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Whitley Strieber

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Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and a seminal figure in the study of non-human encounters following the publication of his landmark memoir, Communion. Beyond his work as a chronicler of "The Visitors," he is an accomplished novelist whose works The Wolfen and The Hunger were adapted into major motion pictures, and whose book The Coming Global Superstorm (co-authored with Art Bell) served as the basis for the film The Day After Tomorrow.

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Books9

Communion: A True Story

1987

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Transformation: The Breakthrough

1988

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The Secret School: Preparation for Contact

1997

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Majestic

1989

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Breakthrough: The Next Step

1995

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Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us

1998

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The Coming Global Superstorm

1999

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The Key: A True Encounter

2001

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The Communion Letters

1997

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Episodes24

November 19, 1995: Communion - Whitley Strieber

Nov 19, 1995

1h 29m

Whitley Strieber joins Art Bell to discuss his latest book Breakthrough, which presents compelling evidence that the beings he calls "the visitors" are real. Strieber describes a recent physical encounter at his home that became the final chapter of his upcoming book The Secret School, including a severe allergic re...

November 28, 1996: Alien Contact - Whitley Strieber, Courtney Brown, & Prudence Calabrese

Nov 28, 1996

3h 18m

Art Bell opens with an unprecedented warning to listeners, announcing that the program contains news of first contact with unknown life forms. Three guests appear in succession: Professor Courtney Brown reveals that a tenured astronomer at a top-ten university has photographed a massive artificial object traveling w...

December 6, 1996: Hale Bopp - Whitley Strieber & Chuck Shramek

Dec 6, 1996

1h 19m

Whitley Strieber and amateur astronomer Chuck Shramek join Art Bell to examine the growing controversy surrounding Comet Hale-Bopp and its mysterious companion object. Shramek, who took 161 photographs of the comet from Houston, describes how NASA and JPL rushed to debunk his findings while multiple independent sour...

January 16, 1997: Whitley Strieber & Courtney Brown

Jan 16, 1997

2h 4m

Art Bell hosts a tense and historic confrontation between author Whitley Strieber and Professor Courtney Brown of Emory University over a photograph that was presented as evidence of an anomalous object traveling alongside Comet Hale-Bopp. After holding the image for two months at Brown's urging, Art and Whitley rel...

February 12, 1997: Asteroids & Global Warming - Whitley Strieber

Feb 12, 1997

2h 42m

Whitley Strieber, bestselling author of Communion and The Secret School, joins Art Bell for a sweeping discussion of two existential threats converging on humanity: asteroid impacts and the accelerating collapse of Antarctic ice. Strieber details how near-Earth objects have gone from a non-threat in 1992 to a weekly...

April 9, 1997: Europa Images - Richard C. Hoagland | Strange Universe - Whitley Strieber & Renee Barnett

Apr 9, 1997

1h 23m

Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to celebrate a rare moment of vindication as Ted Koppel's Nightline gives him long-overdue credit for predicting oceans on Jupiter's moon Europa 17 years earlier. Hoagland breaks down the stunning new Galileo images showing cracked ice fields, subsurface water, and volcanic potenti...

November 14, 1997: Fiery Lights Over Northwest (Partial) - Whitley Strieber

Nov 14, 1997

19m

Art Bell and author Whitley Strieber find their interview overtaken by a breaking news event as hundreds of witnesses across the Pacific Northwest report fiery objects streaking through the sky. Beginning around 9:06 PM Pacific time on November 14th, callers from Vancouver to central Washington describe slow-moving...

November 19, 1997: UFOs - Whitley Strieber

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...

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

Feb 10, 1998

3h 22m

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 phot...

July 27, 1998: UFO Phenomena - Whitley Strieber

Jul 27, 1998

2h 55m

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with worldwide volcanic unrest from Mount Etna to Popocatepetl and moves into Strieber''s most detailed account of a close encounter. Art debuts a night vision camera pointed toward Area 51 that captures live images of the desert sky ever...

March 4, 1999: Hale-Bopp - Whitley Strieber | NASA & Weather - James McCanney & Earl Crockett

Mar 4, 1999

1h 17m

Art Bell hosts Whitley Strieber alongside Millennium Group members James McCanney and Earl Crockett for a provocative discussion challenging mainstream astrophysics. McCanney, a physicist fired twice from Cornell for his unconventional theories, argues that comets are not dirty snowballs but rocky bodies generating...

May 14, 1999: UFO Crash - Whitley Strieber & Bill McDonald

May 14, 1999

2h 2m

Guest host Whitley Strieber interviews forensic artist and investigator Bill McDonald, who presents a detailed composite description of the Roswell spacecraft assembled from multiple independent military witnesses. McDonald describes a craft resembling a diamond-shaped stingray, approximately 32 feet long and 25 fee...

