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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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January 27, 1998: Abductee Open Lines | Alien Encounter - KT Frankovich | Mars Mission - Richard C. Hoagland

Jan 27, 1998
2h 51m
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Art Bell opens the phone lines exclusively for those who have experienced alien abduction. Callers describe enhanced night vision following contact, sexual experiments aboard craft, missing time lasting several days, and mysterious implants still present beneath their skin. One caller recounts a Travis Walton-like experience involving a domino-shaped craft, a four-day catatonic state, and a strange silicone substance found covering his body afterward.

Wildlife filmmaker KT Frankovich then shares her never-before-told 1992 encounter in a lime grove near Miami. She describes in remarkable detail a four-foot-nine gray being with six-fingered hands, non-porous skin, and powerfully muscled legs that defied the frail upper body. Her two trained attack dogs immediately fell asleep upon seeing the creature. She ran parallel to the being as it sprinted through the grove with gazelle-like leaps, carrying a metallic bag. A second encounter at her apartment window involved a female and juvenile being who placed a six-fingered hand against the screen while communicating telepathically.

Richard C. Hoagland closes the program with analysis of a new NASA directive terminating all human missions beyond Earth orbit, issued the same day the Lunar Prospector spacecraft arrived at the moon. He connects this to a secret November meeting at NASA headquarters regarding Cydonia imaging.

Key Moments

  1. Caller 'Mr. Carrot': enhanced night vision, missing time, sleep abductions: An abductee caller describes acquiring temporary night-vision good enough to read a book by a streetlamp's stray light during his junior year of high school, plus a being in a referee suit telling him he would only need 2-4 hours of sleep, which then came true.

  2. Pete from Western New York: domino UFO, four lost days, BB implant: A caller named Pete recounts a 1976 encounter near Kinzua Dam, Pennsylvania - a giant domino-shaped craft hovered, he ran with his brother and cousin, vanished for two hours then was found 30 miles up the road covered in silicone oil, returned home in a four-day catatonic state, and still has a BB-sized implant in his chest.

  3. KT Frankovich's Lime Grove encounter: the Gray and the unknown creature: Frankovich, a wildlife filmmaker living next to a Florida lime grove behind Metro Zoo, describes walking her two 100-pound attack dogs at dusk in May 1992, hearing branches snap, and seeing a four-foot-nine being with six-digit hands, almond eyes, athletic legs, and metallic skin-tight clothing - while her trained attack dogs simply lay down and went to sleep.

  4. Frankovich runs neck-to-neck with the gray; 'biente, biente': Frankovich says the gray emerged carrying a sack containing a second creature, then sprinted gazelle-like through the grove with her running parallel for six city blocks until she hit a wall of sulfuric-acid and formaldehyde stench at a vine tunnel - while telepathically hearing the word 'biente, biente' meaning welcome, come hither.

  5. Second encounter: female gray and adolescent at the apartment window: Two weeks after the grove encounter, Frankovich is on the phone with her friend Linda at 11pm when a mint-green dew fills her apartment ceiling and a female version of the same being - accompanied by a smaller, timid adolescent - leans into her open front window staring at her.