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Peter Davenport

Peter Davenport

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Peter Davenport is the long-standing director of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and a leading authority on the systematic documentation of unidentified aerial phenomena. Since 1994, he has provided expert analysis on late-night radio, bringing a rigorous, data-driven approach to tracking UFO sightings and witness reports from across the globe.

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Episode thumbnail for February 26, 1995: UFO Reporting Center - Peter Davenport

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...
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Episode thumbnail for February 1, 1998: UFO Reporting - Peter Davenport

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...
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Episode thumbnail for March 11, 1998: Tampa Sightings Update - Peter Davenport

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...
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Episode thumbnail for May 12, 1998: Bangor UFO - Peter Davenport | Open Lines

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...
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Episode thumbnail for January 8, 1999: Disclosure '99 - Stephen Bassett & Peter Davenport

January 8, 1999: Disclosure '99 - Stephen Bassett & Peter Davenport

Jan 8, 1999
2h 45m
Art Bell hosts a special evening devoted to the state of UFO disclosure, featuring political lobbyist Stephen Bassett and a lineup of prominent figures in ufology. Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center opens the show with a fresh sighting report from Paradise, California, where a pilot witnessed a mas...
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Episode thumbnail for March 11, 1999: Phoenix Lights 2nd Anniversary - Peter Davenport

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...
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Episode thumbnail for September 1, 1999: Streaking UFO - Peter Davenport

September 1, 1999: 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...
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Episode thumbnail for February 5, 2001: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

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...
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Episode thumbnail for February 28, 2001: Ghost To Ghost Stories

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...
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Episode thumbnail for January 17, 2004: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

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...
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Episode thumbnail for July 25, 2004: Finding UFOs - Peter Davenport

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,...
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Episode thumbnail for March 11, 2006: The Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport

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...
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Episode thumbnail for September 2, 2015: UFO Center - Peter Davenport

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...