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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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June 11, 1995: The Government & UFOs - George Knapp

Jun 11, 1995
1h 13m
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George Knapp, the investigative journalist who broke the Area 51 story, joins Art Bell to discuss his groundbreaking trip to Russia and the treasure trove of previously classified UFO documents he brought back. Knapp reveals that the Russian Ministry of Defense has studied UFOs at the highest levels since the late 1940s and possesses documents detailing American UFO monitoring stations worldwide and intercepted transmissions from space missions describing astronaut encounters with unidentified craft.

Knapp confirms a stunning incident in which UFOs hovered over a Russian ICBM base for four hours while the launch control panel activated on its own, with someone or something entering the actual launch codes. Russian military investigators found no malfunction after disassembling the entire panel. Knapp connects this to similar events at five American nuclear bases along the U.S.-Canadian border in 1975, where launch codes were mysteriously changed during UFO sightings.

A compelling discussion on government secrecy, the shared Russian-American cover-up, and why mainstream media continues to ignore evidence that even world governments take seriously behind closed doors.

Key Moments

  1. Knapp returns from Russia with classified Ministry of Defense UFO files: Knapp describes bringing back several hundred pages of previously classified Russian Ministry of Defense documents showing UFO study at the highest government levels since the late 1940s.

  2. ICBM launch codes entered during UFO incident over Russian base: Knapp confirms a Russian document in his hand describes UFOs hovering over an ICBM base for four hours, with the launch control panel lighting up and the actual launch codes being entered before the UFOs vanished.

  3. 1975 US-Canada border nuclear base UFO incursions paralleled the Russian event: Knapp ties the Russian incident to declassified Pentagon FOIA documents showing UFOs sighted over five US nuclear bases along the US-Canadian border in a two-week period in 1975, with launch codes changed.