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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Alien Abductions

Art Bell episodes on abduction accounts, missing time, alien implants, hybridization, experiencer testimony, and the researchers who tried to document the phenomenon.

36 Episodes
Episode thumbnail for December 8, 2015: Alien Experimentation on Humans - Dr. David Jacobs
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December 8, 2015: Alien Experimentation on Humans - Dr. David Jacobs

Dec 8, 2015
2h 22m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. David Jacobs, retired Temple University history professor and longtime UFO abduction researcher, for his third appearance on the program. Art introduces Jacobs as the person who has made the most compelling case for both alien abductions and a quiet invasion of Earth.Dr. Jacobs describes a stru...
Episode thumbnail for February 20, 1998: Alien Abductions - David Jacobs
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February 20, 1998: Alien Abductions - David Jacobs

Feb 20, 1998
47m
Art Bell welcomes Professor David Jacobs, a Temple University historian and author of The Threat, for a detailed examination of the alien abduction phenomenon based on hundreds of hypnotic regression sessions conducted over decades of careful academic research.Jacobs presents his findings that abduction accounts fro...
Episode thumbnail for November 4, 2006: Abductions, Area 51, and Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir
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November 4, 2006: Abductions, Area 51, and Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir

Nov 4, 2006
2h 41m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatrist who has become one of ufology's leading figures in physical evidence research. The program opens with election coverage before turning to Dr. Leir's work removing suspected alien implants from abductees. Now on his twelfth surgery, he describes extracting a metallic rod...
Episode thumbnail for July 24, 2005: Alien Abduction Evidence - Derrel Sims
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July 24, 2005: Alien Abduction Evidence - Derrel Sims

Jul 24, 2005
2h 29m
Art Bell interviews Derrel Sims, a certified hypnotherapist and former CIA operative who has spent 38 years researching alien abduction cases. Sims describes his own abduction experiences beginning at age three in Midland, Texas, including a procedure at age 12 where an entity inserted a device through his nasal pas...
Episode thumbnail for October 29, 2006: Alien Investigations - Derrel Sims
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October 29, 2006: Alien Investigations - Derrel Sims

Oct 29, 2006
2h 37m
Art Bell sits down with Derrel Sims, a former CIA operative turned alien abduction researcher, for a discussion on UFO investigations and the intelligence community. Sims draws on his covert operations background to explain how military clearances work and why many self-proclaimed insiders in ufology cannot verify t...
Episode thumbnail for September 27, 2003: UFOs and Alien Abductions - David Jacobs
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September 27, 2003: UFOs and Alien Abductions - David Jacobs

Sep 27, 2003
2h 50m
Art Bell opens the program with Jose Escamilla to examine new photographic evidence challenging the existence of rods, the mysterious elongated objects Jose has filmed for years. A website called UFO Theater presents compelling images suggesting rods may be insects captured at low shutter speeds, and Jose concedes t...
Episode thumbnail for September 24, 2015: UFOs & Alien Abductions - David Jacobs
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September 24, 2015: UFOs & Alien Abductions - David Jacobs

Sep 24, 2015
2h 21m
Art Bell welcomes retired Temple University history professor Dr. David Jacobs, who has investigated over 1,150 abduction cases during his decades of research. Dr. Jacobs presents his controversial conclusion that the alien abduction phenomenon is not benevolent but represents a systematic program of hybridization,...
Episode thumbnail for February 7, 1999: Alien Abductions - Budd Hopkins
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February 7, 1999: Alien Abductions - Budd Hopkins

Feb 7, 1999
1h 52m
Art Bell sits down with renowned abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, author of Intruders, Missing Time, and Witnessed, for a wide-ranging discussion on the alien abduction phenomenon. The program opens with Linda Moulton Howe reporting on mysterious livestock deaths in Ash Fork, Arizona, coral reef die-offs in the Fl...
Episode thumbnail for April 3, 1994: Aliens, Abductions & More - Budd Hopkins
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April 3, 1994: Aliens, Abductions & More - Budd Hopkins

Apr 3, 1994
2h 7m
Budd Hopkins, renowned UFO investigator and author of Intruders and Missing Time, joins Art Bell for a Dreamland episode that opens with Linda Moulton Howe reporting live from Philadelphia Airport on a 1971 alleged UFO landing at Holloman Air Force Base.Hopkins discusses over 450 abduction cases he has personally in...
Episode thumbnail for February 23, 1996: Alien Abduction Show on Nova - Budd Hopkins & John Mack
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February 23, 1996: Alien Abduction Show on Nova - Budd Hopkins & John Mack

