The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell opens with reports of a spectacular Minuteman III ICBM launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base that triggered a wave of UFO calls across the Southwest, then covers President Bush's request for congressional authority to use force against Iraq and a chilling account from Northumberland, Pennsylvania, where witnesses reported a man being pulled into a hovering UFO by a beam of light. Dr. Paul...

Art Bell brings two guests to the program on a night covering vastly different territory. In the first segment, Billy Rogers, campaign manager of Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, discusses Question 9, a ballot measure that would make Nevada the first state to legalize possession of up to three ounces of marijuana for adults over 21. Rogers details how the initiative would ban public smoki...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a lifelong practitioner of natural magic trained by her grandfather from age four, for a Friday the 13th exploration of witchcraft, mirror magic, and the occult. Art addresses listener objections about hosting a witch by declaring his belief that magic is real while maintaining his own spiritual convictions. The first hour features open lines covering topics f...

Art Bell opens with a series of striking coincidences surrounding the first anniversary of September 11th, including the New York State Lottery drawing 9-1-1 and the S&P 500 futures closing at 911.00 the day before. He presents these events as possible evidence of mass consciousness affecting random systems, connecting them to the Princeton Global Consciousness Project and his own prior on-air exp...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland, former NASA consultant and science advisor to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, to present what he calls overwhelming evidence of ancient artificial structures on Mars. Using newly released daytime infrared imaging from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, Hoagland and his team claim to have uncovered a massive city-like grid beneath the dusty surface of th...

Art Bell welcomes Nick Cook, aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly and author of The Hunt for Zero Point, for a wide-ranging discussion on anti-gravity research and breakthrough propulsion technologies. Cook describes how he broke the story about Boeing's classified GRASP program, a proposal to work with Russian scientist Evgeny Podkletnov, who claims to have reduced an object's weight by two p...

Rocket builder and stuntman Ky Michaelson , known as "Rocket Man," joins Art Bell to discuss rockets, October Sky, Hollywood stunts, and amateur space launches after Art's opening news catch-up. Art returns after time off due to recurring back spasms and covers the FBI's search of a person of interest in the anthrax mailings, a UFO chase by F-16s over Maryland, Boeing's classified anti-gravity pro...

Art Bell speaks with Stephanie about psychic visitations and a lifetime of paranormal encounters, then later hosts storm chasing photojournalist Warren Faidley on weather photography, tornadoes, microbursts, and severe-weather chasing. Stephanie, a mother from Staten Island, New York, describes experiences beginning at age fifteen when she used a Ouija board. She recounts the name "Anna Brigham" a...

Art Bell welcomes journalist and technology researcher Douglas Mulhall to discuss the emerging world of nanotechnology and its potential to reshape civilization. Mulhall explains how scientists are now manipulating individual atoms using scanning tunneling microscopes and describes the three prerequisites for molecular nanotechnology: atomic manipulation, self-replication, and assembly. The conver...

Gerald Celente , founder and director of the Trends Research Institute, joins Art Bell to discuss economic forecasting, trends, and America's prospects after first-hour calls produce the "Bell Comfort Index." Callers weigh in on the stock market's decline, corporate scandals at Enron and WorldCom, the war on terrorism, and ecological concerns, with ratings averaging around four to five. Celente de...

Author John Cogan joins Art Bell to discuss The New Order of Man's History, a North Atlantic asteroid impact, the end of the last ice age, and lost human civilization. Art opens with a World Wildlife Fund report warning that Earth's natural resources will be exhausted by 2050, citing a 12 percent loss of forest cover, a one-third decline in ocean biodiversity, and a 95 percent drop in tiger popula...

Art Bell devotes a Friday night to time travel, beginning with author John Chambers, publisher of "Father Ernetti's Chronovisor," documenting the Benedictine monk who claimed to have built a device capable of viewing past events. Father Pellegrino Ernetti, a quantum physics scholar and world authority on polyphonic music, reportedly collaborated with 12 anonymous physicists to construct the machin...

Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at cemeteries, a haunted house, and the Laramie Territorial Prison in Wyoming. The five-member nonprofit group uses brand-new, never-recorded-on cassette tapes and five simultaneous recorders to document what they believe are voices of the dead. The EV...

