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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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April 24, 1998: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames | Mars Images - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 24, 1998
3h 19m
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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 the camera missed the fort, the strip captured stunning detail across the city complex and pyramids.

Remote viewer Major Ed Dames then joins the program with updates on several predictions. He announces that the plant pathogen he previously warned about has been identified as a new genus of fungus now dispersing over Africa, with trade winds expected to carry spores toward Latin America. He also discusses the increasingly dire situation in North Korea, where reports of cannibalism and aggressive military rhetoric align with his prediction about the next use of a nuclear weapon on the Korean Peninsula.

Dames describes his prediction about the jet stream dropping to ground level as now confirmed by meteorological research, and he reveals that remote viewing of the Cydonia region consistently draws viewers to a tetrahedral structure that appears to contain an electromechanical device connected to time travel.

Key Moments

  1. Geometric regularity in third Cydonia strip: Hoagland describes the enhanced third-strip imagery as showing extraordinary repeating room-sized geometry with right angles, windows, and doors - invoking Sagan's criterion that intelligence first manifests as geometric regularity.

  2. Art Bell first sees the enhanced images: Bell reacts in real time to the third Cydonia enhancements: 'no way in hell nature did that on Mars or anywhere else,' confirming what listeners had been faxing him about.

  3. Dames RV target: Mexico City UFO: Dames reports remote-viewing the Mexico City UFO frame and concluding it is an alien object - actually a small sphere about 18 inches in diameter moving so rapidly it 'etch-a-sketches' the disc shape in three dimensions.

  4. Crop circles as time-travel markers: Dames frames crop circles as deliberately perishable temporal markers - made in wheat and grain so time-traveling craft can confirm they have arrived at a specific local day matching their onboard register.