August 31, 2001: Open Lines - Area 51, Earthquakes, & Crop Circles
Callers provide a range of claims about Area 51. A former electrical technician at Nellis Air Force Base describes mysterious glowing buildings around nuclear weapons storage structures and a civilian scientist who attributed the phenomenon to Project Blue Book. Another caller identifying himself as a 25-year civilian employee at S4 on Groom Lake says he works in back-engineering alien craft alongside live extraterrestrials. A third caller claims to have worked at the base from its inception in 1958, estimating 80 percent of the facility is underground.
Art also documents a new earthquake prediction from his longtime radon monitor in Southern California, who reports the highest radon count ever recorded and forecasts a major quake in Northern California within nine days. A woman from Washington State describes recurring lights near a lake that vanish into the water, reinforcing the discussion about possible underwater UFO activity.
Key Moments
California radon detector forecasts large quake within nine days: Bell relays a fresh prediction from his California radon-monitoring contact: the highest radon count he has ever recorded just spiked, leading him to forecast a large quake near Santa Cruz/San Francisco within nine days plus a 6.0 near the Mexican border.
Space station commander warns Earth is visibly degrading: Bell highlights AP/BBC reporting in which International Space Station commander Frank Culbertson, comparing his 1990 view to the present, describes spreading smoke, dust, deforestation and changing rivers visible from orbit and urges care for the planet.
Nellis tech: glowing nuclear-storage bunkers and Project Blue Book whispers: An anonymous caller, an electrical technician once stationed at Nellis AFB, says civilian scientists there told him about nighttime glows around the on-base nuclear weapons bunkers and explicitly invoked the supposedly closed Project Blue Book and visiting spacemen.
Bell: an alien craft may be locked in Antarctic ice: Riffing on a caller's UFOs-in-water idea, Bell argues two-thirds of Earth is ocean and predicts that a craft will eventually be found at the bottom of the sea or, more likely, frozen in Antarctic ice that could be 400 million years old.
Brother in Air Force security describes a teleportation portal at Area 51: A West Virginia caller relays his brother's account from Nellis/Area 51 security: a doorway in a large underground facility that, when stepped through, deposits you 100 yards away at an identical doorway with no traversal of the space between.