Skip to content
From the High Desert book cover

From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Crop Circles

Crop circle episodes covering field investigations, sacred geometry, UK formations, hoaxes, consciousness theories, and the mystery of patterns appearing overnight.

36 Episodes
Episode thumbnail for January 14, 2007: UFOs and Crop Circles - Ed Sherwood & Kris Sherwood
1

January 14, 2007: UFOs and Crop Circles - Ed Sherwood & Kris Sherwood

Jan 14, 2007
2h 34m
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...
Episode thumbnail for November 10, 2006: Open Lines | UK Disclosure & Crop Circles - Nick Pope
2

November 10, 2006: Open Lines | UK Disclosure & Crop Circles - Nick Pope

Nov 10, 2006
2h 38m
Art Bell opens with open lines as Typhoon Queenie threatens the Philippines. He covers the Democratic sweep of Congress and poses a pointed question: can the American psyche survive another military defeat after Vietnam? Callers weigh in on Iraq, immigration, and U.S. policy.The show takes an unexpected turn when a...
Episode thumbnail for August 20, 2006: The Meaning of Crop Circles - Freddy Silva
3

August 20, 2006: The Meaning of Crop Circles - Freddy Silva

Aug 20, 2006
2h 41m
Art Bell welcomes crop circle researcher Freddy Silva, who abandoned a lucrative career to pursue a lifelong study of this global phenomenon. Silva explains that genuine circles exhibit cellular changes in plants and soil alterations requiring extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure, effects he attributes to u...
Episode thumbnail for June 12, 1997: Crop Circles - Doug Ruby
6

June 12, 1997: Crop Circles - Doug Ruby

Jun 12, 1997
2h 54m
Art Bell welcomes Doug Ruby, a veteran commercial airline pilot and author of The Gift: The Crop Circles Deciphered, in a broadcast marked by extraordinary synchronicity. Just an hour before airtime, a listener alerts Art to a massive new crop circle at Stonehenge, and Ruby identifies it on the spot as depicting a s...
Episode thumbnail for September 14, 2015: Crop Circles - Charles Maxwell
7

September 14, 2015: Crop Circles - Charles Maxwell

Sep 14, 2015
2h 16m
Art Bell speaks with filmmaker Charles Maxwell about the hidden science of crop circles and his attempt to build a propulsion drive from their decoded geometry. Maxwell recounts investigating formations across Wiltshire, England, where he estimates 95 percent are hoaxes but a small number display blown apical nodes...
Episode thumbnail for June 9, 1999: Crop Circles, Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe
11

June 9, 1999: Crop Circles, Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe

Jun 9, 1999
2h 0m
Art Bell is joined by investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with a remarkable eyewitness account from Holland. A 19-year-old named Robert watched from his bedroom window as a small pinkish-purple light expanded into a disc-shaped object over a farm field, emitted electri...
Episode thumbnail for August 31, 2001: Open Lines - Area 51, Earthquakes, & Crop Circles
12

August 31, 2001: Open Lines - Area 51, Earthquakes, & Crop Circles

Aug 31, 2001
2h 49m
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,...
Episode thumbnail for April 11, 2001: UFOs, Crop Circles, & Ancient Sites - Paul Coulbeck
14

April 11, 2001: UFOs, Crop Circles, & Ancient Sites - Paul Coulbeck

Apr 11, 2001
2h 52m
Art Bell welcomes Canadian writer Paul Coulbeck, who investigated the extraordinary claims of Daniel Hammer, a French-Canadian carpenter who says he was abducted from his living room in 1975. According to Hammer, two humanoid beings took him aboard a granite-interior spacecraft, shrunk him to atomic size, and guided...
Episode thumbnail for September 9, 1996: TWA 800, Arts Parts, Crop Circles - Open Lines
15

September 9, 1996: TWA 800, Arts Parts, Crop Circles - Open Lines

Sep 9, 1996
2h 47m
Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night loaded with breaking developments, beginning with the TWA Flight 800 investigation and a chilling report that an American Airlines pilot witnessed a missile pass his jetliner hundreds of miles from the crash site. Art questions why President Clinton is rushing to spend a bil...
Episode thumbnail for September 1, 1996: Crop Circles - Linda Moulton Howe | CSETI - Dr. Steven M. Greer
16

September 1, 1996: Crop Circles - Linda Moulton Howe | CSETI - Dr. Steven M. Greer

