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January 5, 1998: BIG UFO Disclosure Show - Stephen Bassett, Richard C. Hoagland, Dr. Steven M. Greer, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Peter Gersten, Robert O. Dean, Jim Marrs

Jan 53h 20mStephen Bassett, Richard C. Hoagland, Dr. Steven M. Greer, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Peter Gersten, Robert O. Dean, Jim Marrs

Art Bell assembles a landmark panel of seven researchers and figures for a night centered on one word: Disclosure. Washington UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett serves as the thread connecting each segment, while Richard C. Hoagland opens the broadcast discussing Webster Hubbell's reported admission that he was tasked by President Clinton to investigate UFOs and that he could not find answers within the government.Dr. Steven M. Greer of CSETI outlines his efforts to bring military and intelligence witnesses forward to testify about extraterrestrial contact. Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell speaks candidly about the convergence of evidence suggesting the UFO phenomenon is real. Attorney Peter Gersten discusses legal actions on behalf of Area 51 workers exposed to toxic materials. Robert O. Dean, a retired command sergeant major, describes a NATO document he encountered that cataloged extraterrestrial involvement with Earth. Author Jim Marrs adds historical and journalistic context to the cover-up narrative.The guests urge listeners to contact their congressional representatives and the White House before the upcoming State of the Union address, framing the broadcast as a coordinated push for government transparency on the UFO question.

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January 6, 1998: Dispelling the Myth of Evolution - Dr. Kent Hovind

Jan 62h 5mDr. Kent Hovind

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Kent Hovind, a former high school science teacher turned traveling creationist debater from Pensacola, Florida, for a provocative discussion challenging the theory of evolution. Hovind argues that the Earth is approximately 6,000 years old, that dinosaurs coexisted with humans, and that the fossil record has been fundamentally misinterpreted by mainstream science. He offers a standing $250,000 challenge to anyone who can provide empirical evidence for evolution.Hovind walks through his critiques of carbon dating methods, the Big Bang theory, and common textbook claims about transitional fossils. He proposes that pre-flood atmospheric conditions, including a water vapor canopy and higher oxygen levels, allowed humans and animals to grow much larger and live far longer than they do today. Art presses him on the age of the Great Pyramid and the logistics of Noah's Ark, leading to exchanges about ancient engineering and magnetic field mysteries.Listener calls bring sharp challenges from scientists and skeptics alongside supportive voices from fellow creationists. The conversation touches on everything from the origins of the Grand Canyon to the possibility of living dinosaurs in remote jungles. Art maintains his characteristic neutrality throughout, allowing the audience to weigh the arguments for themselves.

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January 7, 1998: Stargate International - Robert O. Dean

Jan 72h 24mRobert O. Dean

Art Bell welcomes retired Command Sergeant Major Robert O. Dean, president of Stargate International, for his first appearance on the program. Dean describes his 27 years in the U.S. Army, including his assignment to NATO's Supreme Headquarters war room in the 1960s, where he held a Cosmic Top Secret clearance and gained access to a classified study concluding that Earth has been visited by multiple extraterrestrial groups.The conversation covers the potential dangers of military elements shooting at UFOs, the implications of a secret policy-making group operating beyond presidential and congressional oversight, and the billions spent annually in unaccounted black budget programs. Dean shares his conviction that abductions are real, that humanity may be a genetically seeded species, and that major world religions contain encoded references to extraterrestrial contact.Dean also discusses the abduction crisis hotline he operates through Stargate International and his belief that public education and disclosure through constitutional channels remain essential. He argues that the truth about contact, while initially destabilizing, poses less danger to civilization than the continued cover-up.

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January 12, 1998: The War on Drugs - Peter Gorman

Jan 122h 55mPeter Gorman

Art Bell speaks with Peter Gorman, editor-in-chief of High Times Magazine, about the failed war on drugs, the counterculture legacy, and his extensive fieldwork in the Amazon. Gorman argues that mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana possession have filled American prisons with nonviolent offenders while violent criminals are released early. He reveals that the DEA has recently acknowledged it lacks scientific grounds to classify marijuana as a Schedule I substance, a development he calls a potential turning point in federal drug policy.The discussion broadens to the collapsing price of street cocaine, the corruption fueling international drug trafficking, and the medical community's fear of prescribing adequate pain medication due to DEA surveillance. Gorman also describes his discovery of a bioactive frog secretion used by the Matses Indians of Peru, a substance containing a naturally occurring opioid now drawing pharmaceutical interest for its potential as a non-addictive painkiller.Callers raise questions about cannabis buyers clubs, hallucinogen safety, and the political obstacles to reform. Gorman maintains that existing criminal laws already cover harmful behavior, making drug-specific penalties redundant and counterproductive.

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January 13, 1998: Phoenix Lights - Frances Barwood & Stephen Bassett | Trends Research - Gerald Celente

Jan 1343mFrances Barwood, Stephen Bassett, Gerald Celente

Art Bell broadcasts while battling a returning flu, joined by former Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood and political activist Stephen Bassett. Barwood announces her candidacy for Arizona Secretary of State, making her one of the first major-party candidates to run on a platform demanding government transparency about unexplained aerial phenomena, particularly the massive craft witnessed over Phoenix on March 13, 1997.Bassett, serving as co-campaign manager, describes the press conference as a success, with extensive local media coverage and strong support from both UFO researchers and constitutionalist groups. The conversation touches on suspicious phone line tampering at Barwood's home and the intense political pressure she faces from established Republican opponents. Art also speaks briefly with Norio Hayakawa about a planned peaceful gathering at the Area 51 boundary on June 6, 1998.The second half features trend forecaster Gerald Celente, who warns of a coming global currency meltdown, immune system breakdown from environmental pollution, increasing cult activity as the millennium approaches, and the threat of nuclear terrorism. He predicts breakthroughs in cold fusion and zero-point energy within years.

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January 14, 1998: Ancient Egypt - Dr. Zahi Hawass

Jan 141h 24mDr. Zahi Hawass

Art Bell interviews Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director of Antiquities at Giza, despite suffering from a 102-degree fever. Dr. Hawass discusses the recently completed restoration of the Sphinx, the planned six-month closure of the Great Pyramid for conservation work, and the discovery of tombs belonging to the workers who built the pyramids. He confirms that genetic studies on the skeletal remains are being conducted in partnership with the University of Hawaii.The conversation turns to the contentious questions surrounding the Giza Plateau. Dr. Hawass explains why drilling in front of the Sphinx has not been permitted, citing previous Stanford Research Institute work in the same location and the need for conclusive scientific evidence before further excavation. He addresses accusations of hiding discoveries, insisting he has never blocked legitimate scientific inquiry and that no evidence of a pre-Egyptian civilization has been found at Giza.Dr. Hawass also previews the upcoming Alaska cruise debate with Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, promises revelations about the mysterious door found by Gantenbrink's robot inside the Great Pyramid, and outlines plans for a millennium celebration at Giza including placing a gold capstone atop the pyramid.

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January 21, 1998: Open Lines, Lewinsky Scandal

Jan 2138m

Art Bell opens the phone lines as the Monica Lewinsky scandal dominates the news cycle. Newsweek has obtained 17 audio tapes containing 20 hours of conversations between former White House intern Lewinsky and Pentagon aide Linda Tripp, in which Lewinsky appears to describe a sexual relationship with President Clinton and indicates she plans to deny it under oath. Art reads extensively from wire reports and listener faxes as the story develops in real time.Art expresses conflicted feelings about the scandal, acknowledging that if Clinton suborned perjury the consequences are unavoidable, while lamenting that removing a sitting president over such circumstances would wound the country deeply. He notes that Clinton's economic record has been reasonable and warns listeners to consider that impeachment leads directly to an Al Gore presidency. Callers and fax writers are sharply divided between those eager to see Clinton removed and those who view the scandal as a political distraction.The program also includes a brief segment with Norio Hayakawa, who discusses his hypothesis that advanced military technology at Area 51 could be used to stage fake extraterrestrial events, and announces a planned citizen gathering at the base perimeter on June 6, 1998.

