The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell presents a two-part program beginning with Linda Moulton Howe's investigation into Project HAARP, the high-frequency radio transmitter in Gakona, Alaska. Cornell professor Michael Kelly explains that HAARP's energy output is far smaller than the natural aurora and poses no environmental threat. Program manager John Heckscher notes the facility is only one-quarter built after a decade of i...

Art Bell interviews Seth Shostak, public programs scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Shostak explains that the project, renamed Phoenix after Congress killed NASA's SETI funding in 1993, now survives on private donations from supporters like Bill Hewlett and David Packard. The parallels to the film "Contact" prove remar...

Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a Tampa sightings update after asteroid 1997 XF-11 and Navy low-frequency sonar coverage. Dick Allgaier, a reporter for KITV News in Honolulu, shares his firsthand account from aboard the research vessel Cory Chouest, where 195-decibel underwater speakers blast sound waves while scientists monitor whale behavior nearby. Green...

Art Bell opens with investigative reporter Chris Ruddy to examine the sudden death of Whitewater figure James McDougal in federal prison. Ruddy explains that McDougal died of an apparent heart attack while in solitary confinement, just two weeks after former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker reportedly agreed to cooperate with Kenneth Starr. Because grand jury testimony cannot be cross-examined, Mc...

Art Bell welcomes author Bruce Rux to discuss his book "Hollywood vs. the Aliens," which argues that U.S. military and intelligence agencies have used Hollywood films to shape public perception of UFOs since the 1950s. Rux has analyzed over 600 movies in the genre and traces connections between filmmakers and defense industry figures, claiming alien designs and scripts were altered at executive le...

Art Bell opens with alarming reports of flesh-eating strep A bacteria spreading across Texas, with 89 cases and 18 deaths reported since December. He questions why the outbreak receives so little national media coverage. A caller claiming to be a former government biological weapons researcher connects the outbreak to experiments at Dugway, Utah, alleging that common bacteria have been engineered...

Art Bell speaks with freelance writer Cynthia Turnage, who has studied over 300 translations of ancient Mesopotamian, Vedic, Hebrew, and Egyptian texts. Turnage presents her research into reported sexual encounters between humans and extraterrestrials, drawing from approximately 35 documented cases. She describes the 1957 Antonio Villas Boas case from Brazil and accounts from witnesses her physici...

Art Bell welcomes scientist and author Gregg Braden for a conversation bridging ancient wisdom and modern science. Braden, a former geologist and aerospace engineer who worked on the Peacekeeper missile program at Martin Marietta, argues that key spiritual and scientific texts were removed from public knowledge around 325 A.D. under Constantine. He contends that these lost documents contained an i...

Dr. Mark J. Carlotto and Professor Stanley McDaniel join Art Bell to discuss the Mars Mariner mission, Mars Global Surveyor, and Cydonia imaging after breaking reports of blue-green fireballs over Colorado. UFO Reporting Center director Peter Davenport and MUFON Colorado state director Michael Kurta describe an object seen for four minutes over Colorado Springs, far too long for any natural meteor...

Art Bell welcomes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman for a wide-ranging exploration of mysterious creatures reported around the world. Coleman shares decades of field research into Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, phantom kangaroos, and lake monsters, offering his assessment that Pacific Northwest Sasquatch sightings point to an unidentified bipedal primate. He discusses physical evidence including footprint a...

Art Bell welcomes Professor Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist at the City University of New York and co-founder of string field theory, for a sweeping conversation that moves from the nature of gravity to the possibility of time travel and the future of human civilization. Kaku explains Einstein's revolutionary insight that gravity is not a pulling force but rather the effect of mass bending the...

Art Bell reunites with Richard C. Hoagland, winner of the Angstrom Science Award and former advisor to Walter Cronkite, for an urgent broadcast about the Mars Global Surveyor mission and what Hoagland calls a deliberate effort by NASA to avoid photographing the Cydonia region. Hoagland explains that the spacecraft's elliptical orbit is about to bring its camera within 150 miles of the controversia...