Sep 1, 1996
1h 19m
Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe delivers a double bombshell on this Dreamland broadcast, reporting new findings on the Roswell museum's metallic fragments and a stunning videotape that appears to capture a crop circle forming in seven seconds. Los Alamos chemist Larry Callis reveals that silver and coppe...
Episode thumbnail for March 21, 2001: Animal Mutilations - Linda Moulton Howe
17

March 21, 2001: Animal Mutilations - Linda Moulton Howe

Mar 21, 2001
2h 47m
Researcher and reporter Linda Moulton Howe, introduced for her crop-circle and animal-mutilation work, joins Art Bell with a report on the USDA seizure of 233 Vermont sheep over prion-disease concerns. Art also surveys a cascade of troubling headlines, from foot-and-mouth disease spreading to the Netherlands and mad...
Episode thumbnail for August 8, 1997: Open Lines - Men in Black, Time Travelers
18

August 8, 1997: Open Lines - Men in Black, Time Travelers

Aug 8, 1997
2h 42m
Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night with a twist, designating his first-time caller line exclusively for men in black, time travelers, and anyone claiming to possess a time machine. Several callers rise to the occasion, beginning with a self-described "auditor" who claims men in black are outdated biolo...
Episode thumbnail for December 31, 2007: 2008 Predictions Night 2
19

December 31, 2007: 2008 Predictions Night 2

Dec 31, 2007
2h 34m
Art Bell continues the second night of listener predictions for 2008 on New Year"s Eve. He corrects two entries from the 2007 review, upgrading a bonk on a serial killer being found after a 63-year-old man confessed to murders from the late 1970s. The remaining 2007 predictions fare poorly, with bonks for the rebuil...
Episode thumbnail for July 22, 2006: Extraterrestrial Contact - James Gilliland
20

July 22, 2006: Extraterrestrial Contact - James Gilliland

Jul 22, 2006
2h 42m
Art Bell returns to the air from Manila during Typhoon Glenda, covering the Israel-Hezbollah conflict before welcoming James Gilliland, director of the Self-Mastery Earth Institute. Gilliland describes his near-death experience from a drowning accident, during which he passed through multiple dimensional levels and...
Episode thumbnail for July 17, 2004: The Killshot - Ed Dames
21

July 17, 2004: The Killshot - Ed Dames

Jul 17, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, the retired military intelligence officer known as Dr. Doom, to discuss remote viewing, solar catastrophe, and global geopolitics. Dames, an original member of the Army's classified remote viewing program, explains how the technique allows trained practitioners to access a universal...
Episode thumbnail for September 5, 2003: Contact Night - Open Lines
22

September 5, 2003: Contact Night - Open Lines

Sep 5, 2003
2h 48m
Art Bell guest hosts and opens with Marshall Masters, a former CNN producer who discusses a 1995 crop circle formation that he believes encodes a prediction for September 6th. Masters presents a chronological analysis linking recurring crop circle glyphs to a communication protocol, suggesting the formations contain...
Episode thumbnail for October 3, 2002: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames
23

October 3, 2002: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Oct 3, 2002
2h 46m
Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired U.S. Army intelligence officer and original member of the military's remote viewing program, for his seventh year as a guest. Dames announces his cameo role in the upcoming feature film Suspect Zero alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and discusses taking his remote viewing workshops...
Episode thumbnail for August 29, 2001: NIDS Research Projects - Colm Kelleher
24

August 29, 2001: NIDS Research Projects - Colm Kelleher

Aug 29, 2001
2h 6m
Art Bell speaks with Colm Kelleher, deputy administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, about the Chilbolton crop glyphs and ongoing animal mutilation investigations. Kelleher reports that the formations have sparked the most intense debate among NIDS scientists in years, with physicists and engine...
Episode thumbnail for May 20, 1999: Intuitive - Kevin Ryerson
26

May 20, 1999: Intuitive - Kevin Ryerson

May 20, 1999
2h 40m
Art Bell is joined by Kevin Ryerson, an acclaimed intuitive and trance channel in the tradition of Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts, whose abilities were featured in Shirley MacLaine's bestselling books. They examine the crisis of collective consciousness as school shootings, ecological disasters, and political dishones...
Episode thumbnail for March 5, 1999: Larry King Live - Art Bell
27

