Phillip Krapf
2 archived appearances · 1998–2002
Alien ContactJournalismVerdants
Phillip Krapf is a former Pulitzer Prize-nominated editor at the Los Angeles Times who claimed to have been contacted by an extraterrestrial race he identified as "the Verdants," documenting his alleged experiences in The Contact Has Begun. On Art Bell's programs, his unique background as a mainstream journalist lent an unusual credibility to his account and made his story one of the most intriguing contact narratives of the late 1990s.
On the air with Art · 2
Mar 23, 1998 · 1h 57m
Alien Abductions
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 esta...Jun 7, 2002 · 2h 39m
The Amazing Kreskin Banned | A Journalist's Encounter with Alien Beings - Phillip H. Krapf
with The Amazing Kreskin
Art Bell confronts the Amazing Kreskin over his failed Las Vegas UFO prediction, during which Kreskin admits his original intention was to demonstrate how an enemy could manipulate mass perception. Art accuses him of deliberate deception and bans him from the show permanently, adding him to a short list of guests ne...
