July 3, 1997: Art's Parts - Linda Moulton Howe & Budd Hopkins
Linda then provides a comprehensive update on the bismuth-magnesium layered material known as Art's Parts. After 15 months of analysis by six institutions, including Carnegie Institute isotope testing and Freedom of Information requests to 13 government agencies, no laboratory has been able to identify how the micron-thin layers were manufactured or replicate them. She reports that a major corporation has agreed to conduct new tests exploring whether the material responds to pulsed magnetic fields, potentially connecting it to electrogravitic propulsion.
Budd Hopkins follows with a preview of his book Witnessed, describing a 1989 New York City abduction observed from five separate locations. He recounts how a woman was seen floating from a 12th-story window alongside alien figures, witnessed by security agents escorting a prominent political figure whose motorcade stalled beneath the craft.
Key Moments
Wyatt and Davids back out of pre-presser interview: Bell reveals that Chris Wyatt (formerly of CBS) and Showtime's Paul Davids - co-sponsors of the next morning's 9 a.m. Pearson Auditorium press conference promising scientific proof of extraterrestrial Roswell debris - had agreed earlier in the day to come on Coast and tease the announcement, then went silent and refused to speak before the press conference.
Howe details the bismuth-magnesium 'Art's Parts' findings: Linda Moulton Howe walks through fifteen months of testing on the bismuth-magnesium layered samples sent to Bell - six institutions, Carnegie isotope analysis, alternating layers of pure bismuth (1-4 microns, half a human blood cell thick) and ~97.6% magnesium with 2.4% zinc, with no oxygen or bonding agent and a wavy corrugated pattern no one can replicate.
Carnegie isotope test: bismag emitted 60x more ions than control: Howe explains the Carnegie Institution ion microprobe result: the Art's Parts magnesium had ~11% more magnesium-26 than terrestrial (still within Earth parameters) - but the sample emitted sixty times more ions than the controlled magnesium metal, an unexplained anomaly leading toward laser-welding and electron-bonding hypotheses.
Hopkins: 'Witnessed' - Brooklyn Bridge UFO abduction: Budd Hopkins describes the November 30, 1989 case at the heart of his book Witnessed: Linda Cortile floated out a 12th-story Manhattan apartment window with three alien figures at 3:15 a.m., witnessed at five different locations as car engines died on the Brooklyn Bridge, FDR Drive, and South Street - including by political-figure security agents en route from a UN meeting.
Hopkins on withholding case details to test new witnesses: Hopkins explains his core investigative technique, learned from the 1975 North Hudson Park landing: independently arriving witnesses described the craft as 'so dark it looked black' - a detail he withheld from his Village Voice piece, then used to validate five additional witnesses who came forward with the same color description.