March 5, 1999: Larry King Live - Art Bell

Mar 5, 1999
26m
Art Bell appears as a guest on Larry King Live for a wide-ranging interview covering his career, beliefs, and the phenomena he investigates nightly. Art traces his path from rock and roll radio to late-night talk, explaining why the nighttime audience possesses a uniquely open and attentive quality that makes his sh...
Episode thumbnail for July 30, 1998: Time Travel - Single Seven
28

July 30, 1998: Time Travel - Single Seven

Jul 30, 1998
1h 6m
Art Bell speaks with a caller identifying himself as Single Seven, a self-described time traveler from the year 2063 whose real name is Jonathan. He claims to be a paleo agriculture technician sent back to collect ancient heat-resistant seeds for hybridization in a future ravaged by deliberately accelerated global w...
Episode thumbnail for July 21, 1997: Organ Transplant - Claire Sylvia
29

July 21, 1997: Organ Transplant - Claire Sylvia

Jul 21, 1997
2h 54m
Art Bell speaks with Claire Sylvia, a dancer from Massachusetts who received a heart and lung transplant from an 18-year-old motorcycle accident victim in 1988. The first two hours feature open lines covering topics including crop circles from England, the Cunanan manhunt, and the Mars Pathfinder mission losing cont...
Episode thumbnail for June 11, 1997: Alien Agenda - Jim Marrs
30

June 11, 1997: Alien Agenda - Jim Marrs

Jun 11, 1997
2h 55m
Art Bell welcomes journalist and author Jim Marrs to discuss his comprehensive new book Alien Agenda, which examines the extraterrestrial presence from ancient astronauts to modern abductions. Marrs, a lifelong researcher of the UFO phenomenon and author of the Kennedy assassination book Crossfire, describes himself...
Episode thumbnail for March 24, 1997: The Terra Papers - Robert Morning Sky
31

March 24, 1997: The Terra Papers - Robert Morning Sky

Mar 24, 1997
3h 17m
Robert Morning Sky, a Hopi and Apache researcher, joins Art Bell to unveil his decades-long investigation into what he calls the hidden history of Planet Earth. Morning Sky explains how his college research into the world's oldest religions led him to a common origin story connecting ancient Egypt, Native American t...
Episode thumbnail for December 2, 1996: Hale Bopp - Dr. Lee Shargel
32

December 2, 1996: Hale Bopp - Dr. Lee Shargel

Dec 2, 1996
42m
Dr. Lee Shargel, a former NASA and Department of Defense scientist with doctorates in material science and robotics, calls in from Fort Lauderdale to reveal that colleagues have obtained 17 classified photographs of Hale-Bopp showing a distinct object causing a disturbance in the comet's tail. Art opens the broadcas...
Episode thumbnail for February 2, 1996: Mayan Calendar - Krsanna Duran
33

February 2, 1996: Mayan Calendar - Krsanna Duran

Feb 2, 1996
2h 43m
Krsanna Duran, author and researcher of crop circles, UFOs, and the Mayan calendar, joins Art Bell to explore the ancient Mayan timekeeping system and its prophetic implications. Duran explains how the Mayan calendar operates on a base number of 52, with a 260-day sacred calendar and a 360-day civil calendar synchro...
Episode thumbnail for April 29, 2007: UFO Crashes - Ryan S. Wood
34

April 29, 2007: UFO Crashes - Ryan S. Wood

Apr 29, 2007
2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes researcher Ryan S. Wood for an in-depth examination of UFO crash retrieval cases spanning decades of alleged government recoveries. Wood, who maintains a comprehensive database of such incidents, walks through the evidence behind multiple crash events, including lesser-known sites beyond Roswell li...
Episode thumbnail for April 16, 2006: Remote Viewing Targets - Ed Dames
35

April 16, 2006: Remote Viewing Targets - Ed Dames

Apr 16, 2006
2h 27m
Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, remote viewing instructor and former military intelligence officer, to discuss a claimed breakthrough in locating targets with GPS-level precision. Dames explains that after 22 years of research, his team developed a streamlined method capable of pinpointing any target, from missing...
Episode thumbnail for March 6, 2005: Space Missions - Robert Zimmerman
36

March 6, 2005: Space Missions - Robert Zimmerman

Mar 6, 2005
2h 54m
Art Bell welcomes space historian and journalist Robert Zimmerman for a wide-ranging discussion about the state of space exploration. Zimmerman describes the remarkable success of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, now operating well beyond their planned 90-day missions, transmitting geological evidence that wa...