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January 25, 1998: Reverse Speech - David John Oates | Dreams - Trish & Rob MacGregor

Jan 251h 33mDavid John Oates, Rob MacGregor

Reverse speech analyst David John Oates examines Clinton-Lewinsky audio reversals with Art Bell before authors Trish and Rob MacGregor discuss dreams, literal dream warnings, lucid dreaming, and out-of-body experiences. Oates plays recordings of President Clinton, Mike McCurry, Al Gore, and George Stephanopoulos speaking forward, then reveals hidden messages embedded in the reversed audio. Among the most striking findings are McCurry saying "damn him, this is ugly and a mess" and Clinton producing several coarse reversals that suggest deception about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.Oates explains the fundamentals of reverse speech, demonstrating how the unconscious mind constructs clear phrases within normal conversation at intervals of every ten to fifteen seconds. He shares examples ranging from baby speech to Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface, and recounts the personal dangers he has faced pursuing this research, including his house being burned to the ground.In the second half, authors Trish and Rob MacGregor join to discuss their book on dreams. They explore flying dreams, out-of-body experiences, recurring dream patterns, and the fine line between lucid dreaming and astral travel. Callers share vivid personal accounts of prophetic dreams and unexplained nighttime encounters.

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January 26, 1998: Alien Agenda - Jim Marrs

Jan 262h 38mJim Marrs

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Jim Marrs to discuss his book Alien Agenda and the broader implications of government secrecy. Marrs argues that the Clinton scandal has conveniently derailed a growing momentum toward government openness on the UFO issue, noting that plans for a full-page Washington Post ad demanding disclosure have been shelved. He describes how every military-trained remote viewer from the U.S. government program had direct knowledge of extraterrestrial craft and beings.Marrs outlines how media control operates not through censoring individual reporters but through managing the distribution of information at the network level. He reveals that UFO stories submitted for broadcast simply never came back from approval. The conversation turns to the secret government question of who truly controls information when even presidents and CIA directors cannot access it. Stephen Bassett calls in live to describe an urgent effort to get disclosure materials to White House advisors before the State of the Union address.The show also covers the abduction phenomenon, the Alien Agenda thesis of hawks dealing with hawks in secret agreements, and a breaking NASA directive terminating all human exploration beyond Earth orbit. Richard C. Hoagland joins to discuss what this quarantine means in light of new findings about the face on Mars.

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January 27, 1998: Abductee Open Lines | Alien Encounter - KT Frankovich | Mars Mission - Richard C. Hoagland

Jan 272h 51mKT Frankovich, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell opens the phone lines exclusively for those who have experienced alien abduction. Callers describe enhanced night vision following contact, sexual experiments aboard craft, missing time lasting several days, and mysterious implants still present beneath their skin. One caller recounts a Travis Walton-like experience involving a domino-shaped craft, a four-day catatonic state, and a strange silicone substance found covering his body afterward.Wildlife filmmaker KT Frankovich then shares her never-before-told 1992 encounter in a lime grove near Miami. She describes in remarkable detail a four-foot-nine gray being with six-fingered hands, non-porous skin, and powerfully muscled legs that defied the frail upper body. Her two trained attack dogs immediately fell asleep upon seeing the creature. She ran parallel to the being as it sprinted through the grove with gazelle-like leaps, carrying a metallic bag. A second encounter at her apartment window involved a female and juvenile being who placed a six-fingered hand against the screen while communicating telepathically.Richard C. Hoagland closes the program with analysis of a new NASA directive terminating all human missions beyond Earth orbit, issued the same day the Lunar Prospector spacecraft arrived at the moon. He connects this to a secret November meeting at NASA headquarters regarding Cydonia imaging.

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January 29, 1998: The Presidential Scandal - Sean David Morton

Jan 292h 22mSean David Morton

Art Bell welcomes self-described prophet Sean David Morton to discuss his prediction of the Clinton scandal months before it broke. Morton traces his forecasting of Clinton's troubled presidency back to September 1992, when he published that Clinton would win with exactly 42 percent of the vote. He connects astrological patterns to political destiny, explaining that Clinton took his second oath of office under a void of course moon, the same lunar condition present during Nixon's ill-fated 1973 inauguration, and that no president inaugurated under this aspect has survived the term politically or physically.Morton draws eerie parallels between the Clinton and Nixon situations, noting that Monica Lewinsky lived in the Watergate complex, that both presidents face destruction by tape recordings, and that Clinton was forced onto the very aircraft that carried Nixon from Washington on resignation day and later JFK's body from Dallas. He predicts the accumulation of scandals involving foreign money and multiple women will ultimately force Clinton from office by August.The conversation expands to the Asian economic crisis, Super Bowl cycles as stock market indicators, the Y2K computer problem and its potential to crash Social Security and IRS systems, and Morton's claims about massive UFO motherships returning over Phoenix in January 1998.

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January 30, 1998: The Afterlife - James Van Praagh

Jan 302h 7mJames Van Praagh

Art Bell sits down with spiritual medium James Van Praagh, whose book Talking to Heaven holds the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Van Praagh describes how he first discovered his abilities after visiting a British medium at age 24, and within two years was accurately relaying names, personal details, and specific memories from those who had passed on. He built a three-year waiting list through referrals alone, never advertising his services.Van Praagh presents his understanding of the afterlife as a multidimensional realm where consciousness determines experience. He describes a world as solid and real as the physical one, with landscapes, homes, schools, and activities, where spirits return to the prime of their lives and reunite with beloved pets. He explains that suicide creates profound consequences as the spirit witnesses the grief it caused, and that capital punishment releases troubled souls at dangerously low vibrational levels where they may influence the living.The discussion ranges across near-death experiences, the nature of hell as self-created guilt, cloning and its spiritual implications, and the life review process where every effect of one's actions on others is felt firsthand. Van Praagh shares his own childhood vision of a luminous hand descending through his bedroom ceiling that confirmed for him the reality of a loving God force.

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February 1, 1998: UFO Reporting - Peter Davenport

Feb 11h 34mPeter Davenport

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center for a special Dreamland edition packed with raw audio recordings and startling revelations. Davenport shares never-before-heard details about the massive March 13, 1997 Phoenix sighting, including unconfirmed reports that a U.S. reconnaissance satellite went offline, that military forces jumped from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 3, and that President Clinton's knee injury that same night may not have been a simple stumble on carpet.The program features extraordinary raw 911 dispatch audio from a 1994 Michigan incident in which a National Weather Service radar operator tracked multiple large, fast-moving objects over Lake Michigan in real time. Listeners hear his escalating astonishment as returns appear, split apart, and race toward Chicago at altitudes between 6,000 and 12,000 feet. Additional recordings from Edwards Air Force Base confirm military personnel scrambling interceptors after painting unknown objects on radar.Davenport also presents recent reports from Maine, Florida, and Seattle, noting a troubling increase in close encounters involving vehicle interference and witness paralysis. He appeals to listeners with inside knowledge of military activities on the night of the Phoenix sighting to come forward with any information that might confirm these extraordinary claims.

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February 2, 1998: UPN's Lake County Abduction Show - Stanton Friedman

Feb 23h 29mStanton Friedman

Art Bell is joined by nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman to discuss the controversial UPN television special about the McPherson family abduction, a program that blurred the line between documentary and fiction. Friedman explains he was interviewed for over an hour about abduction research but never saw the alleged home video at the center of the show. His comments were then edited alongside scripted footage featuring 22 listed cast members, creating the false impression that he was endorsing the dramatization as authentic.Friedman describes his efforts to hold UPN and Dick Clark Productions accountable, having contacted both organizations and the FCC about the deceptive presentation. He notes that the show listed actors for every role, including the aliens, yet half of viewers polled believed the footage was genuine. On a positive note, he announces plans to produce his own television documentary with full creative control, promising to present verified evidence and expose fraudulent claims in ufology.The conversation broadens into Roswell, where Friedman challenges the Air Force crash test dummy explanation and discusses his classified meetings with federal officials who acknowledged the UFO phenomenon as real. Open lines bring calls ranging from Tom Clancy buying the Minnesota Vikings to animal attacks and daylight saving time debates.

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February 3, 1998: Cancer Survivor - Dr. Lorraine Day

Feb 31h 2mDr. Lorraine Day

Art Bell interviews Dr. Lorraine Day, a former associate professor and vice chairman of orthopedic surgery at the University of California San Francisco, about her personal battle with cancer and the natural methods she used to overcome it. Dr. Day describes how a small tumor on her chest grew to the size of a grapefruit in just ten days after her immune system collapsed from years of overwork, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress.After refusing chemotherapy and radiation, which she argues destroy the very immune system needed for healing, Dr. Day adopted a rigorous natural protocol. Her plan included eight glasses of fresh carrot juice daily, four glasses of green vegetable juice, eliminating meat and sugar, drinking sixteen to twenty glasses of water, getting adequate sunlight, and most critically, removing the emotional stress from her life through prayer and lifestyle changes. She reports being cancer-free within ten months.Dr. Day challenges conventional medical thinking on multiple fronts, arguing that genetics account for less than five percent of cancers and that the real culprits are malnutrition, dehydration, and chronic stress. She shares the story of her 85-year-old mother recovering from a severe autoimmune disease on the same program, and callers contribute their own experiences with alternative healing approaches.

