December 28, 1998: Encounter with Alien - Dr. Jonathan Reed & Robert Raith
The discussion covers new photographic evidence, including detailed close-up images of the creature's head and eye that Art has posted to his website. Dr. Reed describes subsequent events: the creature reanimating in his freezer days later, his house being ransacked, the disappearance of his friend Gary, and the death of his associate Dolly under suspicious circumstances. He reveals for the first time that a small device with three symbols and three needles, believed to link the alien to the obelisk, has been examined and smuggled out of the country.
Callers press Dr. Reed on details about the creature's clothing, his emotional state, and his credibility. Reed confirms he passed a polygraph test and describes how 75 percent of his evidence was stolen. Robert Raith discusses their ongoing efforts to publish a book titled Link: An Extraterrestrial Odyssey and their search for a publisher willing to take on the project despite reported threats.
Key Moments
Dog encounters the creature on the trail: Reed describes hearing his dog Susie's bark shift from aggression to distress in the Cascade woods, then cresting the hill to see her clamped onto a small, rapidly vibrating humanoid creature he initially mistook for a child.
Reed strikes the creature; Susie disintegrates: Reed swings a heavy branch into the creature's skull, hearing it scream as it's knocked aside, while simultaneously watching his dog's body implode and reduce to a dusting of white ash beside him.
Discovery of the hovering obelisk: Reed describes finding a black, diamond-shaped object roughly nine feet long hovering three feet above the forest floor, emitting a harmonic tone. When he touches its granite-cold surface he is burned, and when he leans against it the tone changes octave.
The creature reanimates in the freezer: Three and a half days after Reed put the body in his garage freezer, he hears scratching, opens the lid, and finds the entity moving and turning its head - prompting a recorded scream that he plays for Bell on the air.
Reveal of the alien controller device: Reed and Raith disclose for the first time that Reed recovered a small device with three engraved symbols and three needles next to the body - what they believe is a controller linking the alien to the obelisk - now stored outside the country as an insurance policy.