Peter Davenport

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26 archived appearances · 1995–2015

Peter Davenport is the long-standing director of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and a specialist in the systematic documentation of unidentified aerial phenomena. Since 1994, he has provided analysis on Art Bell's programs, bringing a rigorous, data-driven approach to tracking UFO sightings and witness reports from across the globe.

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February 19, 1995: UFO Reports & Sightings - Peter Davenport | Denver UFO Report - Linda Moulton Howe

Feb 19, 1995

1h 49m

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, and investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe join Art Bell for an evening packed with fresh UFO evidence from across the country.Howe opens with a stunning report from a Denver family who watched two large black helicopters vanish before t...

February 26, 1995: UFO Reporting Center - Peter Davenport

Feb 26, 1995

1h 47m

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, returns to Art Bell with another wave of compelling UFO reports collected through his Seattle hotline, now averaging thousands of calls over just six months of operation.Howe opens with an update from western Pennsylvania where witnesses observed triang...

March 13, 1997: Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport | UFO's - Sean David Morton

Mar 13, 1997

3h 6m

Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a breaking report on one of the most significant UFO events in American history. Dozens of witnesses across Arizona are calling in frantic accounts of massive formations of lights traversing the sky from Paulden to Prescott to Phoenix, covering...

November 19, 1997: UFO Update - Peter Davenport | UFOs & Close Encounters - Whitley Strieber & Dr. Roger Leir

Nov 19, 1997

3h 32m

Art Bell welcomes author Whitley Strieber for an evening of extraordinary reports from the world of UFOs and close encounters. The program opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center providing a detailed update on the mysterious lights seen streaking across Pacific Northwest skies the previous we...

December 1, 1997: UFO Reporting - Peter Davenport | Everything You Know Is Wrong - Lloyd Pye

Dec 1, 1997

3h 35m

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who reports a dramatic sighting near Chicago where a pilot and other motorists observed a large, blood-red orb descending through solid overcast. Cars on Interstate 80 reportedly slowed to a crawl as the object dropped toward the ground over a p...

February 1, 1998: UFO Reporting - Peter Davenport

Feb 1, 1998

1h 34m

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 sa...

March 11, 1998: Tampa Sightings Update - Peter Davenport

Mar 11, 1998

2h 6m

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 underwat...

May 12, 1998: Bangor UFO - Peter Davenport | Open Lines

May 12, 1998

2h 45m

Art Bell opens with alarming news of India's three nuclear detonations and the revelation that U.S. intelligence analysts were asleep when satellite imagery captured test preparations six hours before the blasts. He releases two controversial photographs he has held for months, asking listeners with satellite imager...

Episode thumbnail for January 8, 1999: Disclosure '99 - Peter Davenport, Stephen Bassett, Joe Firmage, Dr. Steven M. Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gersten & William J. Birnes

January 8, 1999: Disclosure '99 - Peter Davenport, Stephen Bassett, Joe Firmage, Dr. Steven M. Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gersten & William J. Birnes

Jan 8, 1999

2h 45m

Art Bell hosts a special UFO-disclosure roundtable with Peter Davenport, Stephen Bassett, Joe Firmage, Dr. Steven M. Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gersten, and William J. Birnes. Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center opens the show with a fresh sighting report from Paradise, California, where a pi...

March 2, 1999: UFO Sightings - Dr. Roger Leir & Peter Davenport | Miami Circle Update - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 2, 1999

1h 0m

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Roger Leir and Peter Davenport about a remarkable UFO sighting witnessed by approximately 40 people at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada. Both men describe watching star-like objects arranged in a triangular formation begin moving in ways that defied conventional aircraft be...

March 11, 1999: Phoenix Lights 2nd Anniversary - Peter Davenport

Mar 11, 1999

1h 55m

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, alongside MUFON investigator Robert Fairfax to discuss a landmark case near Mount St. Helens. Fourteen forestry workers witnessed a small disc-shaped craft descend toward a herd of elk, lift one adult animal off the ground, and rise un...

September 1, 1999: UFO Lawsuit - Peter Gersten | Streaking UFO - Peter Davenport

Sep 1, 1999

2h 0m

Art Bell reports live as a massive aerial event unfolds across the western United States. Multiple witnesses from Oregon to California describe a formation of glowing objects traversing the sky for up to two minutes, with reports of maneuvering and formation changes. A valley-wide power outage strikes Art's broadcas...

September 16, 1999: UFOs - Peter Davenport | CSETI & Alien Contact - Dr. Steven M. Greer

Sep 16, 1999

2h 55m

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center to present dramatic new evidence from the September 1st event over Oregon. Multiple witnesses describe an enormous object, compared to a flying skyscraper, that entered the atmosphere engulfed in fire, then stopped burning, leveled off glowing bl...