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February 4, 1998: Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir

Feb 41h 57mDr. Roger Leir

Art Bell speaks with podiatric surgeon Dr. Roger Leir and investigator Daryl Sims about the surgical removal and scientific analysis of objects taken from the bodies of alleged alien abductees. Dr. Leir describes removing a T-shaped metallic object from a woman's foot that was covered in a biological membrane so strong it could not be cut with a surgical scalpel, yet showed zero inflammatory response from the body, something unprecedented in his 33 years of surgical practice.Analysis at Los Alamos and New Mexico Tech revealed the objects contain an iron carbide core with hardness matching the highest carbon tool steel, surrounded by layers of aluminum, calcium, barium, copper, and other elements. The membrane coating was composed entirely of materials from the human body, including blood proteins, an oxygen-binding iron pigment, and keratin. Scanning electron microscope photographs posted on Art Bell's website show the structured metallic rods in extraordinary detail, including what appears to be a barb-like anchoring device.Sims reveals that nerve proprioceptors, sensory organs normally found only in fingertips and skin surfaces, were discovered deep inside the tissue surrounding the implants near bone. A Gauss meter registered strong electromagnetic readings over one patient's implant site, readings that vanished immediately after surgical removal. Both researchers note that major drug companies have expressed interest in the rejection-proof membrane technology.

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February 5, 1998: Reptilian Encounters - Pamela Stonebrooke

Feb 52h 41mPamela Stonebrooke

Returning guest Pamela Stonebrooke, a singer who describes encounters with reptilian beings, joins Art Bell to discuss reptilian encounters after Peter Davenport's pilot-whale segment. Art opens with Peter Davenport discussing mysterious photographs of U.S. Air Force Black Hawk helicopters dumping pilot whales 150 miles out to sea, whales the military had kept for 13 months after they beached themselves near Key West with their tails bent at 90-degree angles. Davenport estimates the operation cost taxpayers over a million dollars and questions why the military would invest such resources in cetacean rehabilitation only to release them back into the wild.Stonebrooke recounts her ongoing encounters with reptilian beings. She describes a profound telepathic and emotional connection with a reptilian entity, one that began when a human-appearing figure transformed mid-encounter into a scaled creature. A regression session with hypnotherapist Barbara Lamb revealed what Pamela interprets as a past-life memory of existing as a reptilian warrior facing extinction.Pamela discusses the personal cost of going public, including job loss and strained relationships, while noting she has received hundreds of letters from other women describing similar experiences. She also references frightening incidents suggesting military interest in her case, including waking up drugged with physical injuries after apparent interrogation.

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February 9, 1998: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Feb 92h 56mEd Dames

Art Bell welcomes back Major Ed Dames, the former military remote viewing operations officer known as "Dr. Doom," for a wide-ranging discussion of SciTech's latest projects and predictions. Dames explains how technical remote viewing works as a rigorous protocol for downloading patterns of information from the collective unconscious, and he describes his team's past intelligence work locating Iraqi biological weapons stockpiles for the United Nations.The conversation turns to Dames' alarming forecasts. He warns of devastating weather destroying North American food crops, a coming global economic collapse, and a rapidly accelerating wave of disease that will overwhelm medical institutions worldwide. He also updates his prediction of a lethal solar event he calls the "kill shot" and discusses a mysterious cylinder on an Earth-intercept trajectory that his team believes carries a plant pathogen.Dames shares findings from SciTech's dolphin communication research, revealing the animals process information visually and respond to photographs. He also addresses the JFK assassination, stating his remote viewing sessions revealed a pneumatic flechette fired from inside the presidential vehicle. The program closes with details on Project Starman, his ambitious plan to initiate extraterrestrial contact from a site in Polynesia.

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February 10, 1998: Gulf Breeze UFO - Whitley Strieber | Ufology - Derrel Sims

Feb 103h 22mWhitley Strieber, Derrel Sims

Art Bell opens with author Whitley Strieber and Project Awareness coordinator Vicki Lyons, who report a remarkable series of UFO sightings over the Gulf Breeze, Florida area. Strieber describes witnessing a brilliant garnet-red light hovering above the horizon that moved directly overhead during a Life magazine photo shoot. Lyons explains how multiple observer groups triangulated the object from separate locations across Pensacola, and she shares details of daytime sightings captured on video by witnesses in nearby Robertsdale, Alabama.The second half features Derrel Sims, a former CIA operative turned hard-evidence UFO investigator. Sims details his own childhood abduction experiences beginning at age three and explains his discovery of fluorescence found on the skin of abductees after contact with the beings. He describes how pathology reports from surgically removed scoop marks reveal solar elastosis, indicating localized exposure to intense ultraviolet radiation that corroborates abductee testimony.Sims recounts a bold experiment in which he implanted a post-hypnotic suggestion containing sensitive information into an ongoing abductee, effectively sending a message to her captors. He discusses the resulting mass abduction event of December 1992 involving eight separate witnesses and addresses the critical distinction between false memory syndrome and genuine recovered memory in hypnotherapy work.

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February 11, 1998: Roswell Alien Technology - Jack Shulman & Linda Moulton Howe

Feb 112h 45mJack Shulman, Linda Moulton Howe

Jack Shulman of American Computer Company joins Art Bell to discuss alleged Roswell alien technology, the transcapacitor, and claims of back-engineered computer hardware after a first hour of open lines. Art covers the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a five-million-dollar interview offer from his Las Vegas affiliate, the looming Iraq conflict, and reports of unusual animal behavior worldwide. He notes that the Clinton administration has quietly authorized targeting Iraq with tactical nuclear warheads, raising the stakes of the pending military action.Shulman, chairman of the American Computer Company, claims his firm is back-engineering alien technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash. Shulman describes a device called the transcapacitor, which stores information not as binary ones and zeros like a transistor but as multiple voltage gradients, functioning similarly to the rods and cones of the human eye. He says a wallet-sized version could hold several terabytes of data and operate at billions of bits per second.Shulman recounts receiving a mysterious classified fax from a military space platform called Sky Station, followed by a break-in at his offices where nothing of obvious value was taken but files were searched. Linda Moulton Howe joins to compare the transcapacitor's physical description with the alien wafers described by Colonel Philip Corso in his book about Roswell technology transfer.

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February 12, 1998: Reverse Speech - David John Oates

Feb 122h 4mDavid John Oates

Art Bell welcomes back Australian researcher David John Oates for an extended exploration of reverse speech, the theory that human language simultaneously produces unconscious communication when played backward. Oates demonstrates with classic examples, including Neil Armstrong's lunar landing audio reversing to "man will spacewalk" and his own infant daughter producing clear English words in reverse before she could speak forward.The bulk of the program focuses on reverse speech analysis of President Bill Clinton and the Lewinsky scandal. Oates plays reversals from Clinton's public statements that appear to confirm the sexual relationship, including crude references and the phrase "I see that we're broken." Hillary Clinton's reversals suggest emotional pain and a private understanding with her husband. Press Secretary Mike McCurry's speech reverses to reveal frustration, while Clinton's remarks on Iraq produce the chilling phrase "let's shoot for the assassin."Oates also presents reversals from NASA officials containing the word "Cydonia" and a reference to a starship, and he revisits reversals from a previous guest known as Harlot, a self-described devil worshiper. He addresses criticism of bias in his Clinton analysis and emphasizes the strict research protocols governing syllable count, tonal signature, and contextual congruence that distinguish legitimate reverse speech findings.

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February 16, 1998: UFO Propulsion Systems - Mark McCandlish

Feb 162h 49m

Art Bell speaks with aerospace illustrator and researcher Mark McCandlish, who has spent 18 years consulting for defense contractors and collecting testimony about classified aircraft. McCandlish describes a family of vehicles known as Aurora, including a football-shaped craft using pulse detonation propulsion that creates distinctive donut-on-a-rope contrails over the western United States. He estimates classified aviation technology may be 30 years ahead of what is publicly acknowledged.The discussion shifts to scalar electromagnetic weapons, which McCandlish says transmit destructive energy through hyperspace by combining two focused beams at a distant target. He suggests these weapons could explain mysterious power grid failures and raises the possibility that Iraq may be acquiring this technology from Russia. He connects Tesla's resonance research to the underlying principles and speculates that Chernobyl resulted from a scalar weapon's energy being reflected back to its source.McCandlish outlines his plan to build a proof-of-concept anti-gravity device using a satellite dish fitted with capacitor sections made from magnesium-zinc foil laminated with bismuth, powered by a Van de Graaff generator and Tesla coil. He believes the Biefeld-Brown effect can produce enough lift to raise a thousand pounds and intends to compete for the X Prize in commercial spaceflight.