Feb 23, 1996
1h 20m
Budd Hopkins, best-selling author of Intruders and Missing Time, joins Art Bell along with abductee John to expose what they describe as a deliberately dishonest NOVA documentary set to air on PBS. Hopkins details how the program, titled Kidnapped by Aliens, was designed to discredit the UFO abduction phenomenon by...
Episode thumbnail for October 21, 2013: Turkish UFOs & Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir
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October 21, 2013: Turkish UFOs & Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir

Oct 21, 2013
2h 57m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatric surgeon who has performed 16 surgeries to remove suspected alien implants from abductees. Leir discusses his return after a severe bout with shingles and shares remarkable findings from years of laboratory analysis on the recovered objects, including the discovery of car...
Episode thumbnail for February 4, 1998: Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir
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February 4, 1998: Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir

Feb 4, 1998
1h 57m
Art Bell speaks with podiatric surgeon Dr. Roger Leir and investigator Daryl Sims about the surgical removal and scientific analysis of objects taken from the bodies of alleged alien abductees. Dr. Leir describes removing a T-shaped metallic object from a woman's foot that was covered in a biological membrane so str...
Episode thumbnail for August 10, 1997: Abductions - Budd Hopkins
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August 10, 1997: Abductions - Budd Hopkins

Aug 10, 1997
2h 2m
Art Bell welcomes abduction researcher Budd Hopkins for a Dreamland broadcast that begins with a discussion of media attacks on UFO investigators. Budd recounts how the PBS program NOVA set him up during filming, suppressing the most compelling footage of a husband describing his family's abduction while editing hyp...
Episode thumbnail for August 21, 1994: Alien Abductions - Dr. Karla Turner
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August 21, 1994: Alien Abductions - Dr. Karla Turner

Aug 21, 1994
2h 0m
Dr. Karla Turner, abduction researcher and author of Taken, joins Art Bell to share disturbing findings from her investigations into alien encounters, informed by her own firsthand experiences with the phenomenon.Turner presents a stark counter-narrative to benevolent alien theories, arguing that the beings behind a...
Episode thumbnail for August 14, 1994: Alien Abductions - John Mack
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August 14, 1994: Alien Abductions - John Mack

Aug 14, 1994
1h 28m
John Mack, Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, joins Art Bell to discuss his groundbreaking research into the alien abduction phenomenon and its implications for human consciousness.Mack presents findings from his book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, drawing on cases involving people of...
Episode thumbnail for October 20, 2015: Hubrids Part II - David Jacobs
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October 20, 2015: Hubrids Part II - David Jacobs

Oct 20, 2015
2h 21m
Art Bell welcomes back retired Temple University professor David Jacobs for the second part of their discussion on human-alien hybrids, or "hubrids," who Jacobs claims are now living among the general population. The show opens with news that the Large Hadron Collider hopes to make contact with a parallel universe,...
Episode thumbnail for May 9, 2004: Abduction Enigmas - Budd Hopkins
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May 9, 2004: Abduction Enigmas - Budd Hopkins

May 9, 2004
2h 52m
Art Bell welcomes Budd Hopkins, the world's foremost UFO abduction researcher, to discuss his fourth book Sight Unseen. Hopkins presents his most provocative finding: that alien abductions routinely involve a technology of invisibility, allowing craft and abductees to remain unseen even in crowded urban environments...
Episode thumbnail for August 7, 2015: Alien Abductions - Travis Walton
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August 7, 2015: Alien Abductions - Travis Walton

Aug 7, 2015
2h 38m
Travis Walton, the Arizona logger whose 1975 alien abduction remains one of ufology's most documented cases, joins Art Bell from Snowflake, Arizona to revisit the night that defined his life. Walton retraces the events: his crew encountering a metallic disc in the Apache National Forest, the energy blast that threw...
Episode thumbnail for May 19, 1998: Mysterious UFO - Dr. Roger Leir & Derrel Sims
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May 19, 1998: Mysterious UFO - Dr. Roger Leir & Derrel Sims

May 19, 1998
2h 45m
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...
Episode thumbnail for March 23, 1998: Alien Abductions - Phillip Krapf
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March 23, 1998: Alien Abductions - Phillip Krapf

Mar 23, 1998
1h 57m
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...
Episode thumbnail for May 29, 2001: UFOs and Abductions - David M. Jacobs
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May 29, 2001: UFOs and Abductions - David M. Jacobs

May 29, 2001
2h 50m
Art Bell speaks with Temple University Associate Professor of History David M. Jacobs, a 35-year veteran of UFO research who has conducted over 800 hypnotic regressions with more than 130 abductees. Jacobs discusses his latest edited volume from the University of Kansas Press, featuring contributions from ten resear...
Episode thumbnail for December 9, 2006: Inside Alien Abduction - Jim Sparks
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December 9, 2006: Inside Alien Abduction - Jim Sparks