Art Bell interviews retired FBI agent Candice DeLong, a 20-year veteran of the Bureau who worked the Unabomber case, went undercover as a gangster's girlfriend, and became a real-life counterpart to Clarice Starling. The program opens with Art reading a story about the Vatican allegedly hiding a time machine called the chronovisor, built by Benedictine monk Father Pellegrino Ernetti in the 1950s t...

Art Bell welcomes physicist Dr. Ramon Lopez to discuss a massive solar eruption that occurred on July 1, 2002, with photographs posted on Art's website showing the sun sprouting enormous fiery protrusions. The first hour features Richard C. Hoagland reporting on a landmark two-hour phone conference with NASA's Dr. Jim Garvin about obtaining new images of Cydonia and other anomalous features on Mar...

Art Bell interviews Nevada Senator Harry Reid, the assistant Democratic leader in the Senate, about the Bush administration's decision to designate Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository. Reid argues that President Bush betrayed his campaign promise to Nevadans by pushing forward without sound science, noting that 292 scientific investigations remain incomplete and that the Nuclea...

Art Bell hosts a spirited debate between nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman and Dr. H. Paul Shuch of the SETI League over how best to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Friedman maintains that Earth is already being visited by intelligently controlled spacecraft and that the best evidence lies in classified military data, radar-visual cases, and physical trace evidence from decades of UFO r...

Art Bell, broadcasting on his 57th birthday, welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer to discuss his paper "Cosmic Deception: Let the Citizen Beware." Greer argues that a shadowy group within the military-industrial complex has been planning to stage a fake extraterrestrial threat using man-made craft called alien reproduction vehicles and advanced holographic technology. He cites roughly a dozen independent...

Art Bell opens the Friday night lines with a provocative scenario built around the Planet X hypothesis. Drawing from recent guests Mark Hazelwood and Nancy Lieder, along with a detailed listener email, he lays out claims that a rogue planetary body will pass Earth in spring 2003, potentially killing nine out of ten people on the planet. He asks listeners a stark question: if you knew you had three...

Art Bell welcomes anthropologist Dr. Hank Wesselman, who has spent over 30 years conducting field research on human origins in East Africa's Great Rift Valley. Their conversation spans from the precise science of potassium-argon dating to the discovery of Ardipithecus, a fossil creature that may represent the long-sought missing link between apes and humans. Wesselman recounts a memorable 18-hour...

Dr. Carl E. Baugh , director of the Creation Evidence Museum, joins Art Bell to discuss creation evidence, a hyperbaric biosphere, and human-dinosaur coexistence after a cattle-mutilation letter. Art reads a listener account of six mutilated calves found in Idaho, stripped of skin and organs with no blood present, followed by unidentified men in a white van who confiscated photographs and removed...

Nancy Lieder of ZetaTalk joins Art Bell to discuss the Zetas, Zeta Reticuli contact claims, and Planet X after first-hour calls from Denver wildfire witnesses. Callers describe wildfires burning across 80,000 acres of Colorado, filling Denver with smoke and ash, and connect the unprecedented drought and lack of snowpack to broader climate changes that mainstream media largely ignores. Lieder claim...

Internationally recognized intuitive Gordon Michael Scallion joins Art Bell to discuss visions and probable futures after Stephen Quayle's dirty-bomb warning. Art opens with the arrest of dirty bomb suspect Jose Padilla and welcomes Quayle, who argues that a radiological weapon could render an entire city uninhabitable for years. Quayle warns that weapons-grade plutonium is available on the black...

Art Bell confronts the Amazing Kreskin over his failed Las Vegas UFO prediction, during which Kreskin admits his original intention was to demonstrate how an enemy could manipulate mass perception. Art accuses him of deliberate deception and bans him from the show permanently, adding him to a short list of guests never to return. Retired Los Angeles Times editor Phillip Krapf joins to discuss an u...

Physicist Bob Lazar joins Art Bell to discuss Area 51, UFOs, S4, and advanced propulsion after the Amazing Kreskin UFO-prediction bust in Las Vegas. With a night vision camera pointed at the desert sky, Art takes calls from people gathered at the Kreskin event, where most report seeing only airplanes in the McCarran Airport flight path. The prediction is widely deemed a bust. Lazar describes his r...