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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 5, 1999: Larry King Live - Art Bell

Mar 5, 1999
26m
Larry KingArt Bell
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Art Bell appears as a guest on Larry King Live for a wide-ranging interview covering his career, beliefs, and the phenomena he investigates nightly. Art traces his path from rock and roll radio to late-night talk, explaining why the nighttime audience possesses a uniquely open and attentive quality that makes his show possible. He shares his views on crop circles, ghosts, and alien abduction with characteristic balance, presenting himself as a reporter rather than a believer.

The interview takes a personal turn when Art recounts his out-of-body experience in Paris, describing a spontaneous separation from his physical body that left him floating above the city in a state of total ecstasy. He also describes witnessing a massive silent triangular craft pass over his car near Area 51, an encounter he says defied all known principles of aerodynamic flight.

Art presents Larry King with a sample of bismuth and magnesium allegedly retrieved from the Roswell crash site, noting that no lab has been able to reproduce its composition. He also addresses the Hale-Bopp photograph controversy, the Miami Circle preservation effort, and his philosophy that the paranormal is simply the unexplored dimension of ordinary life.

Key Moments

  1. Art shows Larry King the Roswell metal: On Larry King's set, Art produces a piece of bismuth and magnesium said to be from the Roswell crash, explains that top labs cannot reproduce it or explain how it holds together, and warns King the sample tested at 60 times normal radiation.

  2. Out-of-body experience over Paris: Art describes a spontaneous out-of-body experience in a Paris hotel room - the buzzing, the acceleration, finding himself above the city in 'total ecstasy' - and the shock of snapping back into his body when he realized what was happening.

  3. The triangular craft over Pahrump: Art recounts the silent triangular craft he and his wife watched pass directly overhead on the way home near Area 51 - 150 feet across, no engine sound, defying gravity at about 30 mph - the sighting he says made him a believer that something is out there.