The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell brings together spy satellite designer Ron Regehr and former CIA operative Derrel Sims for a discussion about what U.S. surveillance satellites have detected in Earth's atmosphere. Both guests report sudden unexplained telephone outages just before airtime. Regehr explains the five degrees of satellite image resolution and reveals that by 1978, sensors could resolve objects down to four-t...

Art Bell hosts UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett and Dr. Steven M. Greer of C-SETI for a wide-ranging discussion about the state of UFO disclosure. Bassett announces the launch of his Paradigm Research Group website featuring the "Paradigm Clock," modeled after the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock, tracking proximity to formal government acknowledgment of an extraterrestrial presence. He a...

Art Bell speaks with UC Davis psychology professor Dr. Albert Harrison about his book "After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life." Harrison brings expertise in the psychological and sociological dimensions of space exploration and serves on the SETI Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics. The conversation examines what would actually happen to human society if cont...

Art Bell interviews futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard about her book "Conscious Evolution" and her vision for humanity's potential future. Hubbard describes herself not as an optimist but as a "potentialist" who identifies positive possibilities emerging from current global crises. She frames the planetary crisis as a birth process for the next stage of human evolution and argues that humanity stands...

Art Bell welcomes astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern to discuss newly enhanced images of the Cydonia region on Mars. Van Flandern holds a doctorate from Yale in celestial mechanics and has spent his career studying the moon and planets. He shares his reaction to the latest photographs from Mars Global Surveyor, which Art describes as the first images that made the anomalous features visible even to h...

Art Bell opens with the arrival of the third set of Cydonia photographs from the Mars Global Surveyor. Richard C. Hoagland reports that enhanced images of the main pyramid reveal extraordinary rectilinear geometry resembling room-sized cells viewed from above, consistent with his long-standing hypothesis that the structures are massive arcologies built by an ancient Martian civilization. Though th...

Art Bell presents the results of an investigation into "Kent," a man who previously appeared on the program claiming to be a fired JPL courier who had seen clear photographs of artificial structures on Mars. Richard C. Hoagland details the days of follow-up communication with Kent, describing escalating panic calls from phone booths across multiple states and repeated failures to produce employmen...

Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green, veteran ham radio publisher and technology pioneer, for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with health controversies before veering into one of the most provocative claims in modern history. Wayne argues that the Apollo moon landings were faked, citing the absence of stars in lunar photographs, questions about dust behavior in a vacuum, concerns about radiation...

Theoretical physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolf joins Art Bell to discuss Taking the Quantum Leap, quantum physics, consciousness, parallel universes, and time travel after Linda Moulton Howe 's Cydonia update. Howe interviews Dr. Mark Carlotto about the new Mars Global Surveyor photograph of the Cydonia face, and Carlotto explains how differences in sun angle and camera position between the 1976 Viking...

Art Bell welcomes Bruce Wallace, who claims to be the real-life inspiration for the Mel Gibson character in the film Conspiracy Theory and the ghostwriter of the original screenplay. Wallace says his manuscripts were plagiarized by Hollywood after the CIA censored his work, and he holds Writer's Guild registrations predating the movie's copyright. Wallace describes joining the Marines in 1974 and...

Art Bell opens with a personal tribute to his late cousin Frederick Lenz before turning to a historic night of Mars analysis with Richard C. Hoagland and astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern. The discussion centers on Dr. Mark Carlotto's new enhancement of the Mars Global Surveyor face image, which corrects for the low viewing angle and reveals previously hidden facial details including an eyebrow ridg...

Art Bell opens with news updates, a preview of the week's upcoming guests, and open lines before welcoming Ted Wright, author of Wright's Complete Disaster Survival Manual, a book on FEMA's recommended reading list. A World War II survivor who endured the London Blitz as a child, Wright brings decades of practical experience to the subject of civilian preparedness in an age of tornadoes, earthquak...

Clinical psychologist Dr. J. Timothy Green joins Art Bell to discuss near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and lucid dreaming after a first-hour weather update from Stan Dale in Australia. Dale notes rising sea surface temperatures east of Japan and warns that the pattern mirrors the early stages of the previous cycle. The conversation touches on the connection between solar activity an...