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February 18, 1998: Anti-Aging - Dr. Ronald Klatz

Feb 183h 31mDr. Ronald Klatz

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Ronald Klatz, president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, for a wide-ranging discussion on longevity science and the prospect of dramatically extending the human lifespan. The broadcast opens with coverage of a contentious Ohio State University town hall meeting on the Iraq crisis, featuring firsthand reporting from journalist Marshall Barnes who was present at the event.Dr. Klatz outlines the scientific breakthroughs he believes will allow people alive today to push well beyond natural limits. He describes the Human Genome Project's ahead-of-schedule progress in mapping every gene in the human body and predicts reliable genetic therapies within 20 years that could reset aging at the cellular level. The conversation covers hormone replacement therapy, including newly FDA-approved human growth hormone for aging-related conditions, along with practical recommendations for antioxidants, selenium supplementation, and exercise. Klatz and Art also discuss the politics of pain medication, the promise of antiviral drugs, and the five-year timeline he projects for an AIDS cure.Art presses Klatz on the philosophical question of why anyone would want to live forever, and Klatz responds with a personal goal of 150 years before calling his friend Dr. Jack Kevorkian for a house call.

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February 19, 1998: The Life of Edgar Cayce - Edgar Evans Cayce

Feb 191h 3mEdgar Evans Cayce

Art Bell sits down with Edgar Evans Cayce, the 80-year-old son of famed psychic Edgar Cayce, for a rare and personal conversation about growing up with America's most documented clairvoyant. The elder Cayce gave over 14,000 readings during his lifetime, roughly 60 percent of which were medical diagnoses that produced remarkable results when followed precisely.Edgar Evans recounts how his father discovered his abilities as a child by sleeping on a spelling book and absorbing its contents, then later cured his own voice loss through self-induced hypnosis. He shares the story of his own severe childhood burn, which his father diagnosed and treated through a reading that allowed full recovery. The discussion turns to Atlantis, a subject Edgar Evans researched extensively by compiling hundreds of his father's life readings into the book Edgar Cayce on Atlantis. He notes that archaeological discoveries, satellite imaging of the Nile's ancient westward course, and radiocarbon dating have repeatedly confirmed details his father described decades earlier.Art asks about the Hall of Records beneath the Sphinx, earth change prophecies, and whether anyone today matches his father's abilities. Edgar Evans replies simply that his brother searched the world and never found anyone with a comparable track record.

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February 20, 1998: Alien Abductions - David Jacobs

Feb 2047mDavid Jacobs

Art Bell welcomes Professor David Jacobs, a Temple University historian and author of The Threat, for a detailed examination of the alien abduction phenomenon based on hundreds of hypnotic regression sessions conducted over decades of careful academic research.Jacobs presents his findings that abduction accounts from unrelated individuals across the country contain strikingly consistent details about alien beings, procedures, and spacecraft interiors. He describes a systematic program of genetic harvesting and hybrid breeding that appears to span multiple human generations, with abductees reporting procedures involving reproductive material collection and the presentation of hybrid offspring. The conversation addresses the psychological toll on experiencers who struggle to reconcile traumatic memories with everyday life, as well as the therapeutic challenges of helping them process these encounters. Art presses Jacobs on how his academic colleagues receive this research, and Jacobs explains the professional risks of investigating a subject that mainstream science dismisses outright.Jacobs outlines what he considers the most disturbing implication of his findings: that the abduction program is not random or benevolent but represents a methodical integration project with long-term consequences for human autonomy and identity.

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February 23, 1998: Mars Mission - Richard C. Hoagland

Feb 232h 49mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell reunites with Richard C. Hoagland, winner of the Angstrom Science Award and former advisor to Walter Cronkite, for an urgent broadcast about the Mars Global Surveyor mission and what Hoagland calls a deliberate effort by NASA to avoid photographing the Cydonia region.Hoagland explains that the spacecraft's elliptical orbit is about to bring its camera within 150 miles of the controversial face and pyramid structures, offering resolution 40 to 50 times sharper than the 1976 Viking images. However, principal investigator Dr. Michael Malin has announced on his website that the camera may be turned off due to power limitations, just as the geometry becomes ideal for Cydonia imaging. Hoagland argues this contradicts NASA Administrator Dan Goldin's public promise to photograph Cydonia at every available opportunity. Art provides fax numbers for Goldin, Ted Koppel, and CNN's John Holliman, urging listeners to demand the camera remain operational. In the second half, engineer Ted Tweetmeyer joins to reveal that telemetry data from the Challenger launch pad was lost because someone manually disabled a switching system in the blockhouse shortly before liftoff.A broadcast that combines the Mars imaging controversy with troubling questions about the Challenger disaster and the boundaries between NASA's public mission and its classified operations.

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February 24, 1998: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Feb 241h 35mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell welcomes Professor Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist at the City University of New York and co-founder of string field theory, for a sweeping conversation that moves from the nature of gravity to the possibility of time travel and the future of human civilization.Kaku explains Einstein's revolutionary insight that gravity is not a pulling force but rather the effect of mass bending the fabric of space, using the analogy of a fat actor warping a trampoline stage. He describes how string theory extends this into 10 and 11 dimensions, with the latest M-theory suggesting that our entire universe exists on the surface of a bubble in a boiling multiverse where Big Bangs happen constantly. The discussion covers wormholes as shortcuts through space, the Casimir effect as laboratory evidence of negative energy, and the hypothetical negative matter that could serve as fuel for a time machine. Kaku outlines the Kardashev scale of civilizations, classifying humanity as a primitive Type 0 that burns dead plants for energy, roughly 100 to 200 years from achieving Type 1 planetary status.Art challenges Kaku on whether advanced civilizations would necessarily be peaceful, and Kaku responds with the sobering observation that the real danger lies in whether Type 0 civilizations can survive their own nuclear weapons and pollution long enough to evolve.

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February 25, 1998: Cryptozoology - Loren Coleman

Feb 251h 51mLoren Coleman

Art Bell welcomes cryptozoologist Loren Coleman for a wide-ranging exploration of mysterious creatures reported around the world. Coleman shares decades of field research into Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, phantom kangaroos, and lake monsters, offering his assessment that Pacific Northwest Sasquatch sightings point to an unidentified bipedal primate. He discusses physical evidence including footprint analysis, hair samples, and nest structures that distinguish genuine encounters from hoaxes.The conversation turns to the Patterson-Gimlin film, which Coleman considers authentic based on his evaluation of the witnesses and the footage itself. He addresses the famous John Chambers hoax claim, noting that Chambers himself denied involvement. Coleman also weighs in on the Chupacabra phenomenon, suggesting these creatures may be primates rather than the reptilian aliens many assume them to be.Callers share their own encounters, including a Marine whose military exercise was canceled after troops encountered unknown bipedal creatures in the California wilderness. A woman describes picking berries alongside a Bigfoot as a child. Coleman responds thoughtfully to each account while maintaining his scientific approach to the field of cryptozoology.

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February 26, 1998: Mariner Mission to Mars - Mark J. Carlotto & Stanley McDaniel

Feb 262h 47mMark J. Carlotto, Stanley McDaniel

Dr. Mark J. Carlotto and Professor Stanley McDaniel join Art Bell to discuss the Mars Mariner mission, Mars Global Surveyor, and Cydonia imaging after breaking reports of blue-green fireballs over Colorado. UFO Reporting Center director Peter Davenport and MUFON Colorado state director Michael Kurta describe an object seen for four minutes over Colorado Springs, far too long for any natural meteorite. Multiple witnesses across the Denver metro area confirm sightings, and military helicopters from Fort Carson reportedly launched blacked out toward the area where the object may have landed.Carlotto and McDaniel discuss the Mars Global Surveyor mission and prospects for imaging the Cydonia region. They clarify that the spacecraft camera was turned off due to aerobraking constraints and solar conjunction, not conspiracy, and that multiple imaging opportunities will arise between late March and September. Carlotto cites statistical odds between 100-to-1 and 100,000-to-1 favoring artificiality of the Cydonia structures.Both scientists express concern over contractor Michael Malin having sole control of Mars imagery. McDaniel notes that NASA personnel at a recent meeting appeared unfamiliar with years of published research on the Cydonia anomalies, suggesting institutional barriers rather than a deliberate cover-up may be at work.

