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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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December 24, 2006: UFOs and ETs - David Sereda

Dec 24, 2006
2h 39m
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Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and researcher David Sereda for a Christmas Eve discussion about UFOs, extraterrestrial contact, and the future of humanity. Sereda describes his own close encounter with a triangular craft in Berkeley in 1968 and outlines a theory connecting the Phoenix Lights to Pythagorean mathematics and the Great Pyramids, noting that the massive triangle hovered near the Estrella Mountain Range, whose name traces back to the Greek for star child.

The conversation turns to whether extraterrestrial visitors are benevolent or hostile. Sereda divides alien encounters into categories, from spiritually evolved beings who travel through what he calls the singularity to more troubling entities associated with abductions and implants. Art presses him on the contradiction between claims of helpful aliens and the forcible nature of most abduction accounts. Sereda acknowledges the darker side but points to religious apparitions and luminous phenomena as evidence of higher contact.

Sereda also addresses the environmental crisis, citing a professor who believes humanity has only five to ten years to transform its energy infrastructure or face extinction. He argues that zero-point energy and anti-gravity technology may already exist in classified programs and that withholding them represents a profound crime against the planet.

Key Moments

  1. Star Wars over Earth: are crash retrievals from ETs fighting each other?: Sereda recounts a recent debate with eight top ufologists asking whether so many crash retrievals exist not because the ETs can't fly their craft, but because rival civilizations are fighting a 'Star Wars' over which one inherits Earth.

  2. Art ties Sereda to McDonald: aliens as our autistic future: Art directly bridges to the previous night's McDonald episode, asking whether aliens are humans from a future where autism became the norm, returning for our DNA and emotions. Sereda assents and broadens it into a DNA-collection theory for cattle mutilations.

  3. Assyut, Egypt apparitions and invisible motherships in UV: Sereda cites the BBC/ABC reports of two million people gathering in Assyut, Egypt in 2000 for luminous apparitions over a Coptic church, then argues NASA's UV-capable cameras and consumer digital cameras are catching invisible 'ships of light' that may be present continuously.

  4. James Brown's death announced live: 'he's out there now': Mid-conversation about whether humanity will survive long enough for our music to reach the cosmos, Art breaks the news that James Brown has just died at 73. Sereda answers, 'he's out there now... getting access to what we all want.'

  5. Battle of LA 1942: two crashed saucers retrieved to Muroc Field: Sereda lays out a chronology around the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles, citing alleged Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall documents claiming two saucers were recovered, one off Long Beach and one in the San Bernardinos, then taken to Muroc (Edwards) for reverse engineering, which would explain the unfired-upon nine-craft hover there in July 1947.