Art Bell welcomes geologist Jim Berkland for a wide-ranging discussion covering the Mars face controversy, earthquake prediction, and a breaking allegation from Richard C. Hoagland. Berkland, a fellow of the Geological Society of America with 35 years of field experience, calls the new Mars Global Surveyor photograph of the face a "technological fraud," arguing that the image was deliberately degr...

Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Graham Hancock live from Great Britain to discuss Mars, ancient Egypt, and the cataclysmic dangers facing Earth. Hancock shares his analysis of the controversial new Mars Global Surveyor photographs of the face on Mars, calling the rush to dismiss them premature and arguing that only a manned landing can settle the debate. He draws parallels to the disputed und...

Richard C. Hoagland , former museum space science curator and NASA consultant, joins Art Bell in the first hour to present his Cities on Mars claims about Cydonia, Mars Odyssey color infrared data, and possible intelligently designed artifacts. Hoagland presents what he calls near-certain evidence of architectural ruins beneath the surface of Mars, derived from daytime color infrared data captured...

Art Bell opens with news of the day, including the Jonesboro school shooting aftermath and Sarah McLendon's provocative press release about government UFO knowledge that reportedly triggered threats against the veteran White House correspondent. An April Fools' Day prank fax briefly adds confusion before Art shares humorous instructions for building a homemade atomic bomb, posted to his website as...

Art Bell presents what he calls a paradigm-shattering program as Robert Ghost Wolf reveals discoveries from a month-long expedition into the Rocky Mountains. Ghost Wolf, a Native American researcher of mixed blood, was guided to a remote site at 14,000 feet by indigenous elders who knew of its existence through oral traditions passed down from the Ute Indians. The site required daily climbs of 2,0...

Art Bell hosts David John Oates for an extensive session of reverse speech analysis covering Kathleen Willey, Dr. Michael Malin, and Major Ed Dames. Oates begins with classic demonstrations, including Neil Armstrong's famous reversal and baby speech examples, before turning to the 60 Minutes interview where Willey described her encounter with President Clinton. Her reversals suggest fear and truth...

Art Bell welcomes Pat Murphy and Roger Skinner for an evening devoted to pirate radio and the fight for low-power broadcasting in America. Murphy, president of the Association of Clandestine Radio Enthusiasts and a veteran commercial broadcaster, shares his fascination with unlicensed operators who seize the airwaves. Art openly discusses his own history as a pirate broadcaster across FM, AM, tele...

Art Bell welcomes Dannion Brinkley, three-time near-death experiencer and author of Saved by the Light, calling from Washington, D.C. Brinkley has just returned from Egypt, Syria, the Iraqi border, and an illegal crossing into Lebanon. He reports a major archaeological discovery near Tushka in the southwest desert, where laborers digging irrigation channels uncovered a temple over 10,000 years old...

Art Bell interviews Phillip Krapf, a retired copy editor from the Los Angeles Times who spent 25 years on the metro desk and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 LA riots. The first portion explores his mainstream journalism career and lifelong skepticism toward UFOs and the paranormal, carefully establishing his credentials before the conversation takes an unexpected turn. Krapf re...

Linda Moulton Howe reports from Gulf Breeze, Florida, where a UFO conference has produced its own sightings. Resident Don Rash describes a lens-shaped silver craft that moved rapidly across a clear sky, tilted onto its axis, and vanished. He and his wife Cindy later observed a round silver disc with perimeter lights passing directly overhead while driving across a bridge at twilight. Linda also co...

Art Bell welcomes Terence McKenna, calling from a remote solar-powered home on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano via a cutting-edge one-megabyte wireless internet link. McKenna surveys recent scientific milestones including anti-gravitational forces, water on the moon, and quantum teleportation. He and Art consider whether artificial intelligence could emerge from the internet and quietly observe humanit...

Art Bell hosts a heated debate between photographic analyst Jim Dilettoso and author Kal Korff over some of the most contentious cases in UFO history. The two clash over the Billy Meier photographs from Switzerland, with Korff declaring them a blatant hoax based on optical analysis and Dilettoso defending the testing he helped coordinate at facilities including Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Neither s...