Whitley Strieber

27 archived appearances · 1995–2013

Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and a 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.

On the air with Art · 27

Nov 19, 1995 · 1h 29m
Communion
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...
Nov 28, 1996 · 3h 18m
Alien Contact
with Courtney Brown, Prudence Calabrese
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...
Dec 6, 1996 · 1h 19m
Hale Bopp
with Chuck Shramek
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...
Jan 16, 1997 · 2h 4m
Whitley Strieber & Courtney Brown
with Courtney Brown
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...
Feb 12, 1997 · 2h 42m
Asteroids & Global Warming
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...
Apr 9, 1997 · 1h 23m
Europa Images - Richard C. Hoagland | Strange Universe - Renee Barnett & Whitley Strieber
with Richard C. Hoagland, Renee Barnett
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...
Jun 19, 1997 · 2h 44m
Phoenix Lights
with Bill Hamilton, Frances Barwood, Richard C. Hoagland
Art Bell opens with a declaration that he has never witnessed a period of greater high strangeness in his 13 years of broadcasting. He presents a stunning chronology from June 19th, 1997: Arizona Governor Fife Symington announces a full investigation of the Phoenix Lights at 12:45 p.m., returns to federal court at 1...
Nov 14, 1997 · 19m
Fiery Lights Over Northwest (Partial)
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...
Nov 19, 1997 · 3h 32m
UFO Update - Peter Davenport | UFOs & Close Encounters - Whitley Strieber & Dr. Roger Leir
with Peter Davenport, Dr. Roger Leir
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...
Feb 10, 1998 · 3h 22m
Gulf Breeze UFO - Whitley Strieber | Ufology - Derrel Sims
with 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 phot...
May 19, 1998 · 2h 45m
Mexico Wildfires - Whitley Strieber & Jaime Maussan | Mysterious UFO - Dr. Roger Leir, Derrel Sims & General A
with Jaime Maussan, Dr. Roger Leir, Derrel Sims, General A
Art Bell presents a packed evening beginning with Whitley Strieber and Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan reporting on the catastrophic wildfires engulfing Mexico and Central America. Maussan describes the worst environmental crisis in Mexican history, with smoke reaching from Albuquerque to Miami, underground fires b...
Jul 27, 1998 · 2h 55m
UFO Phenomena
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...
Mar 4, 1999 · 1h 17m
Hale-Bopp - Whitley Strieber | NASA & Weather - James McCanney & Earl Crockett
with James McCanney, Earl Crockett
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 · 2h 2m
UFO Crash
with Bill McDonald
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...
Dec 14, 1999 · 2h 51m
The Coming Global Superstorm
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...
Feb 7, 2001 · 2h 4m
UFOs
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...
Apr 16, 2002 · 2h 48m
Mars & UFOs in Chile
with Richard C. Hoagland
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,...
Oct 9, 2002 · 2h 45m
UFO Symposium
with Dr. Roger Leir, Linda Moulton Howe, Bill Hamilton
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...
Nov 1, 2003 · 2h 51m
The Visitor Experience
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...
Mar 19, 2005 · 2h 54m
The Rapture - Whitley Strieber | Gnostics and Archons - John Lash
with John Lash
Author and teacher John Lash joins Art Bell to discuss Gnostics, Nag Hammadi texts, and Archons after a first-hour conversation with Whitley Strieber about the rapture. Strieber traces the rapture's origins to 19th-century theologians John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Schofield. They discuss how this belief system functio...
Aug 27, 2006 · 2h 39m
Encounters with Grays
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...
Jan 4, 2007 · 2h 37m
Extreme Climate Change
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...
Mar 3, 2007 · 2h 38m
UFO Incidents
with Nick Pope
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...
Jun 9, 2007 · 2h 36m
Global Warming - Whitley Strieber | Paranormal Investigations - Paul F. Eno
with Paul F. Eno
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...
Jan 3, 2008 · 2h 36m
UFOs and Parallel Realities
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...
Nov 20, 2009 · 2h 36m
Time Anomalies
with Starfire Tor
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...
Oct 1, 2013 · 3h 29m
NASA - Richard C. Hoagland | Communion - Whitley Strieber
with Richard C. Hoagland
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...