September 9, 1997: Open Lines
Callers respond to the previous night's program about Bell Labs and Roswell. A listener shares a story from a former NASA instructor who said the leap from vacuum tubes to microchips was not invented but "deciphered" with "a little help from above." Art breaks news from an underground source that the American Chemical Society, meeting in Las Vegas, plans to reveal that the U.S. leaked significant radiation during underground nuclear testing in Nevada, with the Department of Energy expected to confirm it.
Frances Barwood calls in to announce she has won her recall election with 47 percent of the vote, defeating two opponents despite being outspent five to one. Art retells his own close encounter with a massive, silent, triangular craft that passed roughly 100 feet above him in the Pahrump Valley. He dedicates the final hour exclusively to Canadian callers in celebration of the show's rapid expansion across Canada.
Key Moments
Brinkley update - three aneurysms stopped bleeding: Bell reports that after a half-hour call with Dannion Brinkley, all three of his aneurysms have ceased bleeding and the 10-15 brain clots appear to be dissolving harmlessly - a man who 'was a dead man when he got there' is now expected out of the hospital in a week.
CNN placebo effect - 70 to 90 percent: Bell relays a CNN segment citing a physician's claim that placebo pills work 70% to 90% of the time - and the doctor's argument that faith, not the substance, is doing the work.
Brinkley moves to private ICU room to self-heal: Bell describes Brinkley asking to be moved out of the open ICU because he could feel everyone around him dying - needing privacy to enter the deep meditative healing state he uses on himself.