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February 27, 1998: Science & Spirituality - Gregg Braden

Feb 272h 35mGregg Braden

Art Bell welcomes scientist and author Gregg Braden for a conversation bridging ancient wisdom and modern science. Braden, a former geologist and aerospace engineer who worked on the Peacekeeper missile program at Martin Marietta, argues that key spiritual and scientific texts were removed from public knowledge around 325 A.D. under Constantine. He contends that these lost documents contained an inner technology relating human emotion to physical well-being and genetic expression.The discussion turns to evidence of spontaneous genetic mutation documented since 1995. Braden cites a global blood study from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center showing that at least one percent of the population tested had developed DNA mutations conferring resistance to HIV up to 3,000 times greater than normal. He references UCLA research on children born HIV-positive who spontaneously cleared the virus, and Stanford University studies linking emotional states to immune system function.Braden proposes that human DNA contains dormant codes being activated in response to environmental challenges including declining magnetic fields and ozone depletion. He points to research showing previously unused gene sets switching on within individuals during their own lifetimes, a phenomenon scientists are calling spontaneous genetic mutation of recent evolutionary origin.

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March 3, 1998: ET Stories - Cynthia Turnage

Mar 32h 16mCynthia Turnage

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.

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March 4, 1998: Project Stargate - Dale Graff

Mar 42h 54mDale Graff

Art Bell opens with alarming reports of flesh-eating strep A bacteria spreading across Texas, with 89 cases and 18 deaths reported since December. He questions why the outbreak receives so little national media coverage. A caller claiming to be a former government biological weapons researcher connects the outbreak to experiments at Dugway, Utah, alleging that common bacteria have been engineered into lethal strains.The main guest is Dale Graff, the man who coined the name for the government's secret remote viewing effort, Project Stargate. Graff, who spent 17 years in the Defense Department researching parapsychological phenomena, confirms that psi is real based on his quarter-century of work. He describes the protocols used in remote viewing sessions, including randomized targeting and double-blind procedures, and offers his theory that remote viewers may actually be perceiving their own future knowledge rather than traveling through time.Graff reveals that the program's cancellation was driven more by career concerns of military commanders than by any failure of results. He states that if the 1995 review had examined earlier successes from the 1980s rather than only the final two years, the conclusion would have been very different. He maintains that psi ability exists in everyone to varying degrees and represents an extension of natural human intuition.

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March 5, 1998: Hollywood & UFOs - Bruce Rux

Mar 52h 22mBruce Rux

Art Bell welcomes author Bruce Rux to discuss his book "Hollywood vs. the Aliens," which argues that U.S. military and intelligence agencies have used Hollywood films to shape public perception of UFOs since the 1950s. Rux has analyzed over 600 movies in the genre and traces connections between filmmakers and defense industry figures, claiming alien designs and scripts were altered at executive levels to match classified information.The conversation covers mind control research under MK-Ultra, with Rux contending the program never truly ended. He examines films from "The Thing" to "Independence Day," identifying two competing government agendas: one faction seeking to educate the public about extraterrestrial contact, and another using fear of aliens to justify defense spending. Rux also shares his own encounter with apparent intelligence operatives who visited him after his book was published.Callers weigh in with questions about the Oklahoma City bombing, presidential briefings on UFOs, and whether Art himself might be an unwitting participant in a larger information campaign. A Hollywood special effects professional calls to challenge the conspiracy angle, sparking a lively exchange about what truly drives the industry.

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March 9, 1998: Death of James McDougal - Chris Ruddy | Time Machine Inventor - Steven Gibbs

Mar 92h 1mChris Ruddy, Steven Gibbs

Art Bell opens with investigative reporter Chris Ruddy to examine the sudden death of Whitewater figure James McDougal in federal prison. Ruddy explains that McDougal died of an apparent heart attack while in solitary confinement, just two weeks after former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker reportedly agreed to cooperate with Kenneth Starr. Because grand jury testimony cannot be cross-examined, McDougal's death effectively renders his evidence inadmissible in court.Ruddy raises troubling questions about the timing and circumstances, noting that McDougal died six years to the day after the Whitewater scandal first broke. He connects the case to broader concerns about the Vince Foster investigation and reveals that McDougal told him off the record he was never questioned about Foster by Starr's office. The discussion also touches on Linda Tripp being held in an FBI-guarded safe house.In the second half, Art speaks with Steven Gibbs, a Nebraska farm boy who claims to build and sell time machines. Gibbs describes his device, which uses an electromagnet, tuning dials, and coils placed around the forehead. A customer named Augie Nost calls in to describe his own experience using the machine.

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March 11, 1998: Tampa Sightings Update - Peter Davenport

Mar 112h 6mPeter Davenport

Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a Tampa sightings update after asteroid 1997 XF-11 and Navy low-frequency sonar coverage. Dick Allgaier, a reporter for KITV News in Honolulu, shares his firsthand account from aboard the research vessel Cory Chouest, where 195-decibel underwater speakers blast sound waves while scientists monitor whale behavior nearby.Greenpeace Hawaii director Michael Bailey joins the broadcast to argue that the same sonar frequencies caused permanent nerve damage and memory loss in Navy divers during classified tests. He contends that the full system, once operational, could affect marine life across every ocean on the planet. A former submarine sonar operator also calls in to confirm that active pinging sends whales fleeing at high speed.Davenport provides an update on a massive wave of sightings across Florida. Multiple witnesses, including a retired pilot, describe brilliant diamond-shaped lights performing right-angle turns at extreme speed. The official explanations shift from flares to submarine-launched missiles, but witness accounts from both coasts of Florida contradict those theories.

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March 13, 1998: SETI - Seth Shostak

Mar 132h 48mSeth Shostak

Art Bell interviews Seth Shostak, public programs scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Shostak explains that the project, renamed Phoenix after Congress killed NASA's SETI funding in 1993, now survives on private donations from supporters like Bill Hewlett and David Packard. The parallels to the film "Contact" prove remarkably close to reality.Shostak describes the technical challenges of distinguishing alien signals from the thousands of satellites and telecommunications sources cluttering the radio spectrum. The team uses a 28-million-channel receiver and a second antenna hundreds of miles away to filter interference in real time. He recounts a tense 24-hour false alarm in June 1997 when a promising signal turned out to be the European SOHO satellite orbiting a million miles from Earth.The conversation turns to whether any confirmed detection would remain secret. Shostak argues that secrecy is virtually impossible, noting that news of the June false alarm leaked to the New York Times within hours. He also addresses physicist Michio Kaku's criticism that advanced civilizations would likely use spread spectrum technology rather than the narrow-band signals SETI currently monitors.

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March 16, 1998: HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe | Mars - Dr. Tom Van Flandern

Mar 162h 39mLinda Moulton Howe, Dr. Tom Van Flandern

Art Bell presents a two-part program beginning with Linda Moulton Howe's investigation into Project HAARP, the high-frequency radio transmitter in Gakona, Alaska. Cornell professor Michael Kelly explains that HAARP's energy output is far smaller than the natural aurora and poses no environmental threat. Program manager John Heckscher notes the facility is only one-quarter built after a decade of inconsistent funding. Activist Nick Begich urges broader public oversight before the system reaches full power.Astronomer Tom Van Flandern then presents his hypothesis that Mars was once a moon of a larger planet that exploded, possibly 65 million years ago. He argues the blast stripped away Mars's atmosphere, cratered one entire hemisphere, and sent debris that contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Van Flandern has conducted eight statistical tests on the Cydonia region and concludes the face and surrounding structures are likely artificial in origin.Most remarkably, Van Flandern reveals that the face sits on Mars's ancient equator, before a pole shift tilted it to its current latitude. He suggests the builders lived on the parent planet and constructed the face to be visible from its surface, raising the possibility that those beings eventually migrated to Earth.

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March 17, 1998: UFO Debate - Jim Dilettoso

Mar 173h 15mJim Dilettoso

Art Bell hosts a heated debate between photographic analyst Jim Dilettoso and author Kal Korff over some of the most contentious cases in UFO history. The two clash over the Billy Meier photographs from Switzerland, with Korff declaring them a blatant hoax based on optical analysis and Dilettoso defending the testing he helped coordinate at facilities including Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Neither side gives ground as they argue over methodology, original negatives, and whether photos can be authenticated without them.The debate shifts to the Phoenix Lights, the massive sighting event from March 1997. Korff contends the later filmed lights were military flares, while Dilettoso maintains that over 400 witness reports describe a single extraordinary event. Both agree the earlier V-shaped object sightings remain unexplained. Art sets up a live audience poll on his website and invites both guests to upload photographs for public examination.Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center calls in to challenge statements made on air, adding another layer of conflict to an already explosive evening. The exchanges grow increasingly personal as allegations about credentials and credibility fly between the participants.

