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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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February 5, 2001: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Feb 5, 2001
2h 50m
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Art Bell returns to the airwaves and welcomes a massive roster of new and returning affiliate stations before reuniting with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Peter opens with a tribute to the late Holger Berg, who preserved a 1936 UFO sighting from Eklutna, Alaska, describing a cigar-shaped craft with blue-green lights and a sound resembling a jet engine decades before jet technology existed.

Two witnesses using pseudonyms, Tim from Detroit and Denise from Signet, Ohio, recount their Halloween night encounter with an egg-shaped craft hovering over Interstate 75. Tim describes watching the object change colors for twenty minutes through binoculars, while Denise independently saw the same black craft glide silently from a tree line with glowing energy trailing behind it. The witnesses met by chance at the roadside and exchanged information without sharing details.

Tim reveals disturbing aftereffects including chronic headaches, abdominal inflammation, hearing strange binary-sounding voices outside his home, and episodes of missing time. Additional witnesses from Oregon describe a remote Idaho hunting camp encounter with a craft that left the FAA calling Peter Davenport directly with the report.

Key Moments

  1. Art's first night back: please don't say welcome back: On his first show after returning, Art tells the audience that hellos make him as uncomfortable as goodbyes and asks callers not to use the night to say they are glad he is back.

  2. Eklutna, Alaska, October 1936 sighting: Peter Davenport sets up an audio clip from the late Mr. Holgerberg describing how he and a friend dove into a snowbank near Eklutna, Alaska in 1936 as a low, humming object passed overhead.

  3. Davenport: UFOs in U.S. airspace virtually every day: Davenport tells Art that based on six and a half years of running the National UFO Reporting Center, he believes there must be UFOs in American airspace nearly every day of the week.

  4. Halloween 2000 black craft over Cygnet, Ohio: Witness Denise describes a silent, all-black, semi-and-a-half-long craft gliding from a tree line on Halloween night with glowing energy pouring out of its rear, near I-75 in rural Ohio.

  5. Hovering pivot and a flash of light: Denise describes the craft hanging in the air for what felt like forever, pivoting like ten minutes on a clock face, then disappearing in a great flash of light.