September 11, 1997: Open Lines with Area 51 Employees Call-in
Callers on the Area 51 line deliver a range of extraordinary claims. One self-described former employee says he lived at the S4 facility and was ordered to disclose information about recovered craft from parallel timelines, a planet called Lanulos, and revelations planned for July 1998. Another caller claims to be a time traveler from the year 2072, when Area 51 serves as the relocated national capital following catastrophic events around the turn of the century.
Art fields calls from across the country, including a listener who describes secret satellite dish installations in Morocco and another who proposes trick questions to verify real Area 51 workers. The evening blends sincere emotional moments with some of the most outlandish caller claims in the history of the program.
Key Moments
Brinkley calls in from ICU with three brain aneurysms: Dannion Brinkley phones the show from a hospital bed with four IVs in him, describing how Coumadin levels went from 12-13 to 44, causing aneurysms and bleeding into his brain.
The frantic Area 51 caller live on air: A self-described former Area 51 employee, medically discharged a week earlier, calls in saying he is on the run and warns 'they'll triangulate on this position really, really soon' before delivering his warning about extra-dimensional beings.
'Major population centers wiped out' - the cut-off: The frantic caller delivers his closing warning that 'they want the major population centers wiped out so that the few that are left will be more easily controllable' - the satellite link goes dead mid-sentence and the network drops to backup.
Art returns on backup system: 'transmitter had a massive heart attack': After the cut-off, Art comes back on a backup link and tells the audience he has never seen the transmitter fail like this in all his years on the air, calling it a 'massive heart attack' and wondering aloud if 'somebody zapped us.'