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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 3, 1998: ET Stories - Cynthia Turnage

Mar 3, 1998
2h 16m
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Art Bell speaks with freelance writer Cynthia Turnage, who has studied over 300 translations of ancient Mesopotamian, Vedic, Hebrew, and Egyptian texts. Turnage presents her research into reported sexual encounters between humans and extraterrestrials, drawing from approximately 35 documented cases. She describes the 1957 Antonio Villas Boas case from Brazil and accounts from witnesses her physicist husband has interviewed, noting that technical descriptions of spacecraft operations showed consistent details across unrelated cases.

The conversation expands into Turnage's broader thesis that the Bible represents a series of coded transmissions from beings originating on the planet Nibiru. She connects Mesopotamian deity Marduk to biblical references, argues that Babylonian cubits can measure distances between Martian monuments, and claims to have found additional face-like structures on Mars forming geometric patterns. She also shares her analysis of NASA lunar photographs showing what she interprets as anomalous objects.

Turnage offers her interpretation of biblical prophecy, connecting the rebuilding of Babylon by Saddam Hussein to the Book of Daniel and Revelation. She calculates the return of Nibiru at 2060 A.D. based on a 3,600-year orbital period. Callers challenge and support her claims in equal measure throughout the program.

Key Moments

  1. Reptilian affair with a Texas truck-stop waitress: Turnage describes a long-term sexual affair between a Texas truck-stop waitress and a green-scaled reptilian whose ship later crashed, leaving her devastated when his comrades came to deliver the news.

  2. Antonio Villas Boas case in 1957 Brazil: Turnage recounts the famous 1957 Brazilian abduction of farmer Antonio Villas Boas, who was sponged with purple liquid, gassed, and visited by a four-and-a-half-foot alien woman with white hair and red pubic hair who pointed at her belly and the sky after intercourse.

  3. Mars artifacts and Babylonian cubits: Turnage claims a second face on Mars below the Cydonia face forms an isosceles triangle with another face, and that the distances between Martian monuments measure precisely in 18-inch Babylonian cubits - the measuring system Sitchin attributes to the Nibiruans.

  4. Photographs of UFOs over the moon and missing microfiche: Turnage describes NASA photos of a 16-mile-long cylindrical UFO over the moon and a glowing disc hovering over an astronaut, then claims microfiche of the moon's heavily landscaped dark side mysteriously disappeared from her home.

  5. Pole shift in 2060 AD when Nibiru returns: Turnage calculates that the planet Nibiru returns every 3,600 years and that every third orbit - every 10,800 years - triggers a global pole shift and flood. Her math points to 2060 AD as the next catastrophe, citing Heraclitus and an ancient Egyptian priest as confirmation.