December 14, 1999: The Coming Global Superstorm - Whitley Strieber

Dec 14, 1999

2h 51m

Art Bell presents extended readings from his co-authored book with Whitley Strieber, "The Coming Global Superstorm," a work of researched fiction that dramatizes a catastrophic climate shift. The narrative opens with ocean buoys detecting sudden temperature drops in the North Atlantic and Antarctic, signaling that t...

February 7, 2001: UFOs - Whitley Strieber

Feb 7, 2001

2h 4m

Art Bell welcomes longtime friend Whitley Strieber to discuss his self-published book The Key and a startling new development in UFO research. Dr. Roger Leir has submitted a small claw recovered from a UFO witness for laboratory analysis, and preliminary results suggest its surface is vegetative rather than animal i...

April 16, 2002: Mars & UFOs in Chile - Richard C. Hoagland & Whitley Strieber

Apr 16, 2002

2h 48m

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber with breaking news from Chile, where a UFO congress reportedly produced extraordinary close encounters. Witnesses describe a craft landing with beings standing six and a half feet tall in shiny body suits, while 24 conference attendees allegedly experienced a form of teleportation,...

October 9, 2002: UFO Symposium - Whitley Strieber, Dr. Roger Leir, Linda Moulton Howe, Bill Hamilton

Oct 9, 2002

2h 45m

Art Bell hosts a landmark UFO symposium with Whitley Strieber, Dr. Roger Leir, Linda Moulton Howe, and Bill Hamilton. The evening opens with discussion of the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area, a stunning new crop circle formation in England featuring an alien figure alongside a binary-coded message, and a...

November 1, 2003: The Visitor Experience - Whitley Strieber

Nov 1, 2003

2h 51m

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber for a wide-ranging Saturday night broadcast that begins with an extensive news segment covering the unprecedented solar flare activity, California wildfires, Antarctic ice shelf collapse, and the HAARP facility's planned expansion to 3.6 megawatts. Art draws connections between the...

August 27, 2006: Encounters with Grays - Whitley Strieber

Aug 27, 2006

2h 39m

Art Bell welcomes author Whitley Strieber to discuss his new novel The Grays, drawing on Strieber's own close encounter experiences. Strieber describes the physical characteristics of the Grays, ranging from small ephemeral beings that float to solid creatures up to five feet tall. He recounts one jumping on his bac...

January 4, 2007: Extreme Climate Change - Whitley Strieber

Jan 4, 2007

2h 37m

Art Bell welcomes author Whitley Strieber to discuss the accelerating pace of extreme climate change. Before the interview, Art replays the legendary recording of a man who flew his homemade Long-EZ airplane directly into restricted Area 51 airspace in 1997, narrating the encounter live as an F-16 scrambled to inter...

March 3, 2007: UFO Incidents - Nick Pope & Whitley Strieber

Mar 3, 2007

2h 38m

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber and Nick Pope about a massive wave of UFO activity, with particular focus on sightings near nuclear installations in Iran. Strieber connects this to historical patterns, citing General Arthur Exons confirmation that the Roswell debris was not of this world and Eisenhowers allege...

June 9, 2007: Paranormal Investigations - Paul F. Eno | Global Warming - Whitley Strieber

Jun 9, 2007

2h 36m

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber about mysterious drone photographs from Northern California and the accelerating crisis of global warming. Strieber analyzes the Chad UFO drone images, noting their unusual clarity and strange writing, and suggests the object may have been designed to look fake as concealment. T...

January 3, 2008: UFOs and Parallel Realities - Whitley Strieber

Jan 3, 2008

2h 36m

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber, who reveals a new encounter experience from December 7th that left him questioning the nature of human existence. Whitley describes waking in the night and finding himself in a different house with dogs that should not have been there. As the experience unfolded, he became aware o...

November 20, 2009: Time Anomalies - Starfire Tor & Whitley Strieber

Nov 20, 2009

2h 36m

Art Bell hosts researcher Starfire Tor and author Whitley Strieber for a discussion of time anomalies, time shifts, and parallel timelines. Starfire Tor introduces her theory of the Core Matrix, a framework she developed to explain how reality can shift and change in ways that leave physical evidence behind. She des...

October 1, 2013: Communion - Whitley Strieber | NASA - Richard C. Hoagland

Oct 1, 2013

3h 29m

Art Bell presents a packed evening beginning with Richard C. Hoagland discussing Comet ISON and its flyby of Mars, followed by a deep conversation with Whitley Strieber about his landmark close encounter described in Communion. Hoagland walks through a series of images posted at ArtBell.com, including Hubble telesco...