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March 19, 1998: Consciousness - Terence McKenna

Mar 192h 50mTerence McKenna

Art Bell welcomes Terence McKenna, calling from a remote solar-powered home on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano via a cutting-edge one-megabyte wireless internet link. McKenna surveys recent scientific milestones including anti-gravitational forces, water on the moon, and quantum teleportation. He and Art consider whether artificial intelligence could emerge from the internet and quietly observe humanity before deciding what to do with its creators.The conversation turns to DMT, a powerful psychedelic compound McKenna calls the most intense experience possible outside of death. He describes encounters with self-transforming geometric entities that attempt to teach a visible language, noting these experiences recur consistently. McKenna argues that psychedelics dissolve cultural programming, which is precisely why governments suppress them, and he connects shamanic traditions with quantum non-locality as parallel routes to non-human intelligence.Art and McKenna also weigh in on the Clinton scandal, Y2K preparedness, cannabis legalization, and the Dutch drug policy experiment. McKenna frames the political moment as a culture war reaching critical mass. Callers raise questions about sacred geometry in dreams, the nature of time, and expanded consciousness.

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March 22, 1998: Gulf Breeze UFO - Linda Moulton Howe | See Auras in 60 Seconds - Mark Smith

Mar 221h 58mLinda Moulton Howe, Mark Smith

Linda Moulton Howe reports from Gulf Breeze, Florida, where a UFO conference has produced its own sightings. Resident Don Rash describes a lens-shaped silver craft that moved rapidly across a clear sky, tilted onto its axis, and vanished. He and his wife Cindy later observed a round silver disc with perimeter lights passing directly overhead while driving across a bridge at twilight.Linda also covers an alarming fish disease spreading from Florida to South America, with scientists suspecting a Pfiesteria-related microorganism. She warns that El Nino conditions may worsen outbreaks. The episode then shifts as author Mark Smith joins to teach listeners how to see auras with the naked eye in 60 seconds.Smith explains that the aura is a measurable energy field surrounding the body, with voltages up to 80 volts recorded at the Menninger Institute. Using peripheral vision and a white background, he walks listeners through a simple technique, reporting that up to 90 percent of first-time viewers see the same colors around the same subject. Smith connects the aura to the soul and describes how illness can appear in the field before physical symptoms surface, and shares the story of watching his mother's aura disintegrate hours before her death.

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March 23, 1998: Alien Abductions - Phillip Krapf

Mar 231h 57mPhillip Krapf

Art Bell interviews Phillip Krapf, a retired copy editor from the Los Angeles Times who spent 25 years on the metro desk and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 LA riots. The first portion explores his mainstream journalism career and lifelong skepticism toward UFOs and the paranormal, carefully establishing his credentials before the conversation takes an unexpected turn.Krapf reveals that in June 1997, he was taken from his bed aboard an alien starship into a vast room filled with hundreds of examination tables. Slightly built beings about five feet tall attended each table. Rather than being examined, Krapf says he was brought to a boardroom and told that humanity had been deemed worthy of joining an intergalactic federation of sovereign planets.He claims to have spent three days aboard the craft, receiving an orientation on a planned timeline for formal contact with Earth over the next decade. Hundreds of influential people worldwide, he says, have been given similar briefings. His book, The Contact Has Begun, presents the full account. Art presses him on whether it could have been a delusion, and callers respond with a mix of fascination and doubt.

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March 24, 1998: Egypt - Dannion Brinkley

Mar 241h 20mDannion Brinkley

Art Bell welcomes Dannion Brinkley, three-time near-death experiencer and author of Saved by the Light, calling from Washington, D.C. Brinkley has just returned from Egypt, Syria, the Iraqi border, and an illegal crossing into Lebanon. He reports a major archaeological discovery near Tushka in the southwest desert, where laborers digging irrigation channels uncovered a temple over 10,000 years old, with evidence of still older structures beneath.The find threatens the conventional timeline of Egyptian civilization. Art and Brinkley discuss the work of researchers Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock, who have long challenged establishment Egyptology. Art questions whether Dr. Zahi Hawass would ever release evidence contradicting the accepted history, and Brinkley acknowledges that secret excavations are likely underway at Giza. They preview an upcoming debate cruise that will bring all parties together.The conversation also touches on hospice care, Edgar Cayce's Hall of Records predictions, and the collapse of Egyptian tourism after the Luxor massacre. An 8.1 magnitude earthquake triggers a Pacific tsunami watch during the broadcast. Callers ask about prophecy, prayer, and near-death experiences. Brinkley insists that humanity stands at a threshold of discovery that will fundamentally reshape the understanding of its own origins.

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March 25, 1998: Pirate Radio - Pat Murphy & Roger Skinner

Mar 252h 34mPat Murphy, Roger Skinner

Art Bell welcomes Pat Murphy and Roger Skinner for an evening devoted to pirate radio and the fight for low-power broadcasting in America. Murphy, president of the Association of Clandestine Radio Enthusiasts and a veteran commercial broadcaster, shares his fascination with unlicensed operators who seize the airwaves. Art openly discusses his own history as a pirate broadcaster across FM, AM, television, and shortwave.Skinner presents his FCC petition for rulemaking that would create affordable low-power FM licenses, allowing individuals of limited financial means to own radio stations for less than the price of a new car. He proposes dropping outdated second and third adjacent channel restrictions and establishing a secondary-class license structure that balances accessibility with interference protection. The two debate whether full broadcasting anarchy is feasible or whether some regulation remains essential.Open lines bring callers from Hawaii to New Jersey sharing their own pirate broadcasting stories. A micro-broadcaster in Hawaii questions whether court precedents protect him. A caller near New York City describes the impossibility of finding open FM frequencies. Art declares his support for local low-power broadcasting while acknowledging the political realities of commercial opposition.

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March 26, 1998: Reverse Speech - David John Oates

Mar 262h 47mDavid John Oates

Art Bell hosts David John Oates for an extensive session of reverse speech analysis covering Kathleen Willey, Dr. Michael Malin, and Major Ed Dames. Oates begins with classic demonstrations, including Neil Armstrong's famous reversal and baby speech examples, before turning to the 60 Minutes interview where Willey described her encounter with President Clinton. Her reversals suggest fear and truthfulness, with phrases referencing power and danger emerging throughout.A caller named Ken Reier challenges Oates over the Area 51 caller analysis, presenting alternative reversals he believes prove the call was fabricated. The exchange highlights how the same audio segment can yield different interpretations, with Art noting that knowing what to listen for influences what one hears. The debate underscores the need for strict research protocols in this developing field.Richard C. Hoagland joins to help interpret reversals found on Dr. Malin, the Mars camera principal investigator. The reversals contain recurring spiritual and Egyptian imagery, including references to a goddess, a throne, and a father in the light. Hoagland connects these metaphoric patterns to the constellation alignments his team has documented across decades of NASA missions, suggesting a hidden spiritual dimension behind Mars exploration.

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March 27, 1998: Rocky Mountain Discoveries - Robert Ghost Wolf

Mar 273h 9mRobert Ghost Wolf

Art Bell presents what he calls a paradigm-shattering program as Robert Ghost Wolf reveals discoveries from a month-long expedition into the Rocky Mountains. Ghost Wolf, a Native American researcher of mixed blood, was guided to a remote site at 14,000 feet by indigenous elders who knew of its existence through oral traditions passed down from the Ute Indians. The site required daily climbs of 2,000 feet through deep snow and rapidly decomposing granite.Ghost Wolf describes finding over 70 distinct formations, including two massive griffins standing approximately 70 feet tall on either side of a canyon entrance. Most stunning is a sphinx he estimates at 100 feet in height, complete with headdress and facial features virtually identical to the Egyptian Sphinx. Carvings of human faces appear at its base. Using GPS coordinates, he mapped the major formations and discovered their positions correspond to the constellation Orion, a pattern found at sacred sites worldwide from Giza to Stonehenge to Machu Picchu.Richard C. Hoagland calls in and compares the find to similar ruins at Marcawasi in Peru. He suggests the formations could be hundreds of thousands of years old and urges Ghost Wolf to overlay his GPS data on Carl Munck's global grid. Art reads faxes from stunned listeners who confirm the photographs speak for themselves.

