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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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June 9, 1999: Crop Circles, Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe

Jun 9, 1999
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Art Bell is joined by investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with a remarkable eyewitness account from Holland. A 19-year-old named Robert watched from his bedroom window as a small pinkish-purple light expanded into a disc-shaped object over a farm field, emitted electrical discharges, and left behind two fresh crop circles. Linda details biophysicist W.C. Levengood's hypothesis that a spinning plasma vortex containing microwave energies may be responsible for the genuine formations.

The conversation shifts to the chemtrail phenomenon as Linda introduces Charles Warren, a New Jersey resident whose photographs of unusual grid-pattern contrails over Philadelphia prompted him to create a website. Warren reveals that military and government agencies including Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, NASA Langley, Lawrence Livermore, and the Air Force Combat Climatology Center have been making repeat visits to his site. Art reads a letter from a listener in New Hampshire reporting persistent rashes coinciding with heavy contrail activity.

Linda also reports on Dr. James Baker's discovery of nanobomb technology at the University of Michigan, an oily water substance capable of destroying anthrax and other pathogens on contact. The three discuss whether government dispersal testing of similar substances could explain the unusual aerial activity and the oily residues reported by witnesses across North America.

Key Moments

  1. Dutch teen witnesses pinkish-purple light forming a crop circle: Linda Howe relays a freshly reported eyewitness account from Hoeven, Holland: 19-year-old Robert wakes at 12:15 a.m. on June 7, 1999, and watches a small football-shaped pinkish-purple light fly in over a field, hover, expand into a 30-foot disc, emit electrical discharges to the ground, then dissipate - leaving behind two fresh crop circles.

  2. Dr. James Baker's nanobomb anti-bioterrorism oil-droplet discovery: Howe reports on University of Michigan's Dr. James Baker, funded by DARPA, who has developed detergent-coated nano-sized oil droplets that adhere to anthrax, Ebola, and cholera and literally explode the germs. The Army plans to test airplane dispersal of the substance in fall 1999, raising the question of whether ongoing chemtrail activity is an early secret test of similar dispersal technology.

  3. Chuck Warren's Contrail Connection logs visits from 50+ federal agencies: New Jersey witness Charles Warren joins live to describe the tic-tac-toe contrail checkerboard he photographed over Philadelphia on March 17 and the ringed circle pattern of May 23. His Extreme Tracking webmaster logs reveal repeated daily visits from Wright-Patterson AFB, NASA Langley, NOAA Aeronomy, Yucca Mountain, Lawrence Livermore, Nellis AFB, Monsanto, the Air Force Combat Climatology Center, and the DoD Computer Emergency Response Team.

  4. BBC reports a 'planet buster' coronal mass ejection narrowly missed Earth: Art and Linda discuss a BBC News report that a massive coronal mass ejection erupted from the Sun the previous Tuesday, with astronomers initially uncertain whether it was Earth-bound. The blast was described as a 'planet buster' capable of frying the satellite infrastructure that civilian and military communications now depend on, lending unsettling weight to remote viewer Ed Dames's killshot warnings.

  5. Pilots report nighttime sky illumination and microwave-style sunburn: Art reads two faxes from commercial airline first officers flying nighttime routes near Minneapolis-St. Paul: the entire sky lit up far brighter than normal aurora, both pilots became disoriented, and one landed with a serious facial sunburn - white where his headset had shielded him, burned everywhere else. Howe notes microwave radiation is the only known mechanism that produces that sunburn pattern.