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Art Bell Episodes About the Phoenix Lights
The Phoenix Lights became one of the most visible UFO events of the 1990s, and Art Bell covered it close to the moment when witnesses were still trying to explain what they had seen over Arizona. Because the topic is event-specific, the value is in following the coverage, updates, witnesses, and aftermath across a small set of episodes. Together, these Art Bell episodes preserve the immediacy of the March 13, 1997 sighting and the years of debate that followed, with links into Roswell, disclosure, UFO roundtables, and government-conspiracy context for listeners staying within UFO history.
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Mar 13, 1997
3h 6m
Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a breaking report on one of the most significant UFO events in American history. Dozens of witnesses across Arizona are calling in frantic accounts of massive formations of lights traversing the sky from Paulden to Prescott to Phoenix, covering...

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March 14, 1997: Phoenix Lights
Mar 14, 1997
3m
Art Bell devotes the program to the extraordinary Phoenix Lights event that unfolded just hours earlier on March 13, 1997. Thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a massive formation of lights traversing the state, and the phone lines are flooded with firsthand accounts from stunned observers across the Phoenix met...

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June 19, 1997: Open Lines - Phoenix Lights
Jun 19, 1997
2h 44m
Art Bell opens with a declaration that he has never witnessed a period of greater high strangeness in his 13 years of broadcasting. He presents a stunning chronology from June 19th, 1997: Arizona Governor Fife Symington announces a full investigation of the Phoenix Lights at 12:45 p.m., returns to federal court at 1...

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January 13, 1998: Phoenix Lights - Stephen Bassett & Frances Barwood | Trends Research - Gerald Celente
Jan 13, 1998
43m
Art Bell broadcasts while battling a returning flu, joined by former Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood and political activist Stephen Bassett. Barwood announces her candidacy for Arizona Secretary of State, making her one of the first major-party candidates to run on a platform demanding government transpare...

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March 11, 2006: The Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport
Mar 11, 2006
2h 30m
Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Phoenix Lights, one of the most significant UFO events since Roswell. Davenport shares his ongoing struggle with hoax callers flooding his hotline and the challenges of running a nonprofit reporting...