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March 31, 1998: The Face on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 313h 26mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell opens with news of the day, including the Jonesboro school shooting aftermath and Sarah McLendon's provocative press release about government UFO knowledge that reportedly triggered threats against the veteran White House correspondent. An April Fools' Day prank fax briefly adds confusion before Art shares humorous instructions for building a homemade atomic bomb, posted to his website as satire.Richard C. Hoagland arrives to discuss the imminent re-imaging of the Cydonia region on Mars, scheduled for April 5th, 14th, and 23rd. NASA has finally yielded to public pressure, acknowledging that the Cydonia features are hundreds to thousands of times larger than other targets and should be capturable by the Mars Global Surveyor camera. Hoagland credits the audience's massive fax campaign to NASA administrator Dan Goldin for forcing this concession.Despite the breakthrough, Hoagland expresses deep skepticism about receiving an honest test. He cites the McDaniel Report's documentation of NASA deception and the absence of independent oversight as recommended by Dr. Stan McDaniel. Art proposes the Planet of the Apes scenario, where authorities suppress knowledge of prior civilizations to protect current society. Hoagland counters with the career-preservation motive: once the lie was established decades ago, those who built careers upon it became obligated to maintain it.

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April 6, 1998: Cities On Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 63h 43mRichard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland, former museum space science curator and NASA consultant, joins Art Bell in the first hour to present his Cities on Mars claims about Cydonia, Mars Odyssey color infrared data, and possible intelligently designed artifacts. Hoagland presents what he calls near-certain evidence of architectural ruins beneath the surface of Mars, derived from daytime color infrared data captured by the Themis camera aboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The thermal imaging penetrates through fine dust particles that have accumulated to depths rivaling the Grand Canyon, revealing geometric patterns of structures below.Image processing specialist Keith Laney, who performs work for NASA's Mars Web Program, explains how he acquired the data and processed it using advanced multispectral software from Kodak's Research Systems division. He describes being guided to the pristine image by a NASA-affiliated figure using the screen name BAMF, later identified as Noel Gorlick, manager of the Themis computation center at Arizona State University. Comparisons between Laney's processed version and the publicly released version reveal significant degradation in the official data.Art examines the images on his website and declares without reservation that image number two depicts a city. A side-by-side comparison of downtown Cairo photographed from the air and the Cydonia infrared data shows striking similarity. Corroborating data from Russia's 1989 Phobos 2 mission displays the same grid-like patterns, and celestial alignment calculations place the site's origin at roughly 300,000 years ago.

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April 8, 1998: Mars & Egypt - Graham Hancock

Apr 81h 21mGraham Hancock

Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Graham Hancock live from Great Britain to discuss Mars, ancient Egypt, and the cataclysmic dangers facing Earth. Hancock shares his analysis of the controversial new Mars Global Surveyor photographs of the face on Mars, calling the rush to dismiss them premature and arguing that only a manned landing can settle the debate. He draws parallels to the disputed underwater monument at Yonaguni, Japan, where two qualified geologists reached opposite conclusions after diving the site together.The conversation turns to the mysteries of Giza, where Hancock describes spending six hours with Dr. Zahi Hawass at the Sphinx and reports a new spirit of openness from Egyptian authorities. He discusses the high-speed drill evidence found by Flinders Petrie and Chris Dunn, the puzzling decision to close the Great Pyramid for eight months, and Edgar Cayce's 1998 prediction regarding the Hall of Records.Hancock warns that Earth faces a clear and present danger from giant comet fragments on an Earth-crossing orbit, a threat he traces through the cataclysmic history of Mars itself. He predicts a potential impact event before the year 2030 and urges humanity to heed the warnings encoded in ancient monuments worldwide.

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April 9, 1998: Earthquake Updates - Jim Berkland

Apr 91h 55mJim Berkland

Art Bell welcomes geologist Jim Berkland for a wide-ranging discussion covering the Mars face controversy, earthquake prediction, and a breaking allegation from Richard C. Hoagland. Berkland, a fellow of the Geological Society of America with 35 years of field experience, calls the new Mars Global Surveyor photograph of the face a "technological fraud," arguing that the image was deliberately degraded. He notes that previous strips from the same camera showed far superior quality, making the poor Cydonia image inexplicable.Hoagland joins mid-show with explosive claims backed by pixel analysis. He reports that the raw image was reduced from 2,048 pixels to 1,024, effectively halving the resolution, and that the grayscale was compressed to just 42 shades. He calls this a "smoking gun" of data tampering, matching CCD fingerprint streaks from earlier orbits to prove the image was copied and degraded before release.Berkland then turns to earthquake prediction, noting a spike in missing pet ads in the Los Angeles Times and elevated numbers in Seattle. He discusses the link between El Nino years and major California earthquakes, tidal forces during the full moon, and his own track record, including his newspaper-published forecast of the 1989 World Series earthquake.

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April 10, 1998: NDEs, OBEs, & Lucid Dreams - Dr. J. Timothy Green

Apr 102h 53mDr. J. Timothy Green

Clinical psychologist Dr. J. Timothy Green joins Art Bell to discuss near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and lucid dreaming after a first-hour weather update from Stan Dale in Australia. Dale notes rising sea surface temperatures east of Japan and warns that the pattern mirrors the early stages of the previous cycle. The conversation touches on the connection between solar activity and ocean heating, drought conditions in Western Australia, and the importance of securing fresh water supplies.Green presents compelling evidence for the reality of NDEs, noting that children who have them consistently report seeing only deceased relatives and never living parents. Dr. Green argues that NDEs, OBEs, and lucid dreams are all forms of what the ancients called ecstasy, the experience of conscious awareness outside the physical body.Dr. Green describes his mastery of lucid dreaming and explains how he teaches it as a therapeutic tool for clients facing terminal illness. He recounts a case where shamanic journeying produced verifiable information from a deceased person and discusses the connection between these experiences and the right temporal lobe of the brain.

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April 13, 1998: Surviving Cataclysm - Ted Wright

Apr 132h 53mTed Wright

Art Bell opens with news updates, a preview of the week's upcoming guests, and open lines before welcoming Ted Wright, author of Wright's Complete Disaster Survival Manual, a book on FEMA's recommended reading list. A World War II survivor who endured the London Blitz as a child, Wright brings decades of practical experience to the subject of civilian preparedness in an age of tornadoes, earthquakes, and nuclear threats.Wright argues that the American public is dangerously unprepared for major disasters, noting the absence of underground shelters in tornado-prone areas and the lack of any viable evacuation plan for major cities. He criticizes the government's approach to nuclear safety, revealing that FEMA concluded it was cheaper to pay for thyroid surgeries than to stockpile potassium iodide pills near the nation's 109 nuclear plants. He also discusses the ongoing crisis at Chernobyl, where fissionable material continues to sink toward the water table.The conversation covers practical survival topics including water storage, food preservation methods drawn from pioneer-era practices, and the use of Geiger counters to monitor radiation. Wright warns that deteriorating farmland soil combined with extreme weather could trigger food shortages, and he stresses that self-reliance is the only reliable survival strategy.

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April 14, 1998: Mars Images - Richard C. Hoagland & Dr. Tom Van Flandern

Apr 142h 44mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell opens with a personal tribute to his late cousin Frederick Lenz before turning to a historic night of Mars analysis with Richard C. Hoagland and astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern. The discussion centers on Dr. Mark Carlotto's new enhancement of the Mars Global Surveyor face image, which corrects for the low viewing angle and reveals previously hidden facial details including an eyebrow ridge, nostrils, a pupil in the eye socket, and a distinctive mouth curl.Dr. Van Flandern presents his statistical analysis, concluding that the odds of these features appearing by chance in their correct size, shape, and orientation are approximately one in a billion. He declares this the strongest conclusion of his 35-year career. Hoagland adds that fractal analysis reveals complex rectilinear substructures on the mesa, suggesting an architectural origin rather than natural erosion.The program also covers the just-received second Cydonia imaging pass over the area known as the city. Geologist Ron Nix joins to confirm geometric patterns inconsistent with natural processes. Hoagland identifies what he calls an obviously technological object amid the ruins and notes that President Clinton's visit to NASA that same day may signal a move toward disclosure.

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April 16, 1998: Conspiracy Theory Movie - Bruce Wallace

Apr 1644mBruce Wallace

Art Bell welcomes Bruce Wallace, who claims to be the real-life inspiration for the Mel Gibson character in the film Conspiracy Theory and the ghostwriter of the original screenplay. Wallace says his manuscripts were plagiarized by Hollywood after the CIA censored his work, and he holds Writer's Guild registrations predating the movie's copyright.Wallace describes joining the Marines in 1974 and being recruited into a secret intelligence unit connected to MK Ultra and Project Phoenix. He alleges he was tasked with identifying double agents who had infiltrated classified communication centers at Camp Pendleton and elsewhere. He claims the programs involved mind control conditioning, drug smuggling cover-ups, and the elimination of witnesses who threatened to expose the operations.Art presses Wallace on how he has survived decades of alleged assassination attempts and why he remains alive if powerful forces truly want him silenced. Wallace says he relies on a network of allies and refuses to live in fear. A caller then phones in claiming firsthand knowledge of military drug distribution channels, adding an unexpected layer to the evening's conversation.

