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December 8, 1998: Arizona Storm at Turret Peak - Richard C. Hoagland

Dec 8, 1998
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Art Bell brings back Richard C. Hoagland for an in-depth examination of the strange events at Turret Mountain in central Arizona on December 7th. Hoagland presents Phoenix weather radar imagery showing an anomalous ring formation, approximately 100 miles across, centered precisely over Turret Mountain during a massive and historically rare snowstorm. He argues the ring represents organized crystalline snow patterns created by an energy pulse from below the mountain.

Eyewitness Terry Major, who drove a four-wheel vehicle to the base of Turret Peak during the storm, joins the program. Major confirms that directly above the mountain he observed a perfectly circular opening of clear blue sky surrounded by heavy cloud cover. He describes encountering a mysterious truck with cage-like containers descending the only road leading to the peak. Major captured photographs and video during his expedition.

Hoagland correlates HAARP activity data with the electromagnetic pulse recorded by researcher Charles Plyler, and references Bureau of Reclamation tunnels measuring 19.5 feet wide found exclusively in Arizona. He theorizes that an underground device or artifact was activated beneath Turret Mountain, producing the energy signature that organized the snowfall into the radar-visible ring pattern.

Key Moments

  1. Bullseye snow ring on Turret Mountain radar: Bell and Hoagland walk listeners through the Phoenix weather radar GIF: as a once-in-eight-year snowstorm crosses central Arizona, a perfect circular ring forms in the radar return, dead-centered on Turret Mountain - an organized snowflake structure they say is impossible by any natural physics.

  2. Hoagland accuses HAARP of weather control: Hoagland states outright that the correlated radar ring, ELF pulse, and active HAARP graphs prove HAARP caused the weather event over Turret Mountain - using artificial weather to keep observers away from the site on December 6-7.

  3. Clear blue circle directly over the mountain: Bell reads a Frances Barwood email reporting that eyewitness Terry Major, in a four-wheel-drive on top of Turret Peak during the height of the storm, looked up and saw clear blue sky in a perfect circle directly above the mountain while snow ringed it on radar 100 miles wide.

  4. Terry Major's drive into the eye: Eyewitness Terry Major describes driving up Forest Route 269 toward Turret Peak in horizontally driven snow and dense fog, joking on the way that the summit would be clear - and finding it exactly so when they arrived, photographing the anomaly.