Art Bell welcomes Professor David Jacobs, a Temple University historian and author of The Threat, for a detailed examination of the alien abduction phenomenon based on hundreds of hypnotic regression sessions conducted over decades of careful academic research. Jacobs presents his findings that abduction accounts from unrelated individuals across the country contain strikingly consistent details a...

Art Bell sits down with Edgar Evans Cayce, the 80-year-old son of famed psychic Edgar Cayce, for a rare and personal conversation about growing up with America's most documented clairvoyant. The elder Cayce gave over 14,000 readings during his lifetime, roughly 60 percent of which were medical diagnoses that produced remarkable results when followed precisely. Edgar Evans recounts how his father d...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Ronald Klatz, president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, for a wide-ranging discussion on longevity science and the prospect of dramatically extending the human lifespan. The broadcast opens with coverage of a contentious Ohio State University town hall meeting on the Iraq crisis, featuring firsthand reporting from journalist Marshall Barnes who was present at...

Art Bell speaks with aerospace illustrator and researcher Mark McCandlish, who has spent 18 years consulting for defense contractors and collecting testimony about classified aircraft. McCandlish describes a family of vehicles known as Aurora, including a football-shaped craft using pulse detonation propulsion that creates distinctive donut-on-a-rope contrails over the western United States. He es...

Art Bell welcomes back Australian researcher David Oates for an extended exploration of reverse speech, the theory that human language simultaneously produces unconscious communication when played backward. Oates demonstrates with classic examples, including Neil Armstrong's lunar landing audio reversing to "man will spacewalk" and his own infant daughter producing clear English words in reverse b...

Jack Shulman of American Computer Company joins Art Bell to discuss alleged Roswell alien technology, the transcapacitor, and claims of back-engineered computer hardware after a first hour of open lines. Art covers the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a five-million-dollar interview offer from his Las Vegas affiliate, the looming Iraq conflict, and reports of unusual animal behavior worldwide. He notes th...

Art Bell opens with author Whitley Strieber and Project Awareness coordinator Vicki Lyons, who report a remarkable series of UFO sightings over the Gulf Breeze, Florida area. Strieber describes witnessing a brilliant garnet-red light hovering above the horizon that moved directly overhead during a Life magazine photo shoot. Lyons explains how multiple observer groups triangulated the object from s...

Art Bell welcomes back Major Ed Dames, the former military remote viewing operations officer known as "Dr. Doom," for a wide-ranging discussion of SciTech's latest projects and predictions. Dames explains how technical remote viewing works as a rigorous protocol for downloading patterns of information from the collective unconscious, and he describes his team's past intelligence work locating Iraq...

Returning guest Pamela Stonebrooke , a singer who describes encounters with reptilian beings, joins Art Bell to discuss reptilian encounters after Peter Davenport's pilot-whale segment. Art opens with Peter Davenport discussing mysterious photographs of U.S. Air Force Black Hawk helicopters dumping pilot whales 150 miles out to sea, whales the military had kept for 13 months after they beached the...

Art Bell speaks with podiatric surgeon Dr. Roger Leir and investigator Daryl Sims about the surgical removal and scientific analysis of objects taken from the bodies of alleged alien abductees. Dr. Leir describes removing a T-shaped metallic object from a woman's foot that was covered in a biological membrane so strong it could not be cut with a surgical scalpel, yet showed zero inflammatory respo...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Lorraine Day, a former associate professor and vice chairman of orthopedic surgery at the University of California San Francisco, about her personal battle with cancer and the natural methods she used to overcome it. Dr. Day describes how a small tumor on her chest grew to the size of a grapefruit in just ten days after her immune system collapsed from years of overwork, sl...

Art Bell is joined by nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman to discuss the controversial UPN television special about the McPherson family abduction, a program that blurred the line between documentary and fiction. Friedman explains he was interviewed for over an hour about abduction research but never saw the alleged home video at the center of the show. His comments were then edited alongside scrip...

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center for a special Dreamland edition packed with raw audio recordings and startling revelations. Davenport shares never-before-heard details about the massive March 13, 1997 Phoenix sighting, including unconfirmed reports that a U.S. reconnaissance satellite went offline, that military forces jumped from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 3, and th...