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April 17, 1998: Cydonia Update - Linda Moulton Howe & Dr. Mark Carlotto | Taking the Quantum Leap - Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

Apr 172h 49mLinda Moulton Howe, Dr. Mark Carlotto, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

Theoretical physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolf joins Art Bell to discuss Taking the Quantum Leap, quantum physics, consciousness, parallel universes, and time travel after Linda Moulton Howe's Cydonia update. Howe interviews Dr. Mark Carlotto about the new Mars Global Surveyor photograph of the Cydonia face, and Carlotto explains how differences in sun angle and camera position between the 1976 Viking image and the 1998 photograph account for the apparent changes in the face's appearance. He demonstrates that when the Viking data is reprojected to match the new viewing conditions, features align remarkably well, including nostril details and a strikingly symmetrical platform.Wolf's fascination with physics began as a child watching footage of the first atomic explosion. He discusses the Big Bang, parallel universes, and time travel, arguing that consciousness itself may hold the key to breaking the barriers of space and time. He describes lucid dreaming as a potential gateway to parallel realities and suggests that the brain contains a projection mechanism that sends sensory information backward through time.Wolf shares his unconventional career path, including leaving a tenured faculty position to pursue independent research connecting quantum physics with ancient mystical traditions. He and Art explore SETI, faster-than-light travel, and the possibility that breaking the light barrier would open contact with other civilizations.

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April 20, 1998: We Never Went to the Moon - Wayne Green

Apr 202h 35mWayne Green

Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green, veteran ham radio publisher and technology pioneer, for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with health controversies before veering into one of the most provocative claims in modern history. Wayne argues that the Apollo moon landings were faked, citing the absence of stars in lunar photographs, questions about dust behavior in a vacuum, concerns about radiation beyond the Van Allen belts, and the lack of sound delay in astronaut communications with Houston.Art pushes back on each point, offering counterarguments about camera exposure limitations and kinetic energy in low gravity. A caller named Terry O'Grady then phones in claiming he transported 800 pounds of rocks from Antarctica aboard the USS Glacier, rocks he says were addressed to NASA. Art is visibly shaken by the implications, noting that if the moon landings were fabricated, every foundational belief about the American government would be called into question.The conversation shifts dramatically when Wayne reveals his belief in reincarnation, past-life regression, and the idea that angels may be projections of our own consciousness operating outside linear time. The two also discuss the decline of ham radio, plant sentience experiments, and Wayne's proposals for education reform.

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April 22, 1998: The Kent Interview - Richard C. Hoagland & David John Oates

Apr 221h 26mRichard C. Hoagland, David John Oates

Art Bell presents the results of an investigation into "Kent," a man who previously appeared on the program claiming to be a fired JPL courier who had seen clear photographs of artificial structures on Mars. Richard C. Hoagland details the days of follow-up communication with Kent, describing escalating panic calls from phone booths across multiple states and repeated failures to produce employment documentation.Hoagland explains that parallel investigations by MSNBC contacts and a forensic researcher in Hawaii turned up no records of a Kent Smith at JPL and no evidence of the FedEx shipments Kent described. The breakthrough came when David John Oates performed reverse speech analysis on the original interview tape. The reversals revealed phrases suggesting a hidden agenda, references to a group conspiracy, and what Oates identifies as speech patterns matching other NASA insiders previously analyzed.When Hoagland confronted Kent with these findings, Kent reportedly admitted he was part of a disinformation campaign targeting Art Bell and Hoagland. Kent then called the program himself, confirming the confession and claiming he worked for a government agency. He told Art that his superiors were surprised the deception was uncovered so quickly.

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April 24, 1998: Mars Images - Richard C. Hoagland | Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Apr 243h 19mRichard C. Hoagland, Ed Dames

Art Bell opens with the arrival of the third set of Cydonia photographs from the Mars Global Surveyor. Richard C. Hoagland reports that enhanced images of the main pyramid reveal extraordinary rectilinear geometry resembling room-sized cells viewed from above, consistent with his long-standing hypothesis that the structures are massive arcologies built by an ancient Martian civilization. Though the camera missed the fort, the strip captured stunning detail across the city complex and pyramids.Remote viewer Major Ed Dames then joins the program with updates on several predictions. He announces that the plant pathogen he previously warned about has been identified as a new genus of fungus now dispersing over Africa, with trade winds expected to carry spores toward Latin America. He also discusses the increasingly dire situation in North Korea, where reports of cannibalism and aggressive military rhetoric align with his prediction about the next use of a nuclear weapon on the Korean Peninsula.Dames describes his prediction about the jet stream dropping to ground level as now confirmed by meteorological research, and he reveals that remote viewing of the Cydonia region consistently draws viewers to a tetrahedral structure that appears to contain an electromechanical device connected to time travel.

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April 27, 1998: New Mars Images - Dr. Tom Van Flandern

Apr 2742mDr. Tom Van Flandern

Art Bell welcomes astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern to discuss newly enhanced images of the Cydonia region on Mars. Van Flandern holds a doctorate from Yale in celestial mechanics and has spent his career studying the moon and planets. He shares his reaction to the latest photographs from Mars Global Surveyor, which Art describes as the first images that made the anomalous features visible even to his untrained eye.The conversation covers features found across three photographic strips of Cydonia, including structures with right angles, symmetry, and building-like characteristics that Van Flandern says are unlike anything seen elsewhere in the solar system. He explains that the odds against the facial features arising naturally exceed a billion to one, based on fulfilled predictions confirmed by the higher-resolution imagery. He also discusses competing cosmological models and his skepticism of the Big Bang theory.Van Flandern warns that NASA must photograph Cydonia again within months before the orbit shifts to higher altitudes and sun angles worsen. He notes that the next two Mars missions carry no cameras, meaning this window may be the only chance to resolve the question of artificiality in their lifetimes.

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April 28, 1998: Present Trends - Barbara Marx Hubbard

Apr 282h 2mBarbara Marx Hubbard

Art Bell interviews futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard about her book "Conscious Evolution" and her vision for humanity's potential future. Hubbard describes herself not as an optimist but as a "potentialist" who identifies positive possibilities emerging from current global crises. She frames the planetary crisis as a birth process for the next stage of human evolution and argues that humanity stands at a crossroads between self-destruction and transformation into a universal species.The discussion spans a wide range of topics including space exploration and the stalled manned program since Apollo, the environmental movement and its struggle against fossil fuel interests, renewable energy and zero-point energy research, the population crisis, and the awakening of feminine creativity. Hubbard introduces her concept of "supra sex" as the arousal of creative purpose beyond reproduction. She and Art find common ground on the idea that humanity has passed a point of no return but disagree on the likely outcome.Callers challenge Hubbard from religious and skeptical perspectives. Art reads a breaking report about a battleship-sized UFO tracked by the RAF at 24,000 miles per hour over the North Sea. The conversation touches on the role of the internet in empowering individuals and the need for an evolutionary vision to replace humanity's current lack of direction.

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April 29, 1998: Alien Contact - Dr. Albert Harrison

Apr 292h 40mDr. Albert Harrison

Art Bell speaks with UC Davis psychology professor Dr. Albert Harrison about his book "After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life." Harrison brings expertise in the psychological and sociological dimensions of space exploration and serves on the SETI Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics. The conversation examines what would actually happen to human society if contact with extraterrestrial intelligence were confirmed.Harrison discusses the protocols SETI has developed for handling a confirmed signal, acknowledging concerns that government agencies could quickly take control of the process. He addresses the 1960 Brookings Report finding that scientists, politicians, the mentally ill, and religious fundamentalists would be the groups most disrupted by such a discovery. Art raises the issue that 20 percent of his mail comes from religious fundamentalists who would view any alien life as demonic. Harrison argues that democratic societies tend to move away from war and that advanced civilizations likely would have evolved beyond conflict.The program also covers the psychological challenges of extended spaceflight, whether humans can conceive in space, and the dangers of technology transfer between civilizations of vastly different advancement levels. Harrison suggests that meeting on neutral ground like the moon could help manage the risks of physical contact.

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