Area 51 & Bob Lazar

John Lear and Bob Lazar join Art Bell for one of the earliest recorded episodes of the program, delivering a sprawling discussion on Area 51 and the alleged reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial craft at the secretive S4 facility near Groom Lake, Nevada.Lear, a veteran airline pilot with over 16,000 hours of fligh...

Art Bell sits down with physicist Bob Lazar and his longtime friend Gene Huff for a rare and detailed interview about Lazar's work back-engineering extraterrestrial craft at a facility called S4, located roughly 15 miles south of Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Lazar recounts how a chance meeting with Edward Teller at...

Physicist Bob Lazar joins Art Bell to discuss Area 51, UFOs, S4, and advanced propulsion after the Amazing Kreskin UFO-prediction bust in Las Vegas. With a night vision camera pointed at the desert sky, Art takes calls from people gathered at the Kreskin event, where most report seeing only airplanes in the McCarran...

Bob Lazar, president of United Nuclear and a controversial figure in ufology, returns to Art Bell to discuss UFOs, Area S4, gravity propulsion, and alternative energy after a first-hour interview with gambler Amarillo Slim Preston. Slim shares stories from his memoir, including making a cat pick up a Coke bottle by...

Art Bell welcomes back John Lear, son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, for a wide-ranging conversation about his decades in ufology. Lear recounts his aviation career, including setting a world speed record in a Learjet and racing at Reno, before describing how Bud Hopkins' book Missing Time launched his UFO research...

John Lear, airline captain and son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, returns to Art Bell for a rare and wide-ranging conversation tracing the history of UFO encounters from the 1947 Roswell crash through four decades of government secrecy. Holding 18 world speed records and over 17,000 flight hours, Lear brings an avia...

Art Bell interviews legendary pilot John Lear, son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, who breaks a decade of silence to discuss UFOs, government cover-ups, and the nature of reality. Art reads Lear's extraordinary biography detailing over 19,000 flight hours, CIA missions, and his friendship with Bob Lazar, who claimed...

Art Bell welcomes rocket scientist David Adair, who recounts his extraordinary journey from building rockets as a child in rural Ohio to a classified encounter at Area 51. Adair describes growing up around NASCAR machine shops with access to titanium, aircraft aluminum, and cryogenic fuels, which allowed him to buil...

John Lear returns for an extended broadcast as Art Bell again recounts his triangular UFO sighting near Pahrump, Nevada, before diving deep into government secrecy, alien contact, and the nature of human existence.Lear describes the multi-tiered classification system beyond top secret, revealing 28 levels of crypto...

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines program under a full moon, opening a dedicated phone line for Area 51 workers and government whistleblowers. He covers a wave of bizarre animal behavior stories, from deer crashing through office windows in Des Plaines to a cougar killed in Iowa for the first time since 1865,...

Glenn Campbell, the principal local activist seeking government accountability at Area 51, joins Art Bell to share years of firsthand research from the secretive military base 90 miles north of Las Vegas. The program opens with Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the newly discovered Comet Hale-Bopp, a surprisingly brig...

Sean David Morton, UFO researcher and self-described prophecy expert, joins Art Bell with bold claims about Area 51, extraterrestrial contact, and secret government programs hidden from public view.Morton describes his firsthand observations from a mountain overlooking the Groom Lake facility, where he says he witne...

John Lear returns to the program as Art Bell opens with a detailed account of his own UFO sighting near Pahrump, Nevada, describing a massive, silent, black triangular craft that floated just 150 feet above his car at impossibly slow speed.Lear, drawing on his record-setting aviation career and intelligence contacts...

Art Bell opens a special phone line for current and former Area 51 employees willing to share their secrets. The evening begins with a heartfelt hospital room interview with Dannion Brinkley, who describes his battle with three brain aneurysms and the healing power of prayer and love he received from listeners durin...

Sean David Morton and the mysterious whistleblower known only as Victor join Art Bell for an extraordinary evening centered on Area 51 and a smuggled video allegedly showing the interrogation of a live extraterrestrial being. Victor, speaking through a voice-changing device to protect his identity, claims to have ex...

George Knapp, the investigative journalist who broke the Area 51 story, joins Art Bell to discuss his groundbreaking trip to Russia and the treasure trove of previously classified UFO documents he brought back. Knapp reveals that the Russian Ministry of Defense has studied UFOs at the highest levels since the late 1...

Richard Dolan, UFO historian and author of UFOs for the 21st Century Mind, joins Art Bell for their first-ever conversation, bringing two decades of research grounded in declassified government documents. Dolan describes how FOIA releases hooked him on the subject, citing the 1947 Twining Memo in which a three-star...

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,...

Preston Dennett, MUFON field investigator and author of 17 books on UFOs and the paranormal, joins Art Bell for a detailed exploration of out-of-body experiences drawn from thousands of his own conscious astral travels. Dennett describes passing through solid objects with startling specificity: brick feels grainy ac...

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...

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...

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist George Knapp and biochemist Dr. Colm Kelleher for a discussion about Utah's Skinwalker Ranch, the subject of their book, and an update on Area 51. Kelleher, who served as project manager at Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, describes the ranch as a...

Art Bell is joined by crop circle researchers Ed Sherwood and Kris Sherwood, who bring more than 30 years of combined experience studying the worldwide crop circle phenomenon. The couple, based in Santa Monica, California, report having videotaped over 40 daylight UFO sightings above their apartment since June of th...

Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and researcher David Sereda for a Christmas Eve discussion about UFOs, extraterrestrial contact, and the future of humanity. Sereda describes his own close encounter with a triangular craft in Berkeley in 1968 and outlines a theory connecting the Phoenix Lights to Pythagorean mathematics...

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...

Art Bell welcomes UFO researcher James Gilliland from his ranch at the base of Mount Adams in Washington state. Gilliland brings multiple witnesses, including aerospace professionals who describe seeing objects that stopped mid-flight, flared brilliantly, then zigzagged into space at impossible speeds. An aviation e...

Art Bell speaks with inventor John Hutchison and researcher David Sereda about the controversial Hutchison Effect, a phenomenon involving RF frequencies and high-voltage electrostatics that reportedly produces levitation of heavy objects, metal samples turning transparent, and spontaneous fracturing of materials. Hu...

Art Bell welcomes Paul Stonehill, a Kiev-born researcher who immigrated to the United States in 1972, for a deep examination of UFO phenomena across the former Soviet Union. Stonehill draws on decades of research into declassified Soviet military reports, intelligence files, and eyewitness accounts to reveal encount...

Art Bell interviews Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker champion who turned a forty-dollar Internet entry into a 2.5-million-dollar prize. Moneymaker describes the mental exhaustion of fourteen-hour sessions and how he learned to read tells, shift between aggressive and conservative play, and exploit op...

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,...

Art Bell speaks with David Sereda about the Mexican military's release of infrared footage showing multiple unidentified objects tracked by an Air Force surveillance plane. David brings a unique perspective as someone who spent years working alongside top physicists on nuclear fusion and hydrogen energy breakthrough...

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...

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,...

Art Bell welcomes astronomer Dr. William R. Alschuler, who holds a PhD from UC Santa Cruz and a BA from Harvard, to discuss the science behind UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Unlike most astronomers who avoid the topic, Alschuler has devoted his career to public science education and authored several books including...

Art Bell hosts researcher David Sereda and actor Dan Aykroyd for a wide-ranging discussion on UFO phenomena, NASA space shuttle footage, and ancient civilizations. Aykroyd shares his personal UFO sighting over Martha's Vineyard, describing two glowing white discs traveling at extreme speed across the sky, and announ...

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...