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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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February 17, 2007: UFO Activity - James Gilliland

Feb 17, 2007
2h 37m
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Art Bell welcomes James Gilliland, director of the Self Mastery Earth Institute and a contactee who claims ongoing communication with extraterrestrial beings following a near-death experience. Gilliland describes the massive UFO activity at his ranch near Mount Adams in Washington State, where dozens of aerospace engineers and other credible witnesses have observed craft appearing on schedule. He explains that different groups are visiting Earth, from Pleiadians to Andromedans, and that Grey abductions are winding down as more benevolent entities take an active role.

The conversation covers how these craft operate outside conventional physics, using instantaneous travel by shifting between physical, energy, and light dimensions. Gilliland claims to have over 60 hours of footage showing objects landing, morphing, and powering up, though major networks have repeatedly shelved the material before it could air nationally. He argues that the real disclosure will come from the skies rather than from governments.

The first hour features open lines, where callers share shadow people encounters, blue orb sightings, and a striking account of a cigar-shaped craft that responded to flashing headlights and followed a caller home. Art also discusses his visit to the Robert Bigelow Aerospace facility and reflects on precognitive experiences.

Key Moments

  1. Disclosure will come from the sky: Gilliland tells Art the real UFO disclosure will not come from governments but from increasing sightings in the skies, and predicts the phenomenon will keep escalating until it is undeniable worldwide.

  2. Grays as dying biological robots: Gilliland describes the grays as an atrophying race that bred emotion out of itself, with smaller 'eebies' acting as biological robots performing abductions in a centuries-long breeding program now winding down.

  3. Governments chose the wrong aliens: Gilliland claims benevolent ETs offered first contact on condition of universal peace, but governments instead aligned with a less benevolent group that traded technology for abduction access.

  4. How they cross the distance: Pressed by Art on the physics problem, Gilliland argues quantum 'instantaneous communication' allows ships of pure energy or consciousness to step out of physical reality and arrive instantly anywhere.

  5. Art proposes the intent experiment: Art revives his on-air mass-consciousness experiments, proposing that millions of listeners simultaneously project intent for UFOs to appear in the skies; Gilliland endorses doing it globally.