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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 23, 2000: Aliens in the Bible - John Milor

Mar 23, 2000
2h 45m
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Art Bell opens with a historic first, a live interview with Mike, the chef at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, who describes daily life at the isolated outpost where 200 people are sealed off from the outside world until August. Mike shares details about extreme weather reaching minus 100 wind chill, the massive iceberg that just broke off the Ross Ice Shelf, and the surreal experience of watching the ocean freeze solid overnight.

Following a UFO report segment with Peter Davenport covering strange aerial phenomena over Arkansas, Memphis, and Calgary, Art welcomes author John Milor. A self-described open-minded Christian and computer security specialist at the Fresno Air National Guard, Milor argues that the Bible contains references to aliens, ghosts, and paranormal phenomena. He interprets the Hebrew term "host of heaven" as evidence of beings inhabiting outer space and warns that extraterrestrial contact may fulfill end-times prophecy.

Milor discusses ghosts as potentially trapped spirits at upper levels of hell, offers a biblical alternative to reincarnation through spirit possession, and recounts his own unsettling experiences with a Ouija board that produced satanic messages, ultimately leading him to Christianity.

Key Moments

  1. Live call from McMurdo Station, Antarctica: Art reaches Mike, a chef wintering over at McMurdo Station, in what he calls a commercial-radio first. Mike describes minus-60 wind chills, eight months of total isolation, the just-calved 183x22 mile iceberg, and watching open ocean refreeze overnight from his window.

  2. Heaven's Gate as alien deception: Milor cites the 39 Heaven's Gate suicides as people who really did rendezvous with alien beings, just not benevolent ones, framing the Hale-Bopp tragedy as a cautionary case for his deceptive-entities thesis.

  3. Milor: returning aliens will claim to be God: John Milor argues that channeled messages claiming aliens seeded humanity echo Sitchin's Elohim reading but contradict Genesis 1, and warns Genesis 6's Nephilim and Matthew 24 predict a return where these beings will offer god-like genetic and technological enhancements while committing blasphemy.