Dec 9, 2006
3h 16m
Art Bell welcomes Jim Sparks, a former real estate developer who claims to have experienced 18 years of alien abduction with near-total conscious recall. Unlike most abductees, Sparks says he remembers roughly 90 percent of his encounters and describes the beings, their technology, and their methods in vivid detail....
Episode thumbnail for August 29, 2004: Varginha UFO Case - Dr. Roger Leir
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August 29, 2004: Varginha UFO Case - Dr. Roger Leir

Aug 29, 2004
2h 51m
Dr. Roger Leir, author of Aliens and the Scalpel, joins Art Bell to discuss alleged alien implants and the Varginha UFO case after Art's long-delayed echo demonstration. Art plays audio recordings captured by operators in Washington and Arizona, walks through the science of radio propagation, and invites listeners t...
Episode thumbnail for October 24, 2013: ET and UFO Encounters | Missing Time - Timothy Good
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October 24, 2013: ET and UFO Encounters | Missing Time - Timothy Good

Oct 24, 2013
3h 7m
Art Bell welcomes Timothy Good, one of the world's leading civilian authorities on alien phenomena, for a wide-ranging discussion on extraterrestrial encounters and UFO evidence. Good recounts his own personal experiences with beings he believes were aliens, including encounters in New York, on tour with the Royal P...
Episode thumbnail for May 22, 2005: Aliens in Brazil - Dr. Roger Leir
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May 22, 2005: Aliens in Brazil - Dr. Roger Leir

May 22, 2005
2h 52m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Roger Leir on the same day Brazil announces it will open its classified UFO files to the world. Leir describes how Brazilian Air Force generals initiated contact with civilian researchers to begin releasing documents, including over 100 photographs from Operation Saucer, a 1977 military investi...
Episode thumbnail for April 18, 2001: Alien Abduction Phenomenon - John Mack
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April 18, 2001: Alien Abduction Phenomenon - John Mack

Apr 18, 2001
1h 25m
Art Bell sits down with Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose research into alien encounters drew intense scrutiny from the academic establishment. Dr. Mack recounts how publishing his findings in 1994 led to a 15-month investigation by Harvard, which ended only when his legal tea...
Episode thumbnail for May 1, 1998: Spy Satellites - Ron Regehr & Derrel Sims
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May 1, 1998: Spy Satellites - Ron Regehr & Derrel Sims

May 1, 1998
2h 44m
Art Bell brings together spy satellite designer Ron Regehr and former CIA operative Derrel Sims for a discussion about what U.S. surveillance satellites have detected in Earth's atmosphere. Both guests report sudden unexplained telephone outages just before airtime. Regehr explains the five degrees of satellite imag...
Episode thumbnail for July 3, 1997: Art's Parts - Linda Moulton Howe & Budd Hopkins
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July 3, 1997: Art's Parts - Linda Moulton Howe & Budd Hopkins

Jul 3, 1997
2h 55m
Art Bell connects with Linda Moulton Howe live from Roswell, New Mexico, on the eve of a press conference claiming scientific proof that crash debris is extraterrestrial. Linda reports that Paul Davids and Chris Wyatt, who organized the announcement, declined to preview their evidence on air. She reveals that a Stan...
Episode thumbnail for February 18, 1996: UFO Abductees - Betty Luca & Raymond Fowler
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February 18, 1996: UFO Abductees - Betty Luca & Raymond Fowler

Feb 18, 1996
1h 46m
Raymond Fowler, veteran UFO investigator and author of the Watchers series, joins Art Bell to discuss his decades-long research into the Betty Andreasson Luca abduction case. Fowler recounts how the Massachusetts MUFON group first investigated Betty's 1967 encounter, in which beings entered her home through solid wa...
Episode thumbnail for July 16, 1995: Alien Abduction - Kevin Randle | The Afterlife - Dr. James R. Lewis
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July 16, 1995: Alien Abduction - Kevin Randle | The Afterlife - Dr. James R. Lewis

Jul 16, 1995
1h 41m
Kevin Randle discusses Roswell alien abduction and the Santilli autopsy film, and Dr. James R. Lewis explores the afterlife after Linda Moulton Howe's opening encounter report. Linda Moulton Howe opens with a gripping account from a Washington State woman who describes a fully conscious encounter with gray-colored b...
Episode thumbnail for October 2, 2015: Open Lines - I Married an Alien
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October 2, 2015: Open Lines - I Married an Alien

Oct 2, 2015
2h 15m
Art Bell opens the show addressing behind-the-scenes crew drama, then launches into a freewheeling open lines night with a special twist: the "I Married an Alien" line. Inspired by recent discussions with Dr. David Jacobs about alien-human hybrids living among us, Art invites listeners who suspect their spouse may n...