October 9, 2002: UFO Symposium - Whitley Strieber, Dr. Roger Leir, Linda Moulton Howe, Bill Hamilton

Art Bell hosts a landmark UFO symposium with Whitley Strieber, Dr. Roger Leir, Linda Moulton Howe, and Bill Hamilton. The evening opens with discussion of the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area, a stunning new crop circle formation in England featuring an alien figure alongside a binary-coded message, and a remarkable shadow person photograph submitted by a listener.

Dr. Roger Leir shares his firsthand investigation of the 1996 Varginha, Brazil incident, where he interviewed medical personnel who treated a living extraterrestrial being with a compound leg fracture. The medical witnesses, visibly shaken even six years later, describe the creature's physical characteristics in striking detail, including dark brown reticulated skin, large red liquid eyes, four-fingered hands, and bones with ten times the tensile strength of human bone. They recount how the being emitted a greenish mist and telepathically communicated a message about humanity's spiritual disconnection.

Whitley Strieber provides context on the evolving nature of the UFO phenomenon, arguing that contact between professionals and non-human intelligences is accelerating beyond what even dedicated researchers can track. Bill Hamilton joins to continue the discussion of increasing professional-level encounters with non-human entities around the world.