October 27, 1999: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport | Somewhere in Time - Jane Seymour | Spiritual Healing & NDEs - Stuart Wilde

Oct 27, 1999

2h 40m

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents audio recordings from commercial airline pilots and a former F-16 fighter pilot describing a massive triangular object seen at 37,000 feet over the southern United States. A second witness in Mississippi reports a silent, hovering...

November 11, 1999: UFO Sightings - Peter Davenport | Remote Viewing Satan - Ed Dames | Flight 990 - Richard C. Hoagland

Nov 11, 1999

3h 18m

Art Bell makes radio history by bringing forward members of two separate airline crews who publicly describe encountering unidentified objects while flying over Missouri. A Learjet pilot at 39,000 feet reports a missile-like object passing within 1,000 feet below his aircraft, while a second crew in a Beech BE-40 at...

December 1, 1999: The Coming Tokyo Earthquake - Peter Hadfield | Missouri Sightings - Peter Davenport

Dec 1, 1999

3h 16m

Geologist and Tokyo-based journalist Peter Hadfield joins Art Bell to discuss the coming Tokyo earthquake, while Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center reports on Missouri UFO sightings. Art begins the program with an unusual and personal revelation, explaining why he missed the previous night's broadc...

January 25, 2000: Star Child Skull - Lloyd Pye, Peter Davenport, Matt Moneymaker

Jan 25, 2000

2h 54m

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center and an anonymous witness who describes a terrifying encounter outside his rural eastern Washington home. The man, identified only as Mr. X, stepped onto his porch at 3:30 a.m. to gather firewood and found a seven-foot-tall, hair-covered bipedal...

April 6, 2000: Dallas Sightings - Peter Davenport | NASA and Cydonia - Richard C. Hoagland & Dr. Tom Van Flandern

Apr 6, 2000

1h 8m

Art Bell covers a night packed with breaking developments, beginning with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center presenting two fresh Texas sighting reports. A driver northwest of Dallas describes an egg-shaped object with pulsating red bands and blinding white light that rose silently over his SUV, wh...

February 5, 2001: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Feb 5, 2001

2h 50m

Art Bell returns to the airwaves and welcomes a massive roster of new and returning affiliate stations before reuniting with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Peter opens with a tribute to the late Holger Berg, who preserved a 1936 UFO sighting from Eklutna, Alaska, describing a cigar-shaped craf...

February 28, 2001: Ghost To Ghost Stories

Feb 28, 2001

2h 46m

Art Bell opens with coverage of the devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Seattle, speaking with geologist Jim Berkland about tidal prediction windows and Peter Davenport about experiencing the quake firsthand. A caller's eerily accurate prediction of a morning earthquake in Seattle, recorded weeks earlie...

March 14, 2001: Chemtrails - William Thomas | UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Mar 14, 2001

2h 51m

Investigative journalist William Thomas joins Art Bell to discuss chemtrails, while Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center addresses orange UFO reports over Nevada and elsewhere. Art reads a report from a Nevada political figure describing a hunter-orange orb over the Spring Mountains that separated in...

November 15, 2003: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport | Nanotechnology & Fuzzy Logic - Bart Kosko

Nov 15, 2003

2h 51m

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents a major sighting case from the November 8th lunar eclipse. Witnesses from Boston and New York City describe clusters of lights moving in formation across the eastern seaboard, with Jeff in Manhattan reporting V-shaped fo...

January 17, 2004: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Jan 17, 2004

2h 50m

Art Bell is joined by Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, for a program featuring multiple eyewitnesses who observed disc-shaped craft in recent months. The first witness, Kim Schaefer from Bristol, Tennessee, captured video footage of a copper-colored disc maneuvering through a cloud ban...

July 25, 2004: Finding UFOs - Peter Davenport

Jul 25, 2004

2h 51m

Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell to discuss finding UFOs with passive radar after a Seattle triangular-craft eyewitness report. Art presents a UFO eyewitness named Jim who describes seeing a silent, perfectly triangular black craft gliding over Seattle's Interstate 5 corridor. Jim,...

March 11, 2006: The Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport

Mar 11, 2006

2h 30m

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, to mark the ninth anniversary of the Phoenix Lights, one of the most significant UFO events since Roswell. Davenport shares his ongoing struggle with hoax callers flooding his hotline and the challenges of running a nonprofit reporting...

September 2, 2015: UFO Center - Peter Davenport

Sep 2, 2015

2h 19m

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center since 1994, joins Art Bell for what both call the most profound of their many programs together. His center hosts 102,000 sighting reports, with monthly volume doubling over the past decade.Davenport details his passive radar proposal: antennas listening...

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