneous fires erupting in a Sicilian village, and a caller's report of shadow beings triggering a motion se...

Author and researcher William Buhlman joins Art Bell to discuss out-of-body experiences, OBE survey findings, sleep paralysis, and consciousness after an impromptu vampire interview. Art opens with a self-proclaimed vampire named Morgan from Kentucky, who describes his coven of over 50 members, his casket sleeping habits, and plans to be buried alive for three days. Morgan claims thousands of vamp...

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing instructor, for a wide-ranging discussion on looming global threats. Dames opens with claims about Earth's most intelligent non-human life form, identifying a species of giant squid whose sophisticated photophore communication system and massive brain rival human cognition. He